Hacker News: sammyo

New comment by sammyo in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

sammyo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:30:17 +0000

My wife finds yard sale watches and has me change the battery, but then I open one, a tiny thing and it's not battery powered but there are layers of tiny tiny gears. Mind boggling. (pro tip, a "bench knife" has a tiny blade that's optimized for plying open watch cases)

New comment by sammyo in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

sammyo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:18:31 +0000

Worked for me yesterday, not the newest but pretty recent. 10th gen paperwhite.

New comment by sammyo in "Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026"

sammyo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:59:32 +0000

Had a used 13 Mini for about a year now, very pleased and the battery is just fine.

New comment by sammyo in "Public static void main(String[] args) is dead"

sammyo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:29:07 +0000

Same here, oddly pleased that the Scanner class is deprecated before I even knew about it.

New comment by sammyo in "Emacs as your video-trimming tool"

sammyo — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:51:20 +0000

>I honestly don't know why more people don't gravitate towards these ideas.

They would if there was a bit more GUI introduction. Seriously functional menus and visual indication of modes. With hints from graphical to the faster keyboard sequences.

New comment by sammyo in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

sammyo — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:29:03 +0000

Not with the ancient barely working WRT54G that comcast keeps nagging me to replace!

New comment by sammyo in "The evidence suggests Covid-19 came from a lab"

sammyo — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:11:43 +0000

So, is the "The Prosperity Institute" the new NIH? The briefest of googling suggests the source of Covid is undetermined.

New comment by sammyo in "MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux"

sammyo — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:15:25 +0000

A (super easy to set up) rsync on IPhone that can "see" the itunes music folder would be a huge boon and likely change the world for the better!

New comment by sammyo in "My Dream Thermostat"

sammyo — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:12:56 +0000

Just want to turn it on a half hour from arriving home.

New comment by sammyo in "Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails"

sammyo — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:44:19 +0000

I sent in a report sending bikes through a highway tunnel in Boston, took six months but received a message they made the correction.

New comment by sammyo in "Why Google Search Is Falling Apart [video]"

sammyo — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:01:50 +0000

Soo essenially eaten by MBA's?

New comment by sammyo in "The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out"

sammyo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:31:46 +0000

One actual researcher mentioned good habits will get anyone into their 80's but everyone tested over 105 has most of 100 certain genes. Really old age may be genetic.

New comment by sammyo in "The life of two Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck indefinitely in space"

sammyo — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 01:25:10 +0000

Noticed a comment in /r/spacex from a reliable poster that there are very quiet ongoing discussions between NASA and Spacex.

New comment by sammyo in "Is America approaching peak tip?"

sammyo — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:35:45 +0000

A big percentage of ticket price goes directly to the studio/distributor, perhaps the entire fee stays with the theater.

New comment by sammyo in "How the 'queen of thieves' conned French riviera wealthy (2021)"

sammyo — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:14:37 +0000

It was altered from the original to allow a Chinese mainland release.

New comment by sammyo in "How did people deal with punch cards?"

sammyo — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:52:39 +0000

So much better than paper tape! My first adventure was on a PDP-8 that had a paper tape reader that was great but really slow even for that time. So a job with a real card reader that ran through a deck in seconds was cool.

(And I almost got to take a 360/30 front console until some company bought it for scrap. So many flashing lights and dials, I figured I could drive them with a Z80)

New comment by sammyo in "How to stop the “login with Google” pop up window?"

sammyo — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:59:52 +0000

882

New comment by sammyo in "Is math real?"

sammyo — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:32:57 +0000

Math is the map. The map is not the territory, yet incredibly useful.

New comment by sammyo in "Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits"

sammyo — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:27:21 +0000

There is a couple blocks of these houses near me (near Boston) that seemed like normal small homes. Did not realize until someone mentioned at a party that they lived in a Sears house.

New comment by sammyo in "Tildes.net – a non-profit, open-source, text-focused Reddit alternative"

sammyo — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:23:35 +0000

Yes please.