Hacker News: lavela

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.

New comment by lavela in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

lavela — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:14:27 +0000

You can do it by using a feed reader and subscribing to the channels rss feeds. Keeps you better isolated from dark patterns as well.

edit: has the added benefit that there are different feeds for All/Videos/Shorts/Live/Specific Playlists, so this is another way to avoid shorts

New comment by lavela in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

lavela — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:38:53 +0000

I honestly think the answer is tax money. It should be clear by now, that a browser is (critical) infrastructure and it should be funded as such. Ideally by multiple, non-aligned states.

New comment by lavela in "Messing with scraper bots"

lavela — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:02:23 +0000

"Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more."

https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/#:~:text=throw%2...

New comment by lavela in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

lavela — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:16:44 +0000

How do they even know that?

New comment by lavela in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

lavela — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:40:37 +0000

Of the eight reports I only see one that relates to a guy being able to swim or not (and I suspect the same is true for the estimated 1400 reports so far this year). Also having transparency is obviously good and I don't understand what you want to prove with arguing that a worse situation would be worse. It clearly would be worse.

I'm also not totally against nuclear, in case you are suspecting that. I do think though, that we as a society aren't at the point where we have the ability to completely control such technology, contrary to what proponents of much higher utilization of nuclear like to claim. Reports of fuses seemingly without failover or stolen equipment seem to support that argument.

New comment by lavela in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

lavela — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:26:49 +0000

Miner vs. straw man, who wins? :o)

New comment by lavela in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

lavela — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:19:00 +0000

These are quite a few reports for one day for a technology we purportedly have under full control, nothing to worry.

New comment by lavela in "WebDAV isn't dead yet"

lavela — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:49:54 +0000

I'd argue that most people like knowing that what they receive is what the original server sent(and vice versa) but maybe you enjoy ads enough to prefer having your ISP put more of it on the websites you use?

Jokes aside https is as much about privacy as is is about reducing the chance you receive data that has been tampered. You shouldn't only not use FTP because credentials but also because embedded malware you didn't put there yourself.

New comment by lavela in "Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes"

lavela — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:49:43 +0000

I tried to open different themes in tabs for comparison, but I would have to first open each one and then manually copy the URL into a new tab because you implemented your links as

New comment by lavela in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

lavela — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:48:35 +0000

Mind sharing that documentation or spelling out what you mean by that or are you not going to consider different views on that anyways?

New comment by lavela in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

lavela — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:31:48 +0000

..or mouse for camera.

But I kind of understand it. I did a somehow similar project before and for people who are not trained in video game style controls it is quite hard to get used to them ad-hoc.

Assuming this project is at least partially aimed at art directors, project leads and such aka people who aren't necessarily gamers, detached movement/camera controls are a bit risky.