Hacker News: jdhawk

New comment by jdhawk in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

jdhawk — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:56:27 +0000

I love the buttons, would loath a touchscreen on this size format. Just add a backlight!

New comment by jdhawk in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

jdhawk — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:55:09 +0000

I love my X4 as well, and would love a backlight. Crosspoint and its downline forks are great.

the only funny thing about the X4 is reading it in bright sunlight. it will corrupt the image on the screen on page turn unless you shade it? something to do w/ older eInk screens and not having a UV Filter. weird, slightly annoying.

Its increased my reading 2-3x though!

New comment by jdhawk in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

jdhawk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:46:19 +0000

+1 for Yoto, our kids (5-7) have abused them for years. The Make Your Own cards let me create full length audiobooks, playlists, etc..

super stuff

New comment by jdhawk in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

jdhawk — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:25:25 +0000

not well

New comment by jdhawk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

jdhawk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:42:27 +0000

  Results Generation | Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Austin, TX (Hybrid)

  We're a digital marketing platform company running a fleet of PHP/Lumen microservices on GCP, and supporting/rebuilding a legacy monolith. Small team, no bureaucracy, real infrastructure problems — multi-cluster Kubernetes, async messaging, database replication, content delivery at scale.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  You'll own day-to-day infrastructure operations: multi-cluster Kubernetes, Terraform-driven GCP resources, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and on-call. Hands-on role — you're the person keeping production reliable and making it better.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Stack: GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, GCS, Secret Manager, Workload Identity), Kubernetes, Terraform + Atlantis, Jenkins, Helm 3, Docker, MySQL (primary + replicas), RabbitMQ, Redis/Dragonfly, Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus, Scalyr, Flux, Ansible.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Looking for: 3-5 years with cloud infrastructure in production. Solid Kubernetes and Terraform experience. Comfortable operating MySQL with replication. On-call experience — you've been paged and written postmortems. Networking fundamentals (VPNs, private endpoints, DNS, TLS).
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Nice to have: GCP-specific experience, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, GitOps tooling, multi-cloud or cross-cloud migration experience.

https://www.indeed.com/job/cloud-devops-engineer-9234cb66e9a...

or just email me: dhawkins over at resultsgeneration.com

New comment by jdhawk in "That's not how email works"

jdhawk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:04:59 +0000

So does Apple's Mail Client. So do most webmail providers. Open signals are generally worthless.

New comment by jdhawk in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

jdhawk — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:03:47 +0000

Hisense Canvas and TCL NXTVISION

New comment by jdhawk in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

jdhawk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:37:41 +0000

https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-n5-pro-review-an-awe...

New comment by jdhawk in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

jdhawk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:35:04 +0000

You cannot run a standard distro (easily) - their software (DSM) is linux based and they expose most of the stock services like Docker and libvirt

New comment by jdhawk in "FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable"

jdhawk — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:28:16 +0000

I have family in very rural east texas. They have 1Gps bidirectional at the hands of EasTex Co-Op spending federal dollars to actually lay fiber across their service area.

Lots of them took the money and ran, some jammed it into real infrastructure.

New comment by jdhawk in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

jdhawk — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:30:35 +0000

My kids love theirs, and we get tons of comments from other parents since they'll happily listen to stories on them instead of begging for a screen.

They swap cards with their friends, and so long as its on a wifi connection the first time the card is inserted, the local storage is plenty enough to keep the cache there for offline use.

New comment by jdhawk in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024"

jdhawk — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:50:34 +0000

yeah - valid point. it seems like they all moved past 5400RPM at the 14TB level.

New comment by jdhawk in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024"

jdhawk — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:29:56 +0000

I wish there was a way to underspin (RPM) some of these drives to lower noise for non-datacenter use - the quest for the Largest "Quiet" drive - is a hard one. It would be cool if these could downshift into <5000RPM mode and run much quieter.

New comment by jdhawk in "Railroad Tycoon II"

jdhawk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:44:30 +0000

Also runs well under Wine!

New comment by jdhawk in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

jdhawk — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:45:34 +0000

Same issue. I've had university professors put my email address in their sylabus instead of ____.edu, and been carpet bombed by assignments, excuses, and pleading diatribes.

I'm listed as the email address for _many_ utility bills, doctors offices, and more political campaigns than I can count.

Comical how many people mess up their own email address.

New comment by jdhawk in "Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices"

jdhawk — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:45:45 +0000

It has PerfectStroke keys, so maybe the K740?

New comment by jdhawk in "Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs"

jdhawk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:58:56 +0000

how are they supposed to enforce it?

New comment by jdhawk in "The killer features of the Steam Deck"

jdhawk — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:28:09 +0000

I'd still rather have them play in the real world over either, but at least its a semi-active activity (problem solving, hand eye coordination?) vs a purely consumptive one.

New comment by jdhawk in "Pixel 8 Pro"

jdhawk — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:54:05 +0000

loved the size of the mini but the battery life was awful after a year or so of deg.

New comment by jdhawk in "50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity"

jdhawk — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:22:48 +0000

Bitrot.