Hacker News: tmchu

New comment by tmchu in "Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'"

tmchu — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:20 +0000

yeah, it just give money to the other bunch of cranks who written unreviewed code to spy on you and everyone else, including the people who are being genocided.

New comment by tmchu in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

tmchu — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:15:22 +0000

Not sure if this will be answered here. But how is the repair-ability of these new pebble? I have the original pebble time steel and although it still run fine, the battery have degraded a lot without an easy way to replace them. Part of the appeal of traditional watches is that you can open them up yourself and fix them if needed. I don't see why Pebble have go glue everything together and make it so hard to repair.

New comment by tmchu in "Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition"

tmchu — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:06:18 +0000

"Yeah, but have you tried cleaning the house blind folded!!?" /s

New comment by tmchu in "SMS traffic pumping fraud"

tmchu — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:49:39 +0000

Need to yell this as loud as possible to the goddamn banking and healthcare industry face then. Cause those dinosaurs don't even let you have an online account without an SMS (and only SMS in most case) as a 2FA mechanism.

Just to shame a few out there right now: Chase, Fidelity, Bank of America, American Express, United Healthcare, Signa and many more.

New comment by tmchu in "When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies"

tmchu — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:19:16 +0000

Again, litigation and patent trolls are nothing new to the community. Claiming China in this case sounds like a crutch to wash off their own image after doing fishy thing themselves.

New comment by tmchu in "When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies"

tmchu — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:07:58 +0000

>It's a very, very sad story. It sounds like open-source hardware could have thrived if it weren't for China subsidizing local companies and enforcing bad IP claims for its domestic companies (which was really IP stolen from other countries but filed for patent first in China by Chinese companies).

Why is this China factor even a problem for open-source? The open source community have always been threaten by closed-source copycat. Even western companies also do that without much repercussion. The real threat is, as the article pointed out, the trend of `open source` companies going closed source because of profit motive.

New comment by tmchu in "BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board"

tmchu — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:28:03 +0000

Please excuse my ignorance here, but are you saying that the board makers have no say on what chip they want to incorporate into their board? And those chips firmware are not open or at least accessible to the board makers?

New comment by tmchu in "The Wild (and Slightly Terrifying) Future of Inescapable AR Ads"

tmchu — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:12:25 +0000

The trajectory seems toward exclusive AR apps is not that strong in my opinion. There are still billions of people out there without access to XR headset and have no incentive to spend upward of thousands of dollar for one yet.

We already have AR/VR (XR) being built into the current web (W3C webxr), and people building out Web based AR. Take a look at 8th Wall.

There will be a long transition period where webxr have the chance to shine and prevent the wall garden future of private apps.

New comment by tmchu in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

tmchu — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:27:34 +0000

The official stand of Reddit is you are not even allowed to sit passively as a mod. Here is how rule 4 worded

"...This involves regularly monitoring and addressing content in ModQueue and ModMail and, if possible, actively engaging with your community via posts, comments, and voting."

Intentional sabotage is the only option left at this point.

New comment by tmchu in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

tmchu — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:49:26 +0000

The T480 that I got is the worst laptop purchase I have done in years. The m2 port is not bolt in but you will need to buy an adapter if you want to install a second drive if your configuration is only 1 drive. The USB-C charging port had problem quickly after a year where it don't receive charge unless you put it in the JUST the right position and pray to god that it will keep charging. And the USB-C card is part of the mobo so you are looking at $700-800 mobo swap to fix the problem.

New comment by tmchu in "Purple dye extracted from sea snails made the Phoenicians rich traders (2020)"

tmchu — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:46:12 +0000

You would make good money by just peddling the bottle themselves for majority of history. Glassware, fine China and other vessels that can contain your dyes are not cheap before the industrial revolution.

New comment by tmchu in "Apple’s Independent Repair Provider program expands globally"

tmchu — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:59:26 +0000

There's nothing weird about it. Apple don't really want retail repair shop to be functional. The whole IRP is just a political move to avoid right to repair legal battles.

New comment by tmchu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)"

tmchu — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:39:08 +0000

  Location: Houston, TX, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, React.js, NodeJS, Pandas, numpy
  Résumé/CV: https://www.chuminhtri.dev/pdfs/resume-tri.pdf
  Email: tri@chuminhtri.dev
  
  About me: I am a fullstack developer for a start up company in Houston. Looking for full or part-time, remote if possible but I am willing to negotiate.