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petabyteson Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

Not yet, although I'm slowly working on an alternative to Fuji's X app

petabyteson Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

Hacking the firmware in Fuji cameras definitely impressed a few recruiters, and helped me get a position recently.

petabyteson Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

https://github.com/webui-dev/webui is a lightweight alternative to webview/electron/tauri

petabyteson Apertus – Open-Source Camera

Honestly it would make more sense to buy an old $300 Canon camera, install Magic Lantern (or CHDK)

Hate to say it, but in my experience open source hardware is always been poor quality, unless it's a single board computer.

petabyteson Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux

I've been using this the past few weeks to try and cross compile my software. Clang works, but a lot of the core libraries are missing. pkgbuild for instance won't work. And even native Cocoa apps I've tried won't work. That being said, this has a ton of potential. I really wish the devs had more time to work on it.

petabyteson A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco

Why wouldn't they just pay it? Would there be any negative consequences?

petabyteson Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

I sometimes use it to reformat some text or code, or write some very simple boilerplate code. So honestly it only saves me a few minutes a day typically.

petabyteson Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT

I thought I was smart by putting my email in a png image on my page. Still, no spam mail after about a year.

petabyteson BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit

Really wish there was something like this, but C or Rust instead of Python Or JavaScript.

petabyteson Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom

The app needs to be reversed engineered and have a 3rd party reimplemention. Even if it's slightly inferior, it's always good to have an alternative.

petabyteson Ask HN: Who's looking for contributors for OSS Projects

Magic Lantern definitely needs a lot of help in terms of reverse engineering, build system (we are still depending on python2) and also documentation and wiki stuff. https://magiclantern.fm/

petabyteson Android 14 review: There's always next year

Probably means one of the GTK based distros running on a phone, like on the Purism phones

petabyteson Trabant

How do you double the value of a Trabant? You fill the tank up.

petabyteson Leica camera has built-in defense against misleading AI, costs $9,125

About a year ago when AI was getting really big, I was really interested in C2PA, since then I've come to the conclusion that actual artists don't care about any of that crap

petabyteson Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026

Just remembered the Magic Lantern eclipse user meeting that's been planned since 2020 https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=25236.0

petabyteson Every app that adds AI looks like this

As a programmer, it ended up being useful for a few things in the beginning, but I don't even use it anymore. Maybe every other week to reformat some text or make some boilerplate code.

petabyteson Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://github.com/petabyt/fudge

Alternative Wifi app to connect to Fujifilm cameras. I mainly wanted to just try and make a MVP to see if it's possible, and now it's grown into something usable.

petabyteson My personal C coding style as of late 2023

It's pretty much the same types you see in Rust or Zig, and I think Linux even uses some of the same types.

petabyteson My personal C coding style as of late 2023

What's wrong with it?

petabyteson OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

Related: I was hacking Ambarella action cameras a while back: https://github.com/petabyt/liemoth

Eventually I stopped not because of how low quality action cameras were, there were hundreds of different vendors publishing rebranded Chinese cheap cams. And not to mention how crap the firmware is. The whole thing gets hot and the battery only lasts a few minutes.

petabyteson Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency

When you hold down the power button, there is a big red emergency button beside the restart button. I've gotten pretty close to accidentally pressing it.

petabyteson NASA seeks proposals for a spacecraft meant to safely deorbit the ISS

They gotta put cameras everywhere when they do deorbit it. I wanna see everything burning and blowing up.

petabyteson Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

Reminds me of what I did with ChromeOS in middle school, built a whole code editor in the URL bar.

petabyteson Bun v1.0.0

I tried to compile a hello world template for Zig a few months ago. Pulled it from GitHub, zig build and it gave an error. The problem? They recently redesigned a major part of the build system and deprecated old functions. No deprecated message, and no backwards compatibility. Just a plain old undefined function error.

That's what I don't like about these modern languages. You have to be in the community and keep up with the latest releases in order to use the language. I just want something that's stable. I don't want to keep relearning everything.

petabyteson Bun v1.0.0

A few weeks ago, I tried to compile a little bit of TS code and was shocked at how long it took. 5 seconds! I can't believe people put up with this. Glad to see there is a solution.

petabyteson Show HN: Programming Languages Database

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/ is a nice place to find code samples for every programming language

petabyteson Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time

My go-to recommendation for older folks is ChromeOS. Say what you want about their privacy and stuff, but my mom hasn't been able to download any malware, and it's very easy to use and do office stuff on.

petabyteson Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’

https://www.electricclassiccars.co.uk/ sells bolt in kits for classic cars

petabyteson Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video]

The camera is busted up. Although to be honest, I don't ever think I had thought of trying to fix it to take pictures... It's just been sitting on a shelf. Looks nice.