<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: naikrovek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=naikrovek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:15:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=naikrovek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“requires a donor [Apple Magic] keyboard” is not the same as a third party making a Touch ID-compatible sensor.  That’s Apple making a Touch ID-compatible sensor and a third party taking it out and putting it in another keyboard.<p>This does not qualify as a third party Touch ID compatible keyboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200126</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you can do it using any button you like.  lots of keyboards are entirely remappable. i don't understand how/why one saying they never touch these buttons is some kind of flex, like it's somehow superior to avoid using some keys or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199834</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a bit (a lot) overboard with the marketing snazz on this page.<p><i>it's a keyboard</i><p>It's not a miracle.<p>If you're going to have all this 3D imagery, put a glTF model viewer on the page, and let <i>me</i> look at it.<p>though to be told, I definitely want one.  low profile keyboards are indeed my jam.  I don't know why the hell keyboards need to have batteries though.  No one needs a wireless keyboard.  Wires are not that much of a pain in the ass. Coiled, self-retracting keyboard cables are a thing.  Keyboards do not need to be wireless.  Wires are fine, I promise!  Wireless mouse?  Sure.  Wires make the mouse move when you don't want it to move.  Wireless credential entry device?  Those should remain wired, I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:22:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199635</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>30 years of professional programming and I touch "Home", "End", "PgUp", "PgDn", "Ins", and "Del" every single day.</p>
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<p>fingerprint sensor is easily done.  Touch ID-compatible fingerprint sensor from someone other than Apple is not possible as I understand it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199543</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if you think "shitty" is a funny name then there is nothing anyone can ever do to convince you otherwise.  you are so far out of reach that only maturing can cure this.<p>if you are over 30, you are out of reach to anyone and everyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161981</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>we all would like people to share their code with us, but forcing them to because of your license is extremely anti-freedom to me.<p>address this culturally, that is the only way to address this completely.  legal means cannot fundamentally redirect the culture of a society and make them <i>believe</i> that sharing is better for everyone.  if you want a society that shares what it creates, then help create THAT.  forcing people to do it pushes them in the opposite direction, they want to grasp their things even tighter than before.</p>
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<p>I never understood this stance.  I’ve heard this for 30 years and I still don’t understand why people feel entitled enough to enjoy the benefits of someone else’s work without giving anything back.<p>Forcing someone to release their code for free isn’t freedom, that’s a lack of freedom.  Oh, you want the code to be free.  Well guess what? MIT licensed means you can have it.  Oh, you want a third party’s <i>changes</i> to be made free.  No.  Expecting that is batshit insane.<p>If someone forks this, changes it, and doesn’t release their changes, <i>this still exists</i>.  Nothing is lost.<p>When something is released under MIT, it is “released”.  When GPL software is released, it “binds” anyone that works on it, adding requirements to the entity doing the work.  I.e. <i>not free</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:21:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150503</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing else on any market called “shitty” that I’ve ever seen, and if I had, I would avoid it.<p>Any sales or marketing person will gladly tell you how bad an idea it is to use this name.  “Shitty” is slang for “terrible quality”, for one.</p>
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<p>How much of it was written by AI?</p>
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<p>Every time I hear someone say “the private sector will self-govern” or anything of the kind, I think of any one of the probably tens of thousands of examples of this that history knows about.<p>If there is any one thing that capitalism can not and will not ever do, is reward a self-governing company in any way.  Add human nature in the mix and you get vindictive human scum like these people.  Or any one of tens of thousands of other people (100s of millions, really) who would gladly crush another human without ever even feeling bad about it, never mind having the wherewithal to stop and think “hey this may not be a great idea”.<p>A human without power is a danger to others.  Add this to the mountain of evidence proving it.</p>
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<p>Can you explain why you think so?  Seems like a very childish name to me.<p>Like a neighborhood kid outside on his bike yelling “shit” then pedaling away as fast as he can, to dissociate himself from the event out of fear of getting caught.<p>FaTTY - Fast Terminal (executable named “ft”)<p>RaTTY - Rapid Terminal (“rt”)<p>LighTTY - Lightspeed Terminal (“lt”)<p>Dragster (“dt”)<p>McQueen (“mt”)<p>Names are hard, but it’s trivial to come up with a name better than “shitty”.</p>
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<p>well, they used film, which made it very easy to implement.<p>this is easy with a roll of film and a slit for an exposure window.  you have the lens and the aperture and focus and all of that, but instead of a full frame, you mask it down to a small slit.  slowly pull the film across the slit when it's time to capture your target.  captures are limited only by how much film you can fit on a reel and feed through the camera during flight.  I would expect that miles of film could be carried on the SR-71 without problems.  You'd need (I assume) some custom machines to develop that film properly and to produce prints, but that's not a challenge for an entity that can design and build an SR-71.</p>
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<p>Your assessment is inflammatory, to my eyes.<p>Everything that person said was factually correct.  They weren’t <i>wrong</i>, they simply didn’t have the whole picture.</p>
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<p>and what endpoint would it use to upload those files?  what's the authentication needed for those endpoints?  why would everyone on earth fail to notice these exfiltration endpoints if they exist?<p>you're being unnecessarily hostile about a threat that <i>almost certainly</i> doesn't exist.  And if it does, you can absolutely block those uploads before they even happen.  In fact if you don't already block uploads to hosts you don't know about, then you're not really taking anything seriously, are you?</p>
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<p>> The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that a society that bans ads is a healthier, more robust society<p>100% agree.  It's the only way things don't go south.</p>
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<p>Is it?  I am in the middle of the page, the header and footer are well off into the distance not being rendered, and I see the same pattern.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/texxYP0" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/texxYP0</a></p>
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<p>I'm new to this AI stuff, and I have a question.  Aren't the weights the whole model?  and knowing which nodes on which layers they connect to, which I assume is part of the weight definition.<p>So if you have the weights, don't you have the whole model?  you don't have the data it was trained on, but the model is effectively open if the weights are open, right?  What else is there other than the weights, is what I'm asking.</p>
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<p>the amount of crapping on the author that I'm reading bothers me.<p>whole lot of manufacturing experts on HN today.</p>
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<p>Even just games that included map editors.  I miss those a lot.</p>
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