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New comment by s3p in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

s3p — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:33:28 +0000

Working on recreating Google engineer Ken Shirriff's work on chargers. His article "A dozen chargers in the lab" is what I'm trying to replicate, but with modern USB C chargers. Feel free to take a look:

https://sull1van.com/a-dozen-chargers-in-the-lab

New comment by s3p in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

s3p — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:40:35 +0000

I'd prefer this honestly. Would take 1-2 weeks to start updating my resume and listing out all accomplishments, relevant projects, etc.

New comment by s3p in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

s3p — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:05:55 +0000

It probably exists only in CLAUDE or AGENTS.md since no humans are working on the code!

New comment by s3p in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

s3p — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:18:05 +0000

I guess OP's point is still pretty valid though, what's the harm in signing and notarizing it?

New comment by s3p in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

s3p — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:21:02 +0000

Great question, however the important point here is that the company makes the claim they will not sell user data. "Period." So the company implies that if they are sold they will be sold with no user data

New comment by s3p in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

s3p — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:05:13 +0000

Love this! I got a USB C multimeter and used it to test the output of two dozen chargers. Wanted to see if they supplied the voltage that was advertised. Funny enough, AOHI was the only brand whose chargers actually increased their voltage as my current draw went up. It was like the engineers knew about the resistance in the wire and decided to compensate by upping the voltage slightly.

New comment by s3p in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

s3p — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:53:16 +0000

This one is pretty simple to do. It requests a voltage and then starts pulling current and monitors the voltage as it increases its current draw. If the voltage goes down, alert the user.

With data speed I think it could be a little more complicated. Like OP was saying it would need access to some level of hardware information where it can see which pins are used by the cable. Since the connection 'speed' is still variable even when you DO have a supported cable.

JPMorgan now monitoring investment banker screen time to prevent burnout

s3p — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:57:27 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/jpmorgan-started-monitoring-keystrokes-video-151635887.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533625

Points: 4

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New comment by s3p in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

s3p — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:08:15 +0000

I think it reflects the general HN sentiment that native apps > progressive web apps.

New comment by s3p in "Honda is killing its EVs"

s3p — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:33:15 +0000

I don't know the author insinuated that. It sounded more like, we release the car now, and as engineers come up with new capabilities, they get rolled out over a software update. Case in point was my car received an update that pulled in weather data. That didn't exist in the UI originally, and they added it with time.

New comment by s3p in "Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow"

s3p — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:38:38 +0000

I still think you have a point here. Doing this kind of testing on users unwittingly is unethical in my opinion

New comment by s3p in "“This is not the computer for you”"

s3p — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:47 +0000

It's also hard to imagine how difficult you must enjoy being, when you could have offered a kind clarification but instead dove into some obituary style takedown.

New comment by s3p in "The MacBook Neo"

s3p — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:19:42 +0000

I might be mis-remembering but wasn't Pegasus spyware able to bypass the camera indicator? Or was the issue that journalists were constantly seeing the light appear for no reason. I believe it was one of those.

New comment by s3p in "The MacBook Neo"

s3p — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:18:35 +0000

I mean, we don't really have any indication that the MacBook camera light is hard wired into anything.

New comment by s3p in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

s3p — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:48:37 +0000

>>He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional. >Is that false?

Judging from the comment above, no, the meeting happens every week, and this week they were asked to attend.

New comment by s3p in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

s3p — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:51:04 +0000

This one has always confused me. And then, to be even more confusing, if you start sliding up slowly, the background does not disappear. It stays this time around. Pull down slowly, no background, just the glass effect. Pull up slowly, still have the background, no glass effect. I guess I don't necessarily hate it, it's more of a neutral thing, but who is deciding these strange things??

New comment by s3p in "[dead]"

s3p — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:04:16 +0000

This article doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's propoganda. The CEO of Anthropic said there were two use cases, the DoD (Trump does not have the authority to rename it) hadn't even attempted yet, but due to this potential limitation, our hot headed SecDef decided it would be best to ban them altogether.

>cleanse their supply chains of Anthropic Likening an American tech company to.. dirt? Disease? Sin? Why do they need to be cleansed?

>"...it has already done harm, significant harm to the company,” he added, referring to Anthropic. What has done harm? Anthropic giving the boundaries for what their technology can and can't do?

I think about the (also propaganda) 60 minutes interview with Dario. The interviewer said that Boeing doesn't give the government limitations on what it can do with planes, so how is Anthropic any different. Utter lies. This would be like Boeing saying "Our plane can't reliably fly past 800 MPH or land on top of a home" and Pete Hegseth saying he VERY much wanted to land turbine-propelled jets on home ceilings at 900 MPH, so he must ban Boeing.

It's just blatant lies and propoganda. But when you and your friends run the government and own all the media companies, I guess you get to steer the conversation.

New comment by s3p in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

s3p — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:12:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I am somewhat in the same boat as OP so this is really helpful!

New comment by s3p in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

s3p — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:52:11 +0000

It'll be the first time a BMW ever used turn signals!

New comment by s3p in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

s3p — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:07:31 +0000

Way to dunk on OP I guess but nobody is playing semantics here, it's just whether people think this is a messaging channel with one intended recipient