Hacker News: johnboiles

New comment by johnboiles in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

johnboiles — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:46:38 +0000

Yes. I just made one with Fusion and Codex.

New comment by johnboiles in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

johnboiles — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:18:30 +0000

I've been having great success with the robots reverse engineering things too. https://github.com/johnboiles/ble-label-printers https://github.com/eastbaymakersclub/pixcut-s1 I've been using Codex in the ChatGPT app for this and it's been really neat to watch it download the vendor's app, decompile it, and make the hardware work.

New comment by johnboiles in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

johnboiles — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:48:43 +0000

Also, these CO2 canaries are neat. We got one for our office https://a.co/d/02EKUci9

New comment by johnboiles in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

johnboiles — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:45:46 +0000

Yes in one way or another

LLM-written short story about being a LLM

johnboiles — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jamesjyu/status/2022926490619248883

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024868

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by johnboiles in "I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows"

johnboiles — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:43:11 +0000

Y'all it's been a couple decades but is it _actually_ the year of the Linux desktop now??

New comment by johnboiles in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

johnboiles — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:08:16 +0000

That seems incredibly fast for plastic to degrade like that. I wonder if you could have something generating ozone in there.

New comment by johnboiles in "Workday project at Washington University hits $266M"

johnboiles — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:50:06 +0000

How organizations would pay for Workday baffles me. It is the worst company software I've ever used. It would regularly lose data that managers would input so the best practice amongst EMs was to never put data directly into Workday but instead keep copies elsewhere and only input it into Workday at the last moment. Then if Workday decided to drop your performance feedback you could just paste it again.

It must be really really really good for the HR decision makers though?

New comment by johnboiles in "Workday project at Washington University hits $266M"

johnboiles — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:47:48 +0000

Can confirm. It's like they actively try to make it terrible.

New comment by johnboiles in "Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New"

johnboiles — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:44:29 +0000

I got bit by this exact seller on Amazon earlier this year. "New" drive had SMART power-on time of 25371 hours.

* I reported it to Amazon's fraud team (with evidence): No response

* I wrote the seller a bad review (also with evidence!): Taken down by Amazon

https://x.com/johnboiles/status/1879713174427214131?s=20

New comment by johnboiles in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

johnboiles — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:47:49 +0000

> there's for example Linux-specific software which puts the WiFi card in promiscuous mode and does useful stuff with that

In the past, I've made this specific thing work with USB passthrough, Virtualbox, and external USB WiFi adapters with monitor mode support.

New comment by johnboiles in "Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)"

johnboiles — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:41:11 +0000

GPUs back in the day were only for gamers. Now they are for increasing your ai b2b saas arr.

New comment by johnboiles in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

johnboiles — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:58:43 +0000

I have a Bambu X1C and a Prusa MK3.9S (mostly upgraded MK3S).

The Bambu is incredible at PLA. It is so fast and consistently perfect. The 0.2mm nozzle makes unreal detail small parts. But I struggle to do other materials with it like TPU, PETG, ABS.

The Prusa takes generally whatever material I throw at it and does a great job just using the PrusaSlicer built in profiles. It's also the minimum viable printer -- it's 80% as good as the Bambu but a fraction of the complexity. I am 100% confident I could keep it running indefinitely where the Bambu is mostly proprietary parts and software.

New comment by johnboiles in "Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025"

johnboiles — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:30:04 +0000

Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon that sell used drives from this list as new. For example, I ordered two of these drives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KPL474H. They were both sold as new and arrived in sealed anti-static bags. First one was DOA and the second one's SMART data showed power-on hours of ~3 years!

I reported to Amazon and wrote a review but they took my review down for calling it fraud.

New comment by johnboiles in "Apple's MLX adding CUDA support"

johnboiles — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:12:15 +0000

...fastest compute no matter watt

New comment by johnboiles in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

johnboiles — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:52:59 +0000

The more redneck version of this I did as a kid was capture the flag in Walmart

New comment by johnboiles in "A stalled Waymo brought Kamala Harris' motorcade to a halt in SF"

johnboiles — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:53:07 +0000

See also this discussion on SFPD's citation data: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11nbnxw/san_f...

New comment by johnboiles in "A stalled Waymo brought Kamala Harris' motorcade to a halt in SF"

johnboiles — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:37:59 +0000

Totally fine to give citations to driverless cars, but can we also start issuing citations to human drivers again too? Its pretty wild out there

New comment by johnboiles in "Show HN: Sonatino – small audio dev board based on ESP32-S3"

johnboiles — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:39:20 +0000

Purchased! I've recently been poking around with two audio-related esp32 things I might use this for: Home Assistant Assist via ESPHome, and audio streaming with esp-adf (Espressif's official audio development framework). Excited to try out your board! With the high quality DAC I'll probably end up making this into an audio streamer board for our office.

New comment by johnboiles in "Number of Pedestrians Killed by Drivers Remains Vexingly High"

johnboiles — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:34:11 +0000

> While SFPD has recently met its Vision Zero target of issuing half of the traffic citations for the top five causes of collisions, it appears that this is largely a result of fewer citations overall — not an increased commitment to Focus on the Five enforcement, Mandelman’s office said.

Ugh incentives y'all.