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New comment by lgrebe in "Flipdiscs"

lgrebe — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:28:09 +0000

Andrew Zolty under the artist name BREAKFAST has created quite a few stunning kinetic artworks with flipdisks.

Just one example: https://theartistbreakfast.com/works/traverse

Also created a larger more sculpted derivative the „brixel“ a rotating brick as pixel. Eg https://theartistbreakfast.com/works/oceans

New comment by lgrebe in "Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?"

lgrebe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:23:54 +0000

What order of magnitude would you define as „large“ in this case?

New comment by lgrebe in "A Web Framework for Zig"

lgrebe — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:43:13 +0000

Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish"

Jetzt = now [1]

German adjective suffix: -ig [2] The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way. traurig: sad, sadly wässrig: watery knackig: crunchy, crispy abhängig: dependent, addicted geizig: stingy

[1] https://de.pons.com/übersetzung-2/deutsch-englisch/jetzt [2] https://www.lingoda.com/blog/en/german-adjective-suffixes/

New comment by lgrebe in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

lgrebe — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:05:03 +0000

Looking to create something just like this for chores at home.

Inspired by https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-pri...

And

https://youtu.be/xg45b8UXoZI

Hoping it will make chores more visible and fun to complete for the whole family.

I picked up a used star tsp100 printer and usb 2d barcode scanner.

Still looking for a backend though. Idealy with Homeassistant integration for automating todos that already have sensors and data such as taking out the trash.

https://www.donetick.com looks promising.

Could you share some more technicalities on your setup?

New comment by lgrebe in "Political Bias on X before the 2025 German Federal Election"

lgrebe — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:37:32 +0000

user: glass_door created: 7 days ago karma: -1

Are political bots now on HN as well? This is such a polarizing post willfully ignoring legislation and historical background. Aimed at dividing public opinion instead of discussing the topic at hand: political influence of X through feed aggregation.

New comment by lgrebe in "Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?"

lgrebe — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:09:48 +0000

Frist name of the primary user + device name or [description + year of purchase]

Tim’s iPhone 13 Jamie’s MacBook Air 15

Alternatively function (+ location or for espHome devices their Mac suffix)

Sonos Kitchen Sprinkler-0f3812 hotwater-pump-09ac88

New comment by lgrebe in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

lgrebe — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:01:23 +0000

This!

New comment by lgrebe in "Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right"

lgrebe — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:47:58 +0000

That something might just be the urgency of change in things we’ve taken for grander the past ~2 generations (~60years)

Right at the top of that list: - using fossil fuels as cheap energy - assuming continued growth while earths resources are limited (yes tech is getting more efficient) - relying on respected and trusted media entities (opposed to outlets bought by corporations with clear interests or maybe(?) state controlled social media trolls

Change is happening, coming fast and is becoming harder to ignore but people don’t like change.

New comment by lgrebe in "The importance of handwriting is now better understood"

lgrebe — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:02:53 +0000

Marion Richardson Handwriting was first published in 1935 and continued to be used in schools until the 1980s. It consists of five copy books, each with a different level of difficulty, and a teacher's book that explains the methods and materials to be used. You can download the copy books for free from this link: [Writing and Writing Patterns](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.54007.)

New comment by lgrebe in "Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR"

lgrebe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:36:35 +0000

Isn't this a task that Large Language models should excell at? summarizing tickets.

New comment by lgrebe in "Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup"

lgrebe — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:57:28 +0000

How do you manage disagreements in fusion?

New comment by lgrebe in "Tesla’s ‘ultra hardcore’ work culture – as told by its employees"

lgrebe — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:50:11 +0000

There’s certainly truth to this. However I’ll take it with quite a bit of salt. especially since it Echos the fear uncertainty and doubt spread during the model 3 ramp, excuse the hyperbole but according to which Tesla was already dead in the water wouldn’t ever make it and employees were forced to give their first born to the company.

I had the Tesla Mobile Service come by today to replace a broken camera. Rarely have I met such a positive, well spirited „repair guy“.

New comment by lgrebe in "Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang"

lgrebe — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:05:24 +0000

I remember when pose detection was announced, showing an app that corrected your workout movements. i have yet to see an app that actually does that. i'd love to have the equivalent of a personal trainer showing me where i need to adjust my pose in say pushups or other simple excercies.

thus im equally sceptical of seeing these apis used. it seems developers are mostly porting web apps to all platforms ignoring neat but platform specific apis like this.

please prove me wrong and link some awesome apps that use pose detection.

New comment by lgrebe in "Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum"

lgrebe — Thu, 11 May 2023 05:06:55 +0000

Can someone explain like I’m in non AP high school physics?

This is demonstrating information "traveling" faster than light by using entangled qbits. Correct?

New comment by lgrebe in "Verisign WILL get .web, ICANN rules"

lgrebe — Sun, 07 May 2023 11:45:56 +0000

Reminds me of Ed Dodd’s domain: eddodd.com

His mail address being

Ed.Dodd@eddodd.com

“Yeah that’s ed dot dodd at ed dodd dot com”

New comment by lgrebe in "Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says"

lgrebe — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:25:32 +0000

Has he though? If you read the headlines defiantly. If you read the follow up reports, no not so much.

Maybe I’m missing something though. Would you mind expanding what exactly you had in mind when writing this?

New comment by lgrebe in "Collective Decision-Making with AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)"

lgrebe — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:25:21 +0000

Thanks for introducting me to AHP. Does anyone else have experience with this process for decission making?

New comment by lgrebe in "EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024"

lgrebe — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:01:27 +0000

Because law makers actively experience the pain of having different chargers in their day to day lives.

New comment by lgrebe in "I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free"

lgrebe — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 20:43:08 +0000

i like that thought. What would be a more ideal pair then?

Build a wilderness, not a parking lot

New comment by lgrebe in "More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude"

lgrebe — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:51:37 +0000

Would this happen in a „purpose-economy“ with steward-ownership?

More on the topic in this TedX talk: https://youtu.be/Z2Uy_ODDiZo