Hacker News: eleventen

New comment by eleventen in "The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions"

eleventen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:47:02 +0000

There is good discussion on the previous thread from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738

New comment by eleventen in "Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built"

eleventen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:58:05 +0000

You’ll certainly enjoy the “Not an Engineer” channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJJkZm796I

New comment by eleventen in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

eleventen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:46:10 +0000

The standard governing this is UL 1741 in the US or VDE-AR-N 4105 in the EU. both require certified inverters to detect grid loss and immediately cut off.

New comment by eleventen in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

eleventen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:34:28 +0000

I was not aware of auto mode in Claude. In fact, it looks like Claude had it before cursor. Cursor has workspace scoping in a way that Claude does not seem to, but my comment above is mostly moot.

New comment by eleventen in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

eleventen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:49:12 +0000

I'm surprised that their biggest feature has not been mentioned: The permissions model is much less noisy in Cursor.

Every 30 seconds in claude you get a new, elaborate, contrived bash command that claude wants to run. It's some combination of 10 things you've already granted permission for, but this one is new!

Cursor's auto-review run mode fixes that https://cursor.com/docs/agent/security/run-modes

I know it's a compromise in security, but auto-review+sandboxing provides a much nicer out-of-the-box experience. I'm happily using Cursor + Composer 2.5/Opus for most tasks.

New comment by eleventen in "A directory of people who love RSS"

eleventen — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:26:06 +0000

I generally want a posts/day count on any feed I subscribe to. Many of these are content mills with 20+ posts per day I have no intention in sifting through.

New comment by eleventen in "My web version of Mars MIPS, now has built-in C compiler"

eleventen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:20:19 +0000

Takes me back to undergrad. Neat!

New comment by eleventen in "The Beam Engine"

eleventen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:07:29 +0000

Quinn (Blondihacks) on youtube is a model engineer machinist and has, IMO, the most outsider-watchable content on building boilers and steam engines like this.

Highly recommend this primer titled "The Model Engineering Learning Curve" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_BQJEMnGA

She's been building a model locomotive for years now, there are over 100 videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLY67-4BrEae-xhrvZX33gPk4...

One more: a little engine I'd never encountered before called a wobbler is, apparently, the hello world of machining model engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHDrIms7-0

New comment by eleventen in "Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics"

eleventen — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:06:59 +0000

My umami instance handles a modest 1-2K events per day but does so on 150MB of memory and approximately no cpu. I switched from plausible, which might have been fine except clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB. I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami.

New comment by eleventen in "[dead]"

eleventen — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:58:38 +0000

This account has made multiple posts per day since joining 30 days ago and never bothered commenting on anything. Does not seem like a human behind the keyboard here.

New comment by eleventen in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

eleventen — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:01:02 +0000

Oof, front fork is wrecked. Pelican should be wearing a helmet on that death trap.

New comment by eleventen in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

eleventen — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:46:04 +0000

Casual, totally unnecessary prejudice against rural people to make your point.

New comment by eleventen in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

eleventen — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:05 +0000

This is a wild take. Most serious media companies would collapse without online ad revenue. Google would be dead, along with all the products that sorta run the world like maps. But even local publications, like your independent city news site, which you presumably think is good, also die instantly.

The ladder is also pulled up behind any kind of independent quality content producers. You cant run a successful channel without dedicated paid subscribers, and you can't build a dedicated subscriber base without years of work and supplementing your income with ads, so basically everything with an online audience also dies.

New comment by eleventen in "Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata"

eleventen — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:56:56 +0000

I will be using this to design local event posters.

Edit: I bought a copy and I'm having a blast!

New comment by eleventen in "Bring back crappy forums"

eleventen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:17:25 +0000

Were most forums pushing the outer boundaries of acceptable speech online? Reddit mods make and enforce the rules. Reddit gets involved mainly when subreddits do borderline illegal stuff. Is this a real problem, or a hypothetical one?

New comment by eleventen in "Bring back crappy forums"

eleventen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:15:17 +0000

I'm not aware of any "AI-driven engagement mechanism" for subreddits. You can sort by new, top, hot, best. Hot/Best are opaque heuristics, but they function reasonably and you aren't forced to use them. And for most communities, tags function as adequate topic groupings.

You're rewarded for participation with fake nonsense points, same as all the forums of yore.

New comment by eleventen in "Bring back crappy forums"

eleventen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:39:25 +0000

Valid points. I was never a member of any forums with closed, invite-only registration, and I've never been part of a reddit community that had to deal with front page traffic or brigading, so I sort of assume this is the median experience.

The maker communities, music subs, and local/city subs I'm in do not have any of these problems.

New comment by eleventen in "Bring back crappy forums"

eleventen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:28:22 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the difference between "crappy forums" and subreddits. They have all the same features. Tags function as sections. You can sort threads chronologically. Karma.

I suspect there's no actual difference, the author just liked the sort of people who were willing to deal with the traditional "crappy forum" interface for the sake of connecting around some niche hobby, and it provided enough friction to promote adherence to the community's culture.

There are just more people on the internet now. The problem always boils down to some version of Eternal September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

New comment by eleventen in "Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops"

eleventen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:44:53 +0000

I read this post while sitting at Broken Clock Brewing here in Minneapolis, one of the 13 listed and my favorite brewery. There are actually 2 in my city. I actually picked up an ownership card and anyone can buy in for $200, but dividends don't start to pay out until some indefinite point where the voting owners decide the business can sustain it.

https://www.brokenclockbrew.com/

https://www.workerowned.info/marketplace/beer-brewing

New comment by eleventen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

eleventen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:37:04 +0000

Could you say more about what you didn't like? This seems pretty indistinguishable from existing tools.