Hacker News: summner

New comment by summner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

summner — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:14:17 +0000

Too many things :tm: From Campaign Management CMS for an organization I'm part of. To various reverse engineering one offs.

Today I caused thermal runaway on a BLE thermal (sic!) printer. That melted half of its components together before I noticed. The fun fact is you can do that witouth authorizing, as long as printer is turned on "poof".

Now I'm trying to figure out a BT protocol if DJI Power station, so I can read and track its metrics.

I wrote an improved driver'ish for cheap 5G modem recently. I've been on the last 5% stretch for few months lol.

And I started reverse engineering my LandRover OBD/CAN stuff, so I have some data to publish for other hakers.

New comment by summner in "BYD's new EV, starting under $10K, is stoking fear among rivals"

summner — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:02:03 +0000

China is ruled by an autocrat who only listens to his yes men. This is a very suboptimal solution, to say the least. Every year this will become worse and worse as the autocrat gets more and more addicted to his own copium.

This is how it always happened in the past everywhere in the world, this is what is already happening there.

New comment by summner in "Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter"

summner — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 06:11:59 +0000

Sounds weirdly out of date.

In Poland in early 90ies your story could sound likely. Since then most places using central heating will bill you for "calories" consumed.

Since then a lot of investment went into insulation and replacing windows. I barely know anyone who doesn't have "new" windows, even in less affluent household, window replacement and insulation is a highly prioritized expense.

Actually it has caused some problems with too much humidity in the buildings.

I would assume baltic states are mostly similar since you folks are not swimming in free energy afaik too. So your case sounds like a bit weird outlier.

New comment by summner in "Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel"

summner — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:37:55 +0000

Actually not only that. It affected contact tracing, and people exposed to infected patients were not informed to self isolate. Possibly leading to extra spreading of the virus.

New comment by summner in "Antikythera Mechanism"

summner — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:21:31 +0000

On my recent vacations to Athens I visited National Archeological Museum where the Antikythera is displayed. I highly recomend seeing this device and its recreations live there.

Especially seeing the recontructioned devices gave me completely new perspective about ancient Greece.

New comment by summner in "Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea"

summner — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:34:31 +0000

But where do we boil water for "herba-ta"? In "Czajnik" (keetle), where root "czaj" most definately comes from "cha".

New comment by summner in "Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed"

summner — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:52:32 +0000

Miriam Shaded is not a notable speaker at conferences or universities. However, she is known for spreading hate, and anti-muslim propaganda.

She apparently re-posted threats she got on FaceBook from unidentified Muslim signed as 'Osama J'. Then Facebook took that down because it was reported as not appropriate content. Then the whole thing was spun through Polish right-wing internet to provoke outrage in its readers by showing that even half-Syrian is silenced when she tries to show how bad the Muslim (immigrants) really are.

She never followed through with raising criminal charges against the person supposedly making threats, he also wasn't identified other than the initials "Osama J".

The whole thing looked like a fabricated ploy to provoke outrage in the right wing internet.

Polish internet is sadly rife with anti-muslim propaganda, that's been spun to position the society against the EU and broadly speaking western values. You can see that for yourself if you use Google Translate and go to the frontpage of Polish version of Digg/Reddit called Wykop.pl

New comment by summner in "Introducing DGit"

summner — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:49:07 +0000

They've addressed that in the post. To make git work comfortably especially on bigger repositories you need to have fast local access to all blobs. IIRC with something like libgit2 its relatively easy to implement what you describe but to make that perform while doing git log or diffs is completely different story.