Hacker News: danielhep

New comment by danielhep in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

danielhep — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:57 +0000

Transit lines in many countries do support themselves by increasing productivity and tax revenue near the stations. It is not as direct as in Japan, where the train company itself captures the value created by its stations, but it’s effectively the same thing. Most places in the world with effective public transit systems are more like LA than Japan in how they are funded and operated.

New comment by danielhep in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

danielhep — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:25:50 +0000

This problem, along with general annoyances at Proton’s lack of focus on a good email experience pushed me over the edge to move to Fastmail. I’m so much happier. Proton Mail Bridge would often pin one core of my laptop CPU, draining my battery, and it was still slow to sync new email. With Fastmail, incoming mail is so fast that the verification codes are already there before I can alt tab over.

New comment by danielhep in "Skip is now free and open source"

danielhep — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:52:20 +0000

How is Skip’s support for building apps with maps or other more complex UIs? Can I build map overlays that work cross platform?

New comment by danielhep in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

danielhep — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:16:39 +0000

I got a Garmin watch after being frustrated with the tech company watches lasting only hours on a charge. I charge this watch once a week and it does everything I realistically want from a smart watch: - shows notifications - tracks workouts - silent alarm clock - home assistant shortcuts

New comment by danielhep in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

danielhep — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:41:16 +0000

I work on an open source server project that is deployed in many different contexts and with many different clients and front ends. GraphQL has allowed us to not feel bad about adding extra properties and object to the response, because if a particular client doesn’t want them, they don’t request them and don’t get them. It has allowed us to be much more flexible with adding features that only few people will use.

New comment by danielhep in "Orion 1.0"

danielhep — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:33:47 +0000

I want to be able to sync Orion with Firefox. I use non Apple operating systems on some computers, and I would love to have Orion sync with Firefox on them.

New comment by danielhep in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

danielhep — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:10:54 +0000

I have all my self hosted services set up with authentication through SSO now. Does this support that?

New comment by danielhep in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

danielhep — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:02:03 +0000

I have tried jj several times but I feel like it slows me down significantly because I can’t grok the workflow. I like to do a bunch of changes then quickly select them in my editor and commit them, breaking them up into different commits to keep them organized. With jj’s lack of editor integration, I don’t know how to do this with the cli alone so I end up with bigger messier commits.

New comment by danielhep in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

danielhep — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:04:38 +0000

US is the same. I dialed 911 once as a child from an American phone in Indonesia without a SIM card in it. Freaked out and hung up.

New comment by danielhep in "I built my own CityMapper"

danielhep — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:27:40 +0000

I am involved with the OpenTripPlanner project, which is a Java trip planning application that also uses the RAPTOR algorithm! It’s used in cities all over the world, with the biggest deployment being ENTUR’s in Norway, which covers the entire country. I believe all trip planning apps in Norway use this deployment.

It supports many features and has a very active developer community.

New comment by danielhep in "The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing"

danielhep — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:46:13 +0000

I have location shared with a dozen or so of my friends. It has many times been useful to find out that we happen to be near each other and end up hanging out.

New comment by danielhep in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

danielhep — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:36:10 +0000

Check LowEndTalk and LowEndBox

New comment by danielhep in "Notion releases offline mode"

danielhep — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:29:36 +0000

Linear the project management software?

New comment by danielhep in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

danielhep — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:05:10 +0000

What’s the end game for these scammers once they get the job? I understand there’s a question of espionage if they’re collecting intel from these companies, but do they also do their jobs? Or do they disappear as soon as they’re hired and collect as much data and money until they get fired? Do they actually know how to do IT work?

New comment by danielhep in "Adding public transport data to Transitous"

danielhep — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:41:56 +0000

This is really cool. I work on OpenTripPlanner at work and it’s neat to see this implementation of a “competing” open source routing engine. It seems like the scale at which this software runs is very different to OTP, but it still has some interesting features!

New comment by danielhep in "Building an AI server on a budget"

danielhep — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 02:53:15 +0000

What are the practical uses of a self hosted LLM? Is it actually possible to approach the likes of Claude or one of the other big ones on your own hardware for a reasonable budget? I don’t know if this is something that’s actually worth it or if people are just building these rigs for fun or niche use cases that don’t require the intelligence of a hosted LLM.

New comment by danielhep in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

danielhep — Tue, 27 May 2025 15:41:05 +0000

I’m wondering how the undergrad CS course is as an experienced dev and why you decided to do that? I have been a software developer for 5 years with an EE degree, and as I do more software engineering and less EE I feel like I am missing some CS concepts that my colleagues have. Is this your situation too or did you have another reason? And why not a masters?

New comment by danielhep in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

danielhep — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:59:07 +0000

You can even use them at international chains like Starbucks, IKEA, and McDonalds.

New comment by danielhep in "Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood"

danielhep — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:48:39 +0000

This is random, but I’m wondering why if you’re both Spanish why use miles and not km?

New comment by danielhep in "Investors spy the dawn of a tectonic shift away from US markets"

danielhep — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 06:32:56 +0000

I’m not sure such a prediction is valid in a world post Pax Americana.