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New comment by jaustin in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

jaustin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:20:48 +0000

Can anyone else comment on the durability claims here - I wear a lot of knitwear but in my experience it is almost never the case that they fail at the seams. Is the cut/sew mechanism of fabrication part of the weakening? (my jumpers tent to either wear through in elbows (patchable!) or ultimately get nicked/cut by something like a branch I failed to avoid).

New comment by jaustin in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

jaustin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:32:47 +0000

This is a sure sign we’re nearing the shoe event horizon (https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon and audio https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nEI19kJ5GfU )

New comment by jaustin in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

jaustin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:18:02 +0000

Do you still have a link or some search pointers to the article about SBC please? Would love to read it

New comment by jaustin in "Clicks Communicator"

jaustin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:17:39 +0000

I have a Clicks Keyboard and love it. As far as I can tell the team behind the Clicks are pretty intertwined with https://www.fxtec.com/ - in that FX Tech staff seem to be involved in Clicks support, etc.

The Clicks Keyboard for iPhone (14) was a great concept, and pretty well executed for a V1 - I haven’t tried their follow-up devices.

But assuming it’s the same team, there’s a history of shipping devices behind them.

(That isn’t to encourage you to pre-order! Just to perhaps contribute some more optimism to your hope that they succeed)

New comment by jaustin in "Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’"

jaustin — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:15:05 +0000

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation also make a web-based Python Editor at https://python.microbit.org which is designed to be a supportive introduction to text-based coding and physical computing with no installation, friendly error messages and device simulation

New comment by jaustin in "Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library"

jaustin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:34:24 +0000

I wish I knew the paper, but https://github.com/chirp was a proprietary data-over-sound-through-air implementation that worked pretty well and sounded really cute (to my ears, anyway). It's not a paper, but there's this https://www.scientia.global/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Chirp...

New comment by jaustin in "Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor"

jaustin — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:04:12 +0000

Did you look at Mattercraft? https://zap.works/mattercraft/ - the team that are building it have been delivering mixed reality experiences across platforms in Zappar for a long time and it's very complete.

New comment by jaustin in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

jaustin — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:39:17 +0000

This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around.

They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m).

I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help:

* Cellular development of the maemo platform and the politics surrounding it?

Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? I always felt the N9 was a beautiful piece of design and implementation - just late and under-supported.

New comment by jaustin in "Show HN: MynaUI Icons – 1180 Beautifully Crafted Open Source Icons"

jaustin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:07:11 +0000

These look really nice, thanks for sharing.

Out of curiosity, were you setting out to create something new for stylistic reasons? Or licensing? For the fun of it? From a distance I'm trying to distinguish this from something like remix icons https://remixicon.com

Do you plan to keep adding more icons? How will these relate to the MynaUI Pro plan in the long run?

New comment by jaustin in "Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?"

jaustin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:26:26 +0000

MakeCode Arcade also has the ability to put your games on physical hardware, which can be a game changer for engagement. A simple game on a 128x256 grid can feel a bit “rubbish” on a laptop screen, but put it on something with a Gameboy form factor and it comes into its own.

Arcade also has amazing editors for sound, sprites, etc.

Here’s Flappy Bird https://arcade.makecode.com/88444-57913-28610-31751 (Not made by me!)

New comment by jaustin in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"

jaustin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:22:33 +0000

Looks like it's an "and" in silicon and an "or" at boot time?

>RP2350 includes a pair of open-hardware Hazard3 RISC-V cores which can be substituted at boot time for the Cortex-M33 cores. Our boot ROM can even auto-detect the architecture for which a second-stage binary has been built and reboot the chip into the appropriate mode

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/s...

Pico 2 and RP2350 launch with choice of ARM or RISC-V

jaustin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192947

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

New comment by jaustin in "OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic"

jaustin — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:12:35 +0000

I'm positing a model where a third party does the influencing, not the company delivering the LLM/service. What's to say that it's an ad if the Wikipedia page for a product itself says that the product "establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership and operating excellence". (and no problem if the edit gets reverted, as long as it said that just at the moment company X crawled Wikipedia for the latest training round).

So more like SEO firms "helping you" move your rank on Google, than Google selling ads.

I'd imagine "undetectable to the LLM training orgs" might just be service with a higher fee.

New comment by jaustin in "OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic"

jaustin — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:11:26 +0000

I'm sure it's not long before you get the first emails offering a "training data influencing service" - for a nice fee, someone will make sure your product is positively mentioned in all the key training datasets used to train important models. "Our team of content experts will embed positive sentiment and accurate product details into authentic content. We use the latest AI and human-based techniques to achieve the highest degree of model influence".

And of course, once the new models are released, it'll be impossible to prove the impact of the work - there's no counterfactual. Proponents of the "training data influence service" will tell you that without them, you wouldn't even be mentioned.

I really don't like this. But I also don't see a way around it. Public datasets are good. User contributed content is good, but inherently vulnerable to this I think?. Anyone in any of the big LLM training orgs working on defending against this kind of bought influence?

New comment by jaustin in "Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs"

jaustin — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:27:50 +0000

We've been using this in the Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org) to fill a gap in hardware design tooling, and get visual diffs of our schematics and gerbers during PCB design iterations. It's kinda wild that's what we ended up doing, but if you want to be sure your radio layout didn't change at all when you're making a minor revision to a different part of the board, visual diffs are perfect.

That said, next project we want to try something more integrated with EDA tools. If anyone else has followed this path, we'd love to know.

New comment by jaustin in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

jaustin — Wed, 29 May 2024 11:29:01 +0000

Next can we have them identify ambient noises that need amplification for safety reasons, like the nearly-silent electric car about to run me over, or the bike I'm about to accidentally step in front of? As someone who spends a bit too much of my time walking around on calls, I think selective amplification of ambient sounds for safety would be amazing!

New comment by jaustin in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

jaustin — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:35:54 +0000

I've been messing around with Q10 keyboards, MCUs and cases but not got to anything as good as a Fairberry - I'd love one or two if you have spares! Couldn't see details for private messaging you, but my profile has enough to email me on :) How is the software support? I'm using Blackberry Keyboard on my Key 2 and it's pretty good, does that work okay with Fairberry?

How transformers work – FT visual storytelling

jaustin — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586818

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jaustin in "Chonky Menu Re-Creation"

jaustin — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:06:48 +0000

The Ux here looks really nice, and I felt like I'd seen it before. It's a bit like a 2020s interpretation of the webOS Wave Launcher. ( https://youtu.be/dcyJLaK4YBI?t=46 if you'd never seen it).

New comment by jaustin in "What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?"

jaustin — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:06:20 +0000

It's used for flashing the BBC micro:bit in both Microsoft MakeCode (https://makecode.microbit.org) and the micro:bit Python Editor (https://python.microbit.org). MakeCode uses it for lots of other devices like MakeCode Arcade too https://arcade.makecode.com )

It's amazing for students to be able to quickly get a program they've written in their browser onto a device in their hands that can respond to and interact with the real world.

Also great because with MicroPython and the Python Editor you get a standalone Python environment including REPL that's completely isolated from the PC - schools love it because no matter what the students do they're not going to break the host PCs.

(The firmware that implements web USB on the micro:bit's USB interface chip is open source, DAPLink https://github.com/ARMmbed/DAPLink)