Hacker News: lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lavatacoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:14:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"]]>I’ve been experimenting with windows 11 IoT enterprise this week. You can disable and uninstall a fair amount of cruft

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600530lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600530<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"]]>The recurring events calendar spec is crazy powerful, but also crazy bc its just a flat text file. For a bit i was attempting to stream-parse a huge calendar on my esp32 lcd display board and went down the rabbit hole.

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:50:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600516lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600516<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP"]]>I’m work on a platform for restaurant reviewing with your friends, and (after a few stumbles) MCP definitely seems the way to go. Normies will not hunt down their claude directory and paste a skill file. “Connections” is something they understand, and pasting the mcp or finding it in the marketplace is easier for them.

TBD if having agent access to places and reviews is helpful, hah!

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:30:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600336lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600336<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"]]>Yes, just consistently line them up and it would be fine. There’s plenty of UX research saying icon+label improves recognition and task speed. NN Group is a good resource for this.

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:58:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203951lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203951<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"]]>Google has been universally panned for using their logos as app icons. I think most people in this thread are talking about UI vs app icons (essentially avatars for apps at this point).

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:55:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203926lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203926<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"]]>Surprised it took me this far down to see him mentioned.

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:47:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203848lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203848https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203848<![CDATA[New comment by lavataco in "ASCII Silhouettify"]]>There’s always stuff these converters don’t do well. Check out ascii art for the past 30 years at the 16 colors archive: https://16colo.rs/

]]>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:46:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619152lavatacohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619152