Hacker News: blindstitch

New comment by blindstitch in "Show HN: Mapping the most convenient ways to meet someone with public transit"

blindstitch — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:26:29 +0000

This is cool, can you say more about how the routing backend works? Was it difficult getting all this data for transit?

New comment by blindstitch in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

blindstitch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:12:51 +0000

By the time I stopped using windows 10 on my daily driver last year I had 6 tweak apps always running to smooth over the endless papercuts. Now that I'm on KDE I don't have to run anything, it's all doable via stock control panels.

New comment by blindstitch in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

blindstitch — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:57:08 +0000

Go to the wikipedia page for Syria and click the dropdown for other languages

New comment by blindstitch in "Animated Knots"

blindstitch — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:17:40 +0000

I learned a lot of the knots and hitches I use from this site. One of my favorites is the Beer Knot (https://www.animatedknots.com/beer-knot) which I use to make little loops out of paracord. They are one of the few things on the site that are not exactly a hitch or knot but an object that makes tying other knots easier. In my bike repair kit I carry a few in different diameters.

If you wrap it around a pipe or tube using a cow hitch or prusik, it creates an eyelet that is as reliable as if it were welded in place, but is also easily moved by loosening it slightly. On bicycle tours I use them to create ad hoc eyelets on my racks which make lashing oddly-shaped things on the rack easier. They also work great for converting a small diameter eyelet into a larger one.

New comment by blindstitch in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

blindstitch — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Thanks for all this, what you wrote and the discussion that followed has been genuinely helpful, and I think it might help bridge some cultural divides that I've experienced when working with Indian people.

Another question I'd like to ask of you is, do you see any aspects of the western style of cooperation that are the inverse? i.e. which create divides in which the westerner's ways of working can be the source of conflict?

New comment by blindstitch in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

blindstitch — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:36:04 +0000

If you make every single person go through Github's miserable auth process just to do git pull, they are going to leave

New comment by blindstitch in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

blindstitch — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:46:12 +0000

I had my directions reversed, so the extra reach doesn't really apply, I suppose, but I think aligned to the right side (when looking into the lens) is even worse. I maybe see what you mean about your hand hitting the body, but i actually want that; my grip has me resting the body along much of my left hand and cradled in my palm. That is really important to stability for me, it gives me an extra stop to work with.

All personal preference I guess!

New comment by blindstitch in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

blindstitch — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:48:10 +0000

Practically and ergonomically I prefer a centered lens. Your hand has to reach less far to reach the focus ring and aperture control. Most slr cameras have buttons on both sides of the lens, so developing muscle memory is easier when those actions are split between each hand. Rotation of the camera is also much more natural. It also centers the lens' pov between your eyes, matching their parallax, which is really important for composing the photograph outside of the viewfinder.

New comment by blindstitch in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

blindstitch — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:59:37 +0000

Please approve my anglerfish. Thank you.

New comment by blindstitch in "Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic"

blindstitch — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:15:36 +0000

The fork that I've been using, WhisperX, seems to do better. I've used it on clean splits of mic tracks (ie total silence when the other is talking) with far fewer hallucinations.

New comment by blindstitch in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

blindstitch — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:32:08 +0000

I think something else would come in its place, like an automated way of trying out the options for solutions that you get when using it. Which AI incidentally is pretty good at.

New comment by blindstitch in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

blindstitch — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:29:42 +0000

This is scarily accurate about how I use stack overflow. And then I never make the post, and the information never ends up out there!

New comment by blindstitch in "I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen"

blindstitch — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:18:10 +0000

My life is given meaning by my relationships with my partner and family, pursuing my passions and hobbies, semi yearly bicycle trips, petting my cat etc. Its meaning is chipped away at when I hear about random grandparents black bagged at the home depot; the idea that immense and pointless suffering is being meted out an underclass supposedly for my benefit, without any significant way to protest or stop it without focusing those dark forces upon myself.

New comment by blindstitch in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

blindstitch — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:27:54 +0000

3%, dear god... do you have a link to where you heard that?

New comment by blindstitch in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

blindstitch — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:39:18 +0000

The typesetting is finished whenever you want it to be. I spend most of my time thinking about the content.

New comment by blindstitch in "Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers"

blindstitch — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:10:25 +0000

A lot of the time it's a just a near-verbatim rephrasing of the top result, too.

New comment by blindstitch in "Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system"

blindstitch — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:34:23 +0000

Flowing text between boxes can be done with flowfram, which is old and clunky, but works OK.

New comment by blindstitch in "Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band"

blindstitch — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:20:50 +0000

I was hoping for some kind of easter egg if you drag the music into the trash.

New comment by blindstitch in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

blindstitch — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:47:08 +0000

I would love if the bug(s) with working on the windows filesystem from within wsl could now be fixed. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/9412#discussion...

New comment by blindstitch in "Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global"

blindstitch — Sun, 04 May 2025 17:59:28 +0000

My first thought. It's the ultimate American invention, something to let you fly straight over the speed bumps people have installed to keep their streets safe, neatly tying up the infatuation with car culture with a complete disdain for all life outside the car.