Hacker News: hilsdev

New comment by hilsdev in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

hilsdev — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:20:48 +0000

There’s no in and out privileges to get ice elsewhere, so the organization coordinates huge ice shipments into the event. All the proceeds from the ice and coffee sales benefit the local schools and students, which is great because that area is doing pretty rough economically

New comment by hilsdev in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

hilsdev — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:33:26 +0000

I don’t see them as selfless I see them as unintelligent.

New comment by hilsdev in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

hilsdev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:40:21 +0000

No, analog in that they shoot in film, an analog chemical reaction - not digital

New comment by hilsdev in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

hilsdev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:35:04 +0000

I’ve been wanting to build one of these for awhile. Did you follow a plan/blog or design your own? I already have donor instax and Polaroid bodies not sure what to put it as a back on

New comment by hilsdev in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

hilsdev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:30:41 +0000

Pinhole cameras can be nothing but a soda can and a hole in it. Large format and some medium format folding camera shutter lens units just need a round hole to slip into and all the controls are external and built in

New comment by hilsdev in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

hilsdev — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:01:51 +0000

Credentialism to prevent discussion of political and government entities is incredibly dangerous

New comment by hilsdev in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

hilsdev — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:20:15 +0000

I wouldn’t say it is obvious. Apple does not have the monopoly of ARM based PCs. Labeling it as a monopoly of M chips is not fair or accurate when comparing to MS on Intel. It’s also probably relevant that MS was not selling PCs or their own hardware. They had a monopoly on a market where you effectively had to use their software to use the hardware you bought from a different company. Because Apple is selling their own hardware and software as a single product, the consumer is not forced into restricting the hardware they bought by a second company’s policies.

New comment by hilsdev in "Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue"

hilsdev — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:19:27 +0000

This style/format is really easy to follow along with, great blog writing. Separately I’ve been messing with some filesystem stuff so it’s interesting to me.

New comment by hilsdev in "Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg"

hilsdev — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:57:27 +0000

Often but not always. Sometimes you’re just working with proxies directly, audio mixing and the like. VFX workflows, finishing will be online full res often.

But even so everybody is often making their own proxies all the time. There’s a lot of passing around of ProRes Proxy or another intermediate quality format and you still make even lighter proxies locally so NLEs and workstation apps will still benefit from this

New comment by hilsdev in "US Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year"

hilsdev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:51:33 +0000

Forced to take on the extra revenue? There’s been political attacks on USPS but don’t blame junk mail on that. I don’t think USPS even has a choice on the junk mail, as long as it’s legal I don’t think they can refuse the service

New comment by hilsdev in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

hilsdev — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:37:18 +0000

Why should it be law? I am a developer in California, and a long time Linux nerd. If I were to release a hobby on my GitHub for fun, without age verification, am I now subject to fines? Imprisonment? Why should their be a legal requirement?

New comment by hilsdev in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

hilsdev — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:03:14 +0000

This was a major influence for me, both getting into single speed and fixed gear biking before the craze, and building geo cities sites with my friends in high school

New comment by hilsdev in "We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)"

hilsdev — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:05:37 +0000

I was pretty early to Gmail, I paid $5 for an invite to the beta, and secured my first(.)last@gmail.com. But now I pay for my own domain and my own hosted email just to avoid any collisions

New comment by hilsdev in "Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults"

hilsdev — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:03:20 +0000

>What we just saw at Davos with Greenland reveals the actual pattern: the theatrics are the tool, not the objective. The erratic behavior generates uncertainty, which then gets converted into bargaining leverage.

He said this in his book The Art of the Deal, released in 1987. It’s been his playbook for all political campaigning and both terms of his presidency. It’s a meme to point this out in certain right leaning circles.

I was frustrated by the lack of awareness about this for awhile. I still am but I understand now that the media is also playing their part and doing their role. It’s absolutely justified - these ridiculous claims and arguments generate clicks, attention, revenue.

It’s something that should be kept in mind by the average voter though, and in social media discussion. Everyone wants you to be emotionally invested. Trump wants you to commit so he can pump fake tou, and the media gets solid quarterly numbers

New comment by hilsdev in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

hilsdev — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:35:34 +0000

Anecdotal but I was talking to a recruiter about a role in Apple last week, and then was told they are doing a total hiring freeze until at least the new year.

There was also a bit of a shakeup in one of their teams for video content production a few months back which surprised me. Not anyone that would get a tech journal article written about them, but someone who was very experienced, knowledgeable, and loved his role.

Nothing newsworthy just sounds more rocky than usual for Apple

New comment by hilsdev in "SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”"

hilsdev — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:24:53 +0000

To be pedantic for the people still reading this, curious enough to go further without falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

The reflex mirror in a (D)SLR directs the image up through the viewfinder prism to the eyepiece. This mirror flips upwards just before the shutter opens. This mechanic action has a decent bit of inertia and can cause blurring in some extreme cases.

Mirrorless refers to digital cameras where the sensor operates the digital viewfinder, so like an SLR “you get what you see”. For rangefinders and TLRs, your view is offset from the picture lens, so if you’re really trying to nail a composition and not “fix it in post” SLRs and mirrorless offer an advantage, which is part of why they became so predominant.

New comment by hilsdev in "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers"

hilsdev — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:01:50 +0000

I too am capable of semi random number generation

New comment by hilsdev in "US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid"

hilsdev — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:35:37 +0000

If you paid a lot more there would be more people to pick it

New comment by hilsdev in "US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid"

hilsdev — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:28:43 +0000

We can quadruple the farm worker day rate and it would not significantly impact consumer prices. The floor price of unskilled labor is mostly a function of its market value. Increasing the labor pool via immigration decreases the value of the labor.

I too would like to see farm laborers have more comfortable lives

New comment by hilsdev in "US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid"

hilsdev — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:46:34 +0000

Where I live, even the undeniably "illegal" are eligible for government services