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syonyk.blogspot.com is a personal blog at syonyk.blogspot.com about hardware and systems. Since 2016, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for detailed hands-on posts on batteries, off-grid energy, teardowns, repairs and home and tech projects, plus its arguments on solar economics and grid stability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-03-06
- Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-05-22
- So, you wanna go off the power grid ...2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-06
What Hacker News says?
To add to that, this recent article on HN [1] goes into a lot of great detail on how the economics of a home solar installation are part of the problem. Basically, if there were an incentive for residential solar installations to include a little bit of storage capacity, it would be a net win for the entire economy. [1] https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-s...
Comment linking /2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-setup-does-not-work-off-grid.html
on “Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid”Submitted Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars as a story · 585 points
HN discussionWith all of the love for Tesla and their v3 of late, it's worth remembering that Tesla can and does brick their cars as well. http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaw... If it has software, and automatic update capabilities, it's never yours.
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on “Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices”Submitted Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down as a story · 443 points
HN discussionThe explanation I’ve read (sorry, don’t recall the source) is that this system repurposed a purely advisory one that existed before, for informing the pilot about AoA. Being advisory in nature, it didn’t need duplicate sensors. Next up: you need to implement MCAS and everything is conveniently there in existing code. That, plus toxic culture for internal people doing FAA (yes, really), plus what you write, plus busi…
Comment linking /2019/03/boeing-airbus-tesla-and-automation.html
on “Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe”Submitted Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office as a story · 179 points
HN discussionhttps://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=126294 https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2019/02/thinkpad-t430s-ips-scree...
Comment linking /2019/02/thinkpad-t430s-ips-screen-upgrade.html
on “Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?”Submitted Reverse Engineering the TEC-06 Serial Protocol as a story · 51 points
HN discussionTwo tech blogs of which I read every post: http://www.windytan.com/ - Oona Räisänen - great hacker of signal-related stuff (audio, video, wireless, etc), graphics, and more. https://syonyk.blogspot.com/ - a lot of hacking around batteries, off-grid energy, and teardowns and repairs of various devices. Non-tech related, Ken White at https://www.popehat.com/ can be quite funny, though he hasn't been posting as much la…
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on “Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?”Submitted End of the Blog: The New Blogger Interface Is Broken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTesla sacrifices classic sustainability, the do-it-yourself attitude, and "openness" of their platform. http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaw... I do realize that the Silicon Valley types don't care about this issue, with iPhones behind walled gardens and all that jazz (or at least, SV doesn't seem to care about it anymore... what ever happened to the vision of open source and true ownership?)…
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on “It's a Tesla”Submitted Building an awesome Pi3 desktop with btrfs, USB SSD, zswap, and $30 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMedium is disagreeable, but there are many blogging sites still around, and people still follow them. A good example is Syonyk's Project Blog ( https://syonyk.blogspot.com/ ). It's hosted on Blogspot, and despite being relatively recent - started in 2015, long past the peak of blogging - he already has over 2.3 million views (total), just writing interesting detailed logs of his tech and home projects.
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on “Why Google+ Failed”Submitted Adding a Public EV Charging Station Near Nampa, ID as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm no expert, but one of the blogs I read had detailed posts about putting a heatsink and fan on a RPi3B+ and using it as a desktop and dev machine: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/09/raspberry-pi-3b-flirc-ca... https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/09/project-pi3bdesk-making-...
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on “Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4”Submitted Why Typical Home Solar Doesn't Work with the Grid Down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor reference on how the law can be interpreted... Tesla provides access to the service manuals by law. But they won't let you purchase them. You must rent them at $30/hr, $100/day, $350/mo, or $3000/yr. http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaw...
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on “Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative”Submitted Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Doesn't Work with the Grid Down and How to Fix It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsider this guy's opinion. The used Tesla market might not look like it does for other cars. http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaw...
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on “Reserving your Model 3”Submitted So, you wanna go off the power grid ... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe article you're thinking of was probably this one: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-s...
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on “A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power”Submitted My Off-Grid Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHonestly, the Raspberry Pi 4 is just fine for what it's meant to do. It's a lot of CPU for the money and it's easy to find resources on the internet. You could consider the more expensive Jetson Nano if you need a powerful GPU or if you just want to try something different. People tend to assume it's faster, but the Raspberry Pi 4 CPU actually beats it in most cases ( https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2019/11/battle-of-bo…
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on “AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothered to test”Submitted On Working from Home and the Joys of Shed Offices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAre you off-grid? It's not for everyone: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/so-you-wanna-go-off-grid...
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on “Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready”This author makes a good argument as to why rooftop solar is a bad deal from a technical perspective, specifically with regard to system stability: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-s... See the section on "Power Grid Stability and Rooftop Solar"
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on “A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices”This writer works through some upper limits of vehicle electrification, based on cobalt reserves: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2015/12/cobalt-requirements-for-...
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on “Economics of Electric Vehicles Mean Oil's Days as a Transport Fuel Are Numbered”Syonyk aka Russell Graves has an interesting post summarizing the issue: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/08/wildfires-in-western-uni... (he's not an expert, so take it with a grain of salt)
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on “While the planet burns our politicians fiddle”
