Hacker News: k1musab1

New comment by k1musab1 in "Claude for Small Business"

k1musab1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:21:53 +0000

To make a lot of money.

'"Claude for Engineers" coming to build a bridge in a town near you! You heard it here first'.

New comment by k1musab1 in "PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption"

k1musab1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:06:10 +0000

Not the commenter above. I used popOs 22 for 4-5 yeas daily, and have been quite happy. I was prompted to update to 24 through the system panel, accepted, and after the update was done, I encountered multiple issues with Cosmic. Could not restore, and after futile attempts, wiped and re-installed Ubuntu 22. I do not have a system76 PC, but an older Dell WS. I regret accepting the suggested breaking update.

Anthropic's AutoDream Is Flawed

k1musab1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-192893121

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617028

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by k1musab1 in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

k1musab1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:40:50 +0000

Overpriced for what it is - there are pressurized tank pens starting at $4, a lot more ergonomic too.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k"

k1musab1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:03:02 +0000

I saw the video, and wondered if they bypassed Alibaba after finding the vendor - Alibaba has trade assurance with significant protection for the buyer and seller, including escrow until order is received and checked.

New comment by k1musab1 in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

k1musab1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:13:55 +0000

Passport /citizen ID linked to your WOW account, etc.

New comment by k1musab1 in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

k1musab1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:10:39 +0000

Aged like milk.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks"

k1musab1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:12:38 +0000

I find this extremely concerning: "Countermeasures. We are developing Product, API and model-level safeguards designed to reduce the efficacy of model outputs for illicit distillation, without degrading the experience for legitimate customers."

I often ask Claude to reason out loud, and this indicates that instead of explicitly blocking flagged requests the model output will be purposefully degraded.

New comment by k1musab1 in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

k1musab1 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:55:04 +0000

Give it a few undocumented updates that change your settings in the background, and come back to give us an update. Even my Win10 extended support is getting CoPilot shoved down the pipeline silently.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard"

k1musab1 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:26:41 +0000

"... I have a rough idea of" and "look into AI-powered ... design tools" is a sad sentence to come across. This young individual spent time to learn complex things and implemented it into an actual useful physical thing. Why give this advice in the first place? To stop them from learning?

New comment by k1musab1 in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

k1musab1 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:14:15 +0000

Time and time again large competing forces in the market are found to have colluded instead of directly competing with each other to drive price/cost down. What is it that still makes you believe that two (or n-number) of providers won't collude to charge an astronomical amount for a life-saving treatment?

New comment by k1musab1 in "Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox"

k1musab1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:44:16 +0000

You can achieve near 100% great shots. I have a decent grinder, Robot Cafelat manual machine, and found the beans and roasting level I enjoy form a local roaster. Total under 900CAD.

Agree about not being able to enjoy any other coffee anymore.

New comment by k1musab1 in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

k1musab1 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:10:13 +0000

Thank you for providing this valuable context. I am hoping to advocate for OSS transition in my workplace and these examples go a long way to help make my case.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox"

k1musab1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:26:03 +0000

On chronic coffee consumption: "One meta-analysis found that RR coffee 0.757, RR caffeine 0.721 (12). Another one found RR 0.76, with an optimal protective effect at ∼400 mL/day (13). In comparison to many drug treatments that have an effect size in this range, this is not a small effect size. A risk reduction of 20 to 25% is quite impressive."

As if I needed another reason to drink coffee.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year"

k1musab1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:43:30 +0000

This exact issue lead me to follow the grid orchestration research out of the Oak Ridge Laboratory. The building blocks already exist to enable this. An interconnected smart network of renewables can become a stabilizing force in the overall grid. Off-peak storage would still be required, but would no longer need to be "stabilizing" (turbine or other similar generator), and can be simple batteries.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

k1musab1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:47:50 +0000

The Reform laptop project is open hardware: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform

I encourage you to browse it, I found that while challenging, it does not seem unreachable to get to that level of proficiency in KiCad.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

k1musab1 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:13:27 +0000

Edison Motors, a manufacturer of hybrid and electric semi and other trucks in Canada, is currently battling regulation. They have a series of videos on their Youtube channel going over what's been taking place.

New comment by k1musab1 in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

k1musab1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:09:49 +0000

Thank you for adding historic details on this issue, much appreciated.

New comment by k1musab1 in "Blender 5.0"

k1musab1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:55:56 +0000

FreeCAD is the front-runner for me.

KiCAD was also a meh ECAD FOSS alternative 7-8 years ago, now it is by far the tool of choice for regular ECAD designs. I can see FreeCad getting there by 2030.

New comment by k1musab1 in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

k1musab1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:10:48 +0000

A foundational research team in a Canadian university in Quebec, if I recall correctly. They licenced these patents to the Chinese companies royalty free when used the Chinese domestic market. The Chinese spent the time developing LFP to where it's now a bleeding edge of batteries, while practically no-one else was interested.

In a retaliatory fight over the EVs, in October 2025, the CCP issued a ban on transfer of advanced technology for LFP batteries, and battery manufacturing equipment.