Hacker News: ptorrone

New comment by ptorrone in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

ptorrone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:23:34 +0000

new "altaccount2026" only posting twice, today, about this. we are very much looking forward to sharing our story, very very soon.

if you "altaccount2026 " really want a twitter archive of my photos of my kids, puppets, links to my articles, posts, and more, it may be available on some archiver.

we are very much looking forward to sharing our story.

press@adafruit.com for inquires ...

New comment by ptorrone in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

ptorrone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:55:33 +0000

limor and phil here, we would 100% welcome it, looking forward to telling our story very soon - pt & limor

New comment by ptorrone in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

ptorrone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:52:30 +0000

new empty "altaccount2026" with only this post, hi.

please email press@adafruit.com , limor and i are looking forward to telling our story very soon - pt & limor

New comment by ptorrone in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

ptorrone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:34:50 +0000

hi everyone, phil and limor here, any questions for now, email press@adafruit.com

limor and i are very much looking forward to telling our story.

New comment by ptorrone in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

ptorrone — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:41:51 +0000

"one dude's little devboard company" ... that "one dude" is limor fried, who's been shipping open hardware since 2005, and before that from her MIT dorm room...

webserial in firefox happened because a bunch of people and companies, adafruit included, shipped code, fixed bugs, made open hardware, and did the standards grind.

clicking the name/link of the comment (kotaKat) ... defending right-to-repair, foss, anti-drm, anti-walled-garden.

someone ships open source hardware and software that work together... and you shit on it.

join in and tinker, share code and projects ... or stay addicted to being miserable. if you cannot see this as a positive, nothing will ever be.

New comment by ptorrone in "Mozilla and Adafruit Bring Web Serial Workflows to Firefox"

ptorrone — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:35:09 +0000

hi hi!

firefox 151 and zen 1.19.13b (Firefox 150.0.3)

https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2026/05/151vs150-scale...

zen is on 150 firefox and firefox is 151, when zen updates to 151 should be the same as firefox 151.

When AI becomes Pierre Menard, author of your code

ptorrone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/03/when-ai-becomes-pierre-menard-author-of-your-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do

ptorrone — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:49:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/24/fcc-just-banned-the-import-of-all-new-foreign-made-routers-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506519

Points: 107

# Comments: 2

You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250778

Points: 66

# Comments: 12

The Making of the Atomic Bomb book predicted the AI crisis before it happened

ptorrone — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/03/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-1986-by-richard-rhodes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236603

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

ptorrone — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924551

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ptorrone in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:49:19 +0000

there is not some conspiracy to stop you personally from visiting adafruit.com, if you are still having problems, email me, i am the author, i can send you just about any form of text in almost any way? ... that message is probably some cloudflare message if the site is getting hammered... like it is now, i can look into it...

New comment by ptorrone in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:13:03 +0000

this isn’t an adafruit-specific stance, it’s a web-wide problem. automated scraping and bot traffic is enough to take independent sites offline, and cloudflare is a tool we use to keep the site available at all. we publish full-text rss with no blockers here: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss . if cloudflare trips on your browser and you want an article, email me and i’ll send it in whatever format you want, we're always working to make it easier, it's hard, would rather have help than snarks and dunks.

New comment by ptorrone in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:23:08 +0000

(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer.

the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss

the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok?

if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding.

we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.

New comment by ptorrone in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:35:41 +0000

(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article.

the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer.

the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss

if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding.

we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.

New comment by ptorrone in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

ptorrone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:35:27 +0000

i am the author of the article.

the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss

if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding.

we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.