Hacker News: urba_

New comment by urba_ in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

urba_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:33:08 +0000

I consider them competitors… This reminds me of Microsoft in 1997 investing $150 million in Apple, saving it from near bankruptcy

New comment by urba_ in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

urba_ — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:55:14 +0000

I love this! I learned my first logic with Crocodile Clips: would simulate and solder a lot of D flip flop based logic before learning about microcontrollers (my first was Atmel AT90S2313)

New comment by urba_ in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

urba_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:32:52 +0000

I don’t trust Espressif’s releases, I am still waiting for ESP32-P4 to hit distributors. It is now more than 2 years and 3rd chip revision

New comment by urba_ in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

urba_ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:03:47 +0000

Me and my family still cannot believe that I bought a Macbook this week.

I used Windows since Windows 95 (back in '96, I was 5 years old).

But still having regular blue screens come back with Windows 11..

I am better off selling my 64GB of RAM, than Windows Defender eating a third of it at random times

New comment by urba_ in "Can I run AI locally?"

urba_ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:25:32 +0000

Man, I wonder when there will be AI server farms made from iCloud locked jailbroken iPhone 16s with backported MacOS

New comment by urba_ in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

urba_ — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:51:01 +0000

I once worked on a problem: GPS tracking shipping containers, since one company had almost 1% lost/stolen each year. I had an idea of using AIS with Si4362 to get positioning data from the container ship itself, but it was nearly impossible to get access to reefer monitoring systems. We ended up just using 4G NB-IoT for coastal tracking and it did solve the problem