Hacker News: perssontm

New comment by perssontm in "European Alternatives"

perssontm — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:46:17 +0000

I read about https://techposts.eu/ the other day, seems like a decent alternative, but needs some more traction.

New comment by perssontm in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

perssontm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:09:22 +0000

Wow, this is extremely well done I think. Congrats for launching!

Show HN: I created a AI-assisted mealplanner for weekly menu/food inspiration

perssontm — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:02:11 +0000

This is a passion project to help inspire to try new meals in the weekly menu plan. It can be a significant challenge to find variation and inspiration to try out things the family likes.

Try it out for yourself, any feedback is welcome. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995194

Points: 1

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Greek athlete from 600 bc could overhead press 140kg/300lbs (one hand)

perssontm — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:04:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bybon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28053477

Points: 4

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New comment by perssontm in "Ask HN: OCR Libraries for Receipt Scanning/Parsing?"

perssontm — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:06:14 +0000

I recently started using paperless-ng, check it out, perhaps you can build on that. Includes tessarect for ocr for example.

Its all over – every comment on current turn of events is already told?

perssontm — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 20:55:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2018/12/its-all-over.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26665895

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Good Examples of User Manuals?

perssontm — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:27:30 +0000

I've been reviewing some options to create a user manual and/or FAQ for a system we are delivering to customers.

I read some content from hubspot[1] and intercom[2] which gave some insights, but I would like more greate and preferrably real-world examples.

Of course the audience might have different requirements and expectations, but do you have any good examples of user manuals or FAQs which users(and also the writers) love?

[1] https://www.hubspot.com/knowledge-base [2] https://www.intercom.com/blog/give-your-customers-best-practices-not-just-faqs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563280

Points: 2

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New comment by perssontm in "Alpine 3.10 Released"

perssontm — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:02:37 +0000

I used it as a base for docker containers, but depending on project Ive found that sometimes the lack of locale support is making it a non-viable option. I read there are ways to get it working, but I never did.

New comment by perssontm in "Node-Red – Flow-Based Programming for the Internet of Things"

perssontm — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 06:49:41 +0000

I dabbled with home assistant and openhab for a while at home, originally I had planned to monitor some thermometers(not the usual light switches which seemed to be common). I ended up throwing openhab and hass away and is now running nodered together with mqtt. The thermometers are built with arduinos and different temp sensors and posting data to mqtt over wifi. Then nodered catches any writes to the mqtt topics and passes them on to store in tsdb over its rest api. This way, I don't need to mess with the rest api on the thermometers which is very nice.

Since then I added a lot of other things to nodered, I added the coming bus departures, and data from oue heating pump.

Not sure I would use nodered in a business, but if zapier was the option I would perhaps try it. It saves a lot of pipeline for deployment and such which code would need(or at least I would require).

Also, the node red dashboard makes the above even better, I have an android tablet mounted in a frame in the kitchen to show some of the data above.

Well worth a try, I'd say.

New comment by perssontm in "Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?"

perssontm — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:30:57 +0000

I really enjoy lucid chart, after using gliffy for a long time, I am now stuck on lucid.

https://www.lucidchart.com

New comment by perssontm in "Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?"

perssontm — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 19:48:00 +0000

I've long dremead of a architecture view that was zoomable, zooming in enough would end up on the actual code, but zooming out a lot would show you app server +database basically.

New comment by perssontm in "Windows 10 is unfinished"

perssontm — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:43:46 +0000

If they keep the trend there will also be at least 4 different folders called Photos in 4 different places by default, and none of them goes to the same photos.

New comment by perssontm in "Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary"

perssontm — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:18:38 +0000

Isnt that the same as samsung are doing with their devices? They come up with a phone/tv/dishwasher that have 550Ghz/100Mpix of whatever, but no clue for what it should be used. Its just "faster, and look, very large screen"

If samsung didnt produce stuff for others they might have been in the same situation, probably a bit better but close.

I guess the sony vaio line wont be missed if it goes away, I've never come by a vaio which as nice/good.

New comment by perssontm in "Reversing the WRT120N’s Firmware Obfuscation"

perssontm — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:51:47 +0000

What is RE and where can this tool be found?

New comment by perssontm in "Open-Sourcing PEPS: A modern webmail server"

perssontm — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:56:05 +0000

Couldnt agree more, thunderbird is ok, but its fairly slow and hasnt gotten much improvements usability-wise since netscape mail, its basically the same.

Speedwise its not up to par either I think, searching is quite bad, but this might be issues really with imap rather than anything else. My last efforts have been beefing up our mailserver and also adding full text indexing for searching which helped a bit but there is still a long way to go to get it really instant.

New comment by perssontm in "Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started"

perssontm — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:23:23 +0000

Developer likely said: - Oh crap, its test data, I used the current candidates with past elections data just to make sure it was working. Result in the news after some levels of PR handling people: - No problem, its just past elections data.

New comment by perssontm in "Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby"

perssontm — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:16:16 +0000

Is it just me beeing blind, or does it not support https?

New comment by perssontm in "KYou, a new open source solution to know yourself better"

perssontm — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:10:04 +0000

But can I host this on my own server?

New comment by perssontm in "Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy"

perssontm — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:04:52 +0000

Interesting the me as a Swede, I read about this "problem" at HN first. Never read/heard anything about this in mainstream swedish media. I might if course have missed it, but if its such a big problem as the article like to state, I like to think I should have heard of it, otherwise it would be fair to question the sources of this.

New comment by perssontm in "Linux has better hardware support than OS X"

perssontm — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:04:50 +0000

You have a valid point, but theres another side to it. The hardware that works great are the hardware that developers tend to use. The worst low-end lexmarks which are barely good enough for one cartridge cycle is not something any computer enthusiast/programmer would spend time on makeing work.

Since I switched to linux on my laptop 100%, around 2003 somewhere, I always tried to pick hardware which is professional grade, not home/consumer end. Although a bit more pricey to start with but most of the things have lasted since then as well.