Hacker News: pilina

New comment by pilina in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

pilina — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:02:13 +0000

Battery of my Cubot King Kong Mini is slowly dying. I use it with OpenTracks to record my commutes and use as bikecomputer and sometimes Osmand+ for offline navigation. I am searching for alternative, which needs to be waterproof and cheap (my commutes luckily includes downhill trails sometimes - I dont want to break expensive device). The title gave me high hopes, but I suppose I need to keep searching.

New comment by pilina in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

pilina — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:05:16 +0000

Mapy.com does that really well [0] (not affiliated). Not open source though. It uses mix of sources - OSM included - to render map (best render imo - especially the "outdoor" layer) and they are pretty large contributor to OSM in Europe. In free tier you can have one country downloaded for offline use. Sharing .gpx is no problem. Traffic data only in Central Europe.

[0]: https://mapy.com

New comment by pilina in "Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS"

pilina — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:43:21 +0000

Nobody has mentioned, that FreshRSS [0] has built-in web scraper too. It is also easier to use (little bit, imho), than changedetection.io. Works like a charm for me - mostly window shoping thrift shops.

[0](https://freshrss.org/)

New comment by pilina in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

pilina — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:33:08 +0000

Everybody seems to do stuff like this nowadays. Myslef included. I did have old K4NT lying around and started playing with it. With a little bit of help of AI (not for jailbreaking though! - lots of nonsense) I was able to put up little server, which now serves family calnedar agenda, but it is designed to be modular and I will put more stuff to it later. I've even designed and 3D printed insert into Ikea 12x18 frame and put a small "blade" powerbank with MagSafe to the back, so now I need to push powerbank button every 5 days. Internal battery is in a bad shape now, but I saw I can still buy an replacement. Wired version was not an option in my case.

New comment by pilina in "Obsidian is now free for work"

pilina — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:46:37 +0000

You are good salesman, you've made them at least $50 now. Definitely money well spent.

New comment by pilina in "NASA unlocks $1B canister of asteroid dust"

pilina — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:20:15 +0000

NASA got what they deserve. The could just ask every single aircraft mechanic about this one. Especially bloody torq-set. With budget they had. They could machine any head the wanted, and yet they've chosen stupidest one out there.

New comment by pilina in "Windy.com: global weather website with live filters"

pilina — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:27:08 +0000

Well, it has Radar (for Europe, US and some parts of the rest) & Satellite layer (whole world), which shows you current conditions. It can also show meteo-stations with current values of temperature, pressure and so on.

New comment by pilina in "Windy.com: global weather website with live filters"

pilina — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:21:14 +0000

It is based on mapy.cz [1] - Outdoor layer. It is mostly OSM based (plus lot of their own data for Czechia and Slovakia). Mapy.cz belongs to same guy, who runs Windy (Ivo Lukačovič [2]). IMHO it is best readable map on the internet and when I am used to it, I cant find anything on Google Maps.

[1] https://en.mapy.cz [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Luka%C4%8Dovi%C4%8D

New comment by pilina in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

pilina — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:12:52 +0000

I use Nextcloud Notes for that. It has decent mobile app and works great with few notes (Nextcloud Notes doesn't work as second brain very much).

I have two notes in there - Buffer and Shopping list. Buffer is one note for all the small stuff you mentioned. I also have widget on phone homescreen for that note so I can access it pretty seamlessly. Of course, it also means, you need to access some Nextcloud instance (I run my own).

Edit: I use Obsidian synced with Nextcloud for all the "second brain" things.

New comment by pilina in "DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest"

pilina — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:03:14 +0000

Here's another from 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzLWdNfNj-4 [K2 with a drone, Petr Jan Juračka]

New comment by pilina in "A plain-text file format for todos and check lists"

pilina — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:49:25 +0000

> So stuff that really needs to be done I will deal with without any todo list I will just remember it or deal with it right away.

Just remember. That's exactly the thing I (for example) am not capable of. I keep forgetting everything. Every time I have some spare time, I am checking my todo first if there's something I need/want/can do.

New comment by pilina in "Double Commander"

pilina — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:45:30 +0000

I am not a dev. But I've built dependency on following workflow: Navigating to right file -> taking full path to clipboard (Ctrl + Shift + C) -> switching to work app, e.g. CAD (Alt + Tab) -> Open dialog (Ctrl + O) -> Paste full path (Ctrl+V) and hit Enter. That's the main reason for I can't use GNOME and that awful GTK file dialog. I can navigate really quickly in commanders, because I've used them since I've started using computer - so that makes this workflow legit for me.

New comment by pilina in "PocketBook Dissassembly and Root (2017)"

pilina — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:08:05 +0000

Have you seen Unihertz Titan Pocket? Keyboard - check, IR blaster - check, 3.5mm jack - check, SD card - check. Removable battery though is gone.