Hacker News: tekchip

New comment by tekchip in "Microduck"

tekchip — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:55:13 +0000

I've tried a few small robot kits and every single one fails the moment it reaches even moderately deep carpet. Either the size of motion doesn't clear the carpet or the motors aren't strong enough to deal with it. The living room is a small robots sand trap. Couldn't help but notice precious little carpet in any of the promo material. What's the point of a robot buddy if you cant play with it in the living room?

New comment by tekchip in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

tekchip — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:26:23 +0000

By that insane logic a digital copy isnt a copy. So a digital copy of a bluray isnt a copy either. I guess piracy isnt piracy as long as i destroy the original. Sweet! Are we finally seeing the "lets treat digital as if corporial" concept crumbling?

New comment by tekchip in "Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform"

tekchip — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:39:54 +0000

Is this moderated in some way? It is the internet. Hard to see how this doesn't fill with doodles of penises and other similar things or worse.

New comment by tekchip in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

tekchip — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:08:05 +0000

You're spot on. Software is infinitely flexible provided time and/or resources.

New comment by tekchip in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

tekchip — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:30:44 +0000

So much this. Discord UI was for simple voice and text chat. Over time it's had so many other things shoe horned in its now a royal kludge.

New comment by tekchip in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

tekchip — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:56:52 +0000

The act of "allowing“ negates the “without your approval“. You see the failure in the logic here I hope.

New comment by tekchip in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

tekchip — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:18:00 +0000

Almost none of the discussion here accounts for time and growth. Almost all of us have had that moment where someone "argued" with us over something we were wrong about and unwilling to change at the time. Then later we have that aha! moment where we've let the ego go, changed, or simply realized the poor outcome they were trying to warn us of. Being right doesn't mean right now. Checking your ego means stating your cade, making the truth, or rightness visible, and then moving on to allow that person to find their way back to what you e given them. And, as many have pointed out if the ego is checked then you're also already primed to be wrong, and learn something yourself. Even if it means later when you've had time to digest it.

New comment by tekchip in "Identity verification on Claude"

tekchip — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:40:27 +0000

Not just the government! techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/texas-government-data-breach-allowed-hackers-to-steal-3-million-drivers-licenses-and-passports/

New comment by tekchip in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

tekchip — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:39:56 +0000

IBM doesn't do technology they do contracts. Any "technology" is marketing stunts. They hire a bunch of "fellows" outside contractors to make a thing they can be first at or whatever, do the stunt, then get a bunch of 5-10 year contracts with customers off the stunt. They then fuck it up for that length of time but still get paid due to those contracts. After that space of time the folks theyve burned have moved on, rinse repeat. Pretty easy to look back at the timeline of "firsts" they have and see the pattern.

New comment by tekchip in "Your ePub Is fine"

tekchip — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:40:31 +0000

Also anyone who gave two shits about security hated it because it was a security nightmare. Don't leave a hater out.

New comment by tekchip in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

tekchip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:06:55 +0000

"From £64,189 p.a. depending on skills and experience"

I maintained a collection of well organized rocks as a child. Surely that gets me a bit more than base pay right?

New comment by tekchip in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

tekchip — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:34 +0000

There are still individuals, who make up the company, who have to read and try to formulate responses to said abusive behavior. It's usually the lower paid support staff not the engineers or C suite who have those duties. As one of those people I can confirm it absolutely takes a toll.

New comment by tekchip in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

tekchip — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:56:02 +0000

The replies here are horrifying. Yes corporations are not people. But they are made up of people. I'd imagine most here work in them yourselves. Often less well paid support staff who have to read, and try to respond, to such terrible behavior. As one of those support people myself I can assure you it takes a toll.

New comment by tekchip in "MCP Hello Page"

tekchip — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:26:00 +0000

I call this "dev think". Blames user for not thinking ahead when they themselves haven't thought ahead about how users use things. It's everywhere these days, as an end user of things myself, it's maddening.

New comment by tekchip in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

tekchip — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:25:44 +0000

If you setup meshtastic for the love of all that is holy reindex your channels so the public channel is 1 instead of 0. Range tests default to 0. The public channel in my area is regularly spammed with range test and is useless for any meaningful "community" communication. Instructions https://youtu.be/egAZP4KKHNo?t=419&si=s9_ML-GWEaP_bz-W

This seems like a horrible default setting or configuration. Why public channel isn't separated from a sort of control channel for those kind of station keeping messages is kind of mind boggling.

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

tekchip — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:26:09 +0000

There's a whole lot of people who want software to do certain things but whos job isn't programming and life requirements don't allow the time for all the book reading, tutorial running, and practice to write useful code.

I'm a long time ops guy. I script, but I spend most of my time configuring, patch testing, and keeping the low level infra running much of which doesn't require "coding" per say. Infra as code is in the grand scheme relatively new and still not ubiquitous despite what silicon valley would have you believe. I never had a need to learn to code to a level to do many of the things I'd like to see happen and find useful. Now I can make those software desires a reality without having to alter my career, preferred hobbies, or much of anything else about my life.

New comment by tekchip in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

tekchip — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:51:00 +0000

Edge cases? There's a long history of brand new triple A games running poorly or not at all on Windows. Evstablished games have plenty of problems. There are millions on millions of support pages, forums, and the deep dark recesses of discord stacked with Windows gaming problems. Just because some folks don't have problems with Windows doesn't mean the problems don't exist. The windows user base is so vast it's easy to think there's no problem just because an individual doesn't see it in their little corner of the world.

New comment by tekchip in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

tekchip — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:53:07 +0000

This! It blows my mind every bank doesn't have a sort of scripting language of some sort that let's me automate whatever I want to happen. I've seen a few services that supposedly enable this but their prone to breakage, don't support one bank or another, or are simply way too expensive.

New comment by tekchip in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

tekchip — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:21:49 +0000

For every purchase you make as a gateway there's a vendor account on the other end receiving that money and required to do accounting with it (like issuing refunds) which requires keeping a balance. These are the people having big problems when their account gets locked and their funds are no longer available. The blow back does potentially effect you if you return an item and then the vendor can't issue the refund because the account is locked.

New comment by tekchip in "Steam Machine"

tekchip — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:51:07 +0000

I think they think that's converted by streaming unfortunately.