Hacker News: kbouck

New comment by kbouck in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

kbouck — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:52:44 +0000

Clever name that changes depending on where you put the space

New comment by kbouck in "Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI"

kbouck — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:40:09 +0000

on my iphone the readme ascii art title gets truncated to just "STASI" :-)

been looking for something like this! will definitely check it out.

New comment by kbouck in "Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version"

kbouck — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:38:59 +0000

A few fun ones:

Walk this way: https://www.wario.style/s/Eg9zi56k

Live and let die: https://www.wario.style/s/8qt4OfdS

Ramblin Man: https://www.wario.style/s/wSd51DBA

Smells like teen spirit: https://www.wario.style/s/CQq6Dc6f

Paranoid: https://www.wario.style/s/202Hs3lV

and of course...

Stairway to heaven: https://www.wario.style/s/SNPSmI8u

New comment by kbouck in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

kbouck — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:45:42 +0000

That was my experience too. The experience with powerline ethernet adapters was unbearable on a daily basis.

We had an unused coax (which we disconnected from the outside world) and used MoCA adapters (actiontek) and it's been consistently great/stable. No issues ever... for years.

New comment by kbouck in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

kbouck — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:32:12 +0000

> compression is ambiguous

I think the unambiguous term for this is "Dynamic Range Compression"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

New comment by kbouck in "Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere"

kbouck — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:53:48 +0000

> moving toward a world where coding isn't really about sitting down and grinding out syntax

Love the idea of "coding" while walking/running outside. For me those outside activities help me clear my mind and think about tough problems or higher level stuff. The thought of directing agents to help persist and refine fleeting thoughts/ideas/insights, flesh out design/code, etc is intriguing

New comment by kbouck in "Hiroshima (1946)"

kbouck — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:41:23 +0000

Tokyo was (fire) bombed a few months earlier causing ~100k deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...

New comment by kbouck in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

kbouck — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:48:20 +0000

I really like the nest encoder/button feel, so I was considering trying to hack mine into a becoming desktop volume control/button... but probably lacking the skills to not make a mess of it. Would love to see how you interface with the existing hardware!

New comment by kbouck in "Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations"

kbouck — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:45:02 +0000

Rotate phone to landscape

New comment by kbouck in "Identifying Unmarked Iron"

kbouck — Sat, 31 May 2025 09:24:39 +0000

Great website. Such a comprehensive explanation of the cast iron seasoning process.

New comment by kbouck in "DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage"

kbouck — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:33:14 +0000

if a heap dump is a copy of all the bytes in memory, then wouldn't "thousands of heap dumps" likely be larger than 410GB?

napkin math:

  410GB/1000 dumps = 410MB per dump?

  410GB/2000 dumps = 205MB per dump

New comment by kbouck in "Show HN: Doxxer – CLI tool for dynamic SemVer versioning using tags"

kbouck — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:11:55 +0000

From the FAQ:

> Why is the project called doxxer? Because it's like somebody who doxes, by exposing the version information about Git repo to you!

New comment by kbouck in "A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics"

kbouck — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:30:57 +0000

didn't read article due to paywall, but the answer is most likely yes. i was able to build a basic 2-degrees-of-freedom robot-arm grabber using lego technic and power functions and was controlled by scratch on a raspberry pi. lego also has pneumatics.

New comment by kbouck in "Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro"

kbouck — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:43:58 +0000

Did same but for Asteroids. Had a working wireframe version after only a couple of prompts! I think using the term "Asteroids" in my original prompt was a bit of cheat/shortcut.

My lessons learned for prompting were to have project broken down into clearly defined modules (duh...), and to constantly feed the latest module source back in as context along with the prompts. This helps ground the responses to only adjust the code related to the prompt, and to not break stuff that was already working.

New comment by kbouck in "Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro"

kbouck — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:25:41 +0000

Probably quite a few prompts.

Should we be checking in our prompt history into version control as a kind of source code or requirements spec? Seems prompt revision and improvement would be valuable to keep a history of.

New comment by kbouck in "iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess"

kbouck — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:58:02 +0000

In the rare event that robovacs manage to traverse the treacherous rug tassels, their algorithm should cause them to stay on that rug and finish it before exiting.

New comment by kbouck in "DIY Synths Database"

kbouck — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:30:34 +0000

Anyone tried the SC1000 in this list? I want to make this, but as a MIDI controller instead of having self-contained music.

https://diy-synths.snnkv.com/synths/SC1000

https://github.com/rasteri/SC1000

New comment by kbouck in "A love letter to the CSV format"

kbouck — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:28:10 +0000

trimmed the version path off and went a bit too far! thanks.

New comment by kbouck in "A love letter to the CSV format"

kbouck — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:40:18 +0000

Xan looks great. Miller is another great cli tool for transforming data among csv, tsv, json and other formats.

https://miller.readthedocs/

New comment by kbouck in "Bigscreen Beyond 2"

kbouck — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:41:47 +0000

Beat Saber with custom songs is the killer app for VR