Hacker News: wkjagt

New comment by wkjagt in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

wkjagt — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:08:48 +0000

Oh nice, very cool. Thanks!

New comment by wkjagt in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

wkjagt — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:33:43 +0000

Do you think you'd be able to find this post (assuming it's still up)? Would love to see it.

New comment by wkjagt in "Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform"

wkjagt — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:50:48 +0000

I'm fixing up a 1981 Volvo 240. It would be wonderful if it could replace my EV one day.

New comment by wkjagt in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

wkjagt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:17:21 +0000

I used to adjust exposure a lot on phones like the iPhone 5s, so I would, for example, get the highlights exposed properly and have the rest be nice and dark. Can't do that anymore, or not as well at least, because my modern phone will bring those shadows back to make it all even. I really miss those older phone cameras.

New comment by wkjagt in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

wkjagt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:13:49 +0000

I miss non-computational phone cameras. I remember really enjoying the camera in my iPhone 5s.

New comment by wkjagt in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

wkjagt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:09:42 +0000

When I come home in my car, sometimes my daughter's phone (who's already at home) will connect to my car, and her music will stop in her headphones, and I get K-Pop. What a time to be alive.

New comment by wkjagt in "Pixel Watch 5"

wkjagt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:58:56 +0000

I have been wearing my Casio F91W for so long I can't even remember buying it, and I'm not even a power user of this watch (never use the alarm or stop watch). I wouldn't even know what to do with a smart watch. I'm sure people do more with their smart watches but I have a hard time imagining they actually do a lot with them. Unless I've really been living under a rock?

New comment by wkjagt in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

wkjagt — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:52:47 +0000

I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the money that's put into circumventing ad blockers isn't really generating more sales.

It's like a door to door sales person thinking that if only they could find a way to unlock my door I would buy their stuff.

New comment by wkjagt in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

wkjagt — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:11:26 +0000

I have a 1981 Volvo 244 and I'm very happy none of the hoses are hidden.

New comment by wkjagt in "Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day"

wkjagt — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:26:44 +0000

At some point I almost bought a Framework laptop, just didn't click the Order button. I had my address etc already filled in, so because of that I also got that email from Framework this morning. From a technical perspective I guess it makes sense that Metabase has my personal information, but it's still kind of crazy to think how much personal information you're sending "out there" just by, for example, checking a final price of a product including shipping.

New comment by wkjagt in "Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles"

wkjagt — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:49:26 +0000

I should look into how this affects my 1981 Volvo 244

New comment by wkjagt in "The Growing Compute Shortage"

wkjagt — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:47:16 +0000

You're probably right. On my 7th gen i7 with 16 GB, which should theoretically be plenty to check my email, GMail's web interface is very slow.

New comment by wkjagt in "The Growing Compute Shortage"

wkjagt — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:14:52 +0000

When gas prices went up in the 70s because of fuel shortage, smaller (more fuel efficient) cars became more popular to use less fuel to do the same thing. I wonder if the same will happen with compute, by making software more efficient, and do the same thing with less compute.

New comment by wkjagt in "LEDs’ potential to save our night skies"

wkjagt — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:49:07 +0000

I am Dutch but live in Canada, and when I visit family in The Netherlands, I always notice how much darker it gets during the night, even when my family lives in a larger town than me.

New comment by wkjagt in "Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated"

wkjagt — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:46:28 +0000

Same for me. And it's not even rational. Even if I know the information is good, I'm just so put off by it that I am unable to follow.

New comment by wkjagt in "Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated"

wkjagt — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:44:30 +0000

I recently bought a book I've been wanting to read at a thrift store. I almost didn't buy it because it was a later reprint with an uglier cover that now says "Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock".

New comment by wkjagt in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"

wkjagt — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:49:26 +0000

I kinda stopped doing CW (and ham radio altogether with that). I did quite a bit of POTA hunting but it became too repetitive. And I didn't find something that felt like a small enough step up from hunting. Activating parks felt like too big of a step up. I would love to be good enough to ragchew a bit but never found a path towards that skill that felt natural to me.

New comment by wkjagt in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

wkjagt — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:26:18 +0000

Steve Mould did a cool video on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtMTvsi-4Hw

New comment by wkjagt in "GPT-5.6"

wkjagt — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:38:44 +0000

I am on the side that says the farmer didn't plow the field. I guess you could say he took responsibility for it, which isn't the same thing. I guess a counter argument that some would make is that the farmer didn't plow the field if they didn't pull the plow themselves (or to a silly level: if they didn't plow the field with their bare hands). They just pressed the right pedals while sitting in the tractor. I am not sure I have a good argument either way, but a farmer plowing a field with a tractor is physically involved during the whole process, and it feels more fair for them to say that they plowed the field, for the simple fact they weren't doing anything else during the process other than constantly controlling the plowing machinery.

New comment by wkjagt in "GPT-5.6"

wkjagt — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:27:09 +0000

I just watched the video on their launch page and I am really not sure how I feel about it. On one side, it's cool that these people get to start businesses and stuff using ChatGPT (assuming these are true stories), but how much of the business is really them? And how much does this business rely on a chat bot always being present as a kind of know it all employee? Maybe I'm just being naive or old fashioned (haven't really used AI much), but seeing these two people who started a cereal business for example talking to their laptop as if they're talking to a human advisor makes me feel, I don't know, I find it creepy.

By the way, this isn't about their 5.6 version in particular I guess, it's just the first time I've looked at one of their videos.