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New comment by gibspaulding in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

gibspaulding — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:52:14 +0000

Your bike already has two crappy 80psi pressure vessels, why not three?

New comment by gibspaulding in "Death to Scroll Fade"

gibspaulding — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:46:43 +0000

This only really works easily on desktop and requires a click, but is very satisfying to use:

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

New comment by gibspaulding in "$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers"

gibspaulding — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:32:00 +0000

You’re overestimating how old a pc has to be not to support Windows 11. My parents have a Latitude 5470 (I think?) with a 7th gen i5, 16gb memory, 1tb ssd, and most definitely USB 3. It’s a perfectly adequate machine for running a browser + office suite, but according to Microsoft it’s e-waste because of Windows 11’s TPM-2 requirement.

Obviously for the HN crowd there are workarounds (my mom has actually been getting along with PopOS pretty well), but this could probably have met her needs just as well.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

gibspaulding — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:29:49 +0000

And one would hope that the purpose of the CFPB would be to dissuade lenders from wronging consumers in the first place, meaning the net benefit to consumers was likely much higher.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse"

gibspaulding — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:39:00 +0000

I think you might like this:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf

New comment by gibspaulding in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

gibspaulding — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:19:31 +0000

I know this isn’t necessarily “real world CAD” but Claude Code is not too shabby at OpenSCAD.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders"

gibspaulding — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:12:45 +0000

I’ll be curious to go through your tutorial later as book binding is something I’d like to learn. I was really excited recently when I was able to get Claude Code to write me a python script to generate a custom weekly planner since I haven’t found a commercially available one laid out like I’d like. Unfortunately I haven’t found anywhere that can print something pocket sized for me, so for it to be actually useful, I’m going to have to print and bind it myself.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Vibe coding kills open source"

gibspaulding — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:16:03 +0000

Out of curiosity, why 3.7 Sonnet? I see lots of people saying to always use the latest and greatest 4.5 Opus. Do you find that it’s good enough that the increased token cost of larger/more recent models aren’t worth it? Or is there more to it?

New comment by gibspaulding in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

gibspaulding — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:01:09 +0000

Friendly reminder that we all have the power to improve this! Become an editor and If you come across a problematic article, you can make improvements, or even just flag it as needing work. I know this is not a small ask, and can feel discouraging if you see more issues than you have time to address or your edits are not accepted, but when you consider the relatively small number of editors and the huge number of readers (not to mention AI’s being built on it) it is likely one of the more significant differences you can make towards improving the greater problem polarization.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

gibspaulding — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:52:42 +0000

I’ve been going the same direction lately. We have enough plastic in our environment, the last thing I need is to be wearing it. It’s probably a bit paranoid just from a health perspective, but I’ve found that I genuinely prefer the feel/look of natural fibers.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

gibspaulding — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:36:29 +0000

New clothes also tend to include synthetic fibers that seem to not shrink as much. 100% cotton, or especially wool garments will shrink if you’re not careful, but are becoming increasingly difficult to find.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects"

gibspaulding — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:14:04 +0000

There’s something like four thousand species of bees native to North America [1], so while there are lots of reasons to be unenthusiastic about honey bees [2], that still leaves lots of room for bee related enthusiasm :)

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-role-native-bees-united-state...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-...

New comment by gibspaulding in "iPhone Pocket"

gibspaulding — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:39:31 +0000

I mean, I would assume most folks who liked the SE still have one. The SE 3 just stopped production this year and should have several years of software updates left (the SE 1 just ended software support this year, 7 years after it was discontinued.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Gold hits all time high"

gibspaulding — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:26:46 +0000

For anyone else who read this headline and thought that seemed unremarkable since gold does tend to slowly increase in value year over year meaning it’s almost always at or near its all time high - it’s up 43% over the past year.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

gibspaulding — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:21:41 +0000

Just opened the App Store to check. There’s an ad for chrome on the home screen. I click search and before I start typing search suggestions pop up. The first one is for chrome. I type Firefox and click search. The first result is chrome.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)"

gibspaulding — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:59:55 +0000

Yeah, if you peel off Trump's name, the insane branding, and the fact that this seems to have been implemented completely extra-legally, I don't hate it.

New comment by gibspaulding in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

gibspaulding — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:38:37 +0000

As long as there’s a tpb mirror in the working half the point stands.

New comment by gibspaulding in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

gibspaulding — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:03:34 +0000

Yeah, UBO and Sponsor Block are still working for me but if they stop I’ll be gone. I haven’t browsed Reddit since I switched to iOS and lost access to RedReader.

New comment by gibspaulding in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

gibspaulding — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:20:22 +0000

Search settings for “focus”. You can set up a do not disturb mode that does roughly what the parent comment describes.

New comment by gibspaulding in "How to Build a Medieval Castle"

gibspaulding — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:57:45 +0000

I grew up in a part of the US that was “settled” in the mid 19th century. The absolute oldest buildings are just now approaching 200 years old and there aren’t many of those even. From that perspective it’s astonishing to be able to see the work of someone’s hands from so long ago. Obviously there were native Americans here long before European settlement, but evidence of their presence has been so thoroughly erased that it feels like everything you see sprung up in the last century. Even our forests are new, as pretty much the entire state was clear cut by the start of the 20th century.