{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:35:20.842Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50431971,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50431971","total_comments":43,"returned":7,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50471256,"author":"manofmanysmiles","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:50:12.000Z","text":"Is there a community, on the dark web, small web, blockchain or otherwise where people exchange the fruits of their reverse engineering efforts for others to use?\nI've dreamed of open, high quality datasheets, firmware, and full design docs for all proprietary hardware.\nI suppose if all of it was concentrated in one place it would be a ripe target\nI suppose this might be the best use case for ecosystem of blockchain technologies that exist.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471256"},{"id":50466386,"author":"roger_","created_at":"2026-11-12T12:49:16.000Z","text":"I’ve done similar hacks and I love how LLMs turned them from month-long projects to a couple of weeks.\nClaude used to work best IMHO but their “safety” change has made it near useless. Luckily local models are getting better.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50466386"},{"id":50465837,"author":"greggsy","created_at":"2026-11-12T11:47:23.000Z","text":"Curious to hear why they did this to begin with.\nI can understand the warranty aspect: they don’t necessarily want to be in the hook when users stuffs up the port using a janky 20-in-1 USB-C hub.\nWhy play around with the VRR and HDR side of things too?\nEdit: I know someone will say ‘because they want to sell more docks’, but it already comes with the console… the market for people buying multiple docks I doesn’t justify the development and manufacturing costs.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":8,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50465837"},{"id":50467072,"author":"superlupo","created_at":"2026-11-12T13:51:08.000Z","text":"It would be nice if this would be somehow an open source script, so not everyone needs to burn its own tokens to do it.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467072"},{"id":50468062,"author":"gwbas1c","created_at":"2026-11-12T14:40:46.000Z","text":"FYI: I bought an inexpensive Switch 2 USB-C -> HDMI cable on Amazon and it works great. It has a standard USB-C in for power.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50468062"},{"id":50467156,"author":"andix","created_at":"2026-11-12T13:58:09.000Z","text":"Is it the same quirk as with the Switch 1?\nIt also had USB-C and didn't work with regular docks/hubs. There was one obscure hub though that works perfectly fine with the Switch 1.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467156"},{"id":50468899,"author":"rootsudo","created_at":"2026-11-12T15:23:56.000Z","text":"The hub is indeed fragile and will crack. Sucks if you have a nice one.","parent_id":50431971,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50468899"}]}