Hacker News: perilunar

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:56:36 +0000

You can: there's an option in the settings panel (the gear icon on the top right)

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:49:34 +0000

I wonder if that's a common thing generally or not. Definitely I should add it as an option though. Also whether the year starts at the top or bottom of the dial.

The planets do go around the Sun anticlockwise when viewed looking down from above the North pole [0], and most diagrams show it that way, so maybe that's where the idea comes from?

0. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:45:21 +0000

hi :)

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:42:51 +0000

Author of Sun Clock here — thanks for the library! I'll check out the new release soon and update.

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:28:58 +0000

Same here, but i'm in the southern hemisphere, so summer is at the top already.

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:22:29 +0000

Author here — I'm thinking of adding something like that to the calendar page, or adding a separate 'carpet plot' of times over the year.

New comment by perilunar in "Sun Clock"

perilunar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:14:57 +0000

> how to handle the corner cases where the sun rises but does not set (and vice versa)

In practice it doesn't matter: you get a thin sliver of twilight between solar midnight and sunrise or sunset, and a 'Sunset: Does not occur' message in the text info. In such cases the sunrise/sunset arc (sector?) is pretty broad anyway.

> or if it should be tomorrow once you’ve already passed that time

Yes. I chose to recalculate the times midnight.

> Either way, at a certain point you’ll see the UI shift

Yes, but it's usually not dramatic. A few minutes time and fractions of a degree each day. The biggest shift occurs when Daylight Saving time changes — you get a big 15° rotation in the display. Most people are asleep when that happens, but it's cool to watch it jump.

New comment by perilunar in "The weekend is 100 years old"

perilunar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:45:07 +0000

> what are the actual ways to not live under the rule of an industrial clock?

Become a farmer. Live by the Sun and the weather instead of the factory or office clock.

New comment by perilunar in "US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges'"

perilunar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:15:30 +0000

The US is not about to be attacked. But your allies are getting sick of your bullying and hypocrisy. Without allies you won't keep your overseas bases, and without those you cease to be able to project power and maintain global dominance.

New comment by perilunar in "Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions)"

perilunar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:50:49 +0000

If you 'Add to Home Screen' you don't get the address bar. Effectively fullscreen.

Not sure how that would work with the state being saved in the URL — you'd need to save each routine separately I think.

New comment by perilunar in "This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again"

perilunar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:18:43 +0000

The mine: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DnJgQUomD93x4fhi9

New comment by perilunar in "Nobel Disease"

perilunar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:10:23 +0000

This article linked at the bottom is interesting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam

"Let the cobbler not judge beyond the shoe"

New comment by perilunar in "Elevators"

perilunar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:33:47 +0000

It's a pity that paternoster lifts are so unsafe [0] — we could avoid all problems to do with scheduling if they were safer.

On a related note, could someone please design continuous spiral escalators with horizontal sections at each floor?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift#Safety

New comment by perilunar in "Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5"

perilunar — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:53:40 +0000

Just imagine what you could build with 600 Falcon 9 upper stages.

New comment by perilunar in "Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5"

perilunar — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:51:00 +0000

Nothing stopping you — it's still there and still works. I use it for one of my sites.

New comment by perilunar in "Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5"

perilunar — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:46:20 +0000

As mentioned above, adding a viewport meta tag will make most unstyled pages look much better on mobile.

> Why are mobile browsers defaults so wrong?

History. When mobile browsers first appeared they had to default to a desktop page width to avoid breaking exisiting content, much of which was either built in layout tables or used CSS that assumed a wider window. The viewport meta tag was introduced (by Apple in Mobile Safari when the iPhone first came out, IIRC) so developers could override that behaviour. I think the defaults made a lot of sense at the time, and Apple made the right choice.

New comment by perilunar in "Ask HN: Is there a "mouse" for parallel work?"

perilunar — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:36:45 +0000

Are you asking, or are you trying to drum up interest in a product?

New comment by perilunar in "Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?"

perilunar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:36:35 +0000

Why is this even a federal issue in the US? In Australia time zones and daylight time are solely the responsibility of the states. I don't see why you need the feds involved.

New comment by perilunar in "Offgrid, solar powered fridge, with no battery bank"

perilunar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:16:58 +0000

> The only battery power fridge0 needs is enough to turn it off cleanly when the solar panels stop producing -- a few minutes of power instead of days -- and a small amount for its computer control.

What does 'turn it off cleanly' mean here? I always thought fridges just turned on or off continuously depending on the temperature and thermostat setting. It's just a motor and a compressor, it doesn't need a special shutdown procedure, does it?

New comment by perilunar in "TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85"

perilunar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:33:33 +0000

uh, The Goodies covered The Troggs' Wild Thing: https://youtu.be/gSWInYFVksg