Hacker News: queSide

New comment by queSide in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

queSide — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:09:28 +0000

This does make me excited for the possibility, several years down the line of a Valve ARM Linux laptop with decent battery life. I wonder if anyone will rip out the compute unit out of the headset and try to use it as mini PC, just because you can, it seems like fun.

New comment by queSide in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

queSide — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:22:56 +0000

Great write up. This is a frustrating issue and I would have expected Framework to better. Most people can't flash a BIOS chip, they would be up a creek. Even as someone who writes software, flashing a BIOS chip would be outside of the realm of things I'm comfortable doing.

Only semi related but I would like to give MSI credit here, a few years ago I was dealing with a bad graphics card and as part of diagnosing it I tried to update the BIOS. I botched it and bricked the mobo (which to be fair was under warranty so a different case to this). I called MSI and RMA'd the motherboard even though it was my fault. Still using the replacement Z-97 PC mate today.

New comment by queSide in "BYD Yangwang U8 has remarkable emergency floating function that would save lives"

queSide — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:09:38 +0000

I think the only thing this would solve are situations like that one episode of "The Office" where Michael drives into a lake.

New comment by queSide in "Why Japan has such good railways"

queSide — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:09:04 +0000

It's worth noting that for a kei car (the small 660cc cars that make up most of japan's car sales) you do not actually need to prove you have parking space in some regions of japan (like you do with non kei cars)

New comment by queSide in "MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS"

queSide — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:50:19 +0000

I think most of Xreal's offerings are just a display you plug into a phone or laptop.

New comment by queSide in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

queSide — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:04:30 +0000

I do get that solving the general case would cost a huge amount of resources, especially policing people with an axe to grind against a particular company. Is saying Carte blanche too far? perhaps. Maybe better phrasing would be "Rules are written with good intentions and enforced when the general case is solved". Regardless, I think this discussion has run it's course, I got to warn others. Thanks for your time

New comment by queSide in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

queSide — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:59:34 +0000

I could show you emails and then you would know what this specific company is doing, but I get your busy moderating the rest of HN, which is a monumental task. So that is unlikely to happen. But as it stands the situation is "rules for job seekers, Carte blanche for companies"

New comment by queSide in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

queSide — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:16:06 +0000

This seemed directly relevant to the job posting and not a compliant about HomeVision's service though. My bad.

>Please only post [...] are committed to responding to applicants.

seems they also violate the top text

edit: formating

New comment by queSide in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

queSide — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:03:25 +0000

I would advise people to avoid HomeVision. I did a pre interview take home assignment for them that took up a weekend, after which they didn't respond. I guess my code was sloppy or something came up. Just ghosting after the time commitment is disrespectful.