Hacker News: swaits

New comment by swaits in "Typst 0.15.0"

swaits — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:49:31 +0000

> Layout convergence issues now result in detailed diagnostics that help pin down the cause

Yes!

New comment by swaits in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

swaits — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:19:11 +0000

They missed it badly. Mostly under Jassy’s reign.

Look at it like this. They had millions of voice interface devices already sitting in some large percentage of (at least US) households.

And they squandered it. Extremely late to the LLM game. Even today the Alexa interface is ridiculously bad.

New comment by swaits in "WiFi Time"

swaits — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:52:51 +0000

Article fails to mention things like hardware time stamping, interleaved NTP, and PTP.

New comment by swaits in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

swaits — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:32:27 +0000

FW13 Pro is where it’s at.

New comment by swaits in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

swaits — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:05:29 +0000

RTO

New comment by swaits in "Flipper One – we need your help"

swaits — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:39:49 +0000

Here is an alternative that I think has real potential:

https://m5stack.com/cardputerzero

New comment by swaits in "What is a Demand Coop"

swaits — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:38:18 +0000

That’s not what this is. Nor do we need more of them.

New comment by swaits in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

swaits — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:15:29 +0000

You might like a project I’ve been having on. I’m having fun with it. https://donglora.com/

New comment by swaits in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

swaits — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:34:41 +0000

DECT is definitely neat. But it’s significantly different than LoRa. At the lowest/slowest modulation you might get single digit kilometers out of it.

Doesn’t change my excitement about it a bit though. Eager to get this onto my workbench!

New comment by swaits in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

swaits — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:44:19 +0000

Let’s throw good money after bad!!!

Brilliant.

New comment by swaits in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

swaits — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:57:20 +0000

Not much. While this is technically LoRa on 2.4GHz (which is not new), most people will associate LoRa with significantly longer range and LoRa 2.4 can do.

New comment by swaits in "A desktop made for one"

swaits — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:38:02 +0000

Who cares? It’s their content. If they hired an editor to help them, cool. If the content doesn’t suit you, move on.

But the incessant “AI was used here, thus is it garbage” is long past time to enter the grave.

New comment by swaits in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

swaits — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:56:26 +0000

This is the answer.

New comment by swaits in "Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows"

swaits — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:27:39 +0000

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New comment by swaits in "State of Kdenlive"

swaits — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:46:05 +0000

Comrade, thank you for correcting the record. The word "competitor" has been retired from the lexicon effective immediately. All FOSS developers are friends. All FOSS developers have always been friends. Anyone who remembers otherwise will be assisted by the Ministry of Love in recovering the correct memory.

New comment by swaits in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

swaits — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:47:05 +0000

> especially when it was once suggested that frequent use could imply neurodivergence

When you think folks have come up with every inventive way to pathologize a personality trait, they start gatekeeping punctuation. It’s the ultimate reach—turning a standard grammar tool into a "symptom" just to fuel the modern obsession with finding new ways to be a unique victim.

Suggesting that a horizontal line is a diagnostic "tell" for neurodivergence is peak internet brain-rot. It’s not a condition; it’s middle-school English. We’ve officially hit a level of performative absurdity where people are trying to claim clout through a keyboard stroke. It’s not a disability; it’s a stylistic choice.

New comment by swaits in "Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools"

swaits — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:07:26 +0000

Yes. I realized I should’ve clarified that and edited it into my comment in parallel with your comment.

New comment by swaits in "Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools"

swaits — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:05:20 +0000

Yes, indeed. I should’ve mentioned that in my comment.

New comment by swaits in "Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools"

swaits — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:01:13 +0000

Their solution is that you must read at a 3rd grade level in order to get promoted to 4th grade. It brought them from basically the worst State to the 30th percentile in reading for 4th graders.

So, common sense? If you’re requiring proficiency in order to promote, then I’d expect to see significantly better results than this.

It’s noteworthy that they’re still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math. Might take some time for these literate 4th graders to get up to 8th grade age.

I don’t think Alabama is a model for anything related to public education.

New comment by swaits in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

swaits — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:12:31 +0000

> What is it like in the US these days?

For the average American citizen, status quo.

For the scofflaws and illegal immigrants, the realization that accountability for their actions might be right around the corner must be unnerving.