Hacker News: hippich

New comment by hippich in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hippich — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:39:06 +0000

Some _fun_ stuff i "coded" in a day each just in last couple weeks:

https://hippich.github.io/minesweeper/ - no idea why but i had a couple weeks desire to play minesweeper. at some point i wanted to get a way to quickly estimate probability of the mine presence in each cell.. No problem - copilot coded both minesweeper and then added probabilities (hidden behind "Learn" checkbox) - Bonus, my wife now plays game "made" by me and not some random version from Play store.

another one made in a day - https://hippich.github.io/OpenCamber - I am putting together old car, so will need to align wheels on it at some point. There is Gyraline, but it is iOS only (I think because precision is not good enough on Android?). And it is not free. I have no idea how well it will work in practice, but I can try it, because the cost of trying it is so low now!

yes, both of these are not serious and fun projects. unlikely to have any impact. but it is _fun_! =)

Life on Peptides Feels Amazing

hippich — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:43:35 +0000

Article URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peptides-from-instagram-china-wellness-cure.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246668

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hippich in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

hippich — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:47:43 +0000

Please also recognize when others don't really want to talk. Not everybody want to go beyond cultural niceties of a smile and "hi, how you doing". I don't want to be a jerk, but I also don't like to talk to random strangers.

New comment by hippich in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

hippich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:49:40 +0000

Are there similar solutions without 3d view? I want to get a simulator that can show me what is going in the circuit, ideally slowed down a lot. For example I was making a dongle with resistor and capacitor which was delivering a pulse-short (i.e. removing power for a short period of time instead of delivering an impulse) and while I was able to confirm overall idea with some online simulator, dialing in capacitance and resistance required physically switching components. Ideally I want to be able simulate such transient effects and arrive at specific numbers ready to be soldered.

And I want it to be free/open-sourse ideally :)

China tests first megawatt-class flying wind turbine

hippich — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:02:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089737

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by hippich in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

hippich — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:24:30 +0000

State will tax it. And the tax amount from 1M is infinitely bigger than the tax from 0

New comment by hippich in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

hippich — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:31:11 +0000

Is it hard as in:

1) we know what to do, but it is expensive

2) we don't know what to do exactly, but many more people involved can increase search speed, so just need more people

3) it is purely sequential problem, and therefore it takes a lot of time

New comment by hippich in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

hippich — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:44:26 +0000

Rapid muscles loss, unless you are careful and managing it. In my case muscle loss led to increase, not decrease, of the lower back pain related to the crack in one of the vertebrae there. I believe that loss of core muscles increased load on the spine and caused pain. Once I started doing core exercises and cut down on dosage, pain returned back to pre glp1

I Take Spam Personally (And how Shopify enables it)

hippich — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:55:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mxroute.com/why-i-take-spam-personally/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915953

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases

hippich — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:10:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/24/ai-police-evidence-cold-cases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743693

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hippich in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

hippich — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:17:02 +0000

One thing that stopped me from seeking the vanity plate - I learned that at least in Texas all plates are made by minimally paid prisoners. So any desire to finance that system beyond what's absolute possible minimum (i.e. regular plates) evaporated.

New comment by hippich in "How private equity is changing housing"

hippich — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:28:16 +0000

Afaik, property taxes are due no matter what, at least in Texas.

New comment by hippich in "Perpetual futures, explained"

hippich — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:41:09 +0000

It appears to me that majority of the article is about (unregulated) leveraged trading, with perps being an instrument to get leverage. I seen similar stories of blowing up outside us in forex market, for example, where no one were talking about futures, it was just 100x leverage that was biting many (most?) traders.

New comment by hippich in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

hippich — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:54:32 +0000

Just to counter some anecdata here - doing glp-1 for quite some time for weight loss. It works for me for that specific purpose. But I noticed no effect on mood or addictive aspects. But it appears to lower my alcohol tolerance, so I drink less of it. Ymmv

New comment by hippich in "You are how you act"

hippich — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:55:32 +0000

> You can’t always change how you feel, but you can always decide what to do next.

Unfortunately, in my experience, how I feel does affect what I decide to do (or not do) next. But I certainly like to think I have agency, so there is that..

New comment by hippich in "Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]"

hippich — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:49:40 +0000

Thanks!

Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen

hippich — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431871

Points: 21

# Comments: 12

New comment by hippich in "Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]"

hippich — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:38:40 +0000

Recently I was looking for solution to have multiple VPN running at the same time, and without work profile I am limited to one. I want to run two (or more) and be able to tell which app uses no VPN, which routes through vpn1, which routes through vpn1, etc. so far it looks like I need multiple profiles, and that requires root, which Google actively discourages.

Maybe someone knows better alternatives?

U.S. State Department Introduces $1 Fee for Diversity Visa Lottery Registration

hippich — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boundless.com/blog/us-state-department-introduces-1-dollar-fee-for-dv-lottery-registration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45325771

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Genius Act Implementation request for comments

hippich — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/19/2025-18226/genius-act-implementation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308139

Points: 2

# Comments: 0