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Re:Court Records Should Be Free on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:20AM (#48607709)
Embarrassed. PACER is $0.10 per page, Idaho courts charge $1.00 per page.
Re:Court Records Should Be Free on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:18AM (#48607693)
Oops, I should know better. Thanks for the correction.
Re:Court Records Should Be Free on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:24PM (#48603982)
PACER is for federal courts, price is $1 per page.

I'm being sued in the State of Idaho, where the price of each page is $10.

Re:Using Kagi Search with Low Vision on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:14PM (#48229490)
One more reason to love Kagi Search.
Re:Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:23PM (#47056758)
Yeah I’d love to study through a simple website, I guess that’s gitbook? I haven’t used it before.

To the OP: Do you need help generating a little static website? I did this with Claude the other day, could figure it out for you repo for sure.

Re:Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:18PM (#47056715)
So good!

I got a math minor with my CS major 15 years ago, and just started sending applications to MS CS ML/AI programs. I really need this now to relearn linear algebra etc, and your site is really bringing things back quickly.

I’m not doing the coding exercises (yet), that’s just me for now, no feedback there.

I did have some feedback when I was reading last night, will send a PR when I have time.

Kudos, friend!

Re:Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:47AM (#47048055)
I’ve read chapter 1. 10/10
Re:The Trinary Dream Endures on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:25PM (#45635995)
In digital circuits there’s “high”, “low”, and “high impedance”.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:51PM (#45564263)
I’m creating an electronic avionics sensor and display for experimental aircraft. I’m having a fantastic time learning about circuits and MCUs (I have a pure CS degree, zero background with EE stuff). I’ve been working on this in my off hours for over a year now, maybe someday it will be a product that people buy!

The current challenge is the display. I’ve struggled to learn about this part more than any other. After studying DVI and LVDS, and after trying to figure out what MIPI/DSI is all about, I think parallel RGB is the path forward, so I’ve just designed a test PCB for that, and ordered it from JLCPCB’s PCBA service.

Re:Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:07PM (#45279258)
I bought my first 3D printer six months ago, it feels as high quality as an HP printer, couldn't be happier.

Flashforge Adventurer 5M https://www.flashforge.com/products/adventurer-5m-3d-printer

FYI Firefox fails to load the page for me:

> Secure Connection Failed > > An error occurred during a connection to quizmathgenius.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). > > Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

Re:Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why? on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:50PM (#44528240)
I’ve been a Migadu customer for a few years. It’s a simple company with simple pricing, and I couldn’t be happier.
What. The. Fuck.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Search Engines? on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:11PM (#43625981)
Same. I switched to Kagi over a year ago, and now every other search engine looks like a steaming pile of ads and slop.
Re:LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012) on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:03PM (#43425789)
The title is click-baity, but the information is interesting.
Re:A powerful free and open source WAF – UUSEC WAF on Sunday March 16, 2025 @02:40PM (#43381130)
This reads like LLM generated text.
Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:07AM (#42915442)
This reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld's comments about his critics in "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee".

Summarizing, when the audience laughs, they vote about the quality of the bit. When the tickets sell out, they vote about the quality of his work. So, who cares what the critics say?

This might not make sense, but sometimes this perspective helps me (not a comedian, or anyone critics have ever heard of).

Re:Qwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovation on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @07:42AM (#42864225)
This reads like it was written by an AI SEO bot.
Re:Apache Hudi: an open data lakehouse platform on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:02PM (#42799383)
I've been working with Apache Iceberg for 18 months now. Everyone in the community seems to be going toward Iceberg, not Hudi.

https://iceberg.apache.org/

Re:Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down? on Thursday December 26, 2024 @02:16PM (#42517092)
But there are dozens of us working today! Dozens!
Re:Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:23PM (#42464832)
I've been using protothreads on the RP2040 (Pico MCU) for task management.

https://dunkels.com/adam/pt/

The extensions available from Hunter Adams at Cornell are also very useful. In particular, PT_YIELD_INTERVAL() has been very useful for me.

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/RP2040/C...

Re:Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster, drop-in upgrade (mostly) on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @01:39PM (#42258500)
Can you highlight the resources that you used to level up this way? I can design my own microcontroller boards, but the complexity of SoCs and required peripherals seems too much for this part-timer.
Re:Transactional Object Storage? on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:25PM (#42240370)
If I had time, I'd like to implement an Iceberg catalog this way.
Re:Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @11:18AM (#41860114)
Yes, it's a long presentation. Here's a good answer to your question:

> So, yes, it is actually possible to run full-featured Rails applications in production, with no compromises on features or performance, all on a single machine.

In other words, "stop worrying and just deploy a single application instance".

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems? on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:00PM (#41659998)
One way to frame the capitalist framework: The "private sector" seeks profit and the "public sector" seeks social stability.

I agree that the problems you describe are important. Most of them fall in the scope of "public sector" problems. I'm not working on those because I've chosen to work in the "private sector".

Re:LwIP – Lightweight IP Stack on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:32PM (#41462365)
Adam Dunkels also wrote (most of) Protothreads. https://dunkels.com/adam/pt/
Re:Introducing the RP2350 on Saturday August 10, 2024 @10:12AM (#41209671)
Please explain. What is a better alternative that could have been chosen?

I’m just happy to have one fewer component on my boards.

Re:Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:02PM (#40346973)
It looks like the CM5 still has one PCIe lane. https://pip.raspberrypi.com/categories/945-forward-guidance

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