Hacker News: ovi256

New comment by ovi256 in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

ovi256 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:21:45 +0000

Especially given the hardware has no moat and there are a zillion IR transceivers on Aliexpress. It's not a good market.

New comment by ovi256 in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

ovi256 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:11:16 +0000

> ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician that is being done as open source community efforts now: NewPipe for mobile, SmartTube for smart TVs etc. All you have to do is update them once in a while

New comment by ovi256 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

ovi256 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:18:51 +0000

On the contrary, this gives me hope it's possible to create value for people even when you compete with hundreds of free Youtube playlists. This is good!

New comment by ovi256 in "In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%"

ovi256 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:06:45 +0000

I bet the two sources won't agree on what values go into the denominator and / or numerator of their effective tax rate calculations. It can be as simple as the 3.5% being a calculated rate on revenue rather than profit

New comment by ovi256 in "Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?"

ovi256 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:43:30 +0000

For inspiration, check out Ben Katz. He worked on the MIT Cheetah and electrified the Boston Dynamics dog

https://build-its.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mini-cheetah-robo...

He designs and machines parts, designs SoTA electronics like motor drivers. Applies robot dynamics, material science, control theory

I spent a few months investigating peptides and injecting bootleg Chinese GLP1s

ovi256 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peptides-from-instagram-china-wellness-cure.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808016

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ovi256 in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

ovi256 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:17:54 +0000

A user provided location cannot be trusted for geofencing purposes. A GNSS (GPS or other) is needed sooner or later. This is a legal requirement for sanction and regulation enforcement (US, if not others).

New comment by ovi256 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

ovi256 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:40:01 +0000

> I have escalated this through my many friends in WWDR and SRE at Apple, with no success. Ouch. If he can't get it fixed, it's scary

New comment by ovi256 in "It’s been a very hard year"

ovi256 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:11:40 +0000

While humans have historically mildly reduced their working time to today's 40h workweek, their consumption has gone up enormously, and whole new categories of consumption were opened. So my prediction is while you'll never live in a 900,000sqft apartment (unless we get O'Neill cylinders from our budding space industry) you'll probably consume a lot more, while still working a full week

New comment by ovi256 in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

ovi256 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:30:47 +0000

> Le Parisien (a big French billionaire-owned newspaper) They're all billionaire owned. As an example, left wing newspaper Liberation has Kretinsky among the owners

New comment by ovi256 in "Some dogs can classify their toys by function"

ovi256 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:40:39 +0000

I'm impressed you could train a dog to cleanup toys! It's hard enough with humans.

New comment by ovi256 in "Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane"

ovi256 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:04:00 +0000

> Heat pumps work as aircos

In France, tax credits were denied for air-to-air heat pumps that could also cool (which they all can).

New comment by ovi256 in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

ovi256 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:14:21 +0000

CF will cooperate with UK authorities because they're not in 4chan's business.

New comment by ovi256 in "CARA – High precision robot dog using rope"

ovi256 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:32:22 +0000

> Cheetah robot can run 10.3 km with a 3 kg (465 Whrs) LiPo Battery

> the 33kg robot runs at 22 km/h (6 m/s). The total power consumption from the battery pack was 973 watts and resulted in a total cost of transport of 0.5, which rivals running animals’ at the same scale. The 76% of total energy consumption is attributed to heat loss from the motor, and the 24% is used in mechanical work

Cheetah was the robot built by Ben Katz, which then went on to electrify Boston Dynamics' dog.

Given we've had no major energy density or motor efficiency breakthroughs since 2015, I bet the above still holds. That's a 30 min run at full throttle BTW. So to escape the current killer bots, try to run above a 2h marathon pace for 30 minutes.

Source: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108096/Effici...

New comment by ovi256 in "Building a Mac app with Claude code"

ovi256 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:28:41 +0000

Google's gemini-cli offers the most generous current free tier, 2500 daily requests. I'd recommend checking it out, since mostly everything said about Claude Code applies to it too

Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?

ovi256 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:11:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/mheibes-iraq-game/682901/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290917

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ovi256 in "You can now legally walk with drinks on SF's Valencia St"

ovi256 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:25:55 +0000

Some people are above the law. In a country ruled by laws, that's bad.

New comment by ovi256 in "Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation"

ovi256 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:00:19 +0000

It does limit, but I suspect a lot less for the rebuilt from ground up biplane, than for a certified for airline service aircraft (a commercial airliner).

New comment by ovi256 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

ovi256 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:14:35 +0000

> countries on the eastern end of the EU look ready to make that trade without hesitation

I don't think so, there already are populist opposition parties in most of these countries that want 1. their country to be more pro-RU 2. to keep the welfare state for their populist supporters going

New comment by ovi256 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

ovi256 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:08:46 +0000

The planned AUKUS submarines have no nuclear weapon capabilities. They're nuclear powered attack submarines that use conventional weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSN-AUKUS