Hacker News: peterburkimsher

New comment by peterburkimsher in "16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade"

peterburkimsher — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:44:09 +0000

Congratulations on figuring out the NAND upgrade! I tried soldering another flash chip onto the Nano 1G, but gave up when it didn’t detect:

https://peterburk.github.io/blog/

Show HN: Candle

peterburkimsher — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:04:21 +0000

Article URL: https://peterburk.github.io/candle.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694897

Points: 2

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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group

peterburkimsher — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:03:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.horg.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519298

Points: 1

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New comment by peterburkimsher in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"

peterburkimsher — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:29:18 +0000

Not to mention supplying astronauts with food and managing their waste for 6+ months.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

peterburkimsher — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:27:24 +0000

Another Hackaday reader here. I think that the RPi shines in projects where GPIO are needed, yet the developer needs a full Linux OS (usually to run Python).

I agree that vibe coding microcontrollers will increase the use of embedded systems instead of RPi devices. Seems like a good move for them to have built the RPi Pico.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

peterburkimsher — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:46:38 +0000

I sometimes use a Raspberry Pi at work, and found the miniKVM to be a useful tool for controlling it:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/techxartisan/openterface-mini-kv...

New comment by peterburkimsher in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

peterburkimsher — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:39:29 +0000

That’s what I’d like to use it for as well, but it’s difficult to do so because there’s no way to edit the disk image.

Any advice on how to create a JSLinux clone with a specific file pre-installed and auto-launching would be much appreciated!

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated"

peterburkimsher — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:53:40 +0000

Related: PTT BBS is a popular Telnet-based forum in Taiwan, still actively used these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

peterburkimsher — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:21:20 +0000

Thanks for your long and thoughtful reply!

Matrix is just a visualisation tool, I never actually found a practical use for it other than looking cool.

The decomposition feature is at the bottom of the page below the generated HTML. It's the text box with "隹" and a Search button. Clicking Search will show the 2 parts of the character, and all characters that contain that radical (䧶, 䳡, etc), and all multi-character words containing that character.

Clicking any of the related characters (or numeric codes for radicals that don't have a Unicode representation) will then show the genealogy for that character.

See "copying from images" in http://localhost/pingtype/docs/docs.html

If I ever come to Berlin then your meetup sounds fun! I'm pretty far away though; I live in New Zealand now.

All the best with your learning, I hope you keep making progress!

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

peterburkimsher — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:15:13 +0000

I made a parallel literal translator for Farsi:

https://pingtype.github.io/farsi.html

Paste in some parallel text (e.g. Bible verses, movie subtitles, song lyrics) and read what Farsi you can on the first line, looking to the lower lines for clues if you get stuck.

The core version of Pingtype is for traditional Chinese, but it supports a few other languages too.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

peterburkimsher — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:05:29 +0000

Good to see that there are others learning and creating! Another shameless plug for my translator site: https://pingtype.github.io

It takes text, adds colours for tones, pinyin, literal, and parallel translations.

There’s also a character decomposition tool at the bottom of the page which can be helpful if you’re able to recognise half a character but can’t remember the pronunciation for typing it.

The YouTube channel has some song lyrics, movie subtitles, and audio Bible that might help with learning.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera"

peterburkimsher — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:57:13 +0000

Nice work! I’ve been using CamTwist for effects:

https://camtwiststudio.com/

It makes a virtual camera device that can integrate into any other app, not just the browser.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Backing up Spotify"

peterburkimsher — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:58:58 +0000

https://archive.org/details/myspace_artist_data_dump_2009

New comment by peterburkimsher in "Backing up Spotify"

peterburkimsher — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:56:12 +0000

For a fully-legal alternative of metadata archiving, I suggest the iTunes EPF (Enterprise Partner Feed). https://performance-partners.apple.com/epf

The best metadata I've found, though, is the MySpace Dragon Hoard: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

That included the artist location, allowing me to tag songs based on their country. I then created playlists such as "NERAS" Non-English Rock Artist Sample, where the one most popular song for a particular artist was chosen, and only when the country of origin was not English-speaking, and the genre was Rock. I like listening to music while working, but English lyrics distract me because I understand what they're saying.

After discovering music via the MySpace archive, I've since purchased 73 songs from 35 artists that I'd never heard of before digging into the data. I rebuilt my playlist on Spotify, but got greyed out tracks, and YouTube Music, but got "unavailable video". So I still prefer purchasing tracks via the iTunes Music Store, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and 7digital.

Other data sources such as the MP3.com rescue barge, PureVolume archive, and Anna's Spotify archive lack the country-of-origin metadata, so are of less interest to me. It may be possible to use an LLM to guess the language of each track title, but someone else will have to do that.

Meanwhile, if you're interested in the genre-by-country MySpace data, or have questions about the iTunes EPF, feel free to reach out and we can discuss your research.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

peterburkimsher — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:11:09 +0000

After a concert in London, I missed the last train back to Lancaster. So I made a sign saying that I was on CouchSurfing, and some strangers invited me over!

After CouchSurfing started charging a monthly fee, I’ve defected to BeWelcome.org which is a European, open-source alternative to CS.

Swiss Dev Jobs

peterburkimsher — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:39:55 +0000

Article URL: https://swissdevjobs.ch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883151

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by peterburkimsher in "The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge"

peterburkimsher — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:28:57 +0000

Sure, just click my profile name and you'll have my personal website with email address.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge"

peterburkimsher — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:02:12 +0000

Was that the Archive.org HTML files, or did you find a source of PureVolume MP3 files?

Either way I'm interested; I did some independent research into the MySpace Dragon Hoard for non-English music, and discovered bands through there that I've since supported on Bandcamp and iTunes.

New comment by peterburkimsher in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

peterburkimsher — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:04:32 +0000

If you're interested in other PCB edge connectors, here's an HDMI one I designed:

https://forum.kicad.info/t/hdmi-pcb-edge-connector-for-raspb...

AI startup Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

peterburkimsher — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:08:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dpr0kkyz4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884563

Points: 3

# Comments: 1