Hacker News: girishso

New comment by girishso in "CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models"

girishso — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:22:19 +0000

Came across a similar tool replicad. https://replicad.xyz/

Anyone has used it?

New comment by girishso in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

girishso — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:37:11 +0000

Why do we call this company "Meta"? It's the same old "Facebook".

New comment by girishso in "PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug"

girishso — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:33:15 +0000

If it had a female usb c connector at the other end, we could daisy chain those or connect other device on the same port (like mcu in the middle).

New comment by girishso in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

girishso — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:04:07 +0000

Great tool, only thing I miss is it doesn't show SAMBA names.

New comment by girishso in "3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup"

girishso — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:50:42 +0000

and will help reduce e-waste

New comment by girishso in "Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026"

girishso — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:15:18 +0000

With latest OS update - Apple watch series 7 decreased battery life, Siri started acting weird (sometimes I have to keep pressing crown till I finish the command, sometimes not). It stopped showing battery percentage while charging long back.

Apple is not an environment friendly company.

New comment by girishso in "The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network"

girishso — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:49:23 +0000

Imagine people in 1890s or so, hearing about this almost instant transfer of messages, news to any part of the world - would be nothing short of magical modern technology.

New comment by girishso in "Unifi Travel Router"

girishso — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:15:20 +0000

> though Android phones can

Interesting, as someone who has always used iPhones, wouldn't mind getting an Android phone for this.

Is there some app?

New comment by girishso in "FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter"

girishso — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:10:40 +0000

> the basic human right of being allowed to return arrays from functions

While working in C, can’t count number of times I wanted to return an array

New comment by girishso in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

girishso — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:39:16 +0000

Which machine? Defibrillator or EKG?

New comment by girishso in "I hacked my clock to control my focus"

girishso — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:52:04 +0000

There’s similar app for Mac OS, Focus Bar https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focusbar/id443439127?mt=12

New comment by girishso in ""Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen"

girishso — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:27:58 +0000

Does DNS blocking work with Apps (e.g. YouTube android) using Certificate pinning?

New comment by girishso in "We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix"

girishso — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:53:14 +0000

Not much familiar with Elixir OTP, but isn’t the approach OP took similar to Let It Crash philosophy of OTP?

New comment by girishso in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

girishso — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 01:49:35 +0000

Just reporting in some plain text format so I can manually delete the duplicates, or create some script to delete.

I can't have like 10 external HDDs attached at the same time, so the tool needs to dump details (hashes?) somewhere on Mac HDD, and compare against those to find the duplicates.

New comment by girishso in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

girishso — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:55:23 +0000

Off topic, any tool to deduplicate files across different external Hard disks?

Over the years I made multiple copies of my laptop HDD to different external HDDs, ended up with lots of duplicate copies of files.

New comment by girishso in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

girishso — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:47:32 +0000

I play different wav files when compile fails or succeeds, so I don’t need to switch to terminal from the editor. This in addition to Anybar(1) red/green icons.

1. https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar

New comment by girishso in "Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses?"

girishso — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:41:23 +0000

Anyone has used hey.com?

New comment by girishso in "Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor"

girishso — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:01:48 +0000

That is me, I have `/home/delme` since forever!

New comment by girishso in "Ask HN: Resources to Get Started with RaspberryPi?"

girishso — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:15:09 +0000

Checkout DietPi, simplifies configuration, logging, software install and much more.

https://dietpi.com/

New comment by girishso in "How to prolong lithium based batteries"

girishso — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:37:06 +0000

1. It’s ok to keep laptop plugged in, even at 100% battery

2. Keep temperature as low as possible, maintain airflow

3. Avoid fast chargers