Hacker News: xythobuz

New comment by xythobuz in "Web dev is still fun if you want it to be"

xythobuz — Sat, 31 May 2025 14:49:36 +0000

That was a very fun read. Thank you.

New comment by xythobuz in "Have I Been Pwned 2.0"

xythobuz — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:34:43 +0000

Then these people _obviously_ are not fit to drive a multi-ton killing machine at all and should have their license permanently revoked, when they had multiple chances for introspection.

New comment by xythobuz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)"

xythobuz — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:33:03 +0000

  Location: Germany (South)
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Website / Portfolio: https://www.xythobuz.de
  Technologies: Embedded development with a strong Linux/Unix background. C, Python, Shell, ARM assembly.
  Résumé/CV: Please request by email
  Email: thomas@xythobuz.de

10 years of industry experience in embedded software development, from low-level (motor control, sensors, robotics) to high-level (network hardware), on ARM, AVR and MIPS platforms. BSc in applied information engineering. Always looking for new opportunities.

New comment by xythobuz in "Why is printer ink so expensive?"

xythobuz — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:35:14 +0000

Sure. The prints fade quickly, especially in the sun. And they are susceptible to heat, rubbing your fingernail along is enough friction heating to cause a black line. So they are not all that usable for something more permanent than a burger receipt.

New comment by xythobuz in "Smart Meter Bridge – Xythobuz.de"

xythobuz — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:03:02 +0000

Huh. Never heard of it. But after quickly reading up on it, I'm kinda happy that my meter does not have that. Seems a bit overengineered. But that's to be expected from our DE/EU standards organizations, I guess. My meter has been installed around two years ago.

New comment by xythobuz in "Smart Meter Bridge – Xythobuz.de"

xythobuz — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:16:12 +0000

Author here. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them :)

New comment by xythobuz in "The Secret Life of XY Monitors (2001)"

xythobuz — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:41:05 +0000

I just want to mention Oscilloscope Music [1]. You can find other artists on YouTube. It can be played on analog oscilloscopes with an XY mode. I also recently made a little player with a Raspberry Pi [2].

[1]: https://oscilloscopemusic.com/

[2]: https://www.xythobuz.de/osci_music_player.html

New comment by xythobuz in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

xythobuz — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:56:59 +0000

https://www.xythobuz.de/

New comment by xythobuz in "Show HN: I built a custom USB Trackball"

xythobuz — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:45:00 +0000

Awesome project!

Yes, I've also thought about mounting the switches vertically. And more surface should also provide more grip on the table.

New comment by xythobuz in "Show HN: I built a custom USB Trackball"

xythobuz — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:42:49 +0000

Interesting, I did not think about the possibility of moving the sensor to another position. But it makes sense. The Logitech Trackballs I've seen also have a slight offset that could be in the ballpark of 20 degrees.

I will have to do some further experimentation. Thanks!

Show HN: I built a custom USB Trackball

xythobuz — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xythobuz.de/trackball_v1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34833098

Points: 126

# Comments: 19

New comment by xythobuz in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

xythobuz — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:18:49 +0000

https://www.xythobuz.de

I don't have anything fancy to show, so here's a link to my personal website with all my projects.

New comment by xythobuz in "Survey: Help us design a VNA for hobbyists and professional users"

xythobuz — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:39:44 +0000

Do you use Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) on the job or for fun? If so, we would like to invite you to participate in our survey.

We are a team of young engineers and want to further develop an open VNA. By participating in our survey you help us to get a first impression about the market requirements.

You can participate via this link: https://survey.feldlabor.eu/index.php/714679

The survey will take between 3 and 5 minutes.

Survey: Help us design a VNA for hobbyists and professional users

xythobuz — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:39:20 +0000

Article URL: https://survey.feldlabor.eu/index.php/714679

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30857576

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by xythobuz in "Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)"

xythobuz — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:27:18 +0000

In Germany eating raw minced pork is a specialty called "Mett". There are high safety standards and it is only allowed to be sold on the day of production, with care taken not to interrupt cooling, for example. It is generally considered very safe. Source: am German, eating it often.

New comment by xythobuz in "Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times"

xythobuz — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:26:49 +0000

that's really just physics. warm air gets in through the opened door, after closing it rapidly cools down, because air does not hold that much heat energy. Because it cools it contracts, which reduces the pressure inside the freezer, causing the outside air pressure to hold the door shut more firmly.

No electromagnets or anything.

New comment by xythobuz in "Why Johnny Won't Upgrade"

xythobuz — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:40:16 +0000

The Xbox 360 for example used these fuses in the CPU to prevent downgrades [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eFUSE

New comment by xythobuz in "Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser"

xythobuz — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 22:00:38 +0000

I think you can, it has a native Mac port on Steam.

New comment by xythobuz in "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs"

xythobuz — Sat, 16 May 2020 23:48:19 +0000

This blog post [1] has at least two anecdotal examples. Also see the corresponding HN discussion [2].

[1]: http://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-i...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135

New comment by xythobuz in "Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate"

xythobuz — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:17:05 +0000

They would need to MITM you somewhere, but that could probably happen in their audio driver that's already installed and running on the target machine.