Hacker News: pcardoso

New comment by pcardoso in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

pcardoso — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:32:23 +0000

Reminds me of Carl Sagan’s Contact, where Haden, the millionaire funding Ellie’s work, made a TV ad blocker and then sued the TV companies when they refused to play ads for his product.

I wonder if that is what will happen next.

New comment by pcardoso in "Chuck Norris has died"

pcardoso — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:32:48 +0000

Just like Val Kilmer?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resu...

RIP both...

New comment by pcardoso in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

pcardoso — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:16:26 +0000

I tend to hoard things sometimes: links, notes, screenshots with useful tidbits, scraps of paper with notes…

One of the things I keep is the list of stuff I did during the day for when the standup call comes. Sometimes I forgot of mention a lot of stuff.

Then a few weeks ago I build the MVP of a note taking app specifically for this purpose: what did I do, what am I doing next, am I blocked by something?

No backend, data is stored in browser local storage, quick to load, a weekly summary and data export. No tracking whatsoever.

Not ready yet, which is why I didn’t do a Show HN feature yet, but has been useful to me even in its current state.

It lives at https://tinyleaps.app

New comment by pcardoso in "Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?"

pcardoso — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:16:05 +0000

Stories as in Instagram Stories, Youtube Shorts, whatever they are called in all platforms. Short video or video-like content.

New comment by pcardoso in "Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?"

pcardoso — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:34:07 +0000

Short videos, stories, etc. I refuse getting addicted to them. Terrifying watching everyone around me consuming the stuff like we are in a crack house.

New comment by pcardoso in "Show HN: MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies"

pcardoso — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:15:26 +0000

Congratulations on shipping. I had a similar idea a while ago after noticing a company at beach using multiple stop-watches to keep track of people renting kayaks and jetskis.

New comment by pcardoso in "Read your way through Hà Nội"

pcardoso — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:03:21 +0000

Close, it was actually portuguese missionaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet

New comment by pcardoso in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

pcardoso — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:53:00 +0000

I'm getting used to Linux again after 20+ years of Mac OS.

First, just using more cross-platform software on my Mac. Ditched Safari for Firefox; replaced my MacOS-only password manager; using iMessage less.

Bought the cheapest Framework 13 laptop, running stock Fedora. Omarchy is interesting but too weird for me. Gnome, is still familiar enough.

Using the Linux machine more and more, feels very fresh. To be honest not feeling this excited in a long time. Perhaps the year of Linux on the desktop is indeed coming.

New comment by pcardoso in "Show HN: WebRTC LAN Baby Monitor for iOS and iPadOS"

pcardoso — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:11:26 +0000

I think video is not really required in a baby monitor. A nice to have, perhaps.

As I said in another thread, I used a audio-only baby monitor with 3 kids and didn't feel the need for video.

We just wanted to know if the baby started crying or woke up. And in our case, if it stopped breathing (we were afraid of SIDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIDS).

New comment by pcardoso in "Show HN: WebRTC LAN Baby Monitor for iOS and iPadOS"

pcardoso — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:12:36 +0000

Congratulations on this project, excellent idea.

I sometimes used a FaceTime call between an iPad and my phone as a make shift baby monitor. Audio only, I don’t think video is really necessary. In fact, our Angelcare monitor at home was audio only.

Ours also had sleep apnea detection (a mat to put below the mattress), perhaps the accelerometers could be used to detect lack of movement.

New comment by pcardoso in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

pcardoso — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:55:45 +0000

Two side projects, as if 3 kids are not enough!

- a booking platform for surfing schools - a tool for pelvic physiotherapy practitioners handle appointments and exercise prescriptions

Doing backend and frontend for both, but there is a small team helping with #2. Both come from actual needs of actual businesses.

Tech is pretty standard typescript, react and node.

Would love to be working on these full time.

New comment by pcardoso in "Europe's cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it"

pcardoso — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:16:57 +0000

So, they reinvented Do Not Track?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

The narco-subs that cross oceans carrying pounds of cocaine

pcardoso — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:14:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/insane-journeys-inside-the-narco-subs-that-cross-oceans-carrying-hundreds-of-millions-of-pounds-of-cocaine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312297

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by pcardoso in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

pcardoso — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:57:09 +0000

And for me it was where it was the smoothest. But it even worked in Safari, albeit a bit slowly.

New comment by pcardoso in "Eels are fish"

pcardoso — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:34:28 +0000

Where I live in Portugal glass eels are a seasonal delicacy (galeota/meixão). There is much confusion about the nature of this fish, as the same name is reused across the country, but I believe it is glass eel.

I don't like it and it seems to be going out of style with younger generations, which is good as its fishing is not sustainable.

Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)

pcardoso — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:36:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jan/02/brian-eno-edge-question-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911601

Points: 31

# Comments: 5

New comment by pcardoso in "Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing"

pcardoso — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:16:42 +0000

Fastmail?

New comment by pcardoso in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

pcardoso — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:40:11 +0000

Also the name of a song by Ludovico Einaudi, quite popular. At least to me it was the first thing I thought when I saw this post.

New comment by pcardoso in "Where is my von Braun wheel?"

pcardoso — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:16:11 +0000

Songs of Distant Earth by Clarke also mentions this.

New comment by pcardoso in "Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack"

pcardoso — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:21:06 +0000

yes, this one!