Hacker News: luma

New comment by luma in "Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength"

luma — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:01:50 +0000

If you have multiple fixed BLE receivers, you can do full trilateration. This project integrates into Home Assistant using HA proxy BLE receivers to track phones moving around in your house: https://github.com/agittins/bermuda

New comment by luma in "Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength"

luma — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:58:40 +0000

Already exists, most of them advertise via BLE so you just need to watch for their adverts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.ne...

New comment by luma in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

luma — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:44:49 +0000

An alternative reason would be that they see this behavior so frequently that it didn't really raise to the level of concern.

New comment by luma in "Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era"

luma — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:58:28 +0000

Having a non-deterministic network device in path sounds fun for troubleshooting. AI firewall team about to become the new ticket sponge in every org.

New comment by luma in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

luma — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:11:05 +0000

Hell yeah brother, this sounds like a fantastic project with a lot of room to dig into fun things with the double extra bonus of other people having fun with the result. Now you have me shopping for a bowling alley :D

New comment by luma in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

luma — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:05:26 +0000

This reads more like The Netherlands hopes to bribe US researchers into moving to the Netherlands.

New comment by luma in "Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction"

luma — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:25:46 +0000

Doubtful. The problem with the pi idea is that you need to include the offset, which will likely be as long as or longer than your data.

New comment by luma in "Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all"

luma — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:47:16 +0000

It also makes authentication Not Your Problem. Getting someone else to handle password resets alone seems worth the squeeze.

New comment by luma in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

luma — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:54:48 +0000

I know nothing of what is happening here but Broadcom has a lot of IP in high speed/low latency data transfer from chip to datacenter scales.

New comment by luma in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

luma — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:52:30 +0000

What does that have to do with investment? OP didn't say "don't integrate American tech company products into your workflow".

Say what one will about the current state of America, it's still a solid place to dump money in hopes of returns.

New comment by luma in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

luma — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:49:53 +0000

Kinda, NVME devices still need to be on their HCL and are priced about what you would expect.

New comment by luma in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

luma — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:27:48 +0000

Developing a functional app that meets your needs with an LLM takes it's own kind of skill, and is substantially more difficult if you can't recognize when the machine is steering your architecture in the wrong direction. It takes actual, real work. It's certainly a completely different kind of work than writing most of the code yourself, but so is using Java when compared to hand writing x86 opcodes.

Prompting an LLM to produce good code isn't a lot of work for you. Writing hex without an assembler or compiler would be a lot of work for you.

People have ideas, and now they have better tools to turn those ideas into reality. They aren't doing it like you would do it, but they're getting it done all the same, getting their needs met, and enjoying the ride.

Maybe just let people have fun, and when they report that they are in fact having fun... believe them.

New comment by luma in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

luma — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:00:05 +0000

What sense of pride an accomplishment do you get from using a library, or a high level language? You didn't write that code, you didn't hand translate into processor opcodes, etc. There are a million man hours of other people's work involved in making a simple python script run.

Given that any coding effort relies heavily on a much greater amount of work as a prior than the code you yourself are writing... Why do you feel accomplishment?

Making things is fun, using tools to make things can continue to be fun. I have fun woodworking with hand tools and I also enjoy using my CNC where the job permits. Both bring joy.

New comment by luma in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

luma — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:53:11 +0000

Later in its life, the Dreamcast release the "broadband adapter", a 100mbit Ethernet replacement for the modem. Worked great, but very limited support in games. That plus a DC keyboard and mouse made me BRUTAL in quake 3... until someone worked out how to join DC games from the PC.

New comment by luma in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

luma — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:29:30 +0000

> Gmail, Docs/Drive/etc, Google Calendar

MS is the overwhelming favorite in each of these markets if you only consider paying users.

New comment by luma in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

luma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:50:30 +0000

The key word here is "information". No known quantum effect results in information being transferred faster than the speed of light (which might be more correctly known these days as a the speed limit of information). Entanglement, even at great distance, does not violate this principle as that cannot be effectively used to transfer information.

New comment by luma in "Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims"

luma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:03:56 +0000

No quantum process currently known allows for information transfer faster than the speed of light.

New comment by luma in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

luma — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:49:43 +0000

Flux.ai offers a PCB design solution which is a clear interest for Adafruit. Anyone have any idea what this is about?

New comment by luma in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

luma — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:44:46 +0000

What's frustrating is that Prusa isn't too far removed from how Bambu works today. Prusa-Link (the onboard firmware) allows you to do very basic job control but has essentially zero machine control and very little telemetry. All the major functionality is behind their PrusaConnect cloud service, which they've now added a paid tier to, and which they've been promising for years to open source in order to allow print farms to run offline.

I love Prusa printers and all my machines are Prusa, but they really do need to get their software situation sorted because in it's current form, it's somewhat hard to distinguish from the operational reality of Bambu - if I want to use all the features on my XL, I need to send my files to Czechia first.

New comment by luma in "Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet"

luma — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:10:49 +0000

It's also completely blocked for me, thanks for a link I can actually read!