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New comment by readme in "Resources to Get Good at Soldering?"

readme — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:19:30 +0000

I've taught people to start with surface mount before. It's really worse depending on what you're soldering. A lot of people doing hardware hacking will get tons of mileage just out of being able to solder on a chip with a soic-8 package. That's easy enough that you can learn it on day 1.

New comment by readme in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

readme — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:12:05 +0000

you attempted a skilled technique without practice, you were surprised when you screwed it up, and then you quit

this is not a good pattern!

New comment by readme in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

readme — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:01:57 +0000

They would be broke quick.

New comment by readme in "Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations"

readme — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:49:23 +0000

I'm honestly passionate about this topic. For a while, around the time that urinals started to appear without water, I dealt with some serious splashback issues. I forget when I started aiming for the back of the urinal. I'm assuming that's the deflection angle the paper discusses. At one point I realized, I was sometimes getting some pretty bad splashback. Perhaps because I stood close to the urinal. So I asked a colleague. He said he aims for the hole, and was confused why anyone would piss on the back of the urinal. I started doing that -- problem solved. I am for a direct hit, every time. The problem is that some urinals have a protector over the hole to prevent really smart people and children from putting paper towels in there. That thing is dome shaped, and multiplexes the stream like a lawn sprinker.

All of this, would not be necessary, if there were water at the bottom of the urinal.

New comment by readme in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

readme — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:19:46 +0000

Ah yes, an application that should exist in a free market but will probably disappear soon.

You are a good person. Keep going at it.

New comment by readme in "Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser"

readme — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:03:41 +0000

i love it

ai can't shred

ai will never get chicks

i will use YouTube Guitar Tab Parser to shred and get chicks

New comment by readme in "I think I have LLM burnout"

readme — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:21:48 +0000

I don't have much success with using the LLM to make changes to a big legacy codebase. Instead, I use the LLM to gripe about things I don't like in the code. Usually, it is a brilliant commiserator.

New comment by readme in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

readme — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:08:06 +0000

Yocto sounds like it makes me feel when I use it

New comment by readme in "Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019"

readme — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:33:19 +0000

That's probably still very healthy. The study looks at deaths per year at non-optimal temperatures. Living in a desert is different than taking a sauna.

New comment by readme in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

readme — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:09:03 +0000

Out of curiosity, which fields would you say are the best to just be mediocre in?

New comment by readme in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

readme — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:07:38 +0000

I mean, there's other problems with OPs argument.

For example, "there's no chance to become the next one" implies it's only worth it to do something if you can become the absolute best person in the field.

It's a big world. Most of us will not be the very best at what we do. There are millions of fun games that were not written by John Carmack.

New comment by readme in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

readme — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:34:08 +0000

Boston Dynamics robots can do gymnastics...

Hey, Hyundai isn't "just a car company"

New comment by readme in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

readme — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:19:28 +0000

no one expects humans to read CLAUDE.md

it's never been easier to catch up to the team guru

New comment by readme in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

readme — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:17:09 +0000

I noticed this! CLAUDE.md is one of my go-to places if I want to read documentation, now. It's usually much more to the point and more accurate than whatever was intended for humans.

New comment by readme in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

readme — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:07:28 +0000

Crazy for wanting a computer that's actually yours.

I believe there will come a day where people who can do this will be selling these on the black market for top dollar.

New comment by readme in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

readme — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:16:09 +0000

which desktop experience did you try

i'm a daily mac os x user (for a long time) and I think kde plasma is better

New comment by readme in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

readme — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:15:16 +0000

Even gnome tries to be too modern imo. KDE is perfect. I used to feel like KDE was too much like a toy. Now by comparison it looks utilitarian.

New comment by readme in "Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL"

readme — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:01:26 +0000

i love postgres and pgvector... this is exactly to my tastes

New comment by readme in "Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped"

readme — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:47:03 +0000

exactly

had that extra spending gone to pay math teachers the results might be different

New comment by readme in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

readme — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:28:14 +0000

I'm going to have nightmares about waking up restrained in this thing.