Hacker News: RubenvanE

New comment by RubenvanE in "Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car"

RubenvanE — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:14:14 +0000

Some specs about the car:

- 31.5kWh

- 630kg

- 300km (186mi) range

This review explains the concept behind the car in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTzuUrdyIc

New comment by RubenvanE in "Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car"

RubenvanE — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:08:40 +0000

The car starts at about €45k, about the same price as a Tesla Model 3!

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car

RubenvanE — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:25:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.caricecars.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823186

Points: 298

# Comments: 206

Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

RubenvanE — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://letterfromjail.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644685

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by RubenvanE in "Show HN: Hackerdaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

RubenvanE — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:23:22 +0000

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the feedback and #23 on a weekend day is very impressive!

I found there are a couple of those small improvements that make HN significantly easier and more pleasant to read. Good to hear that the red names are not too distracting!

Show HN: Hackerdaily – What if HN updates only once a day?

RubenvanE — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:35:23 +0000

Hi everyone!

I adore Hacker News, but like all social platforms, it can easily become a slot machine where every visit brings new posts and comments!

To address this, I built HackerDaily. It only shows posts from the previous day, eliminating the 'slot machine' effect while ensuring you never miss the best content.

Some other key features:

- Improved comment collapsing

- RSS feed[1]

- Dark mode

- PWA

- Open source[2]

I built it for myself, but over 300k visitors have used it so far! I will be improving the site in the coming weeks, so I am looking for more feedback!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/feed/

[2] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914119

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by RubenvanE in "Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)"

RubenvanE — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:25:01 +0000

The creator of https://hackerdaily.io here!

The reason for a timezone specific RSS feed is because, like the site itself, the RSS feed only updates once a day at midnight. And _when_ the day changes depends on the timezone. Therefore we created different RSS feeds, one for each time zone.

DigitalOcean Managed Databases now support Droplets with 100% dedicated vCPUs

RubenvanE — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:28:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-managed-databases-now-support-droplets-with-100-dedicated-vcpus-for-your-mission-critical-workloads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821637

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by RubenvanE in "Great Bitter Lake Association, the Sort-of-Micronation Formed in the Suez Canal"

RubenvanE — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:39:27 +0000

This happened in the sixties, during and after the six-day war between Israel and Egypt. Therefore I think a movie could be made out of this story any day now.

Show HN: A Brief History of Yesterday

RubenvanE — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785629

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

RubenvanE — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:49:17 +0000

That’s a great idea! I’ll think about how to summarize this even further.

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

RubenvanE — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:48:17 +0000

Thank you! I would love to hear from you on what could be improved.

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

RubenvanE — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:47:43 +0000

Sorry, I put in the wrong URL, it should be working now!

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

RubenvanE — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:57:56 +0000

I’m building some projects to slow the internet down.

1. A less addictive Hacker News (https://hackerdaily.io)

2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events (https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com)

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

RubenvanE — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:57:37 +0000

Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you.

I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1]

[1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...

New comment by RubenvanE in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

RubenvanE — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:05:01 +0000

https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com

News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.

A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.

I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!

New comment by RubenvanE in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

RubenvanE — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:20:46 +0000

Ok, I added a quick shortcut. You can now go to a specific date by just going to that page, for example, the page for exactly a month ago is https://hackerdaily.io/2020-11-29. My database goes back to roughly the start of October, so that's the furthest you can go back for now.

I haven't add anything to the UI for now. Do you have an idea how to add this nicely to the existing UI?

New comment by RubenvanE in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

RubenvanE — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:05:08 +0000

Great point! Let me see if I can quickly add this.

New comment by RubenvanE in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

RubenvanE — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:04:25 +0000

Do you mean a page to show all AskHN/ShowHN posts? Because it already shows all the posts (including AskHN/ShowHN) with more than 100 points.

New comment by RubenvanE in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

RubenvanE — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:02:27 +0000

It is indeed a hard problem. For Hacker News I've made the assumption that I can trust the HN community to find the best posts, so they're the filter. I only sort on the score of all posts in a single day and show the posts with a score of 100+.

Most posts with 100+ points are at least somewhat interesting and I only have to do the manual filtering to find the few posts I want to read once a day.