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The Tymscar Blog
Personal blog · blog.tymscar.comsystemshardwareprogramming
The Tymscar Blog is a personal blog at blog.tymscar.com about systems, hardware and programming. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tymscar's posts on hands-on hardware and software projects, and a post flagging an unmerged OpenAI fix. Commenters cite the posts as sources and comment on the author's recent writing style.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-11-21
- How to Report a Bug So It Gets Fixed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-23
- Critical Alert – Tech Industry Must Act on Job Market Chaos2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-10
- I Designed a Custom PCB to Avoid Pressing a Button Three Times2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
- Do Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-04
- I deploy private GitHub projects to local self-hosted servers (CI/CD)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-12
- The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Here’s one where I did a Gaussian Splat. But I talk about my LiDAR scanned head there too https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gaussiansplat/
Comment linking /posts/gaussiansplat/
on “From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey”Submitted Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network as a story · 494 points
HN discussionBack in January I wrote a blogpost about this exact issue and people treated it as ramblings. I discussed it with over 30 people in the meantime each saying theres no way ghost jobs are a thing, theres no way it’s that bad, or that they have a job so surely this is exaggerated. It’s not, it really is that bad, and more than a dozen of them since lost their job and messaged me saying that the blogpost is much more re…
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on “An AI bot-war destroyed the online job market”Submitted I tried Gleam for Advent of Code as a story · 350 points
HN discussionThey're pretty bad about fixing issues it seems. My favorite is #2472 which they demonstrated "fixing" on stage on the release of GPT 5, but the ticket is still open and the "fix" hasn't been merged. The original blog that flagged this fact https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/openaiunmergeddemo/ and the issue: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/2472
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on “Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs”Submitted From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey as a story · 173 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.tymscar.com is my blog. I write mostly about technology and programming
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery as a story · 82 points
HN discussionYou can also look at past posts by the same author (before LLM usage proliferated) if you’re curious. The project is still very cool, but it’s a little less enjoyable to read when everything sounds the same. It would be just as annoying for people to manually write in a corporate/marketing style, because humanity is what makes the small web interesting. https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/privategithubcicd/
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on “I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200”Submitted OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Ctrl+F Finds Words. I Wanted It to Find Answers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech industry must act on Job Market chaos as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Alert – Tech Industry Must Act on Job Market Chaos as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Nix to build JavaScript/TS projects with private dependencies as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Report a Bug So It Gets Fixed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Designed a Custom PCB to Avoid Pressing a Button Three Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Quiet a Ugreen 4800 Plus Without Sacrificing Drive Temps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Report a Bug So It Gets Fixed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Designed a Custom PCB to Avoid Pressing a Button Three Times as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote my Vision Pro killer app (Script Anchor) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating Soapy Water as a story · 1 points
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