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New comment by murdockq in "Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use"

murdockq — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:12:37 +0000

The nearest current use of detection of particles in the air that I can think of is smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors for safety. Could adoption on these smart versions like Nest or Ring by adding your sniphi detector provide other types of early warning systems for safety, air quality or sensing?

Some thoughts are musty odors from mold/mildew, rotten egg smells indicating gas leaks, and fishy/burning plastic odors from electrical issues.

New comment by murdockq in "Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company"

murdockq — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:40:05 +0000

I would say that there has already been one, Notch and Minecraft. Though he did hire people and step down as dev lead, he was pretty solo and already on the 1 billion dollar trajectory.

New comment by murdockq in "The hype is the product"

murdockq — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:30:28 +0000

This is kind of obvious because the internal incentives for employees (who make lots of product decisions) are based on stock being more than half of staff compensation comes via RSUs.

New comment by murdockq in "Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography"

murdockq — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:06:31 +0000

So is it possible we can trace the manufacture of microchip lithography to this? We've been able to minaturize things for some time using light.

New comment by murdockq in "Canyon.mid"

murdockq — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:20:47 +0000

Not affiliated at all but just came across and I wish this was built in to windows: https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet

New comment by murdockq in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

murdockq — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:44:35 +0000

I've heard that many of the big tech layoffs where actually just moved / converting them to contracting groups, so they lose the direct head count but kept the developer via the intermediary. Have others heard this too and could this have been a way to label contractors differently so they don't fall under this tax code?

New comment by murdockq in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

murdockq — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:51:24 +0000

I had similar experience with everything missing that final attention to detail and polish and having to write issues and ask other how they got past certain problems. I ended up switching to Pocketbase, and while it is not a complete or drop in replacement hosted service, it is light weight and approachable to feel comfortable that it can scale and be more stable long term.

New comment by murdockq in "It's easier than ever to de-censor videos"

murdockq — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:41:27 +0000

Wow glad to see there were other fans of MSPaint, can't believe I built my open source version with wxWidgets 16 years ago https://github.com/murdockq/OpenPaint

New comment by murdockq in "Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data"

murdockq — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:11:20 +0000

I'm guessing this can be the new bot that could play competitively at GeoGuesser. It would be interesting if Google trained a similar model and released it using all the Street Map data, I sure hope they do.

Has anyone done something similar with the geolocated WIFI MAC addresses, to have small model for predicting location from those.

New comment by murdockq in "[dead]"

murdockq — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:21:37 +0000

Dice Device is a touch screen puck computer that can naturally fit into many board games allowing use as dice roll or other board game functions and custom apps. Open source and hackable to simplify the board game experience.

New comment by murdockq in "Subsection – A tool for creating support docs for SaaS"

murdockq — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:39:48 +0000

One of the most important aspects that doesn't seem to be covered here is data retention and ownership. Looking through the settings page I don't see any ways to eject and backup all the documentation that was invested into the project. Downloading the data as markdown or as a git repo is pretty important to be able to trust it won't be lost if you disappear or out grow the features of the service.

New comment by murdockq in "The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years"

murdockq — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:20:53 +0000

I would say the appeal is for anyone who is longing for a sense of freedom. The themes are about rejecting norms like expectations of others and of society not wanting to live a "normal" life. There are many things that can strip us of our sense of freedom, and the groups that seems to embody this today is van life and digital nomads.

New comment by murdockq in "The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta"

murdockq — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:56:32 +0000

I have run into the same situation as you, and it always seems to be bad timing to invest into code generation for projects. I am not affiliated with this project, but I have good success with http://www.hygen.io/ especially with component frameworks and resolver middleware boilerplate getting deeper and deeper.

New comment by murdockq in "iPhones are allergic to helium"

murdockq — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:16:22 +0000

Any security hardware using this oscillator would be at risk too. I can see the Mission Impossible plot to use it to attack a security systems and IP cameras if they used those chips.

New comment by murdockq in "Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals"

murdockq — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:01:35 +0000

A personal home security system could make better use of this instead of motion sensors in each room.

New comment by murdockq in "Ask HN: What business would you start in 2018?"

murdockq — Thu, 17 May 2018 21:43:18 +0000

Vue or React?

New comment by murdockq in "Show HN: Prisma – Turn Any Database into a GraphQL API"

murdockq — Wed, 16 May 2018 00:38:49 +0000

I have had good results with https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield but I am also keeping an eye on https://github.com/prismagraphql/graphql-middleware as it is written by the prisma team but isn't ready for production just yet.

New comment by murdockq in "Show HN: Prisma – Turn Any Database into a GraphQL API"

murdockq — Tue, 15 May 2018 23:33:45 +0000

I have done this in a node app that acts as the intermediate / proxy between your frontend and the prisma service. Infact you can even run it as a serverless endpoint just fine to keep it lightweight.