Hacker News: threemux

New comment by threemux in "Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]"

threemux — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:58:20 +0000

It's a great day every time one of these hits the RSS reader. Great work as always Paged Out team!

New comment by threemux in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

threemux — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:06:41 +0000

There is no realistic path to a veto-proof majority for Democrats in the midterm elections. If there was, Trump would be impeached and removed before EVs were addressed.

Don't expect any movement on EV legislation unless and until Democrats take back the White House in 2028

New comment by threemux in "Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly"

threemux — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:51:37 +0000

Very cool! Would this work with Cloudflare Workers potentially?

New comment by threemux in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

threemux — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:47:51 +0000

In person, proctored blue book exams are back! Sharpen those pencils kids.

I've been wondering lately if one of the good things to come out of heavy LLM use will be a return to mostly in-person interactions once nothing that happens online is trustworthy anymore.

New comment by threemux in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

threemux — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:38:39 +0000

I mean it's mathematically a tighter range. I think part of this comes down to the more mild and less variable European climate. There is just less emphasis on air temperature so you don't see the drawbacks.

Your tape measure didn't have 1/3, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and 1/32 subdivisions? Sounds like a bad tape measure (or really just one where US Customary was an afterthought).

As for science, well, most people don't do it. Those that do can use different things in different contexts, it's not that hard.

New comment by threemux in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

threemux — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:06:25 +0000

I'd part with cups and teaspoons/tablespoons and the like, but you'll pry inches/feet/yards and fahrenheit from my cold, dead hands. They're both more convenient for daily use. I think I'd prefer to keep miles as well but I don't have a good reason for that one.

Fahrenheit has more precision without using decimals for the thing 99% of people are using temperature measurements for: air temp. Where I live, we generally experience 5 degrees F - 100 degrees F at different points of the year. That's 95 degrees of precision with no decimal. In C, that's -15 to 37.8, a mere 52.8 degrees. The difference between 75 (usually a beautiful day) and 85 (hot) is 23.8C to 29.4C. Everything packed into this tight range.

Inches/feet being base 12 divides better into thirds and fourths, which is very useful in construction.

For science, sure, I'll use metric.

New comment by threemux in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

threemux — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:40:14 +0000

He seems to quite like Keir Starmer and Meloni.

New comment by threemux in "DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship"

threemux — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:50:41 +0000

I can't speak to any original purpose of the act, but Real IDs in practice have never guaranteed a person currently has legal status. It is not even enough on its own to demonstrate the ability to legally work (see form I-9).

If you want to quickly prove citizenship, a passport is what you need.

New comment by threemux in "My First Meshtastic Network"

threemux — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:07:37 +0000

This is also a fair response, however I'd argue that the current architecture, far from supporting hundreds or thousands, won't even support dozens in a small area with meaningful traffic being exchanged (e.g., not just heartbeats and routing data). The solutions exist and no revolutionary approach is needed. That's the crux of the complaints.

Now, for the hobbyist these solutions are harder to implement and that's not nothing, but I don't even see a movement to switch over to something more robust.

New comment by threemux in "My First Meshtastic Network"

threemux — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:12:08 +0000

As I understand it, the section on "what not to do" features many things that Meshtastic does, though it does not say that explicitly. Perhaps the linked post wasn't clear to non hams (it is a newsletter targeted at hams), but the biggest issue is not flood routing, but using the same channel for networking and user access. It, by definition, cannot scale meaningfully. Many commercial networks solve this with either FDMA or TDMA.

Elsewhere in the newsletter, the author advocates for a form of FDMA, where users operate on different, dynamically allocated frequencies and all of them are received at once. P25 trunked radios used by almost all law enforcement in the US operate on a system like this.

I think the vitriol from those who are in the space either professionally or as an amateur comes from the fact Meshtastic is repeating mistakes we knew about in the 80s at the latest, for which reams if literature freely exists.

New comment by threemux in "More dynamic cronjobs"

threemux — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:57:10 +0000

Embedding a test like that is something I've never considered - very cool.

These days I tend to use systemd timers on Linux though. Despite my love/hate relationship with systemd, timers and service files are really nice.

New comment by threemux in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

threemux — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:29:58 +0000

Oh please. "The law" is a Kafkaesque patchwork that delegates authority to local officials and has enough complexity and wiggle room to make anything possible. We're not talking about a speed limit sign here. Show me the [company], I'll show you the crime.

I've been assured by people in this thread and others that, for example, if you "don't spy on users", you don't need cookie banners, and yet official EU sites have them.

New comment by threemux in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

threemux — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:08:20 +0000

It's the EU way. The only area where they produce world-leading innovation is regulatory regimes, so gotta use it to hit up American tech companies like an ATM.

New comment by threemux in "NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models"

threemux — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:08:00 +0000

This jumped out at me as well - very interesting that it actually reduces necessary compute in this instance

New comment by threemux in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

threemux — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:36:06 +0000

There's state-level law saying it's illegal to own or read some books on this list? Or just that it's illegal for school libraries to stock it and/or include it in curricula?

New comment by threemux in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

threemux — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:40:28 +0000

Many of the ills currently befalling the US can be traced to the New Deal era. Including, of course, an HN favorite: our system of employer-sponsored health insurance.

New comment by threemux in "Go's Sweet 16"

threemux — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:09:03 +0000

I use Go every day at work and it's still the first thing I reach for when completing personal projects. It gets better every year. Keep up the good work Go team!

New comment by threemux in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

threemux — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:31:33 +0000

In the US, some have failed, some have worked. In my home state of Maryland, the PPP (P3) for redeveloping the Travel Plazas along I-95 is often cited as a success story and they are indeed widely considered top notch rest stops. It's a small-ish thing, but it did work.

https://mdta.maryland.gov/Partnerships/tp3Overview.html

I don't know enough to say if Seagirt is considered a success but I do know Baltimore's port does very well. The Purple Line is/was a failure.

New comment by threemux in "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"

threemux — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:53:29 +0000

Hi there - love Dillo. I use it on NetBSD and it works great. Once you're off GitHub will there be a way to get notified of releases? I use GitHub's RSS feeds for that now.

New comment by threemux in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

threemux — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:46:05 +0000

In the end, only NetBSD will be standing in the breach after anything not x64 or ARMv8+ is declared "retro computing".