Hacker News: vkdelta

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO (2024)

vkdelta — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:38:40 +0000

Article URL: https://danluu.com/ballmer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881560

Points: 1

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Appeal San Francisco property taxes Python script

vkdelta — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/sf-appeal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254090

Points: 2

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New comment by vkdelta in "Texas Instruments to Acquire Silicon Labs"

vkdelta — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:50:38 +0000

Lot of Ultra low power options at Silicon Labs on BLE and Wi-Fi and add that with high market share on 15.4 (zigbee, thread) and Zwave.

Last acquisition TI did was NationalSemi in 2011, so this was a natural step for them to grow into MCUs, wireless, etc

Ask HN: Career pivot from wireless/HW to next paradigm – robotics, AV or –?

vkdelta — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:21:49 +0000

I've spent my career in wireless and hardware with some software exposure (though I dont do it myself), but I've missed the AI wave and lack some of the hard skills that are now table stakes.

Looking at 2026, it seems like we're at an inflection point similar to when cloud/mobile were emerging. Physical AI, robotics, agentic systems, and autonomous vehicles keep coming up, but I'm trying to separate hype from genuine opportunity.

For those who've made similar pivots or are working in these emerging areas:

1) What domains do you see as the next real paradigm shift (not just incremental)?

2) Which specific areas have the best balance of genuine technical challenge vs. accessible entry points for someone with hardware/wireless background?

3) What companies or startups are doing truly differentiated work (not just applying LLMs to existing problems)?

4) Are there adjacent areas I'm not considering that leverage hardware expertise in new ways?

Particularly interested in hearing from folks at smaller companies or startups where the work is less incremental. Also curious if wireless/hardware experience is actually valuable in any of these domains or if it's basically starting from scratch.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966274

Points: 1

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A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup

vkdelta — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:03:54 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2023/04/a-two-minute-burnout-checkup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491631

Points: 4

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'How to do great work' by Paul Graham mapped out

vkdelta — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:03:12 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@apifirst/note/c-59220709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491627

Points: 6

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Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I'd Known Earlier

vkdelta — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://ryanholiday.net/37-pieces-of-career-advice-i-wish-id-known-earlier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491504

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by vkdelta in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

vkdelta — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:02:37 +0000

What use-cases do you think it would help on esp32?

New comment by vkdelta in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

vkdelta — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:50:55 +0000

Apple likely captures similar info but it is just they don’t sell the data but use exclusively for themselves.

New comment by vkdelta in "Yamada to sell 'human washing machine' after expo popularity"

vkdelta — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:22:50 +0000

And that too takes 15mins!

Radia Perlman (Mother of Internet) and Inventor of Spanning Tree Protocol

vkdelta — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/radia-perlman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115561

Points: 1

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New comment by vkdelta in "Wake-on-LAN Using Cloud Functions"

vkdelta — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:20:46 +0000

Can same be done for WoW(Wake on Wi-Fi)?

New comment by vkdelta in "Getting ready to issue IP address certificates"

vkdelta — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:03:37 +0000

Does it help getting encrypted https (without self signed cert error) on my local router ? 192.168.0.1 being an example login page.

TV Garden

vkdelta — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://tv.garden/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524461

Points: 789

# Comments: 126

New comment by vkdelta in "OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt"

vkdelta — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 02:50:10 +0000

Would other SoC suppliers ( Qualcomm, Broadcom) embrace it?

New comment by vkdelta in "1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations"

vkdelta — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:54:13 +0000

Is there a way to get source files? To do similar layouts in excel or PowerPoint?

New comment by vkdelta in "A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi's reliability"

vkdelta — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:43:50 +0000

WiMAX has been dead for more than a decade now. Pretty rest of the spectrum is allocated to licensees for cellular/LTE/5G and other military applications.

New comment by vkdelta in "Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away"

vkdelta — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:55:36 +0000

American libraries could have benefited from these machines to dispense educational or entertainment CDs/DVDs. Today they store them on shelves.

New comment by vkdelta in "TP-Link GPL Code Center"

vkdelta — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:57:30 +0000

Most of these FWs will not be able run on the device due to secure boot requirement

What to Do with Your Life

vkdelta — Fri, 31 May 2024 23:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.julian.com/blog/life-planning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541502

Points: 1

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