Hacker News: nadavami

Marc Garneau, first Canadian astronaut in space, dead at 76

nadavami — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/marc-garneau-passes-away-1.7552640

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44192072

Points: 5

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New comment by nadavami in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

nadavami — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:56:29 +0000

I would guess there is photocell next to the LED and comparing the amount of light to the ambient light the cameras get. They might also be doing something clever and using the LED itself as a photo diode.

New comment by nadavami in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

nadavami — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:47:18 +0000

https://nadav.ca

It's a bit of a mishmash of things I might find useful in the future, and silly/mostly useless personal projects. :)

New comment by nadavami in "Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM"

nadavami — Sun, 02 May 2021 13:48:37 +0000

It looks like the connector just happens to fit so it's only being used to make the electrical connection. The 4 pins are actually power, ground and I2C data and clock.

Edit: Here https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/mast... you can see the white and red wires coming from the USB connector labelled as SDA and SCL.

New comment by nadavami in "All Futurama Opening Quotes"

nadavami — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:59:41 +0000

This is awesome, thanks for the interesting rabbit hole!

New comment by nadavami in "ZeroPi – $9.99 SBC with 512MB and Gigabit Ethernet"

nadavami — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:23:08 +0000

This looks almost identical (though maybe a bit more stripped down, haven't looked closely) to the Orange Pi Zero which has been on sale for a few years at a similar price.

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

New comment by nadavami in "Hacker Interview-Gummo [video]"

nadavami — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:02:37 +0000

If you're not already familiar with Soft White Underbelly (interviews and portraits of the human condition), I highly recommend checking out Mark's other videos. I particularly enjoyed the recent series of folks from Appalachia.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly

Hacker Interview-Gummo [video]

nadavami — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:00:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6igTJXcqvo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377820

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nadavami in "4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]"

nadavami — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:39:08 +0000

It does, here's a great video by Ben at Applied Science showing some examples of the effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4Fk3VNZqs

New comment by nadavami in "Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit"

nadavami — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:40:10 +0000

It seems to go to as many characters as you can fit in the URL. Each new character after /bot-dungeon/ is a new level.

Pretty clever!

New comment by nadavami in "Unauthorized Bread: Jailbreaking IoT toasters"

nadavami — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:31:31 +0000

I've been really happy with a similar Cannon printer (Cannon G3200).

The print quality is quite good, it comes with an insane amount of ink, and you literally buy full replacement bottles of ink and pour them in the tanks.

No artificial page limits, no checks for non-oem ink.

New comment by nadavami in "Avrcraft – Minecraft server optimized for 8-bit devices"

nadavami — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:18:36 +0000

Incredibly, here is it running on an Atmega32U2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNrFOClrzTA

Avrcraft – Minecraft server optimized for 8-bit devices

nadavami — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cnlohr/avrcraft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981276

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

How to Make and Use a Stone Knife [video]

nadavami — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:17:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGYOTQu57nQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934996

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Get Ready for QuickTime TV (1999)

nadavami — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:39:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macworld.com/article/1015357/quicktimetv.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23619182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nadavami in "Tiny C Compiler"

nadavami — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:36:03 +0000

Looks like anyone can add them right next to the tag cloud...

New comment by nadavami in "IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page"

nadavami — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:08 +0000

It seems like the status page just came back up.

New comment by nadavami in "Netflix stops charging customers who never watch"

nadavami — Sat, 23 May 2020 13:39:06 +0000

The major credit card companies have a service where they can notify the merchant of the new details when the card expires. I believe Visa calls it Account Updater.

https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/account-update...

New comment by nadavami in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

nadavami — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:35:42 +0000

Interesting! I got a different result for "crowdsourced". https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3Ijog...

New comment by nadavami in "Moveable 0.7.0 – Support Grouping Draggable, Resizable, Rotatable"

nadavami — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:59:15 +0000

Same issue on Firefox 68.0.2