Hacker News: misterdata

Cursed_browser: Web browser with a VLM as rendering engine

misterdata — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:02:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/scosman/cursed_browser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052650

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by misterdata in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

misterdata — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Synctrain is an open source (MPL2.0) iOS Syncthing client (which I made) with full native mobile-first UI and tight iOS integration (shortcuts, background processing, etc).

39C3 – All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video]

misterdata — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4IfmlRktk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426444

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by misterdata in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

misterdata — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:33:19 +0000

You are most likely in France: your government does not allow publishing an app containing cryptography (in this case, Golang's crypto implementations and a package used by Syncthing - only using iOS libs should be fine) without authorization (which can only be obtained through French forms, at which point I'd want a French lawyer to be involved, so no).

You could of course build the app yourself from source.

New comment by misterdata in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

misterdata — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:15:13 +0000

If you’re on iOS, try my (FOSS) app for Syncthing: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

New comment by misterdata in "The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign"

misterdata — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:47:52 +0000

Also “apenstaartje” in Dutch (monkey’s tail)

Idea – A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions

misterdata — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:22:22 +0000

Article URL: https://idea-instructions.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365516

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by misterdata in "Models of European metro stations"

misterdata — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:43:25 +0000

See also this 3D model of Shinjuku station, Tokyo:

https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/

New comment by misterdata in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

misterdata — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:12:29 +0000

For iOS: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

New comment by misterdata in "Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'"

misterdata — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:26:38 +0000

Similarly, Trixie contains an updated version of Dovecot that (even though the version number seems to indicate otherwise) has a new configuration format that is not backwards compatible. This is clearly stated in the release notes but may be surprising nevertheless.

New comment by misterdata in "CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite"

misterdata — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:59:38 +0000

So, basically any local productivity tool, saving files in a synced folder.

While this works, Syncthing does not really provide anything for fine-grained collaboration or sharing (you only share full folders). Encrypted peers do allow storing files on a machine that you don’t have to trust.

Looks like M4 support for asahilinux is going be rather painful

misterdata — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@sven/114278224116678776

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43623367

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

misterdata — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:24:40 +0000

Article URL: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547915

Points: 35

# Comments: 2

New comment by misterdata in "Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor"

misterdata — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:20:28 +0000

This is cool!

Any tips for an app to use on iOS to capture the necessary .ply data?

Scaniverse is a great app by Niantic that can do this on-device, but it isn't very customizable and can't export its raw scanning data (exported .plys do not have the data this editor requires).

New comment by misterdata in "Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs"

misterdata — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:23:44 +0000

In my neighborhood (Netherlands) it appears the fiber network is physically point-to-point (subscriber to ODF), but is operated as XGS-GPON (so all subscribers see the same light signal so to say, but each over their own ptp fiber from the ODF). So point-multipoint only at the active layer.

I was told that this is because the company who is rolling out the fiber wants to make the network as attractive as possible to ISP’s who want to offer services over it (and wants them to compete) which may be more difficult in an actual physical point-multipoint network (which requires PON). The ISP currently likes PON more than AON (basically Ethernet over fiber to a switch) because the equipment is cheaper. In theory I should be able to switch to an ISP who offers AON or its own PON (they’d only have to physically patch my fiber in a different port at the ODF).

Cursed Knowledge

misterdata — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:50:23 +0000

Article URL: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280842

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Gpsjam GPS/GNSS Interference Map

misterdata — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://gpsjam.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39351482

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by misterdata in "Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser"

misterdata — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:25:40 +0000

Author here, I guess I could have chosen a better title. This article is about diving into complexity that seems insurmountable at first, with an engineer's mindset.

New comment by misterdata in "Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser"

misterdata — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:24:18 +0000

Author here - this figure is insane but also a bit of an exaggeration. I calculated it by running 'cloc' on the source code directory, not excluding node_modules. Many modules in there are actually unused or only used at build time. The built output (from Nuxt) that is actually run is much more compact (though partly minified so line counts are not that interesting). Also, Nuxt specifically is a bit overkill here, but greatly improved my productivity developing this website (and was chosen because it aligns with our other web applications, so less 'innovation tokens' [1]).

[1] https://boringtechnology.club

New comment by misterdata in "The first conformant M1 GPU driver"

misterdata — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:59:00 +0000

Not a single mention of the word ‘Apple’ in the original post, instead ‘the manufacturer’ and ‘the big corporation’.. curious if that is deliberate and if so what the reasoning is (legal?)