<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: philjohn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=philjohn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:38:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=philjohn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With "smart" appliances that can be controlled, there's often a community integration to HomeAssistant ... and then there's the free EMHASS addon which will optimise for profit, or self consumption based on energy prices (both incoming and outgoing) as well as any on-site generation (e.g. Solar PV) batteries etc. etc.<p>Neat piece of open source software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:29:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556075</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "AirPods Max 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For cycling tech, if you're outside the US, check out Chinese manufacturers like iGPSport and Magene.<p>Picked up a spider-based power meter for around £290 and a big computer for £150. Both are great, and work just as well as their western counterparts costing significantly more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406730</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But doesn't the Apple M series NPU support FP8, and as it's a monolithic die (except for the GPU in the M5 Pro and Max) it could be argued it has hardware FP8 support, no?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406531</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meanwhile lots of people in the PC building community have cases with glass panels on the side, and go to a lot of effort to make the inside look a certain way. This includes things like custom sleeved cables, perfect cable management, RGB on various things.<p>I also have a glass panneled side to my computer, but the only RGB on it is on the graphics card waterblock, everything else is just jet black (fans, ZMT water cooling tubing, radiators etc. etc.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376294</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find Chrome to be the biggest culprit for battery life on my M2 MacBook Pro.<p>Which is fine, I use Firefox usually, but any time I open Chrome it just seems to drain the battery super fast.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:19:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246429</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Took one for a test drive - it was fun. The only downside is compared to some other compact/city EV's the legroom in the back is REALLY bad (and I'm not exactly tall).<p>The legroom in my son's VW e-Up! is markedly better, despite it being a smaller car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:24:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807728</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're doing large batch inserts, I've found using the COPY INTO the fastest way, especially if you use the binary data format so there's no overhead on the postgres server side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696660</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not just for coding. I've been working on design docs, and find ChatGPT 5.2 finds more edge cases and suggests better ideas than Gemini 3. I sometimes feed the output of one into the other and go "ok, another AI says this, what do you think?" which gives interesting results.<p>Gemini often just throws in the towel and goes "yeah, the other one is right", whereas 5.2 will often go "I agree with about 80% of that, but the other 20% I don't, and here's why ..."<p>And I'm always impressed with the explanation for "here's why" as it picks apart flat out bad output from Gemini.<p>But, as with everything, this will very much be use-case dependent.</p>
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<p>See also the "remaster" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer not having proper colour grading done <a href="https://horrorbuzz.com/buffy-hd-issues-original-teams-reactions/" rel="nofollow">https://horrorbuzz.com/buffy-hd-issues-original-teams-reacti...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136832</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Mean tweets" and incitement to commit violence are mutually exclusive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106476</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My claim is the documentation about the ICO investigation and the resulting fine.<p>It's an entirely different piece of regulation to the "horror" of the OSA.<p>It's not hard - you're not allowed to target adverts for children - if Imgur aren't able to agree to that, they are within their rights to decide they don't want to properly safeguard the private information of children and withdraw from the market. That many other providers haven't thrown their toys out of the pram and complied with the law would show they decided if they can't tailor ads to children they wouldn't be able to turn a profit in the UK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:49:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090657</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"This bugfix is brought to you by ... Costco"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:06:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088087</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you please provide a source for your claim?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:11:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086425</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine deciding to pull out of a country because you refuse to comply with protecting the personal data of actual children.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082949</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seeing as the investigation was by the ICO instead of OFCOM, yes, very much so. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:31:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082944</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can turn it on and off with long presses on the airpod stalk itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943645</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>China doesn't have one side of the political spectrum trying to shutter any talk of renewables, they're just installing them at breakneck speed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881163</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes - that's for Sky Sports.<p>You can often get a deal if you threaten to cancel, go through with it, and then wait for a retentions offer, but since Sky was acquired by Comcast that's happening less and less, especially for the superior Sky Q satellite service - you can get great deals on their Sky Stream service, but it's plagued with issues, and you no longer have the ability to time shift by having the main box record directly off the satellite feed.<p>You also can't skip ads unless you pay them, versus the ability to pause, fast forward etc. on the Satellite service.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:33:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845150</link><dc:creator>philjohn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philjohn in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's why it took off with hobbyists - $79 for an IP KVM is insanely good value. I picked up two which have been in my rack for a few months at this point and I've got nothing but praise for them.<p>Sipeed nano also launched around the same time, but they were cagey at first with open sourcing the firmware, requiring a certain number of github stars before they'd do that.</p>
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<p>It's been on KickStarter for about a year at this point - could that be where you'd seen it?</p>
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