Hacker News: PetitPrince

New comment by PetitPrince in "MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to"

PetitPrince — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:41:46 +0000

Streetcomplete can filter the map with a variety of filters for features you can edit or complete(Street lighting, Surfaces, Sidewalks, Bike paths, Street parking, Addresses, Places, Things, Buildings). Plus there's some specific "quests" where you can complete information for specific POI ("Does this bench have a backrest? Yes|No", "Where does this fire hydrant lies? On the grass | On the roadway | On a walkway | On a parking).

Mapcomplete also offers filling info about existing POI, but you can filter on specific theme (Drinking water, sports) or very specific theme (etymology) or even your own. There's also an UI to add new POIs; I don't think it's possible with StreetComplete.

Either way both are great.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

PetitPrince — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:08:10 +0000

As mentioned with other comment, web browsers on console were often a popular and easy way to jailbreak your console and install custom firmwares, etc. The 3DS one was bonkers, and I think you could directly download games from Nintendo servers without verification?

New comment by PetitPrince in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

PetitPrince — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:01:05 +0000

Yes, there other mobile editor that are arguably more featured (EveryDoor, OSM Go, OsmAnd), but StreetComplete has a nice gamification / simplification of UI that makes editing a breeze.

MapComplete is a nice alternative if you care about some part of the map that are not easily filterable by StreetComplethttps://mapcomplete.org/

New comment by PetitPrince in "Apple WWDC 2026"

PetitPrince — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:10:21 +0000

As other comment suggested, the way I see it Americans are addicted to hyperbolas. Instead of "Thank you" it's "Thank you so much". So when you genuinely want to thank someone because that person went above and beyond (saved your life, avoided you a substantial hassle, etc.) then it's difficult to convey that.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV"

PetitPrince — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:25:00 +0000

And even with milsim FPS, as those blog posts from more than 10 years ago shows: https://dslyecxi.com/category/trackir/

New comment by PetitPrince in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

PetitPrince — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:03:46 +0000

I conceptually agree that managing windows should be the task of... the window manager, but at the same time it's easier and lower friction to both develop inside of an app and get some user to test new features

New comment by PetitPrince in "Why most product tours get skipped"

PetitPrince — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:51:20 +0000

> * Videogames (i.e. the tutorial). For very similar reasons to the above ;)

Oftentimes it's less jarring to have an invisible tutorial though (a level made to exploit the new gameplay element / feature). But it depends on what you want the user to learn and the type of videogame; I don't mind a guided tour in more strategic games (RTS, turn by turn RPG, ...).

New comment by PetitPrince in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

PetitPrince — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:39:38 +0000

Not OP but I think you have the right intuition in making a difference between using the app / contribute to the app. You may want to read https://diataxis.fr/ which elaborate on this idea and add another dimension (action / cognition) to this.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture"

PetitPrince — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:03:35 +0000

Have you reread what was produced by Claude Code before publishing ? This thing in one of the first paragraph jumps out:

> you end up with about 44 terabytes — roughly what fits on a single hard drive

No normal person would think that 44 TB is a usual hard drive size (I don't think it even exists ? 32TB seems the max in my retailer of choice). I don't think it's wrong per se to use LLM to produce cool visualization, but this lack of proof reading doesn't inspire confidence (especially since the 44TB is displayed proheminently with a different color).

New comment by PetitPrince in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

PetitPrince — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:45:14 +0000

> Same with emulation, really; had that not been developed, I doubt Nintendo would care about their back catalogue.

I agree with the previous point (no WoW classic without private server), I'm a bit more doubtful about Nintendo. They did remakes before it was cool (see: Super Mario All Stars), and the Super Nintendo -> Gameboy Advance pipeline was well received.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Swiss AI Initiative (2023)"

PetitPrince — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:28:04 +0000

Not quite: it's a collab between both ETHZ (Zürich, German speaking) and EPFL (Lausanne, French speaking). According to the website, the actual hardware is distributed all over the country (including in the Italian part).

New comment by PetitPrince in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

PetitPrince — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:17:43 +0000

Capture One express Fujifilm was discontinued and folded in into the regular Capture One. The out of box processing of raf is still top notch (at least for my x-t3). There's a subscription-less option.

New comment by PetitPrince in "iBook Clamshell"

PetitPrince — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:41:56 +0000

Classic Thinkpad use to do that as well. A reasoning I've read somewhere (here perhaps ?): the laptop is here to serve you, not be an advertisement.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

PetitPrince — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:42:15 +0000

My Alma matter has a jumbo version of this, in which the game if life is one of several available mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWall

New comment by PetitPrince in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

PetitPrince — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:37:55 +0000

As a another comment said, the smarter way to have a smart light is to replace the switch with a smart one or even better put a relay behind the existing dumb switch to smartify the switch. For me it's important to have a manual override; you shouldn't need an app for a thing as basic as turning the lights on.

New comment by PetitPrince in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

PetitPrince — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:32:55 +0000

> I think I need more Zigbee repeaters to get a reliable mesh network, but to date I haven’t found any consumer-grade devices certified for use in NZ.

Since many devices are also Zigbee router (it's a mesh network after all), maybe some additional lightbulb for exterior would suffice ?

New comment by PetitPrince in "Kona EV Hacking"

PetitPrince — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:10:53 +0000

Installing a non-standard button that hijack the light control of the car to light all of the rear one is not hacking ? https://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/yb.html

I appreciate the autopilot effort of comma, but if this isn't hacking in the most classic sense of the word I don't know what is.

New comment by PetitPrince in "A useless infinite scroll experiment"

PetitPrince — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:32:49 +0000

You should add a punchline about training for a thumb war (with a rocky reference ?).

New comment by PetitPrince in "I Powered a Car using 500 Disposable Vapes [video]"

PetitPrince — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:45:58 +0000

Previously this youtuber repurposed used disposable vapes batteries to build a powerbank, then a e-bike battery, then a powerwall. This is the latest in this escalation series where he powers a small electric car. Note that he did take security into consideration, with fuses everywhere, thermal sensor and a proper BMS. The latter also enabled him to charge the whole assembly via USB-C, which I find hilarious.

I Powered a Car using 500 Disposable Vapes [video]

PetitPrince — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:45:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwoZg3BCigU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207181

Points: 4

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