Hacker News: naich

New comment by naich in "How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs"

naich — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:18:18 +0000

The 2N3904 is an old friend who has never changed. I've been using him since the 80s and he's still my first choice whenever anything general-purposey comes along.

New comment by naich in "Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser"

naich — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:45:22 +0000

That was exactly my experience with AI coding - useful for ideas and boiler plate code, but not much more.

New comment by naich in "Show HN: Boing"

naich — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:21:31 +0000

I had to stop at 100 or I would have been there all day.

New comment by naich in "Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia"

naich — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:17:45 +0000

Very nice, but I did end up seeing what rude words I could make.

New comment by naich in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

naich — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:18:15 +0000

It's also far more difficult to read the numbers relating to the items in the drop down menu. You have to make an effort to track to the right with your eyes to make sure you are in the same row, whereas before the number was right next to the item. There is no need to have the numbers aligned because they are not for comparison.

New comment by naich in "WebGL Fluid Simulation"

naich — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 09:07:38 +0000

The first time I've actually appreciated my laptop's touch screen.

New comment by naich in "WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident'"

naich — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:13:14 +0000

There seems to me to be a lot of misplaced trust involved in connecting to Wifi networks. It's easy to set up your own public AP and why not call it "Netork Rail Free Wifi" or something?

https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/abusing-public-wifi-ac...

New comment by naich in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

naich — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:22:06 +0000

I can't believe how well this works. Brilliant stuff.

New comment by naich in "Elon Musk deletes post spreading fake news about UK 'detainment camps'"

naich — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:55:12 +0000

They don't continuously prove that they are huge gaping arseholes with the intellect of a mollusc like he does.

New comment by naich in "How to defend your website with ZIP bombs (2017)"

naich — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:26:59 +0000

I tried the example with FF on Ubuntu, and it had no effect whatsoever. It didn't even use up any memory. Are browsers protecting against this now?

New comment by naich in "Engineers harvest clean, continuous energy from air"

naich — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:49:39 +0000

Nope.

New comment by naich in "Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity"

naich — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:16:15 +0000

Maybe LSD or mushrooms?

New comment by naich in "The world of pipe fittings"

naich — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:41:38 +0000

Blog updated and the following added:

Thanks to all the good people on Hacker News for their input, from which I've learned a lot. I should stress that any following advice is not from a professional plumber and is purely from my own experience as an idiot making a low pressure beer handling system. It should not be read as the proper way to do anything, especially if you are working on pressurised systems and definitely totally 100% not with gas fittings. Get someone in to do that, you lunatic. Seriously. Don't mess with gas.

New comment by naich in "The world of pipe fittings"

naich — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:28:43 +0000

Mate, I'm not a plumber and it's 100% written from the perspective of someone who is not a plumber. This article is not an instruction manual for plumbers, but a blog of what a non-plumber found to work for him.

New comment by naich in "The world of pipe fittings"

naich — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:21:26 +0000

In this case, both. Sorry.

New comment by naich in "The world of pipe fittings"

naich — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:32:16 +0000

Having just completed a small project involving plumbing, this post on my blog comes from the heart.

The world of pipe fittings

naich — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:32:16 +0000

Article URL: https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plumbers-are-paid-so-much/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33761932

Points: 298

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New comment by naich in "Plant-based ‘beef’ reduces CO2 but threatens ag jobs"

naich — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:12:37 +0000

Jobs or a habitable planet. Which to choose, which to choose...

New comment by naich in "Are our immune systems out of practice?"

naich — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:17:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by naich in "Flashsort"

naich — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:54:03 +0000

This is basically just guessing with style.