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Syonyk’s Project Blog
Personal blog · sevarg.net · on HN as Syonykhardwaresecurity
Syonyk’s Project Blog is a personal blog at sevarg.net about hardware and security. Since 2021, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 81 times, most often “The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Syonyk's blog for off-grid and home solar, DIY power, kerosene lighting, LED and bulb spectrum reviews, and low-power computing such as Raspberry Pi and ARM boards.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A quiet corner of the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-10
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-16
- /2021/08/28/temtop-air-quality-sensors/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-02
- Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21
- End of the Blog: The New Blogger Interface Is Broken2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- /tag/solar2020/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-15
- Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-11
- /tag/raspberrypi/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-28
- Tech Philosophy Ponderings 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-23
- /2023/02/26/feit-electric-wifi-rgb-bulb/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Grate post! Hey, check my websight about "WordPress blogs" at https://www.sevarg.net/ I think youll like it! ;) Are you sure comments are still desirable? Isn't step 1 of the internet anymore "Never read the comments"? That said, I did actually work out a solution for "static site with dynamic comments" on my blog that could easily be done for a lot of people if they're willing to use a hosted service. Discourse (th…
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on “The Static Site Paradox”Submitted Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance as a story · 234 points
HN discussionIt can be cash flow positive if you do a bunch of the work yourself and plan accordingly. https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar/ From my point of view the nice thing about it is reducing or eliminating recurring expenses. Once your recurring expenses drop below passive income you are pretty well set.
Comment linking /tag/solar/
on “California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3”Submitted The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI built a "four filter fan box" this year when the smoke started rolling in (off MERV 13 filters, I think?), and have also gone about getting the measurement devices to verify that, yes, it really does work! I used a round fan, and a lot of tape to seal things to the fan, though it appears this might not matter as much as I thought. The filter area is sufficient that the fan doesn't really struggle - fan motors burn…
Comment linking /2021/08/28/temtop-air-quality-sensors/
on “Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)”Submitted Keropunk Part 2: Lantern Analysis as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI've been using Lockdown for a month or two now with the beta, and did some writing on it: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mode-browse... Results of enabling it and using my phone as I normally would: - Some websites don't display images. I've no idea what they encode to, but they won't display. Fine, don't care. - Animated GIFs don't play in Messages when coming in via SMS (perhaps iMessage too, ha…
Comment linking /2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mode-browser-analysis/
on “About Lockdown Mode”Submitted The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc as a story · 19 points
HN discussion> I'm just looking for an indoor air quality monitor for temperature, humidity, co2 and ideally pm2.5 and pressure. If you don't want it to be "connected," try a TemTop P1000. I've torn one apart, and I have it in my office right now - it seems to do what it says on the tin sanely. Temperature, humidity, PM2.5, PM10, and CO2 levels. I have another TemTop unit and they generally agree within some reasonable margin of…
Comment linking /2021/08/28/temtop-air-quality-sensors/
on “Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam”Submitted End of the Blog: The New Blogger Interface Is Broken as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> As a counterpoint to "throwaway cars", when they don't need repairs they do seem to be able to do a million miles or more with comparitively little maintenance. It was a reference to an old post of mine ( https://www.sevarg.net/2016/03/05/is-tesla-building-throwawa... ) - and, I actually agree with you that they do have million-mile grade drivetrains. It's just that the rest of the car is poor quality. That's fine…
Comment linking /2016/03/05/is-tesla-building-throwaway-cars/
on “Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad”Submitted Apple, CSAM scanning and you as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-... has some sample images from mine - it's an 8MP camera. Not amazing, but also not a 2MP potato.
Comment linking /2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-plus/
on “Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence”Submitted Journey to the Center of the Junction Box as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI can give you a concrete example of why I have my inverters connected to a network. And I'm pretty damned hostile to network connected things in the first place... I built my solar array myself - a big ground mount array, string inverters[0]. This went fine, and then a few years later, I started getting arc fault warnings. These were intermittent, but the inverter would respond by shutting down entirely, then gradu…
Comment linking /2022/07/31/journey-to-the-center-of-the-junction-box/
on “Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US”Submitted LED Lights and Screens Are Killing You as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> The second reason that I’ll write is to learn about something. It’s one thing to hand-wave one’s way through a presentation. It’s another to commit pen to paper (well, bytes to disk) and explain something. Quite often I’ll realise that there’s a gap—or gaps—in my knowledge that I need to explore first before I can properly write about something, and that’s the very reason that I do it. This is a very good reason t…
Comment linking /2018/04/08/off-grid-rv-lead-acid-maintenance-charging-failure-modes/
on “Blog Writing for Developers (2023)”Submitted Backlash Against the Predatory Smartphone and Social Media (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah, look at the Sonim XP3+/XP5+ (depending if you want a flip phone or candybar). Rugged, Android-Go powered "Call/SMS/MMS" devices, week and a half on battery if you leave it on constantly, hotspot, and you can , if you insist, sideload apps. Just, don't expect any modern Android app to be usable on a 240x320 screen with keyboard input only. If you use a Bluetooth mouse, it's marginally less-awful, but still, don…
Comment linking /2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-plus/
on “Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)”Submitted Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion@Syonyk has some good stuff here: https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar/ - I'm sure he'll comment on this eventually, but he has built his own solar in Idaho.
Comment linking /tag/solar/
on “Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?”Submitted Bulb Reviews: A Range of Modern LED Bulbs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlternative operating systems like Asahi Linux are apparently not far enough along to give you anything meaningful, but here are some benchmarks of Linux virtualized under QEMU: “vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly fast” https://www.sevarg.net/2021/01/09/arm-mac-mini-and-boinc/
Comment linking /2021/01/09/arm-mac-mini-and-boinc/
on “The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster and More Efficient”Submitted Home Optical Spectrometry: The B&W Tek BTC100-2S as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been using Pis around my office (and various other ARM small board computers of similar capabilities) for quite a few years now, and as they've become more capable, I use them for more. I've spilled quite a bit of digital ink on the variety of systems as well (the tag includes some of the other systems too): https://www.sevarg.net/tag/raspberrypi/ Computers I've used as "desktop grade systems" over the past 5 y…
Comment linking /tag/raspberrypi/
on “Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?”Submitted Tech Philosophy Ponderings 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSevarg has done it https://www.sevarg.net/2019/12/14/building-raspberry-pi-4-de... It’s totally doable from what I understand and sips tiny amounts of power. An M1 may be better but I don’t know if it can get as low power.
Comment linking /2019/12/14/building-raspberry-pi-4-desktop/
on “Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?”Submitted Pine64 vs. Odroid EMMC Performance Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey, they recently redid the user interface for it! I mean, yeah, the new interface is unusable with anything under a Xeon workstation, and it's very mobile editing focused, for a blogging platform, and it drove me and a variety of other people off Blogger entirely, but... they've not just left it alone. That would have been an improvement over what they did to it. My extensive thoughts on their "improvements" here:…
Comment linking /2020/10/10/end-of-blog-new-blogger-interface-is/
on “Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors”Submitted Why People Hate Tech: A Response to Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment as a story · 1 points
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