Hacker News: mostthingsweb

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

mostthingsweb — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:58:01 +0000

There's ongoing work on an official setup solution, "bitbake-setup". See https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/111....

Shameless plug, there is also my own tool, yb. It's very early days though: https://github.com/Agilent/yb

IEEE's Failure Database

mostthingsweb — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:22:04 +0000

Article URL: https://failuredb.io/browse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808441

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Why bother with argv[0]?"

mostthingsweb — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:19:10 +0000

Maybe to avoid broken links if you move the original files? That's the main benefit of hardlinks vs symlinks in my mind at least.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions"

mostthingsweb — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:07:50 +0000

I hate that so much

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions"

mostthingsweb — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:38:06 +0000

Relatedly, has anyone else noticed Doordash now has AI generated descriptions for menu items that the restaurant didn't manually describe? I noticed it while looking at a taco place by us.

For items with menu pictures, it gives a definitive description, e g. "Marinated pork with onions, cilantro, and pineapple, folded in a grilled tortilla. Served with lime wedges and a side of grilled jalapeño and sautéed onion."

For items without pictures, it hedges: "Folded flour tortilla filled with seasoned chicken and melted cheese, typically includes a blend of Mexican cheeses."

Part of me finds it pretty neat, but the other part wonders how long it will last.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper"

mostthingsweb — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:43:13 +0000

I agree, but I'm curious if it's for the same reason. I like it because there is now flowery writing. Just direct "here are the facts".

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

mostthingsweb — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:05:32 +0000

Wow, that's embarrassing :/

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

mostthingsweb — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:00:51 +0000

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

Oooh that looks slick, thanks for the tip!

New comment by mostthingsweb in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

mostthingsweb — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 01:15:16 +0000

How else will you discover new and exciting speculative execution vulnerabilities? /s

New comment by mostthingsweb in "PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python"

mostthingsweb — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:14:57 +0000

I replied to the rowzero guy, which is written in Rust.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python"

mostthingsweb — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:37:05 +0000

Any chance you could expand on how the DAG is implemented in Rust for the execution engine? I'm trying to do something similar (not for spreadsheets but rather for a language: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bi...). I cannot find any good examples of how to implement something like this in Rust. E.g. should I use a graph library like petgraph, or roll my own?

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware"

mostthingsweb — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:14:40 +0000

I reverse-engineered how my adjustable bed base works, then built (and sell) a hub for controlling it from Home Assistant. See https://blog.laplante.io/2019/01/11/reverse-engineering-the-... and https://www.tindie.com/products/cplaplante/temperbridge/

IEEE's new Failure Database

mostthingsweb — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:13:11 +0000

Article URL: https://failuredb.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39989832

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mostthingsweb in "A beekeeper used her bees to stop an eviction, and a police standoff ensued"

mostthingsweb — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:20:48 +0000

I feel bad for the bees

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python"

mostthingsweb — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:26:13 +0000

You just gave them another one:

"Interesting testimonials section.

loeg: HN influencer"

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support"

mostthingsweb — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:17:32 +0000

The actual recognition is quite good. It's just the handling of poor/intermittent network issues that is abysmal.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support"

mostthingsweb — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:51:08 +0000

I also have only had Pixels basically since they were released. I guess where I have issues is when the phone has a weak signal, and it insists on trying to use it for voice recognition rather than just falling back to local.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support"

mostthingsweb — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:39:08 +0000

I just want decent on-device voice recognition for things like asking the Assistant to send text messages. So tired of having to repeat myself 5 times.

New comment by mostthingsweb in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

mostthingsweb — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:01:40 +0000

If Google employees actually used the phones they build we wouldn't have a lot of the issues we have them. I'm still annoyed that the little weather icon on the home screen has about a 2x2 pixel hitbox.

Edit: hitbox not hotbox...

New comment by mostthingsweb in "“Stop Making Sense” is having a theatrical rerelease"

mostthingsweb — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:42:53 +0000

"Documentary Now!" did a great spoof of this called "Final Transmission". Give it a watch if you haven't: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5821512/