Hacker News: monk_grilla

New comment by monk_grilla in "Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com"

monk_grilla — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:34:49 +0000

How do you meaningfully use Reddit without an account? Do you really navigate to specific subreddits and read them one by one, rather than assembling a home feed of subs you have joined?

You never want to participate in discussion, or vote on comments and posts?

I don't really understand how you all were regularly browsing and using the site without an account.

New comment by monk_grilla in "Waveloop: What Fable left me"

monk_grilla — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:01:06 +0000

That generated video was eye opening for me. I've been using Opus in Claude Code for studying and at work, but it never occurred to me to use 3b1b's excellent python library for generating maths visualisations to let it generate such good graphical demonstrations.

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

monk_grilla — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:52:12 +0000

In the README it says

> Do I need an account to try it? Not for the core breathing biofeedback; that works without creating one. Some surrounding features in the app use an account; the part this repo is about does not.

I downloaded the app based on this, but you can’t use it at all without creating an account. Please review your AI’s output.

New comment by monk_grilla in "The advertising cartel coming to your web browser"

monk_grilla — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:44:14 +0000

Did you read it?

New comment by monk_grilla in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

monk_grilla — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:38:25 +0000

That’s funny, I wonder if they might remove it since it is a common way for people to circumvent the ID requirement laws for certain sites.

New comment by monk_grilla in "The Emacsification of Software"

monk_grilla — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:08:03 +0000

I can’t be the only one for whom `vim README.md` is perfectly good. I’ve never considered the monospaced font a limitation, I prefer it. Coloured rendering works great and is all the visual aid I need to parse quickly.

I can see a table of contents being useful though. Perhaps if `:Toc` doesn’t exist yet, it should.

New comment by monk_grilla in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"

monk_grilla — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:45:14 +0000

Anyone know of a similarly excellent resource for understanding wired networking? CAT specifications, how to pick high quality switches/routers etc.?

New comment by monk_grilla in "Do_not_track"

monk_grilla — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:02:48 +0000

The original creator of this standard has retroactively called it “a mistake”

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/consoledonottrack.com/src/branch/m...

New comment by monk_grilla in "Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case"

monk_grilla — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:56:22 +0000

Is the abstract really too long for you?

New comment by monk_grilla in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

monk_grilla — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:08:14 +0000

I’m interested since it’s clear this is a passionate and talented developer, but it seems the primary feature is step tracking, which iPhone already does by default. Is Pedometer++’s step counting somehow more accurate?