Hacker News: maartenh

New comment by maartenh in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

maartenh — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:07:43 +0000

TIL about his extra's channel, thanks!

Scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored

maartenh — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5pvgxkkv4dzo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351724

Points: 3

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New comment by maartenh in "Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers"

maartenh — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:55:14 +0000

I have set up let's encrypt with DNS challenge running a wildcard in on a subdomain. Its not a recursive wildcard, but for me, it works good enough. Some of the software I host in my home network expects to run as the root on a web server.

The DNS wildcard points to a 192.168.xxx.xxx address. I don't really care that the IP adres of my home server is public :)

New comment by maartenh in "German Hospitals Prepare for War, Drones and Mass Casualties"

maartenh — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:07:56 +0000

Paywall: https://archive.is/9lqtL

New comment by maartenh in "Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone"

maartenh — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:41 +0000

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately not available in my country in the Android app store. I live in The Netherlands. If you're looking for feedback, you might want to double check this :)

New comment by maartenh in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

maartenh — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:49:57 +0000

But in that case, it won't be subsidized by the manufacturer!

I'm sure people would get a cheaper toaster in exchange of an ad being burned in your bread.

New comment by maartenh in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

maartenh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:15:36 +0000

Same here, surprised that only you mentioned it here.

New comment by maartenh in "EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime"

maartenh — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:37:48 +0000

Elections are happening soon (April). It's not clear at all Orban will win this round of elections, see e.g. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-magyar-rival-rallie...

New comment by maartenh in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

maartenh — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:24:19 +0000

Curious to how well LLM's work in this context! (mentioned as one of the reasons to embed CAD in Rust)

I only know of another text -> STL AI model, I'm quite a bit more excited about this idea.

Does someone have experience with this?

New comment by maartenh in "Splice a Fibre"

maartenh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:39:25 +0000

Nice! You might want to fix your GitHub link in the footer though, it 404's for me right now :)

New comment by maartenh in "Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use"

maartenh — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:09:43 +0000

How much VRAM would this require, if I would want to run this locally?

I bought a 12GB Nvidia card a year ago. In general I'm having a hard time to find the actual required hardware specs for any self hosted AI model. Any tips/suggestions/recommended resources for that?

New comment by maartenh in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

maartenh — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:10:21 +0000

Ah, 5x? At $WORK, the low code tool vendor that is used to build the monolith (and that of our sister company) is bought by a private equity firm. Our sister company will face a 7x increase. Another fun thing is that the license is based on a percentage of licensing cost to their customers.

Their game is clearly to squeeze very hard for a few years, and then deprecate the product. I can't imagine that there are companies that are fine with such price hikes.

New comment by maartenh in "Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite"

maartenh — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:07:20 +0000

Yep. I do create fresh db's from a fixture db using postgres's ability to create a database from a template. Very quick, always correct.

New comment by maartenh in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

maartenh — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:18:27 +0000

Wow. In the EU, canceling subscriptions must be as easy as signing up for them by law.

My personal longest issue with ISP's was when the software config once went wrong in their side, took me a month and allmost daily phone calls until I got to 4th line support that was an actual techie who fixed it in 10 minutes.

New comment by maartenh in "Starlark Programming Language"

maartenh — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:32:44 +0000

Which tool did you use to create that busy_spec.html file? They remind me of Engelbart's blue numbering system for documents, if I remember the name correctly.

New comment by maartenh in "A Rust Take on Bsdiff"

maartenh — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:00:09 +0000

Very nice! I talked (~10y ago) at a Nix meetup to a company that did over the air updates of bicycle shed usage signs in NL that ran on embedded linux systems. One of their bigger challenges was that their downlink quota was very limited. I suggested them to peek at bsdiff, not sure if they ever got to it (or maybe would have gotten a better downlink ;))

I might give this idea another go myself with this nice rust library. With some heuristics one could partition the recursive closure of dependencies in a way optimizes for reuse (e.g. try to compute shared subtrees). Probably more efficient than a random tar of e.g. the entire root file system of a buildroot android system.

New comment by maartenh in "Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?"

maartenh — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:45:41 +0000

IMHO the constraints of these systems make them still quite fun to code for, just like solving sudoku puzzles can be fun.

I found about this [1] amazing live coding session by lftkyro on YouTube showing how to build a live music pattern editor on the C64.

[1] https://youtu.be/ly5BhGOt2vE?si=1EzOnELSb5fd-dqA

New comment by maartenh in "Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push"

maartenh — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:33:56 +0000

TIL that self-updating mobile apps are a thing. It is quite surprising to me that the app store gatekeepers don't force all app changes through their vetting process! Has this always been the case, or is this a new development?

New comment by maartenh in "Show HN: Wirequery – Full-stack session replay and more"

maartenh — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:50:45 +0000

Seems interesting. I can't decipher from the docs nor demo if this is about debugging _live_ behavior of the systems under observation, (e.g. it only captures stuff for which there are queries), or if it actually stores all your requests and responses in a psql db.

New comment by maartenh in "Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?"

maartenh — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:10:04 +0000

Wow, that's quite different from the Netherlands. Here, we have the BAG, Basis Administratie Gebouwen (Base Administration Buildings).

Muniplicities are the data owners, but data is also collated nationally.

See [0] for a viewer of this public data.

Also, all our surveying/road data is managed in a similar fashion, and this is regularly imported in e.g. openstreetmap.

[0] https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/lvbag/bag-viewer/?zoomlevel=1