<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jcul</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcul</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:06:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jcul" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Significant Raise of Reports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe just not the very latest.<p><a href="https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns" rel="nofollow">https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:20:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620925</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You know you can just paste mermaid into excalidraw?<p>It has a mermaid WYSIWYG editor and once the diagram is inserted you can edit it, move objects, add text just like you had drawn it directly in excalidraw.<p>I usually enter mermaid and then move things around to my liking rather than drawing from scratch.<p>You can also paste csv in, it's been a while since I've done it but I think it even generates a chart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:13:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580869</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's such a great piece of software IMHO.<p>Calibre web support, opds catalogue, wallabag, ssh. And it supports so many file formats.<p>I'd imagine the built in reader has improved a lot over the years, but at the time reading technical pdfs on it was not feasible. KOReader allowed me to rotate to landscape and reflow the pdf text.<p>I almost got the Clara BW for Christmas, I thought my Clara HD was dead, wasn't sure if it was the battery or screen but it was failing to properly clear and update the screen. Someone actually bought the BW for me but I ended up returning it after I managed to recover the Clara HD.<p>I was kind of looking forward to the waterproofing, but seems my old one is not yet ready to give up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572504</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 for Kobo.<p>I've had my Kobo Clara HD for almost 8 years and I still use it daily with KOReader.
It's so easy to install KOReader and it's really repairable. I replaced the SD card at one point, and another time I thought it was broken or needed a new battery but came back to life after reseating cables.<p>Before that I had a kindle and you had to jump through a lot of hoops to install KOreader, and I remember you had to be careful not to upgrade the firmware so it could be jailbroken.<p>Like I said I've had the Kobo for 8 years, so I hope this is still the case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562274</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Linux is an interpreter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That four part blog was one of the most entertaining things I've read this year, thanks.<p>Really in the spirit of "hacker" news IMO.<p>I get the motivation, it's less avoiding the 1.50 per month and more like a challenge to work around it!</p>
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<p>Interesting stuff, thanks for the long and detailed response.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508317</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Missile defense is NP-complete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really interesting.<p>Forgive my ignorance, but I thought Israel's "iron dome" offered a very effective defense.<p>Is this just from short distance missiles from neighbouring countries?<p>This article seems to indicate it's very difficult to achieve a high success rate against multiple missiles.<p>Admittedly I probably need to read up on this more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:58:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503622</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Is it a pint?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do they actually call it a pint or just a half litre / large beer?<p>That's seems to be the norm in a lot of mainland Europe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:49:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492784</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472574</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Your phone is an entire computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks, that sounds really good.<p>Yeah it just wasn't possible to get the text sharp enough to be usable with the vitures.<p>It is a while back so my memory is hazy. But I feel like the edges in particular were bad or you could focus one part of the screen but others would be distorted.<p>For coding, reading docs, etc you kind of need the whole screen to be in sharp focus. For watching a movie it's probably less important.</p>
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<p>I love digital watches and have a few Casios, including a protrek like the G-Shock he mentions at the end, that syncs to a radio signal and has solar charging.<p>I switched to a Garmin with oled screen for running, sleep, and Garmin pay. I liked the functionality but hated having to charge it every few days. Especially coming from Casios that you never need to take off your wrist. And I hated having to choose between being able to always see the time at a glance and needing to charge it every day due to always on display.<p>I recently caved and bought a solar powered instinct 3, with MIP display and I love it. I can go over a month without charging, and without turning off features, and I can always see the screen outdoors, when cycling or doing some activity.<p>So yeah, the first one was probably just not the right watch for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461939</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is talking about a book though, not software.<p>"Sam Williams and Richard Stallman's Free as in freedom: Richard Stallman's crusade for free software"<p>"GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). This is a free license allowing use of the work for any purpose without payment."<p>I'm not familiar with this license or how it compares to their software licenses, but it sounds closer to a public domain license.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:24:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451539</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good point, having a once off advanced option to completely bypass this at device setup would be good.<p>Also, other commenters have mentioned that adb is unaffected by this which makes it seem like less of a problem, to me at least. Still inconvenient that even if you adb install fdroid you can't install apps directly from it.</p>
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<p>Well, I guess 24 hours gives a good change to include at least one window where a vulnerable person might be able to speak with a trusted contact.<p>Someone who lives in another timezone or works weird hours etc. Our routines generally repeat on 24hour schedules, so likely to be one point of overlap.</p>
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<p>I don't know. I've been silently outraged and disappointed by this whole forbidding of unverified apps, but also hopeful it wouldn't affect me much as a user of grapheneos.<p>But this process seems pretty reasonable to me.<p>I'd like to think it is due in part to the efforts of F-Droid and others.<p>Waiting a day, once, to disable this protection doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I'd probably do it once when I got a phone and then forget about it.<p>I happen to have developer mode enabled right now, for no good reason other than I never disabled last time I needed it. Haven't had any issues with any apps.<p>I actually think these protections could help mitigate scammers.</p>
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<p>Are you able to actually work with the VR glasses?<p>I bought a pair of viture pro glasses thinking I could use them with my (linux) laptop / (android) phone when travelling as a large external monitor.<p>But they were usable for coding, too difficult to read the text, too shakey. Would just give you a headache.<p>It's a cool idea but I decided the technology wasn't there yet and ended up returning them.</p>
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<p>zstd and the Folly C++ library are two that come to mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313400</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That "Carcassonne" game sounds really fun. I'd never heard of it before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:33:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313302</link><dc:creator>jcul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jcul in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have something similar set up to unlock the drives on my home server. Just the SSH in initramfs though, tailscale is pretty cool.<p>I've done stuff with mkinitcpio / initramfs on arch before, can't remember exactly what for. I still run arch on my main laptop. I'm running nixos on my home server though, and adding something like this is so easy by comparison.</p>
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<p>I get about 2, max 3 hours battery on my intel 12th gen framework 13.<p>I generally have it always plugged in, but it's not great.</p>
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