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New comment by kasperset in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

kasperset — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:31:04 +0000

I find Swiss system to be very convenient. My recent visit to the country was smooth thanks to the SBB app. It works not just for rail but also for bus, trams, and ferry. I think even some cable cars are covered. Plus there it can provide discounts or free visits to selected museums.

New comment by kasperset in "What Happened to the Locusts?"

kasperset — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:02:56 +0000

I almost jumped. Nice touch to the article

New comment by kasperset in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

kasperset — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:30:02 +0000

One of my favorite product, it just works in the background. I do not need any more features than what it has currently. None of the competitors have this ability to just blend in the background. I hope they stay for a long time.

New comment by kasperset in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

kasperset — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:59:55 +0000

Nicely written and I thought D3.js was very verbose and time consuming. Makes me appreciate all the computational tooling we have today.

New comment by kasperset in "Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)"

kasperset — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:58:12 +0000

I wonder how Mojo ranks along with Julia. Mojo was discussed yesterday here. Mojo seems to be more python focused while Julia is very much focused on Scientific computation. I may be wrong.

New comment by kasperset in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

kasperset — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:07:04 +0000

@onethumb Is it possible that Flickr will be integrated into SmugMug eventually or it will remain as its own branch? I know it is difficult to say for sure but some direction for near future?

New comment by kasperset in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

kasperset — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:16:52 +0000

I think I like about Flickr is the add a note feature. Not sure if other platforms has any similar feature but I find it helpful for me to add note on part on the photo for future reference such as place or anything peculiar.

New comment by kasperset in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

kasperset — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Will this ever integrate rest of the ggplot2 dependent packages described here: https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery/ in the near or distant future? Sorry if it already mentioned somewhere.

New comment by kasperset in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

kasperset — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:59 +0000

Looks intriguing. Brings plotting to Sql instead of “transforming” sql for plotting.

New comment by kasperset in "Can we make robots that eat other robots?"

kasperset — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:46:53 +0000

https://archive.ph/XDIYM

Can we make robots that eat other robots?

kasperset — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9193ef93-d5b9-4270-b743-e7bb174bb811

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824275

Points: 1

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New comment by kasperset in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

kasperset — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:23:54 +0000

There was also Tiny Firewall which got bought by Computer Associates around 2005. Probably the most complicated or fine grain control for me at that time in Windows XP.

New comment by kasperset in "Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)"

kasperset — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:07:24 +0000

I don't hear much about Ibis here. https://ibis-project.org On paper it sounds like a good idea. Any opinion about this option.

New comment by kasperset in "MacBook Neo"

kasperset — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:27:54 +0000

Yes. I think Air is a better buy if you are going to have a "laptop". I wish it was lot lighter if I am losing features against MacBook Air.

New comment by kasperset in "America has a tungsten problem"

kasperset — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:30:25 +0000

This reminds me of another article I read today about Gallium.

https://archive.ph/YgRUv

Original Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/the-defense-department-is-infat...

New comment by kasperset in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

kasperset — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:12:58 +0000

Apple Music is ok but it is not as good on MacOS as it is on iOS. It will skip some songs sometimes and the ui is not very consistent for the player bar.

New comment by kasperset in "Show HN: Phage Explorer"

kasperset — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:11:20 +0000

It looks nice but very "LLMsy". I liked that it specifically annotates "Lytic" vs "Lysogenic" categorization for phages. Important in terms of virome analysis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11097211/

New comment by kasperset in "New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective"

kasperset — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:51:02 +0000

Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, and Pips (All modes) for me. Wordle is fun but Pips is very satisfying. Pips medium can sometimes be more difficult than hard one.

New comment by kasperset in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

kasperset — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:58:58 +0000

I agree with this. We are much missing these forums with civil replies and clouded behind "influencer" culture, which is optimized for incentives. Pure discussions as in this example are such a stalwarts of open web.

On the other hand, small websites and forums can disappear but that openness allows platform like archive.org to capture and "fossilize" them.

New comment by kasperset in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

kasperset — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:19:21 +0000

Notable weather iOS app that I use or have used in the past are:

Wetter: http://plot.micw.org/apps/wetter/index.php

weatherstrip : https://www.weatherstrip.app