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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:03PM (#50340872)
Except when it does. What was your point exactly? Mine was that you don’t need to root an LG TV to turn off ads. I can’t speak for other brands, yours included
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:01PM (#50340841)
I have to keep reminding myself that many people lack the attention span to read the context of the comment they’re replying to, so I should quote it to avoid confusion.

Go up one comment and you’ll see this was with respect to LG, not Samsung.

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:08PM (#50330848)
You could also just turn ads off in settings
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:59PM (#50330795)
Just configure your game console to turn on the TV/set the input.
Re:What goes into making an animated film? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:22PM (#50237055)
Quite the opposite. Texturing something they know will never be seen was (at least in those days) time not spent paying attention to detail on the things that will be.

I do understand it from an artistic perspective, and who knows when and how an asset will be used in the future; but the premise doesn't appear to hold water under scrutiny.

I can't reply to DaSHacka, but just to point outat least in this country, merchants have to pay to deposit cash. Not to mention the additional cost on their side of handling it, higher insurance cost, etc. etc. Cash isn't free of transaction fees/
Re:Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:27AM (#49892050)
No need. It's an installable PWA
Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:48AM (#49890105)
> do yourself a massive favor and let the PCB fab also assemble the LEDs

From the article:

What's next? ...using PCB assembly...

Re:The smart home graveyard is getting crowded on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:27AM (#49876922)
It took me a moment to parse that it's the "smart-home graveyard", not the "smart home-graveyard" that's getting crowded!

Apparently hyphens seem to have gone out of fashion. Please can we bring them back?

Re:The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:50AM (#49843302)
Strange article to make the front page - only two paragraphs long, and no images of the tapestry that it barely talks about.

Not to mention the title - the tapestry was embroidered, not woven (if you exclude the ground fabric, which by itself is just a piece of cloth).

> Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law

Or more likely do, but hope that you don't...

Hyster (not Hister as far as I can tell) is a registered trademark in the US. Regardless:

"The HYSTER trademark is filed in the category of Education and Entertainment Services" [0], so you can safely ignore any demands to rename, as it doesn't conflict. Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law.

Edit to clarify as some folks here are as confused as sHyster's lawyers: Trademarks are not exclusive, they're restricted to a category or categories. You can be Apple in the category of computers, but not in music if there's already an Apple in that category (unless you have $500M to spare [2]).

  [0] https://www.trademarkia.com/hyster-77843354
  [1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/ for a more authoritative source than [0], but it doesn't allow deep linking
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Re:Saving Jet Fuel on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:42AM (#49723666)
I find it harsh but fair. The second paragraph reads:

"Firms like Jeppesen have offerings in this space, but Scikit-decide, together with a narrow- and wide-body fuel consumption model built by a professor at the Delft University of Technology and wind data from NOAA, offer an open source solution."

So this is being positioned as an open source alternative to commercial offerings, which clearly it is not. If instead he made the limitations clear from the outset, that this is just a demonstration of what he/the tools are capable of and that this is not in any way intended for real-world use, it would put the rest of the article into better context.

I also don't see how Scikit-decide being developed by Airbus gives OP any domain authority. I use open source tools from all sorts of commercial ventures, and know nothing about how they themselves use them, or what for.

> you have to use the Latch app to open your apartment door

So what happens if you arrive home with a dead phone?

And possibly worse, they have a log of when you come and go?

Re:9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:40PM (#49582534)
So not literally ripping themselves apart then
Re:9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:05PM (#49539238)
> like you said, its on the verge of ripping itself apart

They didn't say that - they said "the (exclusive speciality alloy) parts are literally ripping themselves apart". That sounds like a seriously flawed design to me

I'm not aware of an aftermarket head unit that can't connect to CAN bus with the appropriate adapter (which are widely available).
Got into a weird situation recently where my cheap android head unit was displaying Car Play from my phone, but (Google Maps) audio from my partner's.

Directions weren't coming from my phone's speaker or the car, but testing audio in the Maps app did (from the car).

Still not sure what combination of connections it had managed to get itself into!

> There are some countries where the truth is not a defense against libel

Germany, for example. Utterly bizarre and baffling that a democracy protects its politicians this way. /s

Re:Sol Loves to Cheat on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:40AM (#49372400)
> they don't have "memory", they have no capacity to learn outside of the training stage

The underlying LLMs don't, but the agent frameworks around them do.

I've recently done the same for a Bluetooth LED matrix display, then took it a step further assembling my own hardware (ESP32 controller and RGBIC matrix) to have control over the firmware for features that weren't possible with the off-the-shelf device.

None of this would have been possible (or at least practical from a time-value perspective) for me to do without Claude driving the whole exercise.

Re:Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:49AM (#49296166)
Using a sound card (read the comments)
That is one hilariously overpriced product! Display: $15, Controller: $2, API: Free
Re:9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:22AM (#49156184)
It's a quote from Dante's Inferno
> I was surrounded by students who were religious but didn’t have much curiosity

That seems like a given. If you're curious, you'll soon see through any ideology you were spoon-fed as a child, religious or otherwise.

Re:When transit passes were designed by hand on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:32PM (#49149101)
> I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets

Season and weekly are different things (obviously). If you narrow your claim down enough, of course you can be the first (patents or Guinness book of world records being prome examples.)

But the article isn't about that, it's about the design of the tickets. And they are a thing of beauty.

Ifound Palmiers interface dense, cluttered, and confusing - just take the panel top left (to the right of chat) for example. So much going on in one small space.

Donkey Cut offers more functionality in less space, and everything is easy to find and understand. It isn't without bugs, but the structure is there for it to be great

Re:Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:59PM (#49061856)
That isn't how this works. It doesn't transport your car to a more distant car park - it simply "parks" your car in an available space.
Donkey is slick. Love the minimal UI.

Edit: Having played with both a bit, and with no disrespect to OP, yours is a significantly better product.

> Donkey Vision — a screen-understanding API that turns any screenshot into structured, clickable UI, so you can build computer-use tools of your own.

Not faulting your (necessary given today's reality) work, but sad to think that the Amiga still remains ahead of it's time some 36 years later (since ARexx was bundle with the OS), or closer to 40 years if you count when v1 was released separately.

ARexx allowed any application that supported it (and most productivity apps worth their salt did) to communicate with each other, and to be scripted - essentially a standardised API for applications.

We're slowly getting there (at least for SaaS apps) with MCP, but screen scraping shouldn't ever have been necessary.

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