Hacker News: tbyehl

New comment by tbyehl in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

tbyehl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:39:23 +0000

I don't know any of the players but I'd bet they're licensed amateur radio operators.

New comment by tbyehl in "Not buying another Kindle"

tbyehl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:55:56 +0000

I'm not buying another Kindle until there's a successor to the Voyage's "Limited Edition Premium Leather Origami Cover." If a competitor wants to lure me over, that is the way.

New comment by tbyehl in "Every GPU That Mattered"

tbyehl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:48:10 +0000

For a moment, a Matrox G400 DualHead was THE card to have for a multi-monitor setup.

New comment by tbyehl in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

tbyehl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:44:05 +0000

Where's the A310 / A40 successor? Gimme some SR-IOV in a slot-powered, single-width, low-profile card.

New comment by tbyehl in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

tbyehl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:05:52 +0000

> It's almost never about directly handing money to a politician. That's illegal

According to SCOTUS in Snyder v. United States, if the payment occurs after the official act, it's a perfectly legal "gratuity."

New comment by tbyehl in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

tbyehl — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000

For Americans, QVC and Target regularly have the BLU Flex or TCL Flip 3 bundled with a year of Tracfone service for $50 or less.

New comment by tbyehl in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

tbyehl — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:06:08 +0000

The Revolutionary War.

New comment by tbyehl in "Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit"

tbyehl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:40:15 +0000

Nonono, despite my outward white appearance, I follow the sage wisdom of Chris Rock[0]. It's so I have enough advance notice to blast "Fuck the Fire Department" so we can share a nice laugh at the historic rivalry between LE / FD.

[0] How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

New comment by tbyehl in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

tbyehl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:40:41 +0000

It really doesn't, there are lawful reasons to not have a plate yet.

New comment by tbyehl in "Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit"

tbyehl — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:48:52 +0000

"Needed tens of dollars of rental compute" isn't much of a moat to get acquired instead of copied.

I loath Waze. Its idea of shortcuts are terrible, its search routinely suggests things hundreds of mile away ahead of the match that's nearby, and sometimes I go through an area of intermittent service where it just decides to stop routing without giving a heads-up.

But Waze is so much better at accurately alerting me to police than my Valentine 1 was that I never even bothered mounting it in my latest car. Google supposedly integrates that data for years now but every time I try it comes up short. Google and Apple Maps are better in every other way, but for me at least, that one feature of Waze is a massive moat.

New comment by tbyehl in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

tbyehl — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:06:38 +0000

They have a spicy ketchup product that I liked, tho it has disappeared from my local stores. At the time I first noticed it at the store it was the hottest one that also matched the thick consistency I expect from ketchup.

New comment by tbyehl in "My Homelab Setup"

tbyehl — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:36:14 +0000

Not to diminish having names for everything but that just shifts the Bitwarden problem to "All of my services share the same base domain."

New comment by tbyehl in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

tbyehl — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:48:19 +0000

"IHOP Transgression" cracked me up. There's a restaurant in my town that does the same thing and I hate them for that reason. And like IHOP, what they call an omelette is actually a frittata.

New comment by tbyehl in "Evolution of car door handles over the decades"

tbyehl — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:28:50 +0000

The 5mph bumper impact standard was, as you've pointed out, not a safety regulation.

Automatic shoulder belts being annoying is irrelevant. The dozen-ish explosive, expanding gas sacks in my car are kinda frightening. Both originated with a regulation requiring passive restraint systems to reduce collision injury/death.

New comment by tbyehl in "Evolution of car door handles over the decades"

tbyehl — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:00:16 +0000

Every safety regulation is written in blood.

That particular blood was probably people stopped at night with the trunk open to access a spare tire or tools. And then there was more blood because sometimes those people forget to leave their lights on, or their lights don't function because the battery has died, so we got more regulation requiring ugly reflectors.

And so on.

New comment by tbyehl in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

tbyehl — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:39:52 +0000

> Using LE to apply SSL to services? Complicated.

https://github.com/JessThrysoee/synology-letsencrypt

> there is very little one can do with this thing.

It has a VMM and Docker. Entware / opkg exist for it. There's very little that can't be done, but expecting to use an appliance that happens to be Linux-based as a generic Linux server is going to lead to challenges. Be it Synology, TrueNAS, or anything else.

New comment by tbyehl in "Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?"

tbyehl — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:23:21 +0000

Sorry, I thought your contention was that nobody is forcing me to consume AI BS content.

New comment by tbyehl in "Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?"

tbyehl — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:27:45 +0000

> just turn it off if you don't like it.

How? Or do you mean, like, stop using the Internet entirely?

New comment by tbyehl in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

tbyehl — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:52:25 +0000

It's so much worse for poultry. My state and the bordering states represent more than half of US production and there's exactly one USDA facility available to independent producers. They're quite small and the cost approaches today's retail price for a whole Tyson chicken.

There are USDA exemptions for tiny producers (up to 20K/yr vs 150K+ for a single modern broiler house) to slaughter and package themselves for in-state sales but anyone operating under one of those exemptions won't be able to grow that business large enough to self-finance constructing their own USDA-monitored facility.

New comment by tbyehl in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

tbyehl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:06:37 +0000

My favorite genre of post in r/homelab and r/selfhosted this past year has been "I used AI to set all this stuff up and something broke so I asked AI to fix it and now all my data is gone."

There are so many NAS + Curated App Catalog distros out there that make self-hosting trivial without needing to Vibe SysAdmin.