Hacker News: rak

New comment by rak in "Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 (2.95.0) has been released"

rak — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:58:05 +0000

For those of you that don't know and might be interested, grim streams some of the development on Twitch from time to time. It's been nice to just have it on while co-working.

New comment by rak in "Anticheat Update Tracking"

rak — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:54:49 +0000

ESEA shipped their client and anti-cheat with a free bitcoin miner back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESEA_League#Bitcoin_mining_inc...

Animation breakthrough makes it possible to better illustrate Black hair

rak — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:26:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327498/an-animation-breakthrough-makes-it-possible-to-more-accurately-illustrates-black-hair

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43382495

Points: 15

# Comments: 5

New comment by rak in "Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard"

rak — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:50:10 +0000

I might have missed it but do the designs come with pcb as well?

New comment by rak in "Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11"

rak — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:11:07 +0000

It is getting to the point where I am really considering giving up games that require anti-cheats that only support windows.

They were already getting to be too much but this is getting crazy.

New comment by rak in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

rak — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:54:06 +0000

I like this idea. I would even settle for the mixed income housing that a lot of development companies here (DC) were supposed to build when they received subsidies from the government.

New comment by rak in "FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines"

rak — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:24:51 +0000

I just got back to trying to use my resmed and I am curious. How did you get used to wearing it? I am really trying but I am not having much luck.

Introduction to Coordinate Systems [video]

rak — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/fossgis2023-23413-introduction-to-coordinate-systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38898366

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ten simple rules for biologists learning to program

rak — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:42:27 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005871

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775839

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rak in "Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety"

rak — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:17:25 +0000

This seems pretty cool. I was a big fan of Spire[1] and their device that monitored steps and breathing. Spire seems to have completely left the consumer market and I would love another device that does that stuff.

1. https://www.spirehealth.com/

New comment by rak in "FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'"

rak — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:12:37 +0000

Relevant Chappelle Show skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOVbeh2yr0

New comment by rak in "I hate what video games have become"

rak — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:59:31 +0000

It gets even better.

With CSGO third parties were essentially selling games for actual currency instead of credit with Valve and using skins as currency for gambling on esports matches. A few of them also came up with other gambling games that didn't even involve esports.

It was also a great vehicle for money laundering: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/30/counter-strike...

Wild times.

New comment by rak in "An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)"

rak — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:51:43 +0000

Yeah out of the box they are poof but I wonder if people would be comfortable with just accessing some of these useful shortcuts in the same positions in another layer?

I experiment around with my layouts and keyboards a little bit so I am probably out of touch.

New comment by rak in "Silencing the Kinesis Advantage 2"

rak — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:01:14 +0000

Another ergo keyboard I am on the lookout for is the Glove80. Been happy with the moonlander but I am really interested in something completely wireless and not as expensive as the AM Hatsu.

New comment by rak in "Court blocks Inglewood from destroying police disciplinary records"

rak — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:40:07 +0000

To add to this, a lot of times expungement isn't very useful because there are a ton of private companies that scrape these records (including arrest records) constantly. Some of these companies have business models built around conducting background checks and an unfortunate number of them have business models that rely solely on getting people to pay them to "remove" these records.

New comment by rak in "Black couple ‘erases themselves’ from their home, its value goes up by $500k"

rak — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:16:55 +0000

Unfortunately this is sadly common. If people are interested in the racist history of home ownership in America I highly recommend The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

It's bad, really bad. It essentially robbed Black Americans of significant generational wealth.

New comment by rak in "Surveillance in the Name of Covid-19"

rak — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:40:06 +0000

Ontario police were using data collected in the name of COVID-19 outside of its intended purpose: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database...

It took the legal action of Human Rights organizations to end their access to it.

New comment by rak in "The ergonomic Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 60: v2"

rak — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:41:19 +0000

I have this keyboard on the way either this month or next month. I am excited. It will be my first ergo and ortho board.

New comment by rak in "Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once"

rak — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 02:48:35 +0000

Are there any services like this that do the job of a streaming pc too?

New comment by rak in "San Francisco most intensely gentrified city in new rankings"

rak — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:43:09 +0000

Yep. DC is going through this now despite the rich history of DC being a chocolate city.