Hacker News: ozyschmozy

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:23:14 +0000

> all things that makes being a human worth all the pain

Running fast or jumping high are what makes being a human worth all the pain?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:23:50 +0000

Are there any good examples of where removing the leading "how" has improved the title? Or some list of title filtering rules with concrete examples of why they're implemented?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:01:15 +0000

What's your setup like? Do you host it on your own hardware or the cloud? Is it exposed to the internet?

I have a homelab setup with my media server stuff and frigate (for security cameras), and they're only accessible via tailscale if I'm not at home. It would theoretically be easy enough to throw immich in there as well but I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Pizza Box Project Stack"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:29:03 +0000

I have something similar for my electronics projects, but a bit more "physical" I guess. I had trouble with having multiple ongoing projects, and parts/tools for them intermingling and taking up desk space. I ordered some cheap plastic trays from AliExpress (I think they were meant to be parts of a bathroom organizer or something), which have enough depth to contain boards, components, specialized tools, etc., and stack well. When I need to shelve a project (usually because I'm waiting for parts or I need the desk space), I put everything related to it in an empty tray and put that tray on top of the stack. When it becomes unblocked or I have some spare time to work on something, I pull out the tray and already have most of what I need

New comment by ozyschmozy in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:47:11 +0000

From the docs another comment linked:

> The CPU request typically defines a weighting. If several different containers (cgroups) want to run on a contended system, workloads with larger CPU requests are allocated more CPU time than workloads with small requests.

So I guess limits _would_ protect other pods to a degree. Though I agree that it doesn't seem worth the tradeoff of your pod getting constantly interrupted while the rest of the box is sitting idle

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

ozyschmozy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:44:25 +0000

I remember my old nexus had it, and it was very customizable. I had it flash different colors for different chats. Definitely funny seeing this make its way back as if it's some new revolutionary feature

New comment by ozyschmozy in "The only road in London where you have to drive on the right"

ozyschmozy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:05:08 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger

New comment by ozyschmozy in "What's Under Your Feet in New York City?"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:31:02 +0000

The video does have something like that, it's not labeled though, rather he goes through each part and highlights the part he's talking about

New comment by ozyschmozy in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

ozyschmozy — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:07:58 +0000

I'm like this for everything _except_ paper books. I grew up sharing books a lot, books I finished would go to younger kids in my extended family or my mom's students, and I got a bunch of books like that as well. So we took a lot of care keeping books in good condition. I don't buy many paper books anymore, and ones I do buy tend to be new and stay with me, but folding pages or breaking the spines still feels wrong to me

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

ozyschmozy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:46:14 +0000

I use signal a lot (probably has 30-60 minutes screen time per day), and still notifications are extremely finicky no matter what battery optimization settings I tweak. So I'm leaning towards some apps being blessed

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:02:35 +0000

Thanks for posting this, it's a run read and the pictures are amazing/hilarious. The faces on the first picture are so funny and expressive

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:46:13 +0000

A steel door is certainly harder than my skin and also certainly can't be used to "bite" me or puncture my skin (save for crushing it given enough force)

New comment by ozyschmozy in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

ozyschmozy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:20:37 +0000

After getting a hankering for more Culture books, I recently started going through his other fiction and they're all really fun and scratch a similar itch. I read Feersum Endjinn and The Algebraist, and I'm most of the way through Against a Dark Background now, and they're all great (and quite different from The Culture and each other)

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:26:54 +0000

Regardless of other ongoing work, title seems inaccurate? Doesn't sound like fable did any porting to macos

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Holes"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:00:48 +0000

Funny that he misspelled one (derinku_y_u, literally meaning deep well), given all the effort that clearly went into it.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?"

ozyschmozy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:59:07 +0000

Practice mode also has a popup telling you what to do which seems to negate the point of the game?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:37:27 +0000

Why does a silly little online game need my email to send a one-time login code? What a strange experience

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Cursor (IDE) tried launching on HN 8 times unsuccessfully"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:25:42 +0000

Not sure how this counts as "trying to launch cursor" 8 times when 4 of them seem to be just blog posts with not very descriptive titles and 2 are about some AI email companion, and of the remaining two, one seems to be a tweet

New comment by ozyschmozy in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:53:21 +0000

> Approximately nobody is throwing away phones because the OEM stopped providing security patches. They're doing it for more practical reasons, like the phone getting slow, the battery wearing out, or wanting a better camera.

I did this just last year because my Pixel 4a stopped getting security updates and some app I needed to use for work (I think Duo?) refused to install or run because of it. The phone was otherwise running perfectly fine and I had no reason to change it. I'm on a Pixel 8 now which is supposed to have 7 years of security updates, and I don't see myself replacing it until then.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:56:00 +0000

Can you give examples of these alternatives?