Hacker News: russelg

New comment by russelg in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

russelg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:58:53 +0000

In Australia, this is mostly because there are tax implications for not being a private health care member past the age of 31 when you earn over a certain amount. Our public system is great (and actually exists).

New comment by russelg in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

russelg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:00:41 +0000

Even on the highest end, the M3 Ultra at 512gb RAM doesn't exist anymore :'(

Actually, I went to the Mac Studio configure page on Apple.com and you can't do higher than 96GB now...

New comment by russelg in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

russelg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:57:19 +0000

Understandable. But if you were attempting to do the same thing as the RTX Spark on a MacBook (i.e. run local models), you would also definitely be hearing those fans. Perhaps not the best marketing play, but it is true to the real experience of using the product for this use case.

New comment by russelg in "No more JetBrains products for me"

russelg — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:36:05 +0000

They've killed that, check the banner on the Fleet page:

>Update (May ’26): Fleet is now part of Air — our new agentic development environment. Download for free at air.dev →

New comment by russelg in "No more JetBrains products for me"

russelg — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:34:15 +0000

>expose a connector so the ai can connect to the thing and do what it needs to do...

They have done this now, they've implemented ACP so you can use any agent that supports that from any IntelliJ editor. They (optionally) provide an MCP server which the agents can also use.

New comment by russelg in "Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans"

russelg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:28:21 +0000

Especially because they previously denied his request for the files (even when they've sponsored him), stating the same IP issue.

New comment by russelg in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

russelg — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:23:08 +0000

Covered by the article:

>I ran local experiments with Minio, SeaweedFS, and Garage. My primary objection to all of them was the operational complexity

New comment by russelg in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

russelg — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:43:37 +0000

If you swap in the extension cable head, that does indeed have a ground pin, at least in Australia anyway. The grounding comes from that metal ring that the connector uses as a guide. https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/mw2n3x/a/power-adapter...

New comment by russelg in "YouTube Premium just went up to $15.99 / mo (US)"

russelg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:47:40 +0000

Cancelled my YT Premium and just installed SmartTube on my TV instead.

My previous blocker was that there was no (easy) way to bypass ads when I was using an AppleTV, so I just started using the Android side of my TV.

New comment by russelg in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

russelg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:19:49 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527015

Spoiler alert: it's still LVDS

New comment by russelg in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

russelg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:49:50 +0000

With Ofcom I'd say the UK falls into that group nicely.

New comment by russelg in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

russelg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:19:30 +0000

>Japan disallows many forms of such loot boxes due to addictive nature.

Crazy to say this when they've basically pioneered and perfected gacha games.

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

russelg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:21:15 +0000

I'll chime in and say personally I do this all the time and have never experienced a system crash from this.

New comment by russelg in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

russelg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:10:39 +0000

So what?

They achieved their goal of digitising their family videos and allowing their siblings to view them in a coherent way, which they very likely would not have been able to accomplish without the help of AI. Not without like triple the time investment.

They aren't releasing a product here, it's bespoke software which serves the exact purpose they need it to. This is exactly what AI is good for.

New comment by russelg in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

russelg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:10:41 +0000

Perhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.

New comment by russelg in "Lock-Picking Robot"

russelg — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:57:52 +0000

Sure, but in this case they definitely are a hacker still since they did write code to achieve this.

New comment by russelg in "macOS 26's Cut Corners"

russelg — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:29:39 +0000

It is but one of the straws that broke the camels back.

New comment by russelg in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

russelg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:32:09 +0000

There is also VidHub which I've been playing around with. It's also paid but it's cheaper than Infuse.

New comment by russelg in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

russelg — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:32:21 +0000

I sympathize completely. My Apple TV 4K 2nd gen is a laggy, unresponsive piece of crap after the tvOS 26 update.

New comment by russelg in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

russelg — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:13:02 +0000

Doesn't really fulfill the same niche Soundcloud does. Most content on SC is non-commercial or just simply not available on any streaming service.

Lidarr relies on people ripping this music, and also adding the metadata to Musicbrainz, which just simply isn't going to happen for most SC uploads.