Hacker News: stereo

New comment by stereo in "Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol"

stereo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:43:08 +0000

Nice hack! Would hosting controllers on individual IPv6 addresses on the same VM solve this too?

New comment by stereo in "US freezes visas for 75 nations"

stereo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:56:08 +0000

tl;dr: The full list of countries comprises of Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen

New comment by stereo in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

stereo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:10:41 +0000

Gps is free to use. Running your own gnss service requires an atomic clock and possibly separate transmission hardware, which is possible, but adds cost, volume, and weight.

According to [1], “[o]ne of the current generation of GPS satellites (Block III) weighs over 2,200 kg (4,850 lb), the weight of an average pickup truck. The body of these satellites are 1.8 m x 2.5 m x 3.4 m (5.9’ x 8.2’ x 11.2’) in size”. In comparison, “the current V2 Starlink satellite version weighs approximately 1,760 lbs (800 kilograms) at launch, almost three times heavier than the older generation satellites (weighing in at 573 lbs or 260 kg)” [2]

[1] https://novatel.com/an-introduction-to-gnss/basic-concepts/s... [2] https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html

New comment by stereo in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

stereo — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:50:34 +0000

Which dns server supports this kind of dynamic dns in practice?

New comment by stereo in "Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers"

stereo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:10:47 +0000

You mean a kvm switch?

New comment by stereo in "Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one"

stereo — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:06:26 +0000

The author is in Estonia. Appliances in the European Union have different energy standards and labels, and run on different voltages, so you don’t ever see Energy Star fridges there.

Estonia joined the EU in 2004, and I don’t know what the energy labelling on appliances was like before then.

New comment by stereo in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

stereo — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:52:54 +0000

For all we know, they could have filed radar issues with Apple months ago.

New comment by stereo in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

stereo — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:43:52 +0000

It's surprising and disappointing that Apple didn't catch a bug like this in QA. This affects popular apps, and many people will have at least one of these apps with outdated Electron frameworks.

New comment by stereo in "Ask HN: Is building a Google Maps alternative from scratch bad idea?"

stereo — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:06:54 +0000

What’s your specific use case? I would base it off OpenStreetMap as much as possible - building a whole map and keeping it up to date is a lot of work

New comment by stereo in "I hacked my washing machine"

stereo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:13:07 +0000

What’s the actual amperage of your dryer? A Sonoff Pow can take 20A. Add a fuse or breaker.

New comment by stereo in "Vibe Coding for Domain Experts"

stereo — Sun, 25 May 2025 19:19:00 +0000

(Or, how the author managed to release a better version of a Python package he maintains in a few hours)

Plus an example of vibe coding in teaching

Vibe Coding for Domain Experts

stereo — Sun, 25 May 2025 19:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://thescoop.org/archives/2025/05/24/vibe-coding-for-domain-experts/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090234

Points: 1

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New comment by stereo in "Show HN: Juvio – UV Kernel for Jupyter"

stereo — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:22:32 +0000

Has anyone compared juv, juvio and marimo?

New comment by stereo in "A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions"

stereo — Sat, 17 May 2025 10:03:59 +0000

You don’t need to nmap; instead head to http://homeassistant.local:8123

New comment by stereo in "PolyThink: A Multi-Agent AI System to Eliminate Hallucinations"

stereo — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:08:24 +0000

Isn’t this basically the Swiss cheese model? If your two input AIs hallucinate, or your consensus AI misunderstands the input, you will still have confabulations in the output?

New comment by stereo in "Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)"

stereo — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:14:46 +0000

On top of that, it looks like it would be relatively easy to spoof the cloud server and make the device believe that there is a firmware update available to then feed it esphome, a bit like the switchbota hack.

New comment by stereo in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

stereo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:24:46 +0000

There are libraries like `juv` that let you use uv in Jupyter. What I haven’t found yet is a nice and convenient way of running all that in vs code.

New comment by stereo in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

stereo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:32:31 +0000

I used to have a virtual environment for all little scrappy scripts, which would contain libraries I use often like requests, rich, or pandas. I now exclusively use this type of shebang and dependency declaration. It also makes runnings throwaway chatgpt scripts a lot easier, especially if you put PEP-723 instructions in your custom prompt.

New comment by stereo in "Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision"

stereo — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:58:03 +0000

Hi, thanks for replying! I was looking at your source code, and wondering how easy it would be to create a .osm file instead of uploading the data. The JOSM editor’s todo list plugin would make it easy to plough through all the polygons or centroids, and do any refinement necessary. For example, I’m curious to try this out to detect crosswalks, and those need to be glued to the highway being crossed.

New comment by stereo in "Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision"

stereo — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:59:58 +0000

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/163855992 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/163863954 are the ones I've reverted. There are more in daavoo's changeset history.