Hacker News: esskay

New comment by esskay in "Claude Is Down"

esskay — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:56:09 +0000

it was down in the UK for approx 20 mins but only affected auth

New comment by esskay in "Claude Is Down"

esskay — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:31:38 +0000

its not that deep

New comment by esskay in "Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately"

esskay — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 14:37:33 +0000

Leaving Nvidia to go back to making affordable GPU's for home users...right?...right?

New comment by esskay in "Anthropic IPO"

esskay — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 12:24:53 +0000

Presumably this'll be like the spacex one - high price, instant drop and a load of amateur investors wondering why they just lost a ton of money.

New comment by esskay in "I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you"

esskay — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:00:18 +0000

Toshiba don't make TV's anymore, haven't for a long time (around a decade). Unless it's very old your TV is some other brand rebadged as Toshiba.

If you're in the US it was almost certainly made by Hisense. If you're in Europe it'll be Vestel.

New comment by esskay in "Smart home devices should work without the internet"

esskay — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:40:33 +0000

Presumably you're not concerned about claude deciding you're a bad actor and having your account closed? It seemed to go through a spat of doing that when people were doing the tv rooting recently to remove trackers/ads.

New comment by esskay in "Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave"

esskay — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:38:15 +0000

It's a shame that the poster doesn't mention what they ended up using instead in their update. Presumably a hardware key.

New comment by esskay in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

esskay — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:35:04 +0000

If I recall Apple was planning on buying it pending permission from the US Government, and when the memory maker got wind their price sheet went up to match Samsung, making it pretty pointless as they had supply, it was price that was a problem for Apple.

New comment by esskay in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

esskay — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:29:08 +0000

It would be slightly ironic if they did win. They were incredibly slow to adopt AI, and even now what they shipped with Siri is incredibly poor. Having arrived late to the party they stumbled, lied to customers, mis sold a product, got sued for it and lost, and then ended up slapping a siri logo on gemini.

But the hardware. The hardware is fantastic for local LLM's, generative ai, etc. And they seem to maybe finally be waking up to that, in true slow sleepy Apple fashion.

If they'd been a bit quicker about it we could have a higher tier iCloud plan that included a chatgpt plus style setup with the "its private" marketing tag that cant be provided by anyone else. Instead we get Siri being slightly less useless than before.

New comment by esskay in "So my ISP was hijacking my DNS"

esskay — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:07:19 +0000

How do you think that conversation will go? You phone them, get put through to the call center and surprise surprise its not covered by their script.

New comment by esskay in "WTF Ubuntu?"

esskay — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:25:33 +0000

These recent burst of major security issues really have shown that paid security updates from the likes of Ubuntu and CloudLinux really aren't worth the paper they're written on.

New comment by esskay in "Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products"

esskay — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:15:26 +0000

I know they cant really help it but they really have managed to kill their product. Thats about the third price hike this year. So much for the $25 computer.

New comment by esskay in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

esskay — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:24:12 +0000

No, that is not very typical.

New comment by esskay in "Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions"

esskay — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:18:07 +0000

Yeah for mine I've got the unifi cloud fibre gateway but currently use its sole poe port for a u7 lite. Thats on an APC UPS which will give me 3-4hrs life. Then for the ONT I've just picked up a relatively cheap Eaton UPS that should give it approximately 3-5hrs. TBH any outage longer than that and I'm out of the house for the day until its fixed!

New comment by esskay in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

esskay — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:15:04 +0000

Likely a huge amount. The recent PHP ones are a prime example of this. But it also means now more than ever they cannot be ignored or dismissed as "nah thats too hard for someone to figure out how to break in" as it's simply no longer true.

New comment by esskay in "Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions"

esskay — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:41:49 +0000

You wont have a battery. In the UK they stopped providing a battery backup when they switched to the newer ONT quite a while ago, and routers typically do not include one either.

There are a few generic router battery backup products on the market but none specifically get advertised as working on the ONT, but many do. Realistically though they're utterly pointless when you can pick up a vastly superior APC UPS for the same price.

New comment by esskay in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

esskay — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:11:40 +0000

It's hard to get too excited about anything coming from Raspberry Pi these days. Their anti consumer moves, weird accusatory social media positioning and obscene pricing just makes it all feel a bit like their relationship with B2C has gone very sour.

New comment by esskay in "CSS-Tricks has a new owner"

esskay — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:34:36 +0000

The tailwind ones slightly misleading. They laid off their staff, posted on twitter about it, opened a sponsorship program, made approximately $2 million, and THEN joined shopify.

New comment by esskay in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

esskay — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:02:28 +0000

Then theres something wrong with your nose.

New comment by esskay in "IKEA – 3D Guide"

esskay — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:19:21 +0000

Built one in 2001, there were lots of discussions about it on I think it was the Audiogon forums at the time, a whole thread of a good few hundred people building them. I seem to recall a few had been using them since the 90s as well.