Hacker News: icedrift

New comment by icedrift in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

icedrift — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:12:39 +0000

The range of these lora nodes is a bit of a myth. It is better than higher frequencies but you shouldn't expect anything more than a km with obstructions, realistically half that.

Not to say they don't fill a niche, but bandwidth and range limit it's viability to small operations; even an optimal network cant handle more than a few hundred tweets per hour.

New comment by icedrift in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

icedrift — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:18:32 +0000

Are you actually seeing demand?

New comment by icedrift in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

icedrift — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:54:22 +0000

I don't like that default on mac either but in their defense it's super easy to customize. I turned off all but applications and my documents folder for spotlight search.

New comment by icedrift in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

icedrift — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:37:54 +0000

No I haven't seen that before. I used to just run the terminfo tic command that's recommended in the top searches and when that started failing I just swapped back to default terminal for SSH

New comment by icedrift in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

icedrift — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:35:54 +0000

This is what kills it for me. Half the time I'm using a terminal I'm sshing and the fact that I need to copy over term-info on virtually every machine keeps me from using it more often. Even copying term-info doesn't always fix it. From what I've read it's not entirely ghostty's fault but as a user it's frustrating.

New comment by icedrift in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

icedrift — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:47:16 +0000

On the contrary, when I was in high school we had one class dedicated to digital electronics and it revolved around breadboard circuitry. You only had 30 minutes/day to tinker with the physical hardware then it had to be disassembled for the next class. Simulations like this are more approachable then schematics and would have been great for tinkering outside of class.

New comment by icedrift in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

icedrift — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:29:51 +0000

I chortled when I choked an input and accidentally clicked that

New comment by icedrift in "The next two years of software engineering"

icedrift — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:51:38 +0000

And the mistakes AI makes don't carry the same code smells juniors make. There are markers in human code that signals how well they understood the problem, AI code more often looks correct at a glance even if it's horribly problematic.

New comment by icedrift in "You can make up HTML tags"

icedrift — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:29:57 +0000

Mainly because it isn't semantic and breaks accessibility features. If you find yourself writing layouts like this you're probably ignoring a bunch of useful stuff like

etc. Unless you manually configure it yourself, screen readers won't know what's important to read, tabindex won't know where to jump around, and form fields won't know what values to offer.

New comment by icedrift in "Exe.dev"

icedrift — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:15:48 +0000

There's nothing dangerous about SSHing into an untrusted server unless you're using the same keys for everything.

New comment by icedrift in "Exe.dev"

icedrift — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:26:09 +0000

Super cool. I can't justify investing time in it at the planned pricing but I'll keep an eye on it if they can hack together a more competitive VPS option.

New comment by icedrift in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

icedrift — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:00:19 +0000

Speaking for my friends in their mid to late 20s, if you have a reasonable plan to get to a point where you can invest in your future as opposed to simply burning every last drop of income on mandatory expenses like food, housing and insurance I agree. When you can't foresee a way to get there you lack economic agency, economic nihilism is a rational response.

New comment by icedrift in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

icedrift — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:48:02 +0000

Per Atrioc

New comment by icedrift in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

icedrift — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:45:44 +0000

If you come from immense privilege (growing up in an 8 figure household), have good health, and rich relationships and that isn't enough to curb your existentialism that's ok, but I find it hard to take this piece seriously as this is written like it's targeting the average financially stable worker. It strikes me as out of touch at best.

New comment by icedrift in "Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)"

icedrift — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:09:04 +0000

Oh boy another template shipped in a single commit; complete with "For now, do this" and "In production you would do this" comments

New comment by icedrift in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

icedrift — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:00:02 +0000

Thing is Kindle hardware is significantly better and cheaper. If you don't mind tinkering get a kindle and jailbreak it to remove ads and add koreader.

New comment by icedrift in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

icedrift — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:14:43 +0000

Onyx violate GPL with their linux-based OS. I'd go Kobo or remarkable over them for that alone

New comment by icedrift in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

icedrift — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:17:38 +0000

I think what they mean is these e-bikes pushing 60mph should be legal but reclassified as something closer to a motorcycle. The problem with keeping them illegal is people tend to treat them like bikes when they should be on the road.

New comment by icedrift in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

icedrift — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:14:18 +0000

For EVs no but it's huge for flight if it could be scaled down. Paramotors and ultralight planes are on the verge of being competitive with gas they just need a bit more energy density per pound in the system.

New comment by icedrift in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

icedrift — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:01:55 +0000

Yeah and it used to be normal to get up and grab a drink between page transitions.