Hacker News: maufl

New comment by maufl in "Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad"

maufl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:43:08 +0000

One thing I learned the hard way is the antenna must not lie on your PCB! Even if it's just board without copper. I didn't see this stated anywhere, but once you look, every devkit is doing that, the antenna sticks over the PCB. When I had it on the PCB I had very bad connectivity and very high power usage.

New comment by maufl in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

maufl — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:13:46 +0000

Oh, I got bitten by that! I have my work Linux installation on an USB stick so I can boot it on either my desktop or laptop and one day tailscale stopped working. I thought that might be a rare situation, but it looks like TPM based encryption failed for other reasons too.

New comment by maufl in "Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5"

maufl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:21:21 +0000

I don't know much about ARM SoCs, is this something you would built a phone with? With all the talk about Google locking down Android, can Pine64 please go and make a Pinephone with this if that brings us closer to a Linux phone?

New comment by maufl in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

maufl — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:34:02 +0000

I'm thinking of having Claude send me a notification when it needs my input. I already do that sometimes with desktop notifications and this way I could water the plants or hang the laundry while waiting.

New comment by maufl in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

maufl — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:12:57 +0000

Does anyone know whether more than one device can connect to a Pebble watch at the same time? I'm thinking using it with your phone but also sending notifications from your laptop.

Does Claude web UI freeze for anyone else?

maufl — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:44:47 +0000

I've always had the problem that the Claude web UI freezes every now and then when an answer is appearing. It then consumes 100% of one of my CPU cores and Firefox asks me whether I want to stop the script. I've been even able to debug the problem and find out exactly where it runs into an infinite loop. It seem that it divides by elapsed time as returned by `Date.now` and because I'm using Firefox with the resist finger print settings on the difference might be zero https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/now#reduced_time_precision

What I'm wondering now is, am I the only one running into this problem? If it would affect more people I would have expected this to be fixed already.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718326

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maufl in "Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that"

maufl — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:41:47 +0000

The hunter2 joke makes me miss bash.org again

New comment by maufl in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

maufl — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:25:55 +0000

Why does the Core 2 Duo not have a heart rate monitor (which I think my Pebble 2 had) and why does the Core Time 2 not have the barometer and compass? It makes it really difficult for me to decide which to get. Also, I have a small preference for the design of the original Pebble Time 2 over the Core Time 2 ...

New comment by maufl in "Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images"

maufl — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:34:49 +0000

What I would really like is something like Docker to build images for my raspberry pis. Just a single file, shell commands, that's it. I feel that Yocto is already too complicated if you want a reproducable setup for you raspberry pi at home.

New comment by maufl in "RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)"

maufl — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:44:32 +0000

That reminds me of the second half of this sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjUh4nWwaM

New comment by maufl in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

maufl — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:27:02 +0000

I'm still working on my first self designed PCB. It's nothing special, just a temperature and humidity sensor using esp32. I started it to teach myself more about PCB design and embedded programming. Yesterday I published a blog article on it. https://www.felixmaurer.de/blog/2024/10/27/building-an-iot-s...

New comment by maufl in "Furilabs Linux Phone"

maufl — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:44:06 +0000

Can anyone estimate what it would cost to develop a new phone that's like the N900 with updated hardware (slide out keyboard, camera cover, maybe drop the input stylus, a bit flatter and larger) and mainline Linux support for all components? I'm sometimes wondering if this is something I could have Pine64 do if I accidentally get rich enough. I think I would spent the rest of my days just writing the software for this.

New comment by maufl in "Next gen 3D metal printing"

maufl — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:58:41 +0000

This looks interesting for lab-on-a-chip use cases.

New comment by maufl in "Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?"

maufl — Sat, 11 May 2024 15:29:23 +0000

I'm a little confused, I thought Thread was exclusively based on open standards, like 6LowPAN, that already existed before Thread. How can a licence be required for those? I understand the application layer Matter is new (although also using open standards like CoAP) and might not be that open.

Ask HN: How do I sent a bug report for a Google Pixel phone?

maufl — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:06:27 +0000

I helped a friend decide on a new phone and the choice was a Google Pixel 4a. Now the problem is, that the main camera very frequently doesn't work. The camera app stays black or crashes altogether. I can see the segfault of android.hardware.camera.provider in the logs, but I can't figure out how to report a crash to Google. Is this even possible? Can I open a bug report somewhere? I need a Shibboleet access.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37742890

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by maufl in "Fairphone 5"

maufl — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:57:22 +0000

Do we know whether the camera will rely on DRMed drivers for good quality, like with Sony phones? Or is there hope that the camera would work well with a Linux distribution based on PostmarketOS?

Ask HN: What Happened to Bash.org?

maufl — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:05:33 +0000

Hey HN, it seems like https://bash.org/ is down and not coming up again. Does anyone know what happened to it? This is the only place I could think of asking about it. If they are missing man-power or money to continue hosting it, I'm willing to help!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295238

Points: 10

# Comments: 7

New comment by maufl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)"

maufl — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:36:13 +0000

My current experience is mostly in fullstack web development, network protocols and a bit DevOps. However, I'm open for any interesting position, the less I know and the more I need to learn the better.

Location: Aachen, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, C/C++, Typescript, Angular + React, C#, Ruby (on Rails), Elixir (Phoenix), Linux, Docker, ...

CV: https://cloud.maufl.de/s/YgMFS2Asokx9754

Email: maufl at maufl.de

Website: https://www.felixmaurer.de/

New comment by maufl in "Wireless Is a Trap"

maufl — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:17:16 +0000

You need to look out for headsets that support the Hands Free Profile version 1.6 [0]. This version adds optional support for much better audio quality when using the microphone. I'm currently using the Sony WH-1000XM3. Unfortunately HFP 1.6 seems not yet to be supported on Linux (i.e. Bluez/Pulseaudio)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Han...

New comment by maufl in "We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice"

maufl — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:37:06 +0000

This is awesome! It looks like it could do several things for which I wanted to have a device.

Offline GPS tracker with very long run time for hiking. I'd like up to one month run time. On the other hand I only need low time resolution, one waypoint each minute. It also does not need to send the location anywhere, storing it local is fine.

Offline/Online GPS tracker for paragliding. Battery for one day, but also high resolution tracking, about one waypoint per second.

Long range communication extender for my mobile phone that does not require infrastructure like base stations. (For the prepper in me)