Hacker News: niteshade

New comment by niteshade in "I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions"

niteshade — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:44:09 +0000

I bought an 800w GaN USB-C charger from AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009093660588.html) and a handful of USB-C to barrel jack adapters. They're powering 2 EliteDesk G2s (35W) and 2 EliteDesk G3s (65W); not had any trouble so far though the GaN charger does run a bit hot (which I resolved by putting a fan under the charger).

Admittedly I can't be sure of the long-term reliability of the GaN charger, but its been running problem-free for over a year now.

New comment by niteshade in "Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing"

niteshade — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:36:12 +0000

Link to the paywalled paper: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023

New comment by niteshade in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

niteshade — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:26:33 +0000

Seems to be this: https://github.com/apple/containerization

New comment by niteshade in "Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?"

niteshade — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:43:15 +0000

Something that might be useful to know with these devices is that they're quite liable to bricking during updates.

If you do install an update, make sure you reopen its' web portal and confirm the version number is different to what it was before. If it hasn't changed from before, you'll have to wait a while as its still flushing bytes to its flash memory, and if you accidentally trigger an update again here, you'll be left with a brick (speaking from experience).

Depending on the device you bought, you might also be able to flash custom firmware on it: https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-...

New comment by niteshade in "Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?"

niteshade — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:36:50 +0000

> Does it hand along an encrypted stream that it can't decode or does it decode/re-encode?

It definitely does decode/re-encode audio streams, as music playback quality suffers quite a bit (both latency and quality).

New comment by niteshade in "Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust"

niteshade — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:26:52 +0000

> Dioxus is similar to modern React Native in architecture. Your rust code is running natively and you can call into JNI and Objective-C freely without a VM in your way.

Given the similarity, would it be feasible to add a compatibility layer to bring in React Native Turbo Modules? (Fabric support would be unlikely I'd imagine)

New comment by niteshade in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

niteshade — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:25:51 +0000

I don't believe people have used buttons in their cars specifically to control their phones, though.

I do agree that it would be nice to know whether voice control is safer, but unfortunately I can't find any studies that compare voice vs tactile control (all I can find is studies on touch vs tactile)

New comment by niteshade in "Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?"

niteshade — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:12:06 +0000

Not GP, but I recently attempted to migrate a single-node Docker Compose setup to Docker Swarm and ran into the following issues:

- No ability to use secrets as environment variables, and no plans to change this

- Cannot use `network_mode` to specify a service to use for network connections a la Docker Compose

There were a few other minor issues which resulted in ditching Docker Swarm completely and moving to a Nomad + Consul stack instead.

New comment by niteshade in "Hackintosh is almost dead"

niteshade — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:11:53 +0000

I remember reading (perhaps here on HN) that Apple does weird/nonstandard things to wifi packets to enable Continuity/Handoff features, so it could be related.

New comment by niteshade in "Ask HN: Who is using 1Password for secret management?"

niteshade — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:13:06 +0000

We use both the 1Password CLI and 1Password Connect.

The CLI tool is handy for retrieving secrets from your vaults in the CLI, handy for one-off uses like scripts etc.

The Connect server is more suited for infrastructure secrets and allows you to whitelist which vaults are available through it. You can then use secrets exposed from Connect as part of your Docker image build process on CI, for example.

New comment by niteshade in "Show HN: CodeMate – The Revolutionary Search Engine for Developers"

niteshade — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 05:18:54 +0000

I got some partial/incomplete answers on Fast mode, but changing it to Smart mode immediately improved the quality of the output.

Would be nice if you could +/- the output, just my 2c.

New comment by niteshade in "JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface"

niteshade — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:55:34 +0000

Do you happen to know how to configure this in iTerm? It's the one feature I miss the most from Warp.

EDIT: Found some more info

iTerm calls it "prompt marks": https://arc.net/l/quote/muwfagqi

If you're also using Starship (https://starship.rs/), then you might want to look at this issue: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/10537#note_15803...

New comment by niteshade in "Apple Sports"

niteshade — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:45:15 +0000

Unclear why this gets its own app instead of being a tab in the News app

New comment by niteshade in "I bought my own game from a reseller – Here's what happened. [video]"

niteshade — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:30:07 +0000

Definitely true back in 2008

New comment by niteshade in "Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32"

niteshade — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:19:10 +0000

Two other really interesting projects for the same brand:

- https://github.com/feedernet/petnet-feeder-service

- https://github.com/odya/esphome-petnet-feeder

New comment by niteshade in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)"

niteshade — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:40:52 +0000

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New comment by niteshade in "Rekt.network"

niteshade — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:46:27 +0000

Ah that's a shame, thanks for replying nonetheless :)

New comment by niteshade in "Rekt.network"

niteshade — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:23:07 +0000

Any chance of seeing Rekt on Apple Music? Would love to be able to use it as a radio station when I'm driving

New comment by niteshade in "Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code"

niteshade — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:09:11 +0000

Any chance of making Evidence available as a Remark plugin? Would love to be able to use it as a tool for interactive documentation

New comment by niteshade in "UK supermarkets run out of turnips"

niteshade — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:55:14 +0000

Try getting meat from Donald Russell or Tom Hixson, its not much more expensive but there is a world of difference between it and supermarket meat.