Hacker News: Latitude7973

New comment by Latitude7973 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Latitude7973 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:51:49 +0000

France has been making good moves to achieve software independence from the US. It would be an even better move to allow those in Europe or indeed the rest of the world to also benefit.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:06:09 +0000

Even a CLI interface would be better than the sorry excuse of Asda's website. I wonder if entrusting an LLM is worth the trade off with the tedium of online shopping.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:48:40 +0000

*Lego

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program"

Latitude7973 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:27:12 +0000

This is very nice. I am astounded that my Surface Pro stylus works well with the brushes, even using pressure data. And all in the browser!

Amazon launches its 'sovereign' cloud in Europe and plots expansion

Latitude7973 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/amazon-sovereign-cloud-europe-expansion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630579

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

Latitude7973 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:32:02 +0000

Yes, but it's not recommended - it does not have inter-frame compression, so it is significantly less efficient than just having a regular video file and slapping 'gif' on it.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

Latitude7973 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:06:53 +0000

In general terms, it is a shame that thousands of ISO, IEC etc specifications and documents are behind a paywall.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)"

Latitude7973 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:34:27 +0000

n-o-d-e (blogger) has published many mods for this watch, with videos included. They have great production quality, and the mods are easy enough to pull off. https://n-o-d-e.net/casio.html

When I did this mod, I soldered the LED on its side, so that it shone directly onto the LCD. This made the watch face much brighter.

On reflection, the similar variant of the watch with an EL display is vastly superior. The A168 is similar to the A158 you mentioned but with a better light.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:27:51 +0000

Is this your project? It would be great to bolster it with links to comment sections and the current points tally.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:23:40 +0000

Mass spectrometry is a multi-faceted beast, and has many applications. One that comes to mind is ion mobility spectrometry. I am most familiar with FAIMS which is an extremely selective method and can detect trace amounts of specific molecules.

The challenge is piecing together what you have detected to draw conclusions about the sample - in this instance you might detect a specific molecule, but to definitively conclude that it's caused by a particular fungus requires lots of prior testing.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:32:17 +0000

I just got the XT-5 too - not for the form but because the feature set is so good. However, I don't get this obsession on centred viewfinders - they could be anywhere on the camera body now they are digital; they may as well be on the left side where my nose isn't going to be smudging the screen.

The camera is fantastic, though.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "How I block all online ads"

Latitude7973 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:01:35 +0000

The latest versions 30.56 and onwards are fixed.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

Latitude7973 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:28:56 +0000

> or whatever the Thread equivalent is called

Thread Border Router (for info).

New comment by Latitude7973 in "KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web"

Latitude7973 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:23:03 +0000

Did you read the article? That's what the KaTeX project specifically claims to address.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level"

Latitude7973 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:13:20 +0000

I see a few advantages. For my work in particular, I have to rely on creating desk study reports via exporting PDFs from QGIS - this depends on export DPI, page size etc. Following that I have to pull those plans into e.g. Word and it's a messy system.

A python notebook would be a nice way of generating reports of GIS data in an interactive way without being forced to use pages, PDFs, and embedded image files.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Programming with Less Than Nothing"

Latitude7973 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:05:32 +0000

Randall Munroe, I am guessing.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems"

Latitude7973 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:18:42 +0000

This completely stymied me - joining a meeting while WFH: broadband goes down, can't use the SIM in my computer, can't tether to my phone as they are all using Vodafone.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "NASA's Guardian Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time"

Latitude7973 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:08:38 +0000

I am not 100% sure, but I think the article is referring to gravity waves in a meteorological context, whereby layers of the atmosphere are displaced and "splosh" around on a large scale. This is as opposed to a gravitational wave which is what you are thinking of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave

New comment by Latitude7973 in "How RSS beat Microsoft"

Latitude7973 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:42:05 +0000

I use Folo which has Rsshub built in. You simply search for a source you want, or add your own with a known URL for everyone to use. Otherwise you can use Rsshub with a reader of your choice.

New comment by Latitude7973 in "Keyboards from my collection (2023)"

Latitude7973 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:16:42 +0000

The Xbox 360 keyboard attachment was underrated in its time. It had almost no impact on use for gameplay, but was a vast improvement to using the d-pad to navigate an on-screen keyboard when typing messages.