Hacker News: nullify88

New comment by nullify88 in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

nullify88 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:02:12 +0000

We are able to make do with Software Encoding for now, more so with the unlocked cores but it is limiting its potential. There seems to be something called PyroWave making waves for being a low latency encoder/ decoder but nothing supports it yet except for a now pulled Steam Beta.

Otherwise I'll have to investigate capturing video via the DP port or switch it out altogether.

New comment by nullify88 in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

nullify88 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:16:22 +0000

I have a bunch of these as headless gaming PCs in a rack running sunshine and Steam on Linux. The kids stream from them using moonlight on whatever smart device they want to play on.

Had the idea from LTT but he went a bit bonkers and bought expensive hardware to transmit video and input over cables. Gigabit Ethernet is more than enough.

New comment by nullify88 in "Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone"

nullify88 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:05:14 +0000

I lived on Upper Street in Angel, London by some traffic lights and there was always a layer of black dust inside. I assumed it was brake particulate.

New comment by nullify88 in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

nullify88 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:25:39 +0000

I suppose you can still be proud you did it during pre AI times and the gained knowledge by doing it yourself.

I don't expect Claude and other hosted AI's to be available so freely and thats when it'll get harder for me to do stuff like that.

New comment by nullify88 in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

nullify88 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:14:53 +0000

On a similar experience, I use moonlight on my Android TV to stream video games from my computer in another room. I use my own fork from an unmerged PR which enables me to use an Xbox One Wireless adapter so I can play with my pad wirelessly. These pads have a 3.5mm jack on them which on Windows and Linux enables me to route audio from the game to headphones connected to the pad. Moonlight and the xow driver it bundled, was nowhere near being able to provide this as a feature.

After about 5 hours, feeding it the GIP spec, an export of sniffed usb traffic from Windows, prior art (xone driver for linux), and giving Claude connectivity to my Shield via adb, I had it working. This continuously blows my mind that I dont have to beg a developer on Github to do it for me.

Claude could do it for me for $20.

New comment by nullify88 in "Incident with Github.com"

nullify88 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:02:25 +0000

We have data residency in the EU and didn't notice anything.

New comment by nullify88 in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

nullify88 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:34:10 +0000

GitHub Enterprise Cloud has been chugging along with no issues. I hope your critical infrastructure isn't dependent on a free tier / service. And that you have a business continuity process in place.

New comment by nullify88 in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

nullify88 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:49:45 +0000

I have noticed that Fable tends to macgyver solutions together to achieve some goal.

New comment by nullify88 in "RamenHaus"

nullify88 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:56:40 +0000

For a long time, their first restruant in Covent Garden always had a hell of a queue and tiny seating area.

Shoryu Ramen is good too and bone daddies though they do other stuff too.

New comment by nullify88 in "Claude Opus 5"

nullify88 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:15:01 +0000

In the $19 plan, I've been able to reverse engineer both an android APK and firmware (in Ghidra and Radre) for a baby rocker and build a quick PoC application in my session limit. And then further refined the app in another session at another point in time without leaving Opus. I dont consider that to be a tiny task. How are you blowing through your usage?

New comment by nullify88 in "Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding"

nullify88 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:06:33 +0000

There was nothing special about my setup. Standard intel processor with i915 driver which I would imagine covers a fairly large chunk of installs out there.

New comment by nullify88 in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

nullify88 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:23:35 +0000

Well, supposedly. But in my experience, there was no consequence disabling the blacklist in order to enable hardware video encoding and decoding.

New comment by nullify88 in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

nullify88 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:14:18 +0000

I think the options are dependent on your setup. For example if you have a smart TV running Android, you could run https://www.virtualhere.com/usb_client_software on it to connect a dongle or controller attached to the TV through to your main device. I do this with my Nvidia Shield and Xbox One Controller.

New comment by nullify88 in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

nullify88 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:15:45 +0000

What a great idea! I've grown pretty frustrated by the ads and constant nags for subscriptions modern weather apps pester you with. I've resorted to the state developed apps in Norway and Denmark but yours seems like a great alternative too.

New comment by nullify88 in "Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way"

nullify88 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:53:20 +0000

I think you might be looking for Kata Containers which is a CRI for running vmms like firecracker.

New comment by nullify88 in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

nullify88 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:51:30 +0000

Alternatives to Ansible could be Nix / nixos, or bootc.

New comment by nullify88 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

nullify88 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:29:18 +0000

I have a 2025 Renault 4 etech and I frequently enable bluetooth thethering so I can access Spotify, HBO etc via the in car entertainment system (It runs a flavour of Android called OpenR Link) , not via android auto. Though I frequently need to enable the bluetooth tethering setting on the phone before the profile can be activated via the cars paired devices menu (where you can select other profiles such as Audio, calling, etc)

While the car has a sim card already, I can't use it for general purpose apps without a subscription. Only updates, remote control and I suppose telemetry.

I usually opt for choosing a bluetooth tether instead of wifi since I already establish a connection for calls, or music / audio books.

It isn't hard to imagine Android being able to transmit vehicle telemetry via the same means.

New comment by nullify88 in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

nullify88 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:40:48 +0000

This will make a good office prank for those that leave their desktops unlocked and unattended.

New comment by nullify88 in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

nullify88 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:36:15 +0000

> I notice that my contribution was evaluated based on my identity rather than the quality of the work, and I’d like to understand the needs that this policy is trying to meet, because I believe there might be ways to address those needs while also accepting technically sound contributions

Wow, where can I learn to write like this? I could use this at work.

New comment by nullify88 in "Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production"

nullify88 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:17:01 +0000

I was a huge fan of the Activision remake, and the Battlezone 2 sequel. The mixture of FPS and RTS was really appealing to me.

I had to beg my parents for an ATI Rage LT Pro AGP 8MB card to play the sequel.