Hacker News: kenanfyi

New comment by kenanfyi in "Transformers Explained Visually"

kenanfyi — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:55:18 +0000

Winding your own transformer is really not that big of a deal. Especially if you work in R&D as a power electronics engineer. No one waits for the custom transformer to be delivered to your bench when you were designing a new power supply.

For high power stuff though, you need some equipment to do that since copper will hard to bend neatly.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

kenanfyi — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:03:47 +0000

Agree on this. There area lots of links I click and immediately close, because I immediately recognize it's AI Slop for instance. No need to register these type of stuff immediately to the hister database.

Adding a timer constraint would be really nice and I guess it might be quite easy to do it since it's only a concern in the browser extension.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

kenanfyi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:53:32 +0000

It's funny the website is generated with AI. I'm kind of sure that the code as well.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

kenanfyi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:11:23 +0000

That was an amazing read.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

kenanfyi — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:16:41 +0000

US criminal justice system has justice only on its name and that's it. I am always amazed how individuals defend these joke you call a system. Amazing.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

kenanfyi — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:39:30 +0000

Sure. That he was facing 35 years in prison for his “crimes“ had nothing to with his suicide.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

kenanfyi — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:41:28 +0000

I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a. When I write !a before the link in the address bar, it redirects to the archive for that particular page. Most of the time it is already in archive.is.

Bang settings:

URL Template: https://archive.is/newest/%s

Bang shortcut: whatever letter you want.

I'm sure a basic browser extension can be developed for that specific action too, but it does not bother me to write !a every now and then.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

kenanfyi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:51:22 +0000

Great idea! I have micro retirements every year for 30 days. My company calls it vacation, but micro retirement is a better term I like.

Even more than that, I have nano retirements every now and then. We call them holidays. What a lame term, I know.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Substack writers, you need a website"

kenanfyi — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:51:14 +0000

I kind of agree with the author, but having such places is very convenient for most people considering most people do not know how to make websites. Yes, it is easy nowadays, but it is still a hurdle for many.

Specifically on Substack though: I immediately close if a link I clicked is Substack. Many reasons for that. I find it very unpleasant to read stuff there, because of that banners and general design of the website. It all look generic and I hate generic. Second reason and even more important for me is that Substack platforms Nazis and white supremacists and they have apparently no problem about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

New comment by kenanfyi in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

kenanfyi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:09:19 +0000

He‘s been hanging out with his friends quite a lot lately I assume. Same brain farts over and over again.

New comment by kenanfyi in "I'm Done with Mullvad"

kenanfyi — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:37:54 +0000

So your sources are „discussions all over world news“ and some articles that pops up time to time? Sounds like populism, isn‘t it?

New comment by kenanfyi in "I'm Done with Mullvad"

kenanfyi — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:30:55 +0000

Are there any statistics regarding these issues and linking them to immigrants? Asking literally out of interest.

New comment by kenanfyi in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

kenanfyi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:55:40 +0000

It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc.

I deploy my website using their API. So on every push, GitHub Actions builds it and copies the dist/ to Bunny and purges the cache afterwards. Everything has been working perfectly. I can only recommend. It's also quite easy if you don't know about the modern way of doing things and just want to use an FTP to put your website online. Especially attractive for IndieWeb folks.

New comment by kenanfyi in "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"

kenanfyi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:49:04 +0000

Correct. In Bunny you have a $1/month minimum cost. I guess that's so low for them, that it's kinda nothing.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

kenanfyi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:08:19 +0000

I thought the same. I like the idea of it and probably use it to find nice blogs, but it looks like AI-coded.

New comment by kenanfyi in "macOS Container Machines"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:23:49 +0000

Well, maybe I should have used relativity unimportant. And yes there should be a way to turn them off. In OrbStack it was not possible to do that until lately.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:21:17 +0000

“What“ might be a long answer, but why anyone might want one is to have increased torque density for the given volume and diameter. So they are thin motors where the generated flux is parallel to the shaft. And they are like the standard PMSMs where you apply the same driving algorithm from the inverter side to use them.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:15:55 +0000

I remember when YASA announced it and when MB bought them. Amazing technology and advancement in electric motor design. Good to see they somehow try to commercialize it.

New comment by kenanfyi in "macOS Container Machines"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:01:09 +0000

Understand. And yeah that‘s annoying. I use containers only for development and to keep my main system secure from supply chain attacks. I have almost no build tooling in my Mac anymore. No npm, no cargo, no uv. Nothing. They all live inside the container which is completely isolated.

I guess my use case is not that important for the main user of these tools.

New comment by kenanfyi in "macOS Container Machines"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:58:27 +0000

I see. Why this interests me is the similar stuff I have been reading lately. All these supply chain attacks regarding npm, Tanstack etc. Therefore I wanted to create a totally isolated sandbox and while considering options I have seen they all by default mount the $HOME. I needed to explicitly tell colima to not do that.

But yeah, I guess my use case is not the main use of such tools or their purpose in general. Thanks for the link, I‘ll take a look at it.