Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #25322

K

Ken Pillonel

Personal blog · kenp.iohardwareprogramming

Ken Pillonel's personal blog at kenp.io covers hardware and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

Visit the blog
3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ken Pillonel's posts on AirPods as a consumable product and on the first USB-C iPhone. One commenter praises the video version of the AirPods post, and another shares a text version.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ken Pillonel and Exploring the Simulation , Blog

What Hacker News says?

  1. ksec · 2022-07-26Recommends
    I think the Video ( in terms of context from https://kenp.io/airpods-dirty-secret/ ) is great. But most people come on HN when they are working. ( LOL ) Hence Video and audio content aren't exactly the best type of information. I brought first gen AirPod [1] but then quickly discovered AirPod is actually a consumable devices. You have to keep buying it. And I know a lot of people do that. Their fourth or fifth pair…

    Comment linking /airpods-dirty-secret/

    on “AirPods' Dirty Secret”
  2. Submitted The USB-C iPhone Mod as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here's a text version: https://kenp.io/worlds-first-usbc-iphone/

    Comment linking /worlds-first-usbc-iphone/

    on “USB-C iPhone 13 [video]”

Search all of HN for kenp.io