Hacker News: roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=roughsquareHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:51:56 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem"]]>It still isn't at distributors yet. My distributor has it listed for Oct 27, with units shipping the day after from the warehouse to resellers/etc.

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:39:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620331roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620331https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620331<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Here's How the Pixel's AI zoom compares to a real 100x lens"]]>https://web.archive.org/web/20250904131644/https://www.theve...

]]>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:59:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128050roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128050https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128050<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach"]]>"Not available in your region" bloody hell.

]]>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:11:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257007roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257007https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257007<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)"]]>Why not have it switch tabs automatically?

]]>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:25:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157993roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157993https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157993<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Designing, manufacturing, and selling an LED 'social battery' pin badge"]]>Could use nearby/changing bluetooth devices as a measure of how crowded/busy a place is. A place with a low number of strong signals could recharge the battery if you stayed there for a minimum amount of time.

Turn yourself into the Tamogotchi

]]>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:53:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913751roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913751<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Canada to regulate podcasts"]]>My fear isn't indirect censorship, it is that companies will rather pull out of the Canadian market than pay to have content developed, acquired or managed to meet the CanCon rules. Canada's current spat with Google over news is a recent example.

]]>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:43:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765066roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765066<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Canada to regulate podcasts"]]>They are referring to the CanCon rules https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon.htm

The rules have been around for 40+ years in one form or another.

]]>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:40:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765017roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765017<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "Open Air Schools of the 1900s"]]>"for certain children who are inmates of one of its schools for the mentally defective deaf."

Wow, that is a loaded statement that certainly has not aged well.

]]>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:33:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650218roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650218<![CDATA[New comment by roughsquare in "No one lives in the 2 spots in Massachusetts picked by FCC for higher subsidies"]]>https://archive.li/ZsIpD

]]>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:21:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048574roughsquarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048574