Hacker News: lavela

New comment by lavela in "Organic Maps"

lavela — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:51:32 +0000

I was using Street Complete for some time and was always wondering if using these apps is considered helpful or if it only creates churn/noise. Is there a general consensus on that in the community?

Would it be more accepted to just do a few small, potentially not metadata-complete edits myself or is the review structure (if there is any) geared more towards fewer, more steady contributors?

Did one direct edit once and iirc it took ages to land in the map and I wasn't able to grasp if came from new editors' edits being scrutinized more carefully by too few reviewers, from the nature of the edits (deleting a bunch of buildings after demolition and probably not replacing it with the right area type) or if the release cycle for new edits to be included is just way longer than I would have expected.

New comment by lavela in "The Vespa at 80"

lavela — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:52:35 +0000

Agree, as long as you don't use it around other people it's probably fine.

New comment by lavela in "My favorite keyboards"

lavela — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:55:33 +0000

Can't wait for mainstream laptops with ortholinear layout and split space bar.

New comment by lavela in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

lavela — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:41:06 +0000

I know, that's why it'd be an alternative to "in the last millenium" if they try to use the largest time frame that just ended.

New comment by lavela in "The forge we deserve"

lavela — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:39:13 +0000

> Then you should avoid and steer very clear of Tangled since it is VC funded

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Could have made it clearer.

New comment by lavela in "The forge we deserve"

lavela — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:04:10 +0000

To me being VC funded is the opposite to "structurally resistant to the lock-in".

I'm not against VC funding everywhere, but I don't want it at the core of my development stack.

New comment by lavela in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

lavela — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:38:51 +0000

perhaps you meant "in the Holocene"?

New comment by lavela in "Your ePub Is fine"

lavela — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:41:42 +0000

Shouldn't a CSS engine just ignore directives it doesn't know? At least it shouldn't fail without an error.

New comment by lavela in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

lavela — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:29:08 +0000

> Turn signal stalk

While we're at it one thing to add: Keep your turn signal at an on-off pattern.

I don't wan't to have to parse your cute turn signal animation. It's a warning light and should be somewhat irritating/eye-catching.

New comment by lavela in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

lavela — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:17:26 +0000

Maybe I am missing something, but I haven't seen a solution to the noise problem of air traffic (especially anything rotor based).

Might not be an issue for long distance connection in sparsely populated countries like the United States, but I don't see it replacing trains in Europe until this is solved.

New comment by lavela in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

lavela — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:05:22 +0000

I feel like the 100 or so uncategorized articles should lie either directly in home or clutter the desktop for a more authentic experience.

New comment by lavela in "Your website is not for you"

lavela — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:31:30 +0000

If you frame that issue as a purely technical one without ux/usability implications, where you'd absolutely want to have a (good) designer in the loop, your product is in trouble, too.

New comment by lavela in "Happy Map"

lavela — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:31:10 +0000

I'm fairly certain it uses deck.gl

New comment by lavela in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

lavela — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:14:05 +0000

Why?

New comment by lavela in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

lavela — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:58:59 +0000

Could you say a few things on your plans to develop the community and ecosystem then as requested?

That's the significant part of Wordpress after all, not the mediocre code.

New comment by lavela in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

lavela — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:35:36 +0000

This holds true until you pass to the next age bracket for the first time.

New comment by lavela in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

lavela — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:31:21 +0000

It being Linux those would obviously be seconds so they are roughly half a year old.

New comment by lavela in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

lavela — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:13:41 +0000

I fail to see how mass scale reproduction of copyrighted code isn't a form of distribution.

New comment by lavela in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

lavela — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:02:27 +0000

There is code I gift to the world that I license as MIT or similar and there is code I publish as a means for furthering what I perceive as a advanced society which I license as GPL or similar.

I don't ask anyone to share my ideals but conflating these two is dishonest.

New comment by lavela in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

lavela — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:24:13 +0000

The shifts between flags will correlate with date of birth though, or do you think someone turning 16 or 18 will wait a year or two to switch to more adult content for privacy? Also I'd guess the tech industry would push for more specific age buckets.

Games already have PG ratings and similar in different countries, I don't see the issue there. Web content could set a age appropriateness header and let browsers deal with it, either for specific content or for the whole website if it relies on e.g. addictive mechanics.

Applications is a wide field, but I'd be interested in specific examples where you think it wouldn't work.