Hacker News: biker142541

New comment by biker142541 in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

biker142541 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:31 +0000

Should just be called the “Funsies” and “More Funsies” plans

New comment by biker142541 in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

biker142541 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:44:11 +0000

History would suggest otherwise; rarely is this ever the case.

New comment by biker142541 in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

biker142541 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:20:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I georeferenced in qgis, but there used to be some great plugins. Looks like some of those are gone now, and the core module has improved a lot. This newer plugin looks promising, though: https://github.com/cxcandid/GeorefExtension

New comment by biker142541 in "Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs"

biker142541 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:07:46 +0000

Not being boring doesn’t translate to $$, however.

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:05:16 +0000

Quick benchmark of pmtiles directly in maplibre vs served tiles, both via Bunnycdn and 5 areas sampled using same style. Total impact on page end to end load time: 39ms longer with cached range requests from pmtiles than cached tiles. Individual requests are comparable in the 20-35ms range, so the slight extra time seems to be from the additional round trip for range headers (makes sense).

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:18:01 +0000

Interesting, I should benchmark this. I have only used Bunnycdn so far and latency seemed similar to most tile providers like Maptiler and others (but a very limited test). This was using the full planet pmtiles file. Bunnycdn also makes it easy to prevent downloading the entire file, either in case you care about anyone using it or just want to prevent surprise downloads for those exploring network tab.

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:58:36 +0000

Curious how this would have compared to a static pmtiles file being read directly by maplibre. I’ve had good luck with virtually equal latency to served tiles when consuming pmtiles via range requests on Bunnycdn.

New comment by biker142541 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

biker142541 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:59:16 +0000

As a 12 mini user daily since it came out in 2020, I've only just now started to hit any noticeable battery dip (~85% after almost 5 years usage). It's still pretty solid on a daily basis. On very rare occasions, the smaller battery has required charging before evening due to excessive photos taken and/or nav without a plug. FWIW, I will probably replace the battery by end of year, or next, and keep it going as long as I can... I refuse the massive "normal" phone size.

New comment by biker142541 in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

biker142541 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:10:35 +0000

I just want to know what the insurance looks like behind this, lol. An agent mistakenly places an order for 500k instead of 500 stickers at some premium pricing tier above intended one. Sorry, read the fine print, and you're using at your own risk?

New comment by biker142541 in "Google Maps Come to Rivian Vehicles"

biker142541 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:39:35 +0000

Have you driven a Rivian? Their range estimation and deep integration into the nav experience is critical. CarPlay, etc, are worthless for an EV. This implementation deeply integrates Google APIs in the software Rivian has created, thus adding real value over the app from your phone.

New comment by biker142541 in "The death of partying in the USA"

biker142541 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:54:23 +0000

Perhaps, but what about the median age of buyers? That tells a more complete story here https://www.axios.com/2024/11/04/home-buyer-age-older

New comment by biker142541 in "AI is turning Apple into a "loser""

biker142541 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:39:51 +0000

No, not really. Peak Blackberry was both tiny compared to iPhone usage today and in a very different context, with very little of the economy or daily lives invested directly into a rich ecosystem dependent on the phones.

New comment by biker142541 in "The War on the Walkman"

biker142541 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:44:59 +0000

>It doesn't feel rude if somebody breaks out their phone mid-conversation and starts scrolling for a little bit.

This feels incredibly rude, and I honestly don’t know anyone who would not consider this rude.

New comment by biker142541 in "10 Years of Pomological Watercolors"

biker142541 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:57:17 +0000

Oh definitely no force behind it, but just annoying to see. These kinds of issues don't exactly block usage, but can plant a lot of confusion or hesitation for potential users. I wish agencies proactively embraced "please go use this awesome stuff" mentality vs gatekeeping by default.

New comment by biker142541 in "10 Years of Pomological Watercolors"

biker142541 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:38:32 +0000

Echoing the same thanks! I have used as well personally as technique references and in several projects directly.

New comment by biker142541 in "10 Years of Pomological Watercolors"

biker142541 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:37:19 +0000

I'm also noticing there is no explicit license on the official page. If it's public domain, attribution is not required. If it is not public domain, they should clarify the license (pretty sure this is indeed public domain).

Ambiguity like this is way too common...

New comment by biker142541 in "10 Years of Pomological Watercolors"

biker142541 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:10:47 +0000

Oh wow, it's been a decade! I remember this, and was excited to see these released. Nice work!

This actually inspired me to go out and start (slowly) cataloging mostly historic 100+ yr old landscapes that were locked behind mostly non-US pay-to-access (cough British museums cough), and write a flurry of emails to institutions encouraging uploading high res versions. I'm contemplating a project to put historic paintings "on the map", depicting their geographically represented locations (when applicable), giving a window into the past. Maybe I should circle back on this effort to get more paintings released...

New comment by biker142541 in "Show HN: A tool to post-process MVT vector tiles quickly"

biker142541 — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:14:25 +0000

Curious if you’ve tried against planet size pmtiles and the time it took, vs planetiler generation.

New comment by biker142541 in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

biker142541 — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:36:21 +0000

Just coming to say this is a great example of how communication should be done for such changes. So many companies get this wrong, but this is thoughtful and to the point. Glitch was a springboard for myself as well, so very bittersweet (and I guess I need to migrate really old stuff... but to their point, this is super easy now).

New comment by biker142541 in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

biker142541 — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:41:57 +0000

There are problems we absolutely should be thinking ahead 8000 years to solve for (or help mitigate)– climate change, species protections, sustainability, etc.

Call me skeptical, but reformatting dates for a "bug" in 8000 years seems extraordinarily silly. To think humanity will likely be using the same time measurement systems, computers that operate remotely similarly to ours today, same written/spoken languages, etc is laughable. 8000 years ago, the entire world's human population was roughly equal to that of London today and still just figuring out agriculture.