Hacker News: knob

New comment by knob in "How we rebuilt complex permissions without migrating to Zanzibar"

knob — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:11:58 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed this read. As it states at the beginning: rbac is necessary, yet not sexy. I don't use infiscal, yet this post was quite a good insight. Thanks for sharing it!

New comment by knob in "Atomic Force Microscope [video]"

knob — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:24:51 +0000

I had never seen his channel and immediately loved it! Awesome stuff!

New comment by knob in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

knob — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:55:11 +0000

This thread is a beautiful intro into our near future. Yet more and more custom coded software. Takes me back to the days of late 90s. Loving this!

New comment by knob in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

knob — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:20:51 +0000

I love this take. Thanks for sharing it. Puts into words why sometimes I can spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve a system: trying to save future effort.

New comment by knob in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

knob — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:23:49 +0000

Feed that comment into an ai (claude suggested). Let it know what you have, and just work out a "numbered list roadmap". Love ais for that!

New comment by knob in "YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark"

knob — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:14:26 +0000

I always remember the cool falling bodies animation Animats had in /.

New comment by knob in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

knob — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:18:26 +0000

Thank you to Mr Greg Newby for this project. RIP

New comment by knob in "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?"

knob — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:48:48 +0000

This is actually a ... solid idea upon short consideration!

I like it! Thank you for posting it: I hadn't seen it before.

New comment by knob in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

knob — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:23:12 +0000

Honestly, this is a great way of putting it.

New comment by knob in "CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite"

knob — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:23:25 +0000

Hello! Any thoughts on integrating with Nextcloud?

New comment by knob in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

knob — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:34:24 +0000

No they are not. They are saying exactly: "You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to[...]Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence"

New comment by knob in "The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]"

knob — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:11:03 +0000

Quite good read. I'm going to print this out.

New comment by knob in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

knob — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:11:58 +0000

Didn't Uber have something similar happen? Ran over a woman in Phoenix?

New comment by knob in "I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search"

knob — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:29:25 +0000

Hell no in Firefox. To change the setting on Firefox it is burried at the bottom of another bottom.

I'm a 99% Firefox user.

New comment by knob in "Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software"

knob — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:29:11 +0000

Nice!

I would suggest Nextcloud for google drive slash microsoft onedrive alternative.

I have been using in production for years, and it has been awesome.

Note sure about licensing.

Another is Proxmox. It is freemium, yet solid.

New comment by knob in "What is a zero refractive index material?"

knob — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:35:42 +0000

Fascinating. Thank you for putting it together.

New comment by knob in ""A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4"

knob — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:07:08 +0000

Same!! I absolutely loved a Diamond Age! I think about that world and humanity's future often!

New comment by knob in "Ask HN: As a self-taught developer, what are your self-directed learning tips?"

knob — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:25:17 +0000

Similar path for me. The book The Effective Engineer by Edmund Lau was spectacular.

Push yourself full! Yet be kind with your progress. Best of luck fellow!

New comment by knob in "Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience"

knob — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:42:16 +0000

Thank you for sharing this!!

Doing this Monday when I get back into the office.

Plus for $5, I find it quite cheap!

New comment by knob in "Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free"

knob — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:35:53 +0000

What's your source for this opinion?