Hacker News: progman32

New comment by progman32 in "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"

progman32 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:07:20 +0000

Don't overcomplicate or overthink, is my advice. You listen to a generally fixed sweet of tracks? Grab them, put them in a folder on your desktop, and open the folder in any old music player (Audacious is just fine, foobar2000 is also fine, use whatever). Optimize with things like Plex only after you notice patterns in your usage

New comment by progman32 in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

progman32 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:41:14 +0000

Not affiliated, but I've been using kagi's date range filter to similar effect. The difference in results for car maintenance subjects is astounding (and slightly infuriating).

New comment by progman32 in "The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)"

progman32 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:27:54 +0000

Dead ringer for the underground sections of Mirror's Edge.

New comment by progman32 in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

progman32 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:27:30 +0000

There's also the issue of lead in the brass nozzle, so you'd probably want to switch to a safer material there.

New comment by progman32 in "Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting"

progman32 — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:07:02 +0000

In all my meeting software (the usual suspects running in the browser) the mic is always opened at the driver level, even if I'm muted. Perhaps it's to avoid latency when you unmute, or perhaps it's for those "you're muted" pop-ups.

New comment by progman32 in "My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer"

progman32 — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:58:00 +0000

I standardize all my two wheeled vehicles to the motorcycle layout for this reason. It bothers my push bike friends to an amusing degree but it's much safer for me. Plus I feel I have greater control of the critical front brake with my most dextrous and strong hand.

New comment by progman32 in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"

progman32 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:01:05 +0000

A page linked from the article (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zLaBRWMSSnjGzMOpoZwUSw_H...) cites a $4/day rental fee for the equipment, which works out to roughly $120/month. I understand there are assistance programs promised by the article. Can someone in the space help me understand this pricing model? Seems high to me.

The faq also claims there are no civil liberties implications for this since people use gps for maps anyway. There is no government infrastructure to regularly inspect my gps mapping software's correct operation, unlike the speed limiter. It's unclear what kind of data exchange happens during inspection and what the implications are for other, non-speeding drivers of the car.

Don't get me wrong, I despise speeders. I regularly compete in sanctioned motorsport and I find that the more I do, the less sympathy I have for driving badly in public roadways. I wouldn't bat an eye at a system that mechanically governs a vehicle, without the possibility of data exchange, to the maximum speed limit in the state (or a value decided by a judge). This gps system seems too easy to abuse.

I'd love to hear more about the claimed statistic of 75% of suspended drivers continuing to drive. I'm surprised that addressing this has jumped to requiring modification of vehicles and GPS surveillance. What other ways of improving compliance with suspension have been tried? Why do drivers ignore the suspension?

New comment by progman32 in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

progman32 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:10:09 +0000

Can't speak for op, but for me it's a question of control. If this service ends up closing or otherwise loses me as a customer, I have to update every single contact and account before I can stop using it. That's not practical. If I bring my own domain, I can switch providers much more easily.

Some people might be ok with losing contact with the long tail after an email provider migration, but I'm not one of those people.

New comment by progman32 in "Mozilla is trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update"

progman32 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:32:25 +0000

I find this part puzzling. I don't have to give a pencil manufacturer rights of any sort to art I make with their product. A notebook seller cares not for such rights either, nor does a musical instrument company. The fact that Firefox seems insistent upon securing content rights suggests they're interested in using the content for things other than local browsing, which I find rather unfortunate. I'd gladly buy a support license for the browser specifically but Mozilla's structure seems to prevent that.

New comment by progman32 in "Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds"

progman32 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:26:50 +0000

My first generation bmw i3 is exactly this. Later models got much bigger battery packs.

New comment by progman32 in "Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)"

progman32 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:48:54 +0000

I understand that reads can technically cause read disturb, but isn't this normally handled by the controller? My intuition says that the writes caused by block rewrites should not significantly accelerate wear. I'd suspect more mundane issues such as bad solder, but would love to hear an expert take.

New comment by progman32 in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

progman32 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:43:51 +0000

Second this product. I wanted an Ethernet version so I made my own (it's integrated into esphome and the circuit is documented here https://github.com/Kaldek/rat-ratgdo). Apart from general usage, I use mine to tilt the garage door a small amount if it detects bad air quality in my shop (using an IKEA air quality sensor via home assistant).

New comment by progman32 in "A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts"

progman32 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:33:14 +0000

They've also got a non trivial audio tape collection, found so many interesting artifacts there. Love buying mystery tapes, sometimes you discover fascinating new things.

New comment by progman32 in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

progman32 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:25:52 +0000

Consider also Tube Archivist. If you just want to download a few videos it's overkill, but I use it to archive and index technical channels I like. It can do advanced full text and metadata searches on the transcription/subtitles as well as comments (and title and description). Much better than what alphabet provides, annoyingly.

https://www.tubearchivist.com/

New comment by progman32 in "Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?"

progman32 — Sun, 26 May 2024 17:35:05 +0000

Digikey's filterable product search (what I yearn Amazon had): https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/memory/774

Open Data Network: http://www.opendatanetwork.com/

New comment by progman32 in "Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing"

progman32 — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:53:21 +0000

Or even alternate to create a weave.

New comment by progman32 in "Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms"

progman32 — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:03 +0000

Does it need to be? Both are bad in my reckoning.

New comment by progman32 in "The drinking fountain button"

progman32 — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:09:52 +0000

Maybe not at every intersection, but almost all parks around me have at least one. At least that's my experience in California and Washington State.

New comment by progman32 in "Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB"

progman32 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:17:24 +0000

So be it. Going 80+ at night might not be a good idea on most roads.

New comment by progman32 in "Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos"

progman32 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:35:40 +0000

Also look into DeArrow. Replaces clickbait titles and thumbnails.