Hacker News: kenanfyi

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.

New comment by kenanfyi in "macOS Container Machines"

kenanfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:30:40 +0000

I don‘t understand why these tools always advertise about mounting the $HOME inside the container. Isn‘t it better to have a complete isolation? Isn‘t that the point of using such a thing?

New comment by kenanfyi in "Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us"

kenanfyi — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:01:41 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t this more or less a fancy goto?

New comment by kenanfyi in "Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS"

kenanfyi — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:01:13 +0000

Good to hear they added true isolation. I had immediately moved to Colima when I was considering options because of this.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Does anybody like React?"

kenanfyi — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:14:40 +0000

I think so, because it's created in Meta, thus having a huge developer base already and spread its way out of there. If you earn your life writing it, because your employer forces you to do so and you never try other stuff that long, you end up liking it.

I have never found the idea of having a Virtual DOM and diffing in runtime a good solution to the problem, maybe that's why I never liked React. I mean if you are writing a lot of code, have an enormous build step already and use a bloated library, why not have it compiled too anyway. That's why I like the thinking behind Svelte.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Ferrari Luce"

kenanfyi — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:38:28 +0000

I knew it was going to be ugly, but did not expect an abomination. You surprised me indeed Ferrari.

New comment by kenanfyi in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

kenanfyi — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:10:34 +0000

Every now and then I see similar posts and people move to Proton from Gmail, because it is European. Well, it’s fine if that‘s the only reason you switch, but if you switch because US became weird and lost your trust, you might want to check their CEO‘s comments on political issues.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Ti-84 Evo"

kenanfyi — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:16:49 +0000

Electronics engineer here. I use my HP Prime G2 daily in the lab for basic things as well as quickly calculating complicated stuff, since you can pretty much program it to do whatever you want.

You might say why not use Python or Matlab?! It‘s true that you don‘t need a small handheld device to do engineering calculations where there is a ton of other much stronger and free options out there. But the thing is, a calculator is a pure dedication to one thing. You turn it on, you do your calculation, get the answer and move on. It gets out of your way. Plus it is a better feeling to type stuff using the dedicated buttons in a calculator than using a keyboard.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Show HN: My AI Native Obsidian Setup"

kenanfyi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:57:04 +0000

Just out of curiosity: what's the point of having a zettelkasten/digital garden type of a system if you don't synthesize your own thoughts and outcomes by yourself? I mean what is the expectation out of this? You sort of prompt something there and it generates a probably long form stuff which is saved somewhere deep in folders. Are you going to read them at some point or your main use case will be just again talking to LLM while your vault being the context?

New comment by kenanfyi in "An unsolicited guide to being a researcher [pdf]"

kenanfyi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:05:38 +0000

Some excellent advice there. I can also confirm them from hardware engineering perspective.

New comment by kenanfyi in "My Desk Setup: From Multi-Monitor to Single Screen with Virtual Desktops"

kenanfyi — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:24:35 +0000

Isn't it better to have light on the back of the screen? Like illuminating the wall slightly?

New comment by kenanfyi in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

kenanfyi — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:50:31 +0000

- I use my HP Prime at work almost daily and I love that it has a touch screen where I can quickly copy paste past calculations. This in my opinion is better than using a stack calculator and RPN. There are also some small programs I wrote for like calculating parallel pairs for a given resistor value, based on E-Series since calculating resistors for stuff is quite a standard thing for your day as an hardware design engineer.

- I also have a Casio fx-991ES Plus which I bought during my student years and love to use it, because it is way faster for quick stuff than my Prime and I changed its battery in the past 10 years just once. This is not the case for Prime where I have to charge it every week or two. But doesn't bother me. Prime is an amazing calculator.

New comment by kenanfyi in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kenanfyi — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:13:21 +0000

https://kenan.fyi

Not writing as much as I wanted to, but nevertheless it‘s my space on the grand scheme of things.

New comment by kenanfyi in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

kenanfyi — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:07:23 +0000

I think there is an option in Keyboard Shortcuts to set a keybinding for moving to other displays, but it‘s not by default like in Windows.

For this kind of stuff Raycast is more than enough though. I use its window management features extensively.

New comment by kenanfyi in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

kenanfyi — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:46:02 +0000

I have been using Moom for a long time for especially two things:

- moving windows without holding from any particular position

- resizing windows without grabbing a particular corner

Life changing small things.