Hacker News: iseanstevens

New comment by iseanstevens in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

iseanstevens — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:48:53 +0000

Yeah LiveJournal (my username there is lightfixer) really came close to replicating how we actually social. Deciding who is able to see what I posted on an individual level was great. Could create groups etc.

New comment by iseanstevens in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

iseanstevens — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:57:14 +0000

Dreamweaver or some other real WYSISYG web page editor that could maybe deal with very basic JavaScript.

I just wanna make a mostly static site with links in and out of my domain. Maybe a light bit of interactivity for things like search that autocompletes.

New comment by iseanstevens in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

iseanstevens — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:11:48 +0000

Pretty fascinating concept - take what we are already doing on the roads and translate it to the sky. Could lead to huge efficiency gains.

New comment by iseanstevens in "The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)"

iseanstevens — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:42:58 +0000

I still have my 2013 11.6” i7 and once I replace the battery and hinges (threw it across bed while open too many times) it’ll be good for another 10 years.

The original “MacBook” 12” retina could have been wonderful aside from the extremely poor performance, keyboard, and single USB, and battery life. Most of which Apple Silicon/lack of Jony Ive would fix.

I don’t know why, but for me about 1kg feels negligible for a laptop I carry constantly, where 1.5kg feels heavy.

New comment by iseanstevens in "An illustrated guide to the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability (2008)"

iseanstevens — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:03:08 +0000

He was a close friend, roommate and collaborator on many things. I’m reminded of him daily. RIP Dan, it’s been hard without you

New comment by iseanstevens in "PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm"

iseanstevens — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:33:22 +0000

(Oops saw other comment linked, but I’ll leave this comment in case summary is helpful)

Check out the SO100 arm, being supported by Huggingface and others. Only 4 axis, but cheap AF (<$250/arm) and using ML to make it more capable than 4 axis would seem. Also using identical arms for mirror teleportation/training.

https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100

New comment by iseanstevens in "The protester's guide to smartphone security"

iseanstevens — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:48:10 +0000

Also Meshtastic.org is a cheap (various <$50 options) open source LoRa based hardware bridge (or standalone device) that can be used with an app over bluetooth (or WiFi web interface).

It supports strong encryption layer and over 1 km/mile per “hop” in most circumstances.

Designed originally for off grid, it’s very flexible and pretty polished.

Abstracts your phone into a UI. Has a whole ecosystem behind it. I’ve been using it for festivals and tracking my vehicles (high theft area) for years.

Very handy should infra not be available. Should be great for protests also :)

New comment by iseanstevens in "A Collection of Kaleidoscope Schemes, Sourced from the WayBack Machine."

iseanstevens — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:42:51 +0000

Idea (I lack the skills to implement):

Train an upscaler/style transfer model on these lovely things (plus Winamp skins etc) to create a teachable AI theme engine.

New comment by iseanstevens in "2007 Boston Mooninite Panic"

iseanstevens — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:12:14 +0000

I am at least very proud of our improv dealing with the press at least! Especially as I don’t think either of us slept particularly well the night before in holding cells.

New comment by iseanstevens in "2007 Boston Mooninite Panic"

iseanstevens — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:08:03 +0000

Post the 9/11 PATRIOT act (etc) led to dilution of America’s ideals in various ways, IMHO. I felt like we were in the middle of it. I wanted to call attention to how ridiculous it was - since the attention ended up on me and my friend. Zebbler was in the USA on political asylum at the time and it was made clear he’d be kicked out if we made any more noise after this.

New comment by iseanstevens in "Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos"

iseanstevens — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:40:47 +0000

Wow, looks amazing! (As someone nowhere near the target audience).

Would love to see anything of the visualizer. Understand it’s beta, but curious what direction it would go

New comment by iseanstevens in "Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill"

iseanstevens — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:12:25 +0000

Chaser Ambulance?

New comment by iseanstevens in "Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project"

iseanstevens — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:34:06 +0000

Absolutely wonderful to see in motion. Things like this brought to life are one of the Most exciting uses of AI to me.

New comment by iseanstevens in "Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement"

iseanstevens — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 01:47:39 +0000

Very classy response. I hope things get worked out

New comment by iseanstevens in "Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died"

iseanstevens — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:36:46 +0000

Saw this earlier and it made me pretty sad. :(

I know it doesn’t 100% fit but… Black Bar?

For me she was a joyous milestone in defining internet culture.

New comment by iseanstevens in "Project Gameface launches on Android"

iseanstevens — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:38:44 +0000

Is it ok that some people do care?

New comment by iseanstevens in "Thoughts on my first electric scooter purchase"

iseanstevens — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:23:03 +0000

https://xootr.com/products/xootr-kick-scooter-mg

These are great

New comment by iseanstevens in "It's Not You: Dating Apps Are Getting Worse"

iseanstevens — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:53:08 +0000

Yeah it was actually something special/interesting. Now it’s another match app owned tinder clone

New comment by iseanstevens in "Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]"

iseanstevens — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:06:28 +0000

Robotic fun instrument I worked on this back in the day. flying balls and wine glasses and drums. I did the lighting and later redid the real-time low latency streaming:

https://bea.st/absolut-quartet

New comment by iseanstevens in "A nuclear weapons lab helped crack a serial-killer case"

iseanstevens — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:19:10 +0000

Serial killer < Parallel killer