Hacker News: heywire

New comment by heywire in "Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI"

heywire — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:26:22 +0000

This new season of HBO’s Silicon Valley is wild!

New comment by heywire in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

heywire — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:17:41 +0000

IBM PC XT 5150 4.77MHz, 640KB, no, not weird at all :)

New comment by heywire in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

heywire — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:08:56 +0000

Try a distro like Fedora. I mostly use Arch, but I’ve found Fedora to be an excellent out of the box experience.

New comment by heywire in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

heywire — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:14:12 +0000

You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.

New comment by heywire in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

heywire — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:07:30 +0000

Sounds like you’re looking for the RNode firmware

New comment by heywire in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

heywire — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:57:16 +0000

I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.

New comment by heywire in "Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer"

heywire — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 02:36:16 +0000

Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.

New comment by heywire in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

heywire — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:04:57 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for ntfy! I use it daily to notify me on events from my home Meshtastic node.

New comment by heywire in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

heywire — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:46:09 +0000

I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screens. The same experience on the Ticketmaster website is awful.

New comment by heywire in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

heywire — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:35:41 +0000

Just paid $3.59/doz at Kroger here in Ohio about an hour ago (plain store brand). They were stocked pretty well.

New comment by heywire in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

heywire — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:32:22 +0000

That’s one way to keep you watching, you’ve at least gotta hear the rest of the sentence! /s

New comment by heywire in "Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network"

heywire — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:46:39 +0000

A quick search on Amazon shows a number of generic trackers compatible with “Find My”. In fact, the one on my dog’s collar is one of these.

New comment by heywire in "Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network"

heywire — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:45:01 +0000

I’ve even seen some wallets with built in “Find My” support.

New comment by heywire in "The Hunt for Error -22"

heywire — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:25:12 +0000

I love reading debugging stories like these. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by heywire in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"

heywire — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:40:32 +0000

This looks very nice, I’ll have to give it a try!

New comment by heywire in "After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages?"

heywire — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:21:49 +0000

In many cases the company might have a subsidiary in a lower cost of living location (India, Eastern Europe, etc). The company I work for has slowly been laying off software engineers, project managers, and technical support folks in the US, while simultaneously hiring their replacements in those LCOL areas. I get to see the cost rates for these folks, and it is pennies on the dollar :(

New comment by heywire in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

heywire — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:40:43 +0000

I saw a post on Reddit that said this was a bug and they’re working on it.

New comment by heywire in "ISO 8583: The language of credit cards"

heywire — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:52:34 +0000

It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before/after the ISO message (with non-PCI data) to confer additional information outside of the payment transaction. Definitely speeds up time to market, but opens up a whole new array of failure modes to deal with.

Ask HN: Are Citi notifications slow for you?

heywire — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:51:49 +0000

I have transaction notifications / alerts set up for my Citi credit card account. Over the last month, it seems like these notifications have been getting slower and slower to arrive. It used to be that I could tap my card and have a notification of a transaction on my watch within a second or two. Now I am sometimes not getting notifications until hours later. I figure it is some queue backed up somewhere, some service that needs scaled up a tiny bit, but trying to notify anyone at Citi who understands is near impossible. Maybe someone who works at Citi will see this post and check in on their notification queues.

Anyone else noticing this problem?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235852

Points: 1

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New comment by heywire in "How I configure my Git identities"

heywire — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:29:37 +0000

Right? I can’t believe how many people seemingly use the same machine for both.