Hacker News: davelondon

New comment by davelondon in "Gloria funicular derailment initial findings report (EN) [pdf]"

davelondon — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:59:38 +0000

Just what I was thinking! Normally these things take months...

New comment by davelondon in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

davelondon — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:45:28 +0000

tl/dr: it's marketed as e-paper, but it's not e-paper... it's reflective LCD.

New comment by davelondon in "Jeff Lawson buys The Onion"

davelondon — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:19:06 +0000

"Startling Report Finds Evidence Democrats May Have Attempted To Influence 2016 Election"

New comment by davelondon in "AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now"

davelondon — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:42:04 +0000

I signed up, paid €1.50 and was only then told I wasn't eligible. I can imagine they're going to be doing a lot of €1.50 refunds

New comment by davelondon in "Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable"

davelondon — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 18:40:12 +0000

Oh my lord this is amazing.

New comment by davelondon in "Relativistic Spaceship"

davelondon — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:17:33 +0000

I find it preposterous that we say that nothing can travel faster than light, when clearly that isn't the case.

New comment by davelondon in "Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars"

davelondon — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:12:29 +0000

I'm considering renting a Model Y from Hertz in Calgary for three months, but their pricing model is a complete mess:

23/01 -> 30/04 C$10,952.88 (C$111.76 / day)

... but pick it up a day earlier and it's C$4,000 cheaper:

22/01 -> 30/04 C$6,777.00 (C$68.45 / day)

Also:

13/01 -> 15/02 C$1,747.00 (C$52.94/day)

... but split it into two rentals and it's C$400 cheaper:

13/01 -> 01/02 C$727.00

01/02 -> 15/02 C$619.00

Total: C$1,346.00 (C$40.79/day)

Nothing makes sense.

Also, I need winter tyres. That'll be C$25/day extra... No discount for monthly rental. Doesn't make sense. I'm here with my money Hertz, but there's no way I'd deal with such a cluster-fuck.

New comment by davelondon in "In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users"

davelondon — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:10:56 +0000

I'd love to start recommending my friends use Organic Maps over Maps.me, but it's missing one critical feature:

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/622

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/1694

... right now your bookmarks aren't synchronised anywhere so if you lose your phone all your bookmarks are gone.

When that's working I'll change over in a second!

New comment by davelondon in "Do black holes have singularities?"

davelondon — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:26:10 +0000

> Fg = Gm1m2/d^2, you get infinite force when a marble (mass 1) is at the center of a planet (mass2)

A non-point mass only approximates to a point mass when you're not inside it. The gravitational effect of being inside a shell is nothing... so as d tends to zero the mass that's not a shell also tends to zero, so you actually get zero force.

New comment by davelondon in "Gemini AI"

davelondon — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:28:31 +0000

It's one thing to announce you have the world's best AI. It's another to let people use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by davelondon in "Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop"

davelondon — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:45:26 +0000

"tiny elephants wearing mouse costumes"?!? https://dalle.party/?party=42riPROf

New comment by davelondon in "The Cosmic Expansion Hypothesis is Falsified, the Universe is not Expanding [video]"

davelondon — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:22:35 +0000

Eric at it again, taking no prisoners. If he invested in a decent camera and stopped shilling his fusion startup, I'm sure he'd have a lot more fans. I'm a believer though - I always thought the big bang was a dumb idea.

The Cosmic Expansion Hypothesis is Falsified, the Universe is not Expanding [video]

davelondon — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:18:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJltuqBUbJM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38417264

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by davelondon in "Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral"

davelondon — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:43:36 +0000

"goes viral"

New comment by davelondon in "Paste without formatting on macOS"

davelondon — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 23:50:43 +0000

This is great! I'd love the same for iOS.

New comment by davelondon in "Ask HN: To what extent have digital payments replaced cash in your country?"

davelondon — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:14:54 +0000

India is really frustrating for tourists right now... I was there earlier this year, and there were several things I just couldn't do without UPI... Some restaurants just didn't accept cash so I couldn't eat there... Bus tickets had to be booked online with UPI... I think they're moving towards opening it up, but when I was there it was completely impossible for a foreigner to use UPI.

New comment by davelondon in "Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?"

davelondon — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:40:35 +0000

Their support is pretty bad.. they refused to refund a £20 booking when the hotel was 500km away from where it was shown on the map. There were no other contact options, so I took them to the UK Small Claims Court... They paid up before the case went to court.

New comment by davelondon in "A Virus for the BBC Micro"

davelondon — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:20:02 +0000

When our BBC crashed with the message "Sideways RAM required" my kid brother tried whacking the side of the case. Didn't work unfortunately.

New comment by davelondon in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

davelondon — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:02:16 +0000

I was in India earlier this year, and found there was no way (and I spent hours trying) for a foreigner to get access to the UPI system. This meant:

1) There were some cashless fast food outlets that I couldn't eat at

2) There was no way for me to book an intercity bus ticket

I eventually managed to get a bus ticket by sweet-talking someone in a shop to use their personal UPI account in exchange for cash.

I fear there's going to be more problems like this for travellers as communities go cashless around the world.

New comment by davelondon in "Organic Maps"

davelondon — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:03:23 +0000

My friend is a heavy iOS maps.me user, and has hundreds of bookmarks all over the world. She isn't a fan of the new maps.me, and would love to use Organic Maps.

I've tested the import / export function, and it looks like we can transfer all her bookmarks over and preserve the colour information...

The only thing we're missing is an auto-backup function to store the bookmarks online. She's not a techie, so it has to be free from settings and automatically enabled.

As soon as that feature is added you'll have another user!