Hacker News: dgrabla

New comment by dgrabla in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

dgrabla — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:13:08 +0000

In Germany, Paypal uses NFC payments. It works on GrapheneOS

New comment by dgrabla in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

dgrabla — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:01:42 +0000

Taskwarrior is perfect. Give it a try.

  > t stats | grep -E 'Oldest|Total' \n
  Total                      7675
  Oldest task                2014-07-24

New comment by dgrabla in "How large are large language models?"

dgrabla — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:12:07 +0000

Back in the '90s, we joked about putting “the internet” on a floppy disk. It’s kind of possible now.

New comment by dgrabla in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

dgrabla — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:34:48 +0000

If MCP gets used this way I see big trouble when people hardcode stuff and then the provider updates the endpoints. MCP does not have versions as the list-tools is a living document, you are supposed to fetch and read the current version. AI would be totally fine with it because it would be able to reason the change and adapt, but the hardcoded app is going to break badly.

New comment by dgrabla in "Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball"

dgrabla — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:32:21 +0000

Indeed I have a ploopy 1 on the drawer because it gives me strong RSI on the thumb.

New comment by dgrabla in "A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C"

dgrabla — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:38:44 +0000

https://www.shipofharkinian.com/

New comment by dgrabla in "Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget"

dgrabla — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:30:59 +0000

Great breakdown!. The "own your own AI" at home is a terrific hobby if you like to tinker, but you are going to spend a ton of time and money on hardware that will be underutilized most of the time. If you want to go nuts check out Mitko Vasilev's dream machine. It makes no sense if you don't have a very clear use case that only requires small models or really slow token generation speeds.

If the goal however is not to tinker but to really build and learn AI, it is going to be financially better to rent those GPUs/TPUs as needs arise.

New comment by dgrabla in "How to Store and Dry Your 3D Filament: Full Guide"

dgrabla — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:44:48 +0000

It all depends of your location and the filament. I had PLA from 2018 that printed flawlessly last year and I had new, sealed PLA and PTEG spools that were brittle or printed a stringy mess unless they spent a night on the drier. The problem comes because there are so much variety and no way to know for the consumer what the composition of each filament is. It does not seem to have much to do with price. This inconsistency across manufacturers, filament types, colors and batches is why people have favorite brands they stick with to minimize the risk.

New comment by dgrabla in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

dgrabla — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:19:51 +0000

I have Bambu, Qidi and Creality printers. Qidi is a good compromise between open and 'print-quality-out-of-the-box'. My Q1 pro is easy to hack, but I have not done anything to it because it prints pretty much as well as Bambu.

New comment by dgrabla in "Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?"

dgrabla — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:56:27 +0000

It seems to be an elusive fruit in America. It is however a very common fruit in Spain (Chirimoya) and you will find it in all supermarkets - it is not particularly expensive. Orchards are in southern Spain and canary islands.

New comment by dgrabla in "Debian discusses vendoring again (2021)"

dgrabla — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:43:34 +0000

My solution: Debian + Flatpak for the few applications you need at the latest version

New comment by dgrabla in "Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system"

dgrabla — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:48:21 +0000

My Paperless-ngx listening on a network share + brother ADS-2800W are key to stay sane. My only complain is that it is resource hungry. If I allocate less than 2G RAM to the paperless VM it does not work as it should.

New comment by dgrabla in "Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID"

dgrabla — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:49:04 +0000

For my LG monitor also do an EDID-hack. If I use it with DP it works fine but with HDMI it gets super bright and high contrast. In windows it works fine.

New comment by dgrabla in "Guam: The America that Americans forget"

dgrabla — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:11:52 +0000

Somewhat related, the hilarious way the US navy conquered Guam from Spain https://halfarsedhistory.net/2022/02/06/episode-189-the-capt...

New comment by dgrabla in "Learning to Touch Type Again"

dgrabla — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:14:48 +0000

To learn in a non-tedious way I recommend the games "The typing of the dead overkill" (Linux Port) and also the more modern "Epistory"

New comment by dgrabla in "PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web"

dgrabla — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:38:03 +0000

For family photos shared on the LAN I use https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2 It is simple and FAST. I do the face recognition on Digikam.

New comment by dgrabla in "Framework Laptop 16"

dgrabla — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:13:30 +0000

Years using the trackpoint gave me carpal tunnel. Try not to use it exclusively.

New comment by dgrabla in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022)"

dgrabla — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:13:46 +0000

SEEKING WORK | South Germany | Remote | Frontend TS JS

Remote: yes

Technologies: Javascript, typescript, Vue, graphQL, tailwind, PWA, tRPC

Experience: >25y

Availability: ~30hours/week

Contact me for Frontend work. I started building sites back in 1996 and I have not stopped since then. I worked with small and big teams building products for telecom, auto, dating and healthcare industries.

https://davidgrajal.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dgrabla/

New comment by dgrabla in "Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?"

dgrabla — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:22:30 +0000

Nightfox https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim

New comment by dgrabla in "Taskwarrior"

dgrabla — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:11:48 +0000

Taskwarrior on desktop / Termux+Taskwarrior on android keeps my life sane. At this point it is an almost perfect piece of software that needs just maintenance but no extra features.