Hacker News: skopje

New comment by skopje in "Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)"

skopje — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:23:00 +0000

did not know!

New comment by skopje in "Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)"

skopje — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:32:36 +0000

MA is master of art according to google. MSc seems right.

New comment by skopje in "Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)"

skopje — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:12:22 +0000

Very good to see all this in one short page!

New comment by skopje in "The internet is no longer a safe haven"

skopje — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:05:40 +0000

i think it has been a hard to host a site since about 2007. i stopped then because it is too much work to keep it safe. even worse now but it has always been extra work since search engines. maybe the OP is just getting older and wants to spend time with his kids and not play with nginx haha.

New comment by skopje in "The internet is no longer a safe haven"

skopje — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:05:09 +0000

sad but hosting static content like his site in a cloud would save him a headache. i know i know, "do it yourself" and all but if that is his path he knows the price. maybe i am wrong and do not understand the problem but it seems like he is asking for a headache.

edit: words

New comment by skopje in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

skopje — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:50:25 +0000

such a dumb name unless he wanted it.

New comment by skopje in "Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)"

skopje — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:58:17 +0000

I can read 6502 machine code raw hex. Now what. ;-)

New comment by skopje in "How Tube Amplifiers Work"

skopje — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:21:07 +0000

very good article! i am surprised how such simple circuit was used in the 5f1!

New comment by skopje in "My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi"

skopje — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:54:42 +0000

interesting! i tried to order some assembled boards and was told $200+ (US) for only ~20 smd parts.

New comment by skopje in "My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi"

skopje — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:23:22 +0000

>> The PCB was ordered from JLCPCB, where I opted to have most of the components pre-soldered.

very expensive, you are committed! :)

you should have gone Full Giertz and added a badd little robot arm that turn the pot.

esp32 are really nice: hundreds of code examples that do what you want without having to read too many pages. did you use ARDUINO IDE or idf.py SDK?

New comment by skopje in "The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022)"

skopje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:28:38 +0000

i think that was a summary of the article, which you can click on! haha!

New comment by skopje in "The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022)"

skopje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:28:09 +0000

using opencv for image diffs is common quick hack, but shadows will ruin this (bright sun all of a sudden), not to mention nonpigeons haha! hate to say it but yolo/ssd work good for this:

https://github.com/jpvoelz/pigeon-detector

New comment by skopje in "American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks"

skopje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:20:43 +0000

i tried to deal with sleeplessness by using multiple 5mg melatonin pills per night and it did nothing and made me fell gross. then my doctor said to cut 3 mg pills in half, and 1.5 mg worked far better than over-dosing myself! but he didn't tell me it was bad for me, but only i was taking TOO much of it.

New comment by skopje in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

skopje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:16:48 +0000

moslem naming is also not very different sometimes. lots of duplicate names like ahmed ahmed and mohammad mohammad. must be very frustrating! (it would be interesting to know how they manage it, since i do not know any of them personally.)

New comment by skopje in "Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]"

skopje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:07:37 +0000

i did not know these existed. very sick indeed.

New comment by skopje in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

skopje — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:09:04 +0000

Half the US cheers about this. I hope we do not get a world war to stop it.

New comment by skopje in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

skopje — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:32:29 +0000

users: more dots

btop: done

New comment by skopje in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

skopje — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:31:47 +0000

right? that is not gamification. there's no reward system to make one want progression, or addiction.

that said a enjoy looking at code for projects that are multi os so cheers for op.

New comment by skopje in "End of Japanese community"

skopje — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:47:08 +0000

Oh I see what you mean. I think of that as "one time setup" that any software needs, and not a bellyache.

New comment by skopje in "Blue Prince (1989)"

skopje — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:10:02 +0000

5.25 floppies also taste better.