Hacker News: mrpotato

New comment by mrpotato in "Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web"

mrpotato — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:29:00 +0000

Rune, the rust ui framework, not to be confused with Rune, an embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust

New comment by mrpotato in "Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars"

mrpotato — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:44:32 +0000

The problem you are describing is solved by saving/persisting times in UTC. The calendar will display the event by using the user's current timezone and the UTC time to determine local time.

New comment by mrpotato in "Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage"

mrpotato — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:40:34 +0000

I was under the impression that the sodium-ion batteries weren't dense enough to put into cars.

Are We Teaching Rust Effectively?

mrpotato — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kodewerx.org/2025/08/are-we-teaching-rust-effectively.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907632

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrpotato in "Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet"

mrpotato — Wed, 28 May 2025 12:52:45 +0000

Didn't know this[1] existed, thanks

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353

New comment by mrpotato in "Choosing a Name for Your Computer"

mrpotato — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:55:46 +0000

> Don't choose a name after a project unique to that machine.

The second paragraph of page 1 describes exactly what happened with your setup :D

Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

mrpotato — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlib-rs-0.4.2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171413

Points: 63

# Comments: 17

Court Orders Google (A Monopolist) to Knock It Off with the Monopoly Stuff

mrpotato — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:15:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/court-orders-google-monopolist-knock-it-monopoly-stuff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41986852

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrpotato in "Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots"

mrpotato — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:07:29 +0000

I started with hyprland when I switched my desktop from windows to arch recently (june) and moved to sway. I ran into bugs and behaviour I don't like:

- Having two monitors and turning them off (either physically or through dpms) shifts all workspaces to the last monitor that is on, even if it's on for a split second,

- Turning off monitors (physically/dpms) caused waybar to crash.

I don't have those issues on sway, so I'll stick with it until hyprland matures a little more.

New comment by mrpotato in "How to copy a file between devices? (2022)"

mrpotato — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:22:31 +0000

I just tried it and it works as expected for Windows <--> Android.

I was using syncthing but this will replace it for one offs.

EDIT: I checked out another app in the comments and their website mentioned that it didn't work with a VPN. I can also confirm that LocalSend works when connected to VPN.

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged to Build GTK with Vulkan

mrpotato — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Vulkan-Default-Ahead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029987

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrpotato in "Why I Like Obsidian"

mrpotato — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:43:21 +0000

Mine's close to yours also

desktop: nvim + syncthing + vimwiki (md markup instead of default)

mobile: syncthing + Markor[1]

On mobile I have a todo.txt[2] in addition to the vim wiki files which are all synced.

All this works pretty well for my personal needs. For work I use OneNote because the whole company uses OneNote.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/ [2] http://todotxt.org/

New comment by mrpotato in "Canada's "Linked Tax" Can't Replace a Real Tax"

mrpotato — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:18:58 +0000

> This deal, given to Google, once again shows how these laws reward large corporations, and hurt small start-ups who can not broker or afford such exemptions.

Can you explain how this hurts small start-ups?

New comment by mrpotato in "Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API"

mrpotato — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:24:23 +0000

I doubt they are under copyright, if they were, cover bands or bands making covers of songs would be getting sued willy nilly.

New comment by mrpotato in "Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator"

mrpotato — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:26:24 +0000

Just like a bunch of us here, I also wrote an SSG.

I setup a cronjob to fetch weather data and run the SSG to parse the XML and render a weather "website" on my VPS.

But for the blogs I've had/have, I just use a pre-existing one (zola). There are hundreds of SSGs out there, why bother building yet another one if one already exists for transforming your preferred base doc (markdown, asciidoc, morse code, etc)

New comment by mrpotato in "Canada to regulate podcasts"

mrpotato — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:34:29 +0000

> it's just that you need a specified amount of air time from French Canadian and indigenous presenters.

It's only specific to Canadian and Indigenous content. The content does not have to be French.

New comment by mrpotato in "Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software"

mrpotato — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:42:13 +0000

Wealth is an industry term. It doesn't imply that one should be wealthy (rich) to use this tool. Wealth management is a tool for planning your own personal wealth for the future.

For example, you add all your accounts/investments and have the software calculate how much you need to save so that by age 65 (retirement) you have $X which you will need so that by the time you reach life expectancy (say 90 y/o) you have > 0$ left.

There is other stuff you can add in, like "I would like Y$ saved by 20XX so that I can purchase a house. How will that affect the amount I need to save now and how much will that affect my savings at retirement."

> Or do they have meetings with their accountants, bankers, brokers.

It is probably a good idea to have a financial advisor do this for you since they have the know-how (and certification depending where you live) and will know about regional benefits you can apply which can increase your "wealth". However, if you want to do this yourself because you know the space then there is software like this, or Wealth Simple for example.

The inescapable rise of moral superiority

mrpotato — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/the-inescapable-rise-of-moral-superiority/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941740

Points: 69

# Comments: 44

Ubisoft won’t delete your game-filled accounts, it claims

mrpotato — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:14:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805783/ubisoft-delete-game-accounts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852101

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrpotato in "On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language"

mrpotato — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:23:17 +0000

Ah yes, to have flashing marquee text scroll across the screen. The good old days :D