Hacker News: hellweaver666

New comment by hellweaver666 in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

hellweaver666 — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:49:06 +0000

Before we had the ESP32 type products that are now popular, using a Pi was often one of the only easy ways to make simple internet connected devices at home. I remember making smart lights and home sensors, speakers, clocks and all sorts of things using the Pi Zero W. It was cheap, small and easy to get up and running.

I and many other people very much used it like a microcontroller.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

hellweaver666 — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:33:47 +0000

I've personally bought at least 10 of these things. Some of us build keyboards for fun!

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

hellweaver666 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:58:42 +0000

Go to store, select "pay by Wero". Get redirected to payment screen where I select my bank. My bank just shows a QR code that I scan with my bank app, authenticate the usual way, redirect back to store, job done.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

hellweaver666 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:57:10 +0000

When we need that, we can use Apple/Android pay in many many places or just spin up a temporary visa/mastercard with platforms like Revolut.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

hellweaver666 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:44:37 +0000

You upgrade the Mk3 to a Mk3s, upgrade the Mk3S to the Mk4, upgrade the Mk4 to the Mk4s and the Mk4s to the Core One.

Prusa sell upgrade kits for each generation of printer.

If you were to do it all in one go it would require replacing the same components multiple times and would be insanely expensive and time consuming but if you upgrade as the product evolves its not a big deal (I recently upgraded my Mk4 to a Mk4s and I'll probably jump to the Core One in the coming year if I have some free time).

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:15:13 +0000

Just installed... this is super interesting. Shorts are my kryptonite and I've been looking for something that gives me YouTube without the crap for a while now!

BTW... just so you know, you have to uninstall the official app otherwise YouTube just redirects you.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Apple Just Lost Me"

hellweaver666 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:52:04 +0000

When I got the prompt it just said "your account age is old enough to prove your age" and didn't ask for any further info.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:32:45 +0000

Would i require some public server side component to handle the call routing etc? (or could you just use something like Google Voice?)

New comment by hellweaver666 in "MacBook Neo"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:44:07 +0000

Kid probably realised his friends all had windows machines that could serve double duty as a gaming machine and wanted some of that action.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "MacBook Neo"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:34:47 +0000

My kids school has been giving every kid in the upper school an m1 macbook air and they have to replace a LOT of them. Everything they do is in the cloud (Google classroom, docs etc) so they don't need powerful machines. The school was considering moving to chromebooks but I can see them choosing this instead just to keep their current provisioning workflows etc.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:42:58 +0000

What's the difference between a big company and a criminal gang if not for the law? If it wasn't for the big companies, more dangerous things would be illegal, just like Heroin and other hard drugs.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:14:19 +0000

Adafruit actually focus on CircuitPython which is a fork of Micro Python but takes some of the complexity of Micro Python away. I don't personally like coding in C++ as I started my career with Perl then PHP and Javascript. Writing Python in my own choice of text editor instead of the Arduino IDE is much more my style.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:40:50 +0000

In one of the BBC articles when talking about the ghost gun in his possession, they have added "possibly 3d printed". This is the only place I have seen this mentioned and it's really annoying because there is already enough rhetoric about 3d printed guns and various groups trying to regulate 3d printers, the last thing we need is something as big as this for them to attach to!

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Show HN: Feels Like Paper"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:57:27 +0000

I'm sure this is very interesting but given that you decided to use light grey text on a white background the whole page was unreadable.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:41:14 +0000

Fellow Amsterdam resident here, this kind of layout is very common all over the city (I live in the south of the city but I have seen these all over).

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Booking.com could cut 6k jobs in the Netherlands due to reorganization plan"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:31:35 +0000

All time stock price high this past week too.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:18:32 +0000

Same here, thanks to me working from home my wife has been able to return to work (she's a teacher) which has given us more income (and less costs!) and massively improved our financial position!

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:17:00 +0000

Do they actually "own" it? I work for a large company who spent millions building a new office and then immediately sold it to a different company so they could lease it instead of owning it (apparently this looks better on the books!)

New comment by hellweaver666 in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:19:32 +0000

but it fails completely when you have a little bit of rain on your glasses :)

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:21:41 +0000

I had a similar situation with my shutter blinds. The company wanted €500 to install a "smart hub" to enable voice control instead of their little remote. To hell with that, I ordered a couple of servos and an esp8266 and 3d printed some little fingers that would press the buttons on the remote and added the whole thing to HomeAssistant via ESPHome. Cost me less than €30.