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0xPITon Mac Screen Recorder – 30 bucks. no subscription

What’s wrong with the built-in screen capture and recording features? (Command + Shift + 5)

0xPITon I wrote a custom CUDA inference engine to run Qwen3.5-27B on $130 mining cards

Link?

0xPITon In real-world test, AI model did better than ER doctors at diagnosing patients

I wonder when patients will start to require AI-confirmed diagnoses…

0xPITon The rise of one-pizza engineering teams

this is to note that those concepts talk about *family* pizzas, not regular, single person pizzas.

0xPITon Cow Tools

Cow tool use https://science.orf.at/stories/3233808/

0xPITon Office on HP-UX and Unix

Applixware created super clean PostScript. I used it a lot to create PS templates that my code would then merely complete.

0xPITon A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

I own some Fenders and Gibsons, but over the last couple of years, Harley Benton produces very good guitars that are very affordable.

I have one of their telecasters, and it’s on par with a squier or a cheap fender, provided that you get it set up properly.

When I got to that cheap telly, I initially had planned to replace the pick ups, but guess what, the stock pick ups are good actually.

For amps, that strongly depends on your personal taste, but usually you go used. For example, if you’re into metal, you can get Peavey ValveKings for low $, they just require a good speaker. There are also several cheap clones available. YouTube has you covered with demos.

Also, digital amps have become good enough, even those software only, for example GarageBand. You just need some audio interface.

0xPITon Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

This is basically what Data Detectors natively does in macOS, is it?

0xPITon Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch

It’s WOAOA basically

0xPITon Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe

Sounds like a cheap Risc V general purpose SBC with USB and video!

0xPITon Reports of Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Down More Than 50 Percent Since 2021

Maybe people just stopped reporting because it did not have any effect in the past?

0xPITon We All Scream for Ice Cream

OT: My local ice cream parlor is called Ice cream, you scream

0xPITon "Grip Car"

Imagine archeologists in 1000 years unearthing one of those and trying to figure out its purpose or cultural meaning… (and no, your data won’t survive)

0xPITon iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

I’ve seen several videos by reputable fixers that demonstrate empty NANDs working fine with DFU factory restore. Same situation on Mn MacBooks.

Would be weird in the actual mass production process if the flash would need to be pre-programmed somehow; one DFU process IMO must be able to do everything needed.

0xPITon PS1 Programming Course with MIPS Assembly and C

What or whose lifetime do they refer to when they offer lifetime access?

0xPITon Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?

Mix C Compiler - came with a great C tutorial book

0xPITon Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business?

Intel folks recommended “Chip War,” by Chris Miller

0xPITon Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

While the post is great, terrifying, and seems to contain only true and verifiable information, I’m not sure what we expect.

„Normal“ people will not read this, nor be able to understand, nor gauge or grasp the impact. It’s become way to complex. We can’t simply stop using mentioned services anymore as a society.

Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to teach:

1. You have no privacy, it is impossible to ensure or guarantee privacy, and there’s no incentive at all for anyone to ensure privacy. (Scott McNeally of Sun said that already in the late 1990s)

2. There is no security and every kind of security has been, was designed to, or will be compromised.

3. All your digital information is already public or will become public at some point. (btw: Every top-tier consultancy operates under that assumption)

0xPITon Ask HN: Lightweight Authentication

https://github.com/ory

You should also be able to get a free tier at Auth0

0xPITon Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?

Safari Tab Groups are cool, also there is Toby, a tab grouping extension for chrome. Both sync across devices.

Seems like a small change, but for me a true and very productive reinvention of bookmarks.

0xPITon Israeli systems that charge electric vehicles in 15 min to deploy in Europe, US

This is — like so many promises in this field — rather unviable.

Charging stations, besides providing sufficient power to max out the inbuilt charger, have no effect on the time it takes to charge current EVs.

The charger and battery management system are currently always in the car. The charging station is just a power outlet with an energy counter.

0xPITon Ask HN: Chip startups?

https://www.silina.io

0xPITon Goat Rental – Hire Goats

Couldn’t one also rent goats just to appear in video calls?

0xPITon If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it.

Sun Microsystems‘ Scott McNealy was vocal about this already in the late 1990s: „you have no privacy, get over it“

Look, even if you were able to get FAANG et al. to honor privacy, there will always be the one player that does not. Then, the people who write privacy laws have no clue what they are doing. Plus, I’ve seen software professionals copy/pasting encryption algorithms that contain errors from stackoverflow into production code.

It’s time to face reality, this ship has sailed, stop whining, finally start adapting to an environment without privacy: Treat all your data as if they would become public one day.

Use your energy to teach others to be tech literate to understand what this means, how to deal with this and how to behave.

0xPITon Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini

Tried this for hours: won’t really work with Luna DisplayPort on 2014 MacMini and iPad Pro. Also, does not support the keyboard on the iPad. Their support was very slow and disappointing, quoting only what’s already on the website. Luckily got the device for a few quod on eb*y.

Recommendation: Do not buy.