<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lkois</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lkois</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:25:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lkois" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wasn't aware of this game until AFTER I saw the movie. Made a lot more sense after that. Watching a guy solve the same puzzle over and over felt like an odd narrative choice.<p>A labyrinthine Shinjuku would still be way cooler. Shibuya station doesn't have quite the same disorienting featureless repetition to it, but offers a more overwhelming MC Escher-like experience where you can often SEE exactly where you want to go in the near-distance, but every path and every turn brings you into a completely different space, and rarely any closer to your destination.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:25:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988771</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "The future of Flipper Zero development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you just want to clone a typical garage door remote, you're way better off buying a generic $5 fob. Almost all the 433MHz garage fobs I've seen are designed to easily clone each other. And if cloning doesn't work, it's probably because you need to access the door controller and hit a few buttons to pair the remote directly. Also trivial, and also often pretty physically insecure. In the smaller apartment buildings I've lived in, the boxes containing these control units have usually just been hidden behind by a couple of screws and a "danger electricity" sticker.<p>If your current remote has multiple unused buttons on it as they often do, you can already try this out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:16:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813614</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since you cannot imagine how they'd perform, isn't this the perfect opportunity to test your assumption?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624235</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who said that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.<p>eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either.
You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.<p>Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps.
Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.<p>So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?<p>I'd say it's 100/100.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.<p>Similar for the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who has gone into great detail about the advantages of raising kids in a city planned around pedestrian and cyclist usage, and not in a suburban sprawl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure they may become mercenaries. Maybe "Hyundai factory worker" is akin to "remote oil rig worker".<p>Or they could just be regular people with regular, stable jobs because they haven't chased a life of risk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:54:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.<p>Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?</p>
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<p>So basically a stream deck. Those things are pretty tempting, I must admit. When similar functions are shrunk down and integrated into regular keyboards, my wallet will be in trouble.<p>Although this reminds me, my old Logitech G15 from 2008 already had an LCD screen and a bunch of app-customisable buttons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, paying for a night shift will increase the cost to customers, but higher salaries negotiated by on-call employees won't?<p>Or did you leave out the part where those employees discover how little negotiating power they really have</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:42:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But, but, if the employer doesn't steal wages from employees, where will they get the money to pay them higher salaries?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:29:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently had a slack message on my Friday evening from my delayed-timezone manager starting his Friday. 
There was no expectation to answer out of hours, but it was some small detail I could answer in a few seconds. And this was from a new and intense 24/7 workaholic ex-FAANG manager, whose high expectations I was still getting used to, and who would likely spend his whole weekend working on this project. So I gave a quick response.<p>He said thanks, told me to turn my phone off, and sent a group message to the team reminding us not to work outside hours, with a link to instructions on disabling slack notifications. And then he started scheduling his own overnight/weekend DMs to send at 9am Monday.<p>It was an awesome response, and those firm self-imposed boundaries helped allow the work to be rewarding, rather than an absolute nightmare.</p>
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<p>I had one of these and quite liked it. Then one day I plugged my phone in before bed as a million times before and the cable display popped and started emitting smoke.</p>
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<p>I've been getting this a lot. Especially with Rust, where it will use functions that don't exist. It's maddening</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s the story there?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:23:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or the free Spacedesk, does the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It really isn't a trick question. If your needs are 100% satisfied through wireless, why would you ever care?<p>THIS is a trick question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Cophone – Mobile work phones running in the cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't Android allow sandboxed MDMs to be added to the phone? I've seen this when using Island, which basically creates a fake work profile on the phone which is completely separated from your personal profile. For dual apps like a second WhatsApp it worked well, to the point that sharing photos from the second account was a pain because it couldn't see the main file system. 
And when you don't want it anymore, that whole sandbox can be burned without touching the rest of the phone.<p>It'd be nice if iPhones had something similar. Not sure how anyone is supposed to use them for work when it comes to apps like WhatsApp and Signal. Or even less work stuff like dealing with recruiters, real estate agents and online dating where you might end up sharing primary contact details with people you don't want to hear from a few weeks later.</p>
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<p>I've used this to get to a browser that almost does full screen videos in a borrowed Tesla, from the YouTube app.<p>Then navigated to some dodgy adware infested streaming site and it was working okay until changing to another video, when it froze the whole Tesla computer and the car needed a hard reboot</p>
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<p>iOS happily kills backswipes with inconsistent alternatives.<p>eg View details in Photos, and swiping back doesn't work. But there are also no back buttons or visual cues. But there are 3 ways to get out of that screen AFAIK, which some might label intuitive. 
But if you go one step deeper and Adjust the photo details, the only exit is a Cancel button.</p>
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