Hacker News: anotherpaul

New comment by anotherpaul in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

anotherpaul — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:00:22 +0000

I've also started using typst for some projects. I am slowly getting used to the syntax. But it's a process for me. I also still have latex projects/docs

So happy to see new texlive as well

New comment by anotherpaul in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

anotherpaul — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:47:14 +0000

Isn't Merlin the birdsound app that is commonly used?

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

New comment by anotherpaul in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

anotherpaul — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:10:52 +0000

Someone asked for the model you use but I am also curious how you handle ambiguous IDs. Not everything is clear cut especially when it comes to fungi and bugs.

Inaturalist uses second opinions what's your solution?

Edit: cool idea for the app btw, I always call inaturalist my Pokémon deck already so I think it's a nice new angle :)

New comment by anotherpaul in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

anotherpaul — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:59:20 +0000

What's the advantage over using Polars for the same task? It seems to me the natural competitor here and I vastly prefer the Polars syntax over SQL any day. So I was curious if I should try duckdb or stick with polars

New comment by anotherpaul in "pf: Make af-to less magical"

anotherpaul — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:09:08 +0000

I appreciate your reply. Thank you.

I am using socat right now to achieve this translation but it is rather slow. So o hope a proper solution using tool might be more powerful. But it seems it requires at least a bit more networking insight than what I have at this moment. It's an opportunity to learn something new for me

Right now I simply rent a hetzner machine including a v4 ip to route the traffic to my V6 services.

New comment by anotherpaul in "pf: Make af-to less magical"

anotherpaul — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:06:47 +0000

I did that with forwarding to another host but it's super slow (10 Mbit) on a cheap hetzner box. So I am looking for this functionality but faster

New comment by anotherpaul in "pf: Make af-to less magical"

anotherpaul — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:17:28 +0000

Wait this looks interesting. I am a biologist so I might get the terminology wrong. Would this allow me to run a ipv4 to ipv6 and back service?

I got some services with only ipv6 addresses and want clients with only ipv4 (sadly still exists) to at least be able to reach them. So could I dedicate a machine to translating for them using this tool?

New comment by anotherpaul in "Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables"

anotherpaul — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:32:19 +0000

I am speculating here but as it genomics data I assume it's information such as: gene count, epigenetic information (methylation, histones etc) Once you do 20k times a few post translational modifications you can come to a few columns quickly.

Usually this would be stored in a sparse long form though. So I might be wrong.

New comment by anotherpaul in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

anotherpaul — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:02:43 +0000

I agree, I used omz a while now but I have since also realised that the features I uses are so basic, it really does not warrant a whole software project as a dependency.

So I went and had Gemini make me a zsh config with the features I actually use. Took 15 minutes to get all the autocompelte, aliases and search functionality and done.

New comment by anotherpaul in "Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok"

anotherpaul — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:35:13 +0000

Oh I hate it it's so brain rotty. Well done. Well done indeed.

New comment by anotherpaul in "Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development"

anotherpaul — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:18:22 +0000

I don't quite understand: Instead of using the phones GPS to let me simply chat with people around me, which would be great during traveling or commute, I need to choose the place I chat at?

This seems super counter productive in my opinion. It creates way more friction that I want.

Maybe I want to save a location I have been to as a chatroom, sure but my primary interest would be to have my location determine the chat. So if I enter a university building: boom university chat. I enter Cern: boom Cern chat.

The hard part would be to not just use rectangles but actually make the shapes meaningful. I don't want to walk past a high school or live next to one and then be included in that chat. So yeah. Tricky

New comment by anotherpaul in "Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development"

anotherpaul — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:11:20 +0000

One obvious feature would be to provide geo fenced Wikipedia or news feed.

Like what is the highest rated/longest Wikipedia article in the area.

Or maybe what's the 3 top radio stations and a link to them.

There is plenty of local content that Google does not surface

New comment by anotherpaul in "Why I left iNaturalist"

anotherpaul — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:05:53 +0000

100% agree, I am still shocked that the models are not open sourced. It's the data from the community and I feel it goes very much against the spirit of the community to keep the machine learning part, which is very central to the app, so secret.

New comment by anotherpaul in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

anotherpaul — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:09:20 +0000

As far as I understand they do try to keep the heat around for the next decompression. As of course they need it. But I could not find what type of heat storage they use. Ultimately they "only" seem to need to store it for 12h, right?

New comment by anotherpaul in "Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice"

anotherpaul — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:18:22 +0000

Yes in figure 2 it's 3 mice, next figure 3 they also have 5 (panel e)

New comment by anotherpaul in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

anotherpaul — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:30:03 +0000

That reminds me of this project: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7912-spiegelmining_reverse_engin...

Why screenshots and not copy the source?

New comment by anotherpaul in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

anotherpaul — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:13:07 +0000

While the paper is behind a pay wall, the abstract highlights that they used knock out gene editing, meaning this is not a GMO of the old days, with trans genes, but a mkdifcation one could have achieved with classical breeding if given enough time and resources.

If I understand this right, this would even in the EU now be allowed to be sold without the GMO label.

New comment by anotherpaul in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

anotherpaul — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:08:48 +0000

The paper linked in the article: https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/abstract/S0167-779...

New comment by anotherpaul in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

anotherpaul — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:02:04 +0000

Thank you, well put. thats why I am using next cloud and manual curation. Folders is the ultimate future proof structure. But I do see the value of a nice UI. But immich hides the files from me too much for my taste.

Although I am sure I can back them up to my PC somehow. But having them just on the server is not my favourite solution.

New comment by anotherpaul in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

anotherpaul — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:59:15 +0000

So am I seeing this right:

Immich, ente and photoprism all compete in a similar space?

Seems immich is the most polished webpage, but which solution will become the next cloud for photos is to be seen. Surely it's not next cloud anymore, considering the comments here.