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Andrew6rant··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
I just linked you a post with a Touch ID-compatible mechanical keycap.

Reverse-engineered from the Apple Magic Keyboard and requires a donor board, though

Andrew6rant··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
Fingerprint sensor is technically possible: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=120964.0

CC @gtsteve

Andrew6rant··on Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
There has been work already started on reverse engineering LEGO smart bricks: https://github.com/nathankellenicki/node-smartplay/tree/main...
Andrew6rant··on I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
Agreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere
Andrew6rant··on How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
> There's physically no way to permanently "brick" an iPhone.

There definitely are (If you count jailbroken iPhones). I've managed to brick one by removing all thermal throttling limits and subsequently damaging the motherboard with the world's shittiest watercooling setup.

Can't use DFU to restore if you've got damaged hardware

Andrew6rant··on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build
WindHawk mod can do this. Made by the same dev as Win7+ Taskbar Tweaker
Andrew6rant··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
> Please find me a clip where Trump supported Project 2025, I'll wait.

Trump said parts of Project 2025 are "very good" in Dec 2024. Can't link a clip right now as I'm at lunch at work, but it should be easy to find

Andrew6rant··on Official Doge Portal
Tens of thousands of federal workers fired and all the "savings" add up to less than Musk's proposed stock pay package. Some people are too rich
Andrew6rant··on Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service
There honestly might be a greater chance of something happening to the .cc domain (like what's happening now with .io)

Harvard has a much larger population than the Cocos islands, I don't know why this project decided to rely on a country code tld

Andrew6rant··on You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
Woah woah woah, unlimited saves for only $2/mo?

Clearly, we need an ad-supported $0.99/mo tier with a limit of 50,000 saves per quarter (additional saves $0.01 each).

$2.99/mo is what gives you unlimited* saves to disk.

* C:// drive only. External drives are limited to 10,000 saves per period)

Contact sales for enterprise pricing

Andrew6rant··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
> Unfortunately, there are no 4K displays with 200+ DPI on the market.

There are 4k 24" monitors (almost 200 DPI) and 4k 18.5" portable monitors (more than 200 DPI) you can buy nowadays

Andrew6rant··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Windows version of the handheld will have 500gb more storage than SteamOS.
Andrew6rant··on Hertz continues EV purge, asks renters if they want to buy instead of return
Buying a rental mustang or minivan might be a bad idea, but most rental vehicles are totally fine purchases.

They actually have preventative maintenance done on them, and are sold at below market value.

Andrew6rant··on Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
> "I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success."

There are a few news sites that have barebones/low-bandwidth or HTML-only frontends. For example:

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://text.npr.org/

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/

Andrew6rant··on Frosted glass from games to the web
This can be solved with CSS. Extend the background blur all the way through the element and then use CSS masks to cut out the actual shape you want.

With this, you can remove the border (or inset box shadow), and the edge of the glass will look much, much more real

Andrew6rant··on Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
Haha, Apple was still selling iMacs equipped with Fusion Drives in 2021. Really cool tech for the time, but should've stayed in the 2010s
Andrew6rant··on Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds
Guess what year the NHTSA started using female crash dummies?

2003, thirty years after they started using male crash dummies. And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

What year do you think they mandated a crash dummy that was actually based on the female body?

Just guess. I think you might be surprised that they haven't done this yet. It's in the works (see THOR-5F), but it's crazy it's taken so long.

Now guess when they first put the 2003 female crash dummy in the drivers seat for the frontal collision crash test. They still haven't!

Andrew6rant··on Costco’s butter recall, explained
Speaking as someone who has a severe peanut allergy, it does help.

Like Dr. Gupta said in the article, it is "so disappointing" that companies add sesame to products that didn't originally have them (they've done this with peanut flour too), but it's absolutely worth the tradeoff of getting sesame added as a "must label" allergen.

There's so much uncertainty surrounding food allergy safety (particularly regarding children), and it can be heavy knowing that each meal could be your last.

Barring impossible-to-avoid circumstances like the 2015 cumin fiasco (where suppliers cut spices with ground-up peanut shells), it's a true weight off your back knowing that a product does not contain an allergen

Andrew6rant··on Electric vehicles now represent 19% of the passenger vehicle sales worldwide
I haven't driven too many EVs, but IMO, a 2021 Chevy Bolt drives quite differently than a 2023 Nissan Ariya.

The Ariya's real heavy, but it's surprisingly nimble. The Bolt feels zippy and doesn't weigh much more than the average SUV.

Definitely feel you on the appliance thing. Electric cars are almost too easy to drive.