Hacker News: k33l0r

New comment by k33l0r in "Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022)"

k33l0r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:58:05 +0000

Other displays with Mac-compatible PPI densities that have come out since 2022:

- BenQ PD2730S (5K)

- BenQ MA270S (5K, Thunderbolt 4)

- Asus PA27JCV (5K)

- Acer ProCreator PE270XT (5K)

- Asus PA32QCV (6K)

- Acer ProCreator PE320QXT (6K)

Announced at CES, not yet for sale:

- MSI MPG 271KRAW16 (5K)

- MSI MAG 271KPD7 (5K)

New comment by k33l0r in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

k33l0r — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:42:05 +0000

I use my ISP's default DNS servers and have consistently gotten the CAPTCHA page for weeks now. The CAPTCHA seems to be broken too, rendering archive.today entirely inaccessible.

New comment by k33l0r in "UniFi 5G"

k33l0r — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:20:09 +0000

The video shows it on a moving vehicle

New comment by k33l0r in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

k33l0r — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:03:36 +0000

An Apple TV or HomePod mini, if you want to stay within the Apple ecosystem…

New comment by k33l0r in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

k33l0r — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:09:49 +0000

Electricity contracts with 1-hour pricing are already pretty popular at least in Finland, even for consumers. I myself have one.

Plus large parts of Europe are currently transitioning to more granular 15-minute pricing: https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/trading/transition-to-15-mi...

You can still get fixed tariff electricity contracts but you'll end up paying a bit extra in return for greater predictability…

Nothing busted using professional photos as Phone 3 samples

k33l0r — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:33:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/report/766543/nothing-busted-using-fake-phone-3-photo-samples

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by k33l0r in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

k33l0r — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:29:49 +0000

Slower and broken more often, a winning combination!

New comment by k33l0r in "What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?"

k33l0r — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:19:43 +0000

Anker is very bad at handling country/region redirects correctly. If you're not located in the region the link is pointing at, they'll just redirect you to the home page of whatever region they think you should be looking at.

This is really annoying when trying to find product information because, for example, the Anker Nordics site doesn't have product pages for all the products they sell in Europe, but they won't let you look at product pages from other regions without some VPN shenanigans.

New comment by k33l0r in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

k33l0r — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:19:16 +0000

The fundamental problem with deliveries is that you, as the recipient, are not the customer.

The merchant pays for thousands of deliveries, but you on the receiving end are at best getting a handful.

So the courier is incentivised to offer the best rates to the merchant while completely ignoring the requirements or preferences of the recipient.

Your only recourse is to complain to the shop, who might do something if the volume of complaints is high enough, but most likely they’ll just pass the buck to the courier…

XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa

k33l0r — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/xais-grok-suddenly-cant-stop-bringing-up-white-genocide-in-south-africa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332

Points: 224

# Comments: 73

New comment by k33l0r in "A M.2 HDMI capture card"

k33l0r — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:53:04 +0000

I haven't used one myself, but I believe that something like a Blackmagic ATEM Mini should be able to do that (and much more).

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini

GitHub stars are not an invitation to send me spam

k33l0r — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:58:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.randomerrata.com/articles/2025/github-star-spam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42740282

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by k33l0r in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

k33l0r — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:43:04 +0000

I've found that Send to Kindle does a much worse job at converting to MOBI than Calibre, which is a bit ironic but on par with Amazon's overall treatment of non-Kindle books.

A rough guide to notarizing CLI apps for macOS

k33l0r — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.randomerrata.com/articles/2024/notarize/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265521

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by k33l0r in "Show HN: Planlike.pro – New Estimating Tool"

k33l0r — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:06:41 +0000

Lying about testimonials is worse than no testimonials.

FWIW, the quotes may be real but the photos not. Either way dishonesty is not a good way to start a business relationship…

New comment by k33l0r in "Show HN: Planlike.pro – New Estimating Tool"

k33l0r — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:56:58 +0000

Pretty cool that all three of your customers[0] have also tried their hand at modeling!

* https://pixabay.com/images/search/womanpower/

* https://pixabay.com/photos/old-man-people-pensioner-wrinkles...

* https://unsplash.com/photos/W7pk4FfrSY0

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[0]: https://dropover.cloud/d018d9#ca9916e1-b91c-4818-a6c3-92a644...

Show HN: PaperAge – Easy and secure paper backups of (smallish) secrets

k33l0r — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:36:04 +0000

Take any plaintext input, encrypt it using Age, and generate a printable PDF with a QR code that's easy to scan back in.

Oh, and this is my first Rust project so some the code might not be the best.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712583

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by k33l0r in "UPS and the package wars"

k33l0r — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:46:05 +0000

It's the same in Finland. There was a big blow up about it a few months ago when someone's Twitter thread[1] about it blew up online and, eventually, in the local media[2].

The drivers are given utterly unrealistic quotas and there's appears to be little incentive for packages to actually get delivered. There's also no way for a consumer to escalate delivery issues to anyone who'd actually be empowered to fix mistakes.

[1]: https://twitter.com/MikkiHEL/status/1549027653906272257 (be warned, it's a thread with hundreds of tweets. In English, though)

[2]: https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000008955913.html (in Finnish)

New comment by k33l0r in "Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more"

k33l0r — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 11:10:10 +0000

And they're very possibly sharing chat metadata with Russian intelligence services https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegr...

Awair PM2.5 Sensor Repair

k33l0r — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:06:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.randomerrata.com/articles/2022/awair-repair/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31136665

Points: 2

# Comments: 0