Hacker News: diggernet

New comment by diggernet in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

diggernet — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:05:42 +0000

Never byod. Besides MDM issues, it makes your personal device in scope for discovery if any lawsuit against the company.

New comment by diggernet in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

diggernet — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:32:43 +0000

Fences can be made out of the tree that fell. Even post holes are optional. Only thing you need to pay for is some cheap wire mesh, and that may be reusable for repairs.

New comment by diggernet in "MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors"

diggernet — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:27:51 +0000

2.009 appears to be some kind of class id. The actual class discussed was in 2017.

New comment by diggernet in "Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared"

diggernet — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:15:31 +0000

That's my main problem with Thread. With Zigbee I have confidence that the mesh is 100% local and offline. How do I get that confidence with Thread? How can I really be sure that something isn't helpfully opening it up to the world?

New comment by diggernet in "The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists"

diggernet — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:35:58 +0000

They are an invasive species in most of the world. Wiping them out is restoring the ecosystem.

New comment by diggernet in "OpenRadioss is not open anymore"

diggernet — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:02:25 +0000

Looks like they've made https://github.com/OpenRadioss/OpenRadioss private to make that harder to do. But hopefully someone out there has a recent clone of the repo.

New comment by diggernet in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"

diggernet — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:02:00 +0000

Oh good. Then Google will be "clean", while countless homes will be getting their power from coal or whatever instead of this nuclear plant.

New comment by diggernet in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

diggernet — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:41:12 +0000

Why didn't you tell me about this years ago?

New comment by diggernet in "I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo"

diggernet — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:11:08 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484918

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:55:16 +0000

Nice to learn about Traffxml, but that allows taking in traffic data from where? Seems like there would need to be some service consolidating traffic reports from users of various map apps.

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:44:26 +0000

Not really. I imagine a sqlite db, but I haven't thought about any particular schema.

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:41:12 +0000

Yeah, there are all kinds of interesting things that can be done with shared data like this. But the first step is to have some standard ContentProvider to let apps share the data locally on a single device, similar to how other user data is handled. Because I'm tired of having several map apps installed for various reasons that all have separate favorites.

Once that is in place, people can create apps that build on it in lots of different ways.

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:43:52 +0000

Thanks for the reminder that ContentProvider is the Android term I couldn't remember when I wrote my other comment here.

And the reminder that I should have added this to my list:

3. A ContentProvider app for OSM map data, so that apps can share the same offline map data.

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:17:33 +0000

No, it should be local-first. Private and offline by default. There could certainly be sync integrations using AT, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. Those could even be separate apps, using the same API to access the data. But that sort of thing should be secondary and optional.

New comment by diggernet in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

diggernet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:46:08 +0000

Two things I would love to see in the FLOSS mapping ecosystem:

1. A POI/favorites app that maintains a local database with an API for other apps to access it. Apps could then store markers there instead of in their own private db, so that points added on one map app can be instantly available in other apps.

2. A shared traffic data service. Any OSM map app could contribute to the same data, helping reduce Google's advantage in live traffic data.

Obviously, both of these would need privacy protections and be subject to user choice. And there should also be some requirement that both reading and writing be supported, to ensure apps reading POI data don't lock in new data, and to prevent apps reading traffic data from freeloading.

New comment by diggernet in "Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles"

diggernet — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:15:16 +0000

You know what's a bigger source of drag than mirrors? Open wheel wells.

If the Tesla door handles were really because they care that much about aerodynamics, their cars would look more like the 1st Gen Honda Insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#/media/File:Hond...

New comment by diggernet in "Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles"

diggernet — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:06:21 +0000

"You can open a rear door manually (if equipped) in the unlikely situation in which Model Y has no power:

Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.

1. Remove the mat from the bottom of the rear door pocket.

2. Press the red tab to remove the access door.

3. Pull the mechanical release cable forward."

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2020_2024_modely/en_us/GU...

New comment by diggernet in "Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world"

diggernet — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:06:29 +0000

I love this. There are books I've read that I never really had a good mental image of where the locations were.

Just a note that despite the title these are not all fiction. Which is great! I can think of a couple books i'd love to add.

Tesla and others begin record vehicle recall in China

diggernet — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:27:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-fix-software-millions-china-made-imported-evs-china-2026-08-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394998

Points: 7

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New comment by diggernet in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

diggernet — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:15:28 +0000

"...adopt a replacement tire efficiency program “designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold in the state as original equipment on new passenger cars and light-duty trucks.” Replacement tires are those purchased by drivers to replace existing tires."

Tires are not car-specific. This sounds like you couldn't just go out and buy some random tires, you could only buy tires that are designated for your specific vehicle. And that owners of two vehicles with the same size tires would have different allowed tire choices, depending on what their OEM tires were.

Put another way, is this saying you can't buy wider than OEM tires, and that you can't buy all-terrain tires for something that came with street tires?