Hacker News: janlaureys

New comment by janlaureys in "Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow"

janlaureys — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:20 +0000

My biggest bottleneck right now is upload speed but I'll keep it in mind thanks.

New comment by janlaureys in "Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow"

janlaureys — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:54:54 +0000

Been working on a dashboard that takes in a bunch of different public data sources in different formats and pandas has truly been a godsend for this.

I've got csv, txt, xlsx in all different shapes and sizes and with just a few settings I can go through them quite easily and very fast as well.

New comment by janlaureys in "World's biggest RC A380 [video]"

janlaureys — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:42:47 +0000

Been following this channel since the very early days and it's honestly mindblowing the scale and attention to detail of these models.

New comment by janlaureys in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

janlaureys — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:49 +0000

"Plagiarize, let no one else's work evade your eyes. Remember why the good lord made your eyes, so don't shade your eyes but plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize !" ~ Me

New comment by janlaureys in "The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)"

janlaureys — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:39:45 +0000

He's one of the OG woodworkers on Youtube. Just went to check and I've been subscribed for 15 years apparently. Always happy to see one of his videos pop up.

New comment by janlaureys in "First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing"

janlaureys — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:27:41 +0000

This sounds like the beginning of a Horror movie, but also colors me hopeful for a future where people born with my mothers disease (SCA) will have some kind of cure to halt or revert the loss of brain tissue ?

New comment by janlaureys in "Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender"

janlaureys — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:44:42 +0000

I don't think I've seen a desktop with a dvd reader in years. I couldn't even install one in mine if I wanted to, it's all just fans on the front.

New comment by janlaureys in "I walked across Luxembourg"

janlaureys — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:19:49 +0000

I've been in Luxembourg many times on our way from Belgium to France or Germany, but only last year I visited it for the first time. We did one of the Mullertal trails in 3 days and it's an absolutely beautiful little country.

New comment by janlaureys in "Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation"

janlaureys — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:04:05 +0000

Obisidian with icloud Drive sync is pretty sweet.

New comment by janlaureys in "Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft"

janlaureys — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:00:19 +0000

About 146 assuming a bus weighs about 3.5 giraffes.

New comment by janlaureys in "How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)"

janlaureys — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:34:55 +0000

The change started well before 2014 but social media mostly.

New comment by janlaureys in "How to Befriend Crows"

janlaureys — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:11:19 +0000

I just spat out my tea reading this comment.

New comment by janlaureys in "Infinite Canvas"

janlaureys — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:05:10 +0000

I feel like Freeform is gonna be quite a setback for a lot of these infinite canvas drawing/notes apps.

New comment by janlaureys in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

janlaureys — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:26:23 +0000

More features is not a great indicator of quality.

New comment by janlaureys in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

janlaureys — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:25:09 +0000

Sketch also used this model for a long time. You pay for a year of updates, and you can keep the last version you got forever.

Recently they started to add more cloud/collaboration services/a web app and switched to a regular old subscription model, but you can bet your ass i'm staying on the legacy model for as long as I can.

New comment by janlaureys in "My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs"

janlaureys — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:57:36 +0000

I thought I did this as well, but I went to check my plugins after reading this comment and I just disabled at least 30 plugins. Thanks !

New comment by janlaureys in "Electric vehicle battery capable of 98% charge in less than ten minutes"

janlaureys — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:01:19 +0000

Hell I park my car in an underground parking garage, and it's been a whole discussion about who wants to and how they want to install 7kW/11/kW chargers. In the meantime I just charge it on the wall plug now and then. Yeah sometimes my battery is not fully charged, but I hardly ever drive 450km in one go anyway.

New comment by janlaureys in "Reduced air pollution leads to higher crop yields"

janlaureys — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:50:36 +0000

The most important reason that I'm somewhat of a treehugger is because trees are just nice. Walking in a forest is nice, taking my dog for a walk outside in nature is nice, hearing the birds chirp is nice too.

New comment by janlaureys in "Sunset of libspotify"

janlaureys — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:32:18 +0000

I realise this isn't reddit. But this totally unlocked this memory in my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3EwjWhyUU

New comment by janlaureys in "Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data"

janlaureys — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:41:38 +0000

Cool, my street was already there in 1777. I absolute love this.