Hacker News: avel

New comment by avel in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

avel — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:42:58 +0000

Related: Honda's 2 Motor Hybrid System Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_VChtMGK8

New comment by avel in "Math Notepad"

avel — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:51:05 +0000

$39?! I'll stick with qalc!

New comment by avel in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

avel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:35:04 +0000

Similar story - "Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth"

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/home...

New comment by avel in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

avel — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:17:28 +0000

Also the Dacia Spring is exactly that.

New comment by avel in "Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility"

avel — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:26:19 +0000

Slightly tangential, but there's this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/

New comment by avel in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

avel — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:45:36 +0000

Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.

New comment by avel in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

avel — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:43:31 +0000

That does not completely turn off the federated sign-in popup you see on the top right in various websites. The solution is actually already mentioned in the article.

New comment by avel in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

avel — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:19:31 +0000

What travel ban are you referring to?

New comment by avel in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"

avel — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:25:19 +0000

You need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.

New comment by avel in "Bigscreen Beyond 2"

avel — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:28:33 +0000

Two video reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbFU6KoEASU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpzZWTz1h0w

New comment by avel in "Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?"

avel — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:38:02 +0000

This is a great article on the topic: https://hbr.org/2022/03/what-great-hybrid-cultures-do-differ...

New comment by avel in "Tegelwippen"

avel — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:19:38 +0000

Somewhat related: NYC Rain Gardens https://home.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/rain-gardens.page

New comment by avel in "Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit"

avel — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:01:14 +0000

For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives you wrong directions, leaving you stranded. Sometimes it doesn't show the alerts by MTA at all.

Now that the MTA app is so good and has achieved feature parity with Citymapper, I prefer that for 90% of the time. It doesn't have multi-modal (eg subway + citibike) and doesn't show estimates of uber/lyft prices, but those have not been very useful in my experience.

Citymapper is still ok to quickly check upcoming train or bus departures.

New comment by avel in "Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network"

avel — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:45:00 +0000

Pretty cool. If you have adguard home and google assistant, you have access to a switch that can enable/disable adguard home protection. So with the homeassistant app you can add that as a quick tile as well. The only caveat is that this will disable it across all devices.

New comment by avel in "Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network"

avel — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:40:37 +0000

It's not that tedious.

In adguard home you have a switch on/off in the web UI. You can also expose that switch to homeassistant.

And there are some other good ideas in this thread as well for android and ios.

New comment by avel in "ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails"

avel — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:06:31 +0000

> you get meals every week, unless you opt-out

But that is what the subscription is about.

There are clear options under account settings to "Cancel plan" and "Pause deliveries".

New comment by avel in "A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks"

avel — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:46:15 +0000

You can only apply the fix to the URL field in the payload described, not to normal message text.

New comment by avel in "IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks"

avel — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:23:28 +0000

You probably have battery issues because you are using SmartThings as the zigbee hub and it's polling the remote way too much.

I have switched to HomeAssistant with a Zigbee USB adaptor and there are no more battery issues.

SmartThings are aware of the issue but do not care enough to fix it.

New comment by avel in "Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November"

avel — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 02:26:57 +0000

I clicked on one of these links in Google News, and now I get all the click-baits for the Las Vegas GP such as "Las Vegas GP cancelled?". Jalopnik is one of them, but they are all pretty much trash. This is definitely not HN material.

New comment by avel in "DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months"

avel — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:27:28 +0000

DJI used to have the "Mimo" app in the play store. It was rated very low, 2.3 stars. The app required users to allow the permission to read the phone's IMEI. If you denied that permission, the app closed. Myself, and I'm sure plenty of others, have reported this to the play store as something against the play store policies. Perhaps Google gave in to the complaints eventually and told DJI, enough is enough with your crap, who knows... And that made DJI say, "enough is enough with _you_, we're big enough to distribute these outside the play store and keep our invasive tracking and permissions".

Page visible only if you have installed the app in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.mimo