Hacker News: hellweaver666

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.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?"

hellweaver666 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:37:52 +0000

I remember back in the early 00's someone at work found out about my blog and news got around the office (it was a personal blog, more like a diary and I was in my late teens so it was kinda "edgy"). Anyways... within a few days I started getting a bunch of troll comments and it took all the fun out of it knowing everything I wrote was being read by my colleagues.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:30:37 +0000

Booking.com BV is a Dutch Company which has subsidiaries all over the world but is also itself a subsidiary of Booking Holdings Group which also owns Priceline, Kayak, OpenTable and quite a few more companies.

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:28:23 +0000

That sounds like a very Amazon-esque solution!

New comment by hellweaver666 in "Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World"

hellweaver666 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:54:50 +0000

The author talks about all the benefits of a "screen free" childhood and I remember my own fondly (although as an older millennial it was rapidly interrupted as technology spread). What I always wonder though, is if this kind of upbringing is so positive for kids, why are so many boomers so self-centered and spiteful? Surely, they should be happy, beautiful and kind?

New comment by hellweaver666 in "The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC"

hellweaver666 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:24:56 +0000

Absolutely right... I used to use Pi Zero W's for IOT projects. I had several of them around my house running sensors, rgb lights and the like. Now I can do the same thing with a much smaller device like an ESP32. Setting up a device that changes light colour based on time can be done with a €3 esp8266 flashed with WLED. For other projects I will use the beefier ESP32-S2/S3 or the Pi Pico Microcontroller.