Hacker News: nbk_2000

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

nbk_2000 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:55:55 +0000

It's been a long time, but I've always cherished our late night conversations at the Alexis Park. Truly a great hacker. RIP my friend

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Forever Object: The Staple-Less Oceanus Brass Stapler"

nbk_2000 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0000

Years back i was enamored with this concept and sought out various staple-less stapler solutions. Most were realistically only good for binding 3-5 sheets. My use cases required more, so i moved on. But I still admire them as lovely bits of engineering.

New comment by nbk_2000 in "The decline of deviance"

nbk_2000 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:54:42 +0000

Other zines have filled the void left by 2600, one of my favorites being PoC||GTFO. (pocorgtfo.hacke.rs)

I think the author isn't considering that people's bubbles have gotten smaller and more opaque. There's still plenty of weird hackers innovating, they just do it with their chosen peers, not in mass-culture.

As predicted "The revolutions are not being televised."

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly"

nbk_2000 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:10:34 +0000

I was thinking the same. In the meantime, here you go: https://snippetshare.dev/c/aoNWbZvSlYkJtGDHnQLohY4BnHd6hGgk8...

New comment by nbk_2000 in "High‑dose Vitamin D reduces disease activity in early multiple sclerosis onset"

nbk_2000 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:05:40 +0000

Same here, and with good results, but a note of warning, according to my doctor 10,000 - 20,000 are considered in the protocol a normal daily supplement for adults with vitamin D issues. Dosages above that require medical supervision (in the form of regular blood and urine analysis). Also at those high doses there are potential negative side effects that must be mitigated (osteoporosis being among them). So please don't just YOLO massive doses of vitamin D.

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

nbk_2000 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:28:50 +0000

Same here, small panic attack ensued ;P

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

nbk_2000 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:26:43 +0000

Glad I wasn't the only one! ;)

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Vintage digicams are an artistic statement"

nbk_2000 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:53:26 +0000

Back when I was shooting on film, various "Toy Cameras" came in and out of vogue. I enjoyed the subtleties of the Lomos and Dianas, so when digital cameras became mainstream, I kept a lookout for similarly quirky DCs. My favorite was the JamCam (640x480) which was fun for awhile. But soon realized, the same quirkiness could easily be achieved with digital filters applied to photos from cameras that were more enjoyable to work with. That's about when my interest in toy digital cameras died. But I have to admit, do miss the 9v consumer battery of the JamCam :P

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes"

nbk_2000 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:19:08 +0000

This reminds me of the famous Taco Bell Programming post [1]. Simple can surprisingly often be good enough.

[1] http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...

New comment by nbk_2000 in "I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one"

nbk_2000 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:16:38 +0000

90 days since last view, or 1 year if you can afford to be generous. For "slow burn" projects with other people checklists easily go longer than a week without being looked at.

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Day Rates (2023)"

nbk_2000 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:33:42 +0000

I used to operate as you're describing and appreciate the skill required to do so, but I eventually found it impacted my ability to transition a fixed scope engagement into an open-scope engagement. I've since found it more enjoyable, profitable, and beneficial to the client, to bill daily rates and let the client stretch the scope as much as they like (which they often do once they see the value my company brings).

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Day Rates (2023)"

nbk_2000 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:21:32 +0000

Don't feel weird. I'd even itemize the task being being requested on their invoice (e.g. "reporting requirement fulfillment"). My perspective changed on this after doing a gig for Boeing, where they charged us for invoicing them. When we complained about this, they instructed us to bill them for their invoice fee, which they explained was how their internal cost structures worked so that the accounting department could calculate their profitability. After that revelation, I stopped asking questions and just put in the contract that all reporting requirements are considered billable work (duh).

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

nbk_2000 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 01:54:04 +0000

Their tag in ASCII Art via console.log() would earn equivalent cred, and not annoy fellow users of a useful service, IMHO

New comment by nbk_2000 in "ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera"

nbk_2000 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:14:06 +0000

After initial setup the Q Revo does not need internet connectivity. So you can set it up using an ephemeral hotspot and afterwards control it exclusively with the buttons on the top of the unit. Any errors are spoken by the device.

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Sq.io: jq for databases and more"

nbk_2000 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 01:11:57 +0000

Octosql does this as well as a few other formats. I've found it useful several times.

https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

New comment by nbk_2000 in "From 14 years old till 29, my experience with desktop Linux"

nbk_2000 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:17:09 +0000

Just OOC, do you currently run a stock Ubuntu distro or a derivative? (and if so, may I ask which one?)

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Making your own hot sauce"

nbk_2000 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:45:15 +0000

Rinsing your eye(s) with milk will alleviate the pain far quicker than water.

Something I learned googling with one eye open while the other was burning from being touched with a habanero contaminated finger :/

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Counterscale and the New Self-Hosted"

nbk_2000 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:08:01 +0000

I imagine they're referring to things like this (a read through the comments should give you the gist of the concerns people have voiced):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808#40482165

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars"

nbk_2000 — Wed, 29 May 2024 01:43:08 +0000

Starting to sound like the "iPhone Killer" we've all heard about... for the past 15+ years

New comment by nbk_2000 in "Cloudflare took down our website"

nbk_2000 — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:54:45 +0000

That's not how the "free until it's not" pricing model works :P

IMHO it's just the price finding model that CF has adopted, I expect in the future they'll release limit numbers... unless they decide not releasing numbers is more profitable (i.e. the used car sales pricing model)