Hacker News: doublesocket

New comment by doublesocket in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

doublesocket — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:18:39 +0000

Given their username I would raise you that they're on the victoria line :-)

New comment by doublesocket in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

doublesocket — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:22:32 +0000

This was many moons ago, written in perl. From memory we used Regexp::Trie - https://metacpan.org/release/DANKOGAI/Regexp-Trie-0.02/view/...

We used it to tokenize search input and combined it with a solr backend. Worked really remarkably well.

New comment by doublesocket in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

doublesocket — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:51:29 +0000

Supporting 10 different languages in regex is a drop in the ocean. The regex can be generated programmatically and you can compress regexes easily. We used to have a compressed regex that could match any placename or street name in the UK in a few MB of RAM. It was silly quick.

New comment by doublesocket in "Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust"

doublesocket — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:51:59 +0000

Agree with this. Mismatching types are generally an indicator of an underlying issue with the code, not the language itself. These are areas AI can be helpful flagging potential problems.

New comment by doublesocket in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

doublesocket — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:39:32 +0000

Railway is getting so good I'm not sure what Vercel brings to the party anyway.

New comment by doublesocket in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

doublesocket — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:48:46 +0000

I don't think OP was implying punishing voters.

New comment by doublesocket in "TeraWave Satellite Communications Network"

doublesocket — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:50:22 +0000

That is ... an oddly specific reference?

New comment by doublesocket in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

doublesocket — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:38:45 +0000

Never understood why the yanks don't like vans? Pickups are much less popular here in the UK, many more people use vans. A crew cab van with removable seats is infinitely more flexible than a pickup, other than long stuff which you chuck on a roof rack.

New comment by doublesocket in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

doublesocket — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:39:51 +0000

I don't use it but I did still have an account which is now deleted. Thanks for the reminder.

New comment by doublesocket in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

doublesocket — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:27:48 +0000

My ADHD brain recoils at the thought of this, which probably means I would benefit even more from doing so.

New comment by doublesocket in "Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)"

doublesocket — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:33:47 +0000

FWIW I gave up trying to render SVG for our project and switched to using fabric.js (and node-canvas for server side rendering). For us it was mostly because it had far better text support.

New comment by doublesocket in "Atkinson Dithering (2021)"

doublesocket — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:52:13 +0000

We've very recently been testing multiple dithering techniques for graphics we send as bitmaps to a TIJ printer that's used as a dynamic labeller.

New comment by doublesocket in "Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO"

doublesocket — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:54:34 +0000

It hasn't gone well for several UK companies listing through SPACs on US exchanges recently. Think that's given plenty of reason for a rethink.

New comment by doublesocket in "Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance"

doublesocket — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:01:28 +0000

I currently use Mylio. The feature I like most is that I can store a compressed version of my entire catalog on my phone so it's very quick to find something and it works offline. I can then download the full res image if I want it.

My biggest complaint about Mylio is there is still no automatic synchronisation from Android. You have to leave the app open for it to sync.

Wondering if the Memories Android app can handle both of these points?

New comment by doublesocket in "Why are most sofas so bad?"

doublesocket — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:52:22 +0000

There's a good choice in formaldehyde free boards these days. In the UK a popular one is Sterling Zero.

New comment by doublesocket in "Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)"

doublesocket — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:49:04 +0000

There are various research projects looking at storing waste heat, often for the purpose of more efficient defrosting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00018-3

New comment by doublesocket in "UK Address Oddities (2018)"

doublesocket — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:24:02 +0000

Yes, there was a noticeable drop in the count of number 13s too.

New comment by doublesocket in "UK Address Oddities (2018)"

doublesocket — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:40:02 +0000

I did a bunch of analysis of UK addresses at a former job. My favourite was the clear inverse correlation between house number and value, with a noticeable dip for number 13s, which from memory were valued around 2.5% lower than where they should have been.

New comment by doublesocket in "We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms"

doublesocket — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:50:03 +0000

Yes, they're so incompetent they haven't changed their parking page. See google search results:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=tarantope...

It's all on subdomains, e.g. https://wandsworth.tarantopermits.com

New comment by doublesocket in "We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms"

doublesocket — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:36:29 +0000

Absolutely, there's massive duplication of functionality. I think it's partly incompetence and partly a control thing.