Hacker News: xd1936

New comment by xd1936 in "Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger"

xd1936 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:05:12 +0000

I think it's evoking "this little smiley face guy on a small monochrome screen", and not implying interactivity.

New comment by xd1936 in "Telegram Serverless"

xd1936 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:05 +0000

Thinking about using this to run my Plex server

New comment by xd1936 in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

xd1936 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Same, for my English-only podcast

New comment by xd1936 in "Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM"

xd1936 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:53:38 +0000

https://stopcitingai.com

New comment by xd1936 in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

xd1936 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:42:26 +0000

Except for an up-to-16% reduction in capacity, and slightly increased weight, depending on the product.

New comment by xd1936 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

xd1936 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:00:51 +0000

Apple does not currently sell a Mac Mini with 64GB RAM.

New comment by xd1936 in "Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter"

xd1936 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:48:42 +0000

I like that the second image filename is slop_2.png. At least they're self-aware.

New comment by xd1936 in "Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter"

xd1936 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:33:01 +0000

stopcitingai.com. Been trying to say this as much as possible.

New comment by xd1936 in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

xd1936 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:20:16 +0000

It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.

New comment by xd1936 in "Is Fable 5 Back?"

xd1936 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:38:37 +0000

https://doihavejavascriptenabled.com

New comment by xd1936 in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

xd1936 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:19:53 +0000

It's not just no tracking — It's no surprises.

New comment by xd1936 in "macOS Container Machines"

xd1936 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:24:27 +0000

This is hilarious. Next year, the PC gamers will be saying "The best Windows gaming experience is win32 on Linux on macOS Containers".

New comment by xd1936 in "Surface RTX Spark Dev Box"

xd1936 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:53:03 +0000

microsoft.com/devbox

New comment by xd1936 in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

xd1936 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:52:31 +0000

Nor f.lux, the warm light software that got Sherlocked by every major OS.

https://justgetflux.com/

New comment by xd1936 in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

xd1936 — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:14:59 +0000

Sure, corporations would _never_ get into the real estate market...

New comment by xd1936 in "Googlebook"

xd1936 — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:21:41 +0000

They have several.

https://blog.google

https://ai.google

https://about.google

https://environment.google

https://safety.google

and a few others

New comment by xd1936 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

xd1936 — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:40:34 +0000

Could I use Cloudflare's free nameservers instead of Amazon Lightsail?

New comment by xd1936 in "Googlebook"

xd1936 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:18:24 +0000

Running Android, not Gentoo.

New comment by xd1936 in "Googlebook"

xd1936 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:00 +0000

They weren't feeling "book.google"?

New comment by xd1936 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

xd1936 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:24:10 +0000

I do this occasionally, but am fine with using Bambu's integrated Slicer and Remote Control software. It works well enough.