Hacker News: madmod

New comment by madmod in "UCP Protocol: The Internet Has 100M Shops and No Front Door"

madmod — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:34:36 +0000

This looks cool but when I try to use it and push Open on a product it takes me to checkout. What I wanted was to see product details.

New comment by madmod in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

madmod — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:34:49 +0000

For some reason obsidian sync consitently empties random recently opened notes for me. I think it might be some kind of race condition between icloud sync and obsidian sync. File gets touched before obsidian gets to it so the empty note is seen as a new file. That theory doesn't quite hold up though because the same thing happens to me using the android client. Has anyone here had this problem?

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:24:49 +0000

Haha thats amazingly confusing when you look closely.

I'm using baby pin reciever plates on 4080 extrusion with m6 thumbscrews into drop in t nuts. There is only one c stand. The extrusion is actually two parts in a cross. The speakers are on the horizontal extrusion mounted on magic arms. My momitors are angled slightly upward and the bottom is a few inches lower than standard desk height.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:19:47 +0000

This monitor is not aimed at the same market segment as the pro display xdr which values high brightness, accurate color, and higher than normal contrast for hdr content mastering. In my opinion for productivity there are much cheaper setups which provide more ppi and more pixels per dollar.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:11:47 +0000

Force of habit. The film industry values brand recognition of gear highly because reliability is important. There are a lot of cheaper equivalent parts which could be assumed which wouldnt accurately illustrate my point. I spent around $450 just on the hardware to mount the monitors and it is still cheaper than this dell monitor.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:08:29 +0000

Sorry I don't have any without work stuff in the image. If I do post it one day I will reply to this.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:05:24 +0000

They are the tiny 8010s. I don't produce much with this setup so accurate near field monitoring was all that I needed. I love how crystal clear the high end is with these. I bought them used and they were pretty beat up. I take them traveling so as an anti theft measure I painted them neon green and covered them in stickers to make them look cheap. They are mounted on magic arms to the aluminum extrusion. I also have some random Klipsch subwoofer. I send them a balanced output from a yamaha mixer at 192khz.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:00:33 +0000

Two PA27JCV and one LG ultrasharp (it was cheap because it was broken and I repaired it) and the 4k monitor is a samsung which I cant recommend. (Open box was cheap though)

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:55:10 +0000

I use AeroSpace on mac os for tiling window management with spaces mapped per monitor so that eg space 1 is my top monitor woth my email and chat and space e is on the left for my obsidian, spaces asdfgh are my center monitor for code and terminals, and spaces zxcvb are the right monitor for browsers. I dont stick to this organization rigidly and when I'm doing odd tasks like cad or developing an app I break the patterns and put things on whatever monitor is convenient. I try to stick to a few common apps in the same spaces however.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:51:21 +0000

The relative distance of the top 4k monitor actually makes it work pretty well. I use that for chats and email and dashboards that I need to keep an eye on.

New comment by madmod in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

madmod — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:48:52 +0000

I have 3 27" 5k monitors in portrait and a 32" 4k horizontal above those. It is all mounted with vesa cheeseplates to manfrotto magic arms on t slot aluminum attached to a C stand with manfrotto super clamps. I also have two genelec studio monitors which sound amazing.

All of that cost less than this one monitor.

New comment by madmod in "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"

madmod — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:44:29 +0000

This looks really cool but I can't justify using it because of privacy concerns. Running this with a local ai and a strongly worded guarantee of no tracking/reselling of my metadata is something I would pay for.

New comment by madmod in "Show HN: I built the literal Duolingo Killer"

madmod — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:30:27 +0000

I signed up and there is nothing to do without paying. At least have one free clip as a demo.

New comment by madmod in "Traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming"

madmod — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:10:30 +0000

Is this AI slop ragebait to drive engagement? If this is real then like others have said here it makes zero sense. The only benefit of allowing cars to control the intersection would be for cross traffic to interleave. No human driver could safely navigate that.

New comment by madmod in "Framework Laptop 16"

madmod — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:20:49 +0000

You could try putting a trackpad from a macbook into the framework. AFAIK the palm rejection is all in the firmware. The apple trackpad is USB. If you look at the code for Asahi Linux it could tell you more.

New comment by madmod in "Framework Laptop 16"

madmod — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:18:45 +0000

Awesome job on following through with the upgradability! I love the nvidia support!

Are you coming out with another coolermaster case for the 16 mainboard?

I want to make a custom dock with fans to force more cooling over the radiators. Could it be possible to "unlock" the 100W TDP of the 5070 in firmware or are there other hardware limitations like the interconnect?

Was adding the USB C power input on the GPU necessary to get full power? I see in the specs on github that VADP_GPU can take 100W into the mainboard and VSYS_GPU can supply 240W to the GPU. Are there any tradeoffs powering the system from the back ports vs the GPU?

Was the previous version of the AMD GPU not sending the display signal directly to the panel via the edp mux but instead via the igpu? If not is that something you can update in firmware? Can you publish how this was done so someone can make an oculink expansion board with displayport input?

Thanks to everyone at Framework for making such awesome hackable products!

New comment by madmod in "Swarm robotics could spell the end of the assembly line"

madmod — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:09:42 +0000

That seems like an extremely broad patent

New comment by madmod in "Code⇄GUI bidirectional editing via LSP"

madmod — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:40:43 +0000

I love your project. I am making something with LSP and your code was a great example of what is possible.

New comment by madmod in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

madmod — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:58:48 +0000

Edit: Never mind it seems to be an issue on my device.

The faq wont expand on tap for me on android firefox. Dm me if you need more info.

Looks like a great app and I can't wait to try it for Japanese!

Can the cards be exported to anki?

New comment by madmod in "Show HN: Claude Code in the Cloud"

madmod — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:56:50 +0000

I watched the first minute of your video and still have no idea what this is or why I should use it.