Hacker News: knowald

New comment by knowald in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

knowald — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:54:07 +0000

I'm curious here but can't find that title. Do you mean the "Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics" by Gavriel Salvendy and Waldemar Karwowski?

New comment by knowald in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

knowald — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:42:38 +0000

As one of the watch enthusiasts with a collection of several dozen straps, it's refreshing to see the watches including quick-release straps right out of the box. That makes quick-swapping to our NATO straps easy peasy!

There's something genuinely heartwarming about seeing Eric Migicovsky remain true to his vision, finally delivering the product I dreamed of but couldn't afford a decade ago, after all.

New comment by knowald in "Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?"

knowald — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:54:48 +0000

That's a good point. I've been surprised and frustrated by the S3 issues we've encountered since the hundreds of servers we are hosting on Hetzner Cloud have rarely had any issues. Only now i realize that this is the first service they are offering apart from networking that includes LB.

New comment by knowald in "Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects"

knowald — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:36:37 +0000

By this logic, should companies never donate to open source because any contribution could be labeled as marketing? The $750K will have real, tangible benefits for open source projects regardless of Sentry's motivations. It's a net positive. And we all know how many profitable companies built on open source give nothing back at all.

The point about "open source in name only" due to hosting complexity overlooks that this is a natural consequence of the product's evolution, not malicious intent. Enterprise-grade scaling of such monitoring requires sophisticated infrastructure. Suggesting they should artificially keep it simple for self-hosters would hold back product development.

New comment by knowald in "The Hindenburg’s Interior"

knowald — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:08:24 +0000

Here in my city in Germany called Friedrichshafen there is the "Zeppelin Museum", as it's is the birthplace of the Zeppelins, and there is a walkable Partial reconstruction of the LZ 129 Hindenburg interior.

You can have a walk around that from home, on Google Arts & Culture:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-zeppelin...

New comment by knowald in "I Buy NVDA Puts"

knowald — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:22:00 +0000

Might just take this discussion to /r/wallstreetbets if you're gonna hodl.

New comment by knowald in "Beeper Mini is back"

knowald — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:55:44 +0000

It might be a controversial topic, but this post had some oddly rapid upvotes for HN.

I'm trying to understand what the target of this hacky iMessage spin-off of Beeper is. The whole idea of subscription-based monetization. Rather no way of Apple not patching quickly, dealing with this as soon as it raises attention.

But maybe that was the intent of a hack they found? A clever marketing strategy, to gain some rapid traction with the controversy, highlighting their project?

New comment by knowald in "f.lux"

knowald — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:25:32 +0000

Hah, you just made me realise how many years I've been using it and recommending it as a life changing thing to everyone, every time i see a cool screen in the evening.

Just said "thanks" to them with the same.