Hacker News: Tmpod

New comment by Tmpod in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

Tmpod — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:31:42 +0000

This exactly. My rsync patterns file is littered with dozens of edge cases to capture the configs and ignore state/caches of stuff that doesn't follow XDG. Really dislike the chore of double checking everything and adding new stuff to the list every time I take a backup.

Even worse are those that seemingly follow XDG but not really, like a lot of Electron apps, that just shove config, state and cache in ~/.config.... sigh

New comment by Tmpod in "CUDA-accelerated program to search Minecraft seeds for Mooshrom Island biomes"

Tmpod — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:59:41 +0000

Somewhat silly goal, but there appears to be a big community around it. Found it in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-1c9gxK9ac

CUDA-accelerated program to search Minecraft seeds for Mooshrom Island biomes

Tmpod — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MinecraftAtHome/COMMISSION

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946861

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Tmpod in "[dead]"

Tmpod — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:51:16 +0000

Intro blog post: https://plyx.iz.rs/blog/introducing-ply

New comment by Tmpod in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

Tmpod — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:35:08 +0000

Still barebones, but there are two emerging projects for Portugal's (passenger) trains:

- https://comboios.live

- https://comboios.ruicosta.pt

New comment by Tmpod in "Organic Maps"

Tmpod — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:11:40 +0000

Wasn't aware of that one, neat! I'll leave another web app: https://osmapp.org

New comment by Tmpod in "Organic Maps"

Tmpod — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:28:05 +0000

That's OSM Carto[1] on the bottom, the default renderer/style on osm.org, but there are many alternative ones too. For example, Maptiler[2] has a bunch of cleaner styles, closer to Google's, yet with greater detail. Here is a basic one used my OSMApp[3] for that place as well: https://i.ibb.co/7dD05Ldp/Captura-de-ecr-20260706-092411.png

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Carto [2]: https://www.maptiler.com [3]: https:/osmapp.org

New comment by Tmpod in "Organic Maps"

Tmpod — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:01:20 +0000

Indeed. I have been slowly but surely completing a11y info in my area for a while. It seems never ending, but it's a good excuse to go take some long walks outside. Hopefully the data is useful to someone in need too :)

New comment by Tmpod in "Organic Maps"

Tmpod — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:47:29 +0000

For the more experience OSM contributors, there is also a fork called SCEE[1] that adds some extra "quests" and a ton of UI customisability!

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SCEE

New comment by Tmpod in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

Tmpod — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:31:05 +0000

You're right, the USA is huge and highly diverse as well. Yet, I'd still say it's more of a unit than the EU is, in many ways, and especially more so than "Europe". That's what I meant with "Europe is not a unit like the USA is"; not that the USA has absolute unity and Europe has none. But I may be wrong about the USA's cohesion on a deeper level, I've never been there and only see it through an outsider's lens.

New comment by Tmpod in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

Tmpod — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:45:59 +0000

I always struggle to take these sort of posts from people who don't live in "Europe" seriously. Europe is not a unit like the USA is, it's very diverse, and you generally can't neatly extrapolate your observations from one country to all others.

It hasn't ever been this hot, this regularly, especially in the northen parts of the continent. Add that to the number of historical building, streets, etc, that really can't (or shouldn't) get littered with eyesores on every balcony, and you can understand why AC units never picked up much steam in a lot of places. But that doesn't mean people have some twisted aversion to the technology, in fact, it already exists in many places. Where I'm from (a southern country), it's more common for a public place (buildings, transport, and so on) to have AC than to not have it. On people's homes, it's less common, but there's been a natural increase in demand. Unfortunately, many can't justify the investment to retrofit it into existing buildings, though new ones are likely to be built with central HVAC systems.

I don't know, it feels weird to read pieces like this one. It seems clear the author does not live over here and has a skewed conception of what Europe is and the peculiarities of each country and region. His previous post on the topic even goes as far as calling out some form of resistant to "foreign technology"...

It's easy to make blanket assumptions, but a bit of empathy and a more careful approach into these issues would go a long way.

New comment by Tmpod in "Macrodata Refiner – infrastructure for the robotics data loop"

Tmpod — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:32:03 +0000

Seems interesting, found it on Twitter[1]. From their page:

> Macrodata Labs helps robotics teams turn raw physical-world data into better training datasets. Refiner, our open-source data processing framework, lets you build pipelines locally in Python, then scale the same pipeline on managed cloud compute.

And it looks like it's built by ex-HuggingFace people.

[1]: https://twitter.com/macrodata_labs

Macrodata Refiner – infrastructure for the robotics data loop

Tmpod — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:32:03 +0000

Article URL: https://macrodata.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488166

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Plant Your Seeds in the Radicle Garden

Tmpod — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://radicle.dev/2026/06/02/announcing-radicle-garden

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369801

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Tmpod in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

Tmpod — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:31:18 +0000

Agreed, I find Slint really interesting. To me, the biggest pain point is the very limited theming support. It's virtually impossible to make a custom theme without re-implementing most widget logic, which is a shame.

New comment by Tmpod in "Radicle 1.7.0 – Daffodil"

Tmpod — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:50:28 +0000

New version of Radicle (node v1.7.0 and httpd 0.24.0) has dropped today, with an important security fix and dome other nice improvements.

Radicle 1.7.0 – Daffodil

Tmpod — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://radicle.xyz/2026/03/18/radicle-1.7.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431856

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Tmpod in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Tmpod — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:30:48 +0000

https://tmpod.dev

Not regularly updated, still. I should try to train some habit of writing, maybe.

New comment by Tmpod in "Text-based web browsers"

Tmpod — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:35:35 +0000

There's also the even more barebones DDG Lite: https://lite.duckduckgo.com

I use it often when on very slow or metered connections (still find some of those around).

New comment by Tmpod in "Build Android apps using Rust and Iced"

Tmpod — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:41:21 +0000

+1 for Slint! I worked with it for a while and enjoyed it quite a lot. Florian was working on a more glossy compinent library, not sure what has been made of it.

The DSL was pleasant but still had some rough edges. I think they made some nice QoL improvements in the latest releases, but I've not kept up with it. The compile times were quite something, though you can use the previewer tool to prototype faster.

Definitely worth giving Slint a shot, they learnt a lot from QML imo