Hacker News: kweks

New comment by kweks in "eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap"

kweks — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:21:37 +0000

Warning: The article is an empty shill for Saily. Prominently links to HowToGeek's 'review' of Saily with affiliate code: https://saily.sjv.io/LKDQrL or https://saily.sjv.io/c/156932/2044403/25536?svlink=11737998&... when resolved.

New comment by kweks in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"

kweks — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:31:40 +0000

For what it's worth, Morse doesn't actually work via tapping (unless you add scraping as the dash component). Tapping makes no distinction between dots and dashes; what you intend as a dash is technically a dot and a pause.

There's a parallel code specifically for tapping, called "Tap Code" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code

New comment by kweks in "A clear fishing wire is tied around the island of Manhattan"

kweks — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:24:48 +0000

Visible on Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MvPQhHgjkKMJpPws5

Full line boundary on maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0...

original NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...

New comment by kweks in "Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)"

kweks — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:48:57 +0000

I visited the Burans in 2020. Decided to go in winter; figured the risk profile would be lower (security, extreme weather). It's definitely an effort to get to. Sadly one of the Burans was tagged after our visit. The hangar is just next to Gagarin's launchpad, which was fairly amazing to witness.

Photos for the curious.

https://ninjito.com/2020-02-05-Baikonour

New comment by kweks in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

kweks — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:14:20 +0000

Stripe is a payment gateway, not an anti-fraud solution. I'd recommend using services such as wyllo or Signifyd for anti-fraud. They will pre-filter against network intelligence signals, and if they approve the transaction, will guarantee your funds, even if a chargeback is lost, and even if you lose.

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

kweks — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:07:44 +0000

https://ninjito.com

New comment by kweks in "What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain"

kweks — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:40:30 +0000

Alternatively, if your tropical or marine fish ever suffer from white-spot disease (actually a nasty protozoan), you use methylene blue to kill the parasite.

New comment by kweks in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

kweks — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:03:23 +0000

"Safe enough to swallow" seems like a scary oversimplification for alpha-emitting substances ?

New comment by kweks in "Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly"

kweks — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:25:19 +0000

Better alternative : https://github.com/justinribeiro/lite-youtube

New comment by kweks in "The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed"

kweks — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:35:33 +0000

And (at least) two in Paris. One mounted on stilts at CDG2, which depending on how you taxi you may or may not see from the plane, and one just outside ORY, which is maintained by an association, and visitable.

New comment by kweks in "Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag"

kweks — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:43:45 +0000

We did extensive research on the subject, there is no mystery. iOS will only read MIFARE tags with NDEF formatted data. If you write NDEF data to a formatted MIFARE card, it will be 'compatible' with iOS.

Otherwise, only the UID can be detected. The real mystery is why Apple refuses to open the low-level read commands. (To read NDEF, or determine that the data is _not_ NDEF, you need to read the card.)

New comment by kweks in "Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable"

kweks — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:42:37 +0000

Most modern amateur rigs are now SDR based. The big brands (YAESU, ICOM etc) seem to lean into SDR as QOL improvements (large bandwidth real time spectrum analysers to see what's going on across the whole band, Digital Noise Réduction that really works, etc), while preserving the heavily appreciated look and feel of a classic rig.

The Chinese SDR-based rigs have more unique interfaces, and there are many to choose from.

It's worth bearing in mind that most "Classic" desktop rigs output 100W, across 1MHz - 50MHz for HF - this needs to be supported by components that take up place.

Devices that operate at 10W are much smaller (and are typically chained with a larger indépendant amp..)

New comment by kweks in "I tried every top email marketing tool"

kweks — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:59:20 +0000

Adding our recent experience with Klaviyo. Klaviyo charges by "profile". When paired with Shopify, it automatically imports / pulls customer information 5o it's servers even when the customer specifically opted out of marketing.

First month, we were debited 3500EU for opted-out profiles that they had auto-pulled, against the consent of customers and us.

Even with the CEO looped in on emails, we had to threaten chargebacks before they refunded.

They also refused to remove data under our official GDPR request.

New comment by kweks in "Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked"

kweks — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:22:03 +0000

Taking into account the distances in Australia, I've never understood why the speed limit is so low.

Australia has an average "top speed" of 100km/h (110km/h in certain states) - whereas many other countries, with varying degrees of better or worse infrastructure, have average "top speed" of 130km/h - and yet have similar traffic fatalities.

Turkey: 130km/h (and fairly poor infrastructure compared to europe): 6.7 fatalities per 100k France: 130km/h (most people drive at ~145 on highways - only 1 point if you hit a radar) - 5 fatalities per 100k Australia: 100km/h - 4.5 fatalities per 100k

It can't just be speed, otherwise other 'similar' countries would be orders of magnitude above Australia.

New comment by kweks in "Using Two ReMarkables"

kweks — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:59:11 +0000

Since a few updates ago, margins and pages are "limitless", so you can scroll a page (including PDFs) to the side to reveal a parallel page / much larger margin.

New comment by kweks in "Grim Fandango"

kweks — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:01:04 +0000

İncredible game, matched with an equally amazing soundtrack !

New comment by kweks in "Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?"

kweks — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:16:20 +0000

Newly minted HAM here. HamStudy is excellent, but / and works very, very well with these "No Nonsense" guides: https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/

They are excellent - they're built around the exam questions, but structured in a way that you understand the mechanics behind everything.

I'd attempted my license before, but never managed. After finding HamStudy + those guides, got my technician, general and extra class within 3 weeks.

73!

New comment by kweks in "Passport Photos"

kweks — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:22:56 +0000

When I got French nationality, I spent 6 months growing an impressive old-style moustache just for the ID photo. it's the little things that count.

New comment by kweks in "MicroPython on Flipper Zero"

kweks — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:15:58 +0000

Check out the RFID Hacking Community discord: https://discord.com/invite/QfPvGFRQxH

Almost everything in the community happens here.

New comment by kweks in "MicroPython on Flipper Zero"

kweks — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:14:27 +0000

Because it's passively powered, "amplifying" isn't really possible, short of replacing the access control reader.

With that said, if your badge is in tag/fob format, you could clone it onto a card-format. Larger antenna, better coupling.