Hacker News: petee

New comment by petee in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

petee — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:22:28 +0000

Same here, seems like everyone has forgotten how to make rubber products; my 10yr thinkpad is a mix of brittle and going-gooey on different parts. I'm on my second MX Anywhere

I use 5-min epoxy and a toothpick to rebuild the nubs when they wear off. Keyboards don't last long if you have calluses

New comment by petee in "Flipper One – we need your help"

petee — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:23:21 +0000

Thats terrible marketing then. Trying to leverage an unrelated device because it was popular is almost guaranteed to spurn those expecting the next flipper to be an improved flipper, not a "not-a-flipper"

New comment by petee in "Flipper One – we need your help"

petee — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:56 +0000

Based on a lot of the comments here, this would have been decently received if it were marketed as something not-a-flipper...the "Willy One".

Especially the loss of IR, which is great for kids to play with and get immediate feedback

New comment by petee in "OpenBSD 7.9"

petee — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:19:00 +0000

Authoritative DNS (nsd) and email (opensmtpd) runs out of the box with minimal config on very low ram kvms. The documentation is fantastic, installation is easy; sysupgrade has been a big improvement, though I wish they'd slow the release cycle a little

New comment by petee in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

petee — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:27:44 +0000

And you're 100% ok if it were being built immediately outside your window, right?

New comment by petee in "Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium"

petee — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:24:42 +0000

I did a show and tell for an elementary school class of my astronomy hobby with a tracking telescope and sunfilter. One of the best things happened accidentally when the tracking died, but the kids ended up really amazed by just how fast the sun was moving out of view, and getting to manually chase it; otherwise it would have been a cool but fairly boring view

New comment by petee in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

petee — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:47:36 +0000

That's impressive on an 8GB system!

New comment by petee in "Android rolling out AI 'Contextual suggestions' that learn from your habits"

petee — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:44:07 +0000

And enabled by default. I like the part where they say it won't be shared, "unless you give permission to share your data for some other purpose, ..." Meaning some other setting elsewhere also enabled by default

Android rolling out AI 'Contextual suggestions' that learn from your habits

petee — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:54:56 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/05/13/android-contextual-suggestions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133647

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by petee in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

petee — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:18:35 +0000

I've always looked at it the the other way - being that lucky would mean you have even less chance of something else lucky happening, good time to save your money

New comment by petee in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

petee — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:58:10 +0000

Temporarily is a fairly important word to include with that link

New comment by petee in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

petee — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:45:43 +0000

Perhaps its more fair to call it 'passionate'.

That said, the last few dnssec posts that got traction, tptacek tends to be at least 20% of the comments alone (ex, 55/259), ignoring word count. Today seems calm

New comment by petee in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

petee — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:25:51 +0000

Are there any decent webrings left, or newly existing?

New comment by petee in "Preliminary Report on the LaGuardia Crash"

petee — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:35:43 +0000

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA26MA161.aspx

New comment by petee in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

petee — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:07:05 +0000

2030. All flying cars are actually armed drones - homefab is outlawed

New comment by petee in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

petee — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:24:19 +0000

Fwiw opera mobile on Android selects the whole address there when i long-press

New comment by petee in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

petee — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:28:13 +0000

You can find this style of product display in the US all the way back to the 60s, though McDonald's ads appear to favor sliding the bun more away from the camera than to the side. Also saw about equal number of burgers in a straight stack from that era

New comment by petee in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

petee — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:24:47 +0000

What would be the difficulty level for it to just read the machine code; are these models heavily relying on human language for clues?

New comment by petee in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

petee — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:31:59 +0000

This happened to me, a drive I rarely use silently died, and backblaze gave no indication that suddenly the whole drive was missing. Customer support explained to me how "backup" doesn't actually mean "backup"

New comment by petee in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

petee — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:48:43 +0000

I do frequently, but I honestly can't recall the last time a message i really wanted actually ended up there. I mostly end up hitting not-spam on marketing/updates that I've actually subscribed to