Hacker News: hellweaver666

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:55:19 +0000

Are hidden cameras in hotel rooms such a concern that normal citizens need to be concerned with it?

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:49:01 +0000

This was part of how my ADHD was diagnosed. I did a full day of testing at a specialist center. First I had a conversation with a nurse, then a psychologist, then they had me do a similar test (but in a controlled environment and I also had face tracking and a motion sensor monitoring my movement). After the test, I was given lunch and a dose of adhd medication and about an hour break, then they had me do the test again. After that I met with a psychiatrist who walked me through the test results. Then I had another break while the three specialists met to discuss my case and make a diagnosis. Finally I met with the three to hear the outcome (I was also given a full write-up of my results from the day).

My one surprise from this article is that "play a web game for 18 minutes" in an uncontrolled environment was considered enough testing for a diagnosis!

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:44:26 +0000

It's somewhere in this talk (broken down as a playlist). It's been a while since I've watched it but I do recall him saying that they can see physically differences in the brain of adhd folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzhbAK1pdPM&list=PLzBixSjmbc...

New comment by hellweaver666 in "M5Stack Launches PaperMono"

hellweaver666 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:23:44 +0000

These are hobbyist devices for makers... you shouldn't consider them an Apple-esque device that just works. M5 bring the hardware, you bring the software.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter"

hellweaver666 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:43:55 +0000

Oooooh, now I'm thinking... you could design a simple circuitboard that holds multiple picos (surface mounted) and uses the USB data pads on the back to pull all the USB ports out to an onboard USB hub basically allowing you to add a multitude of wifi adapters to a project in one USB cable. Would be great for War Driving!

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).