Hacker News: pininja

New comment by pininja in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

pininja — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 21:03:14 +0000

The balance during the first two years felt amazing. I was so energized by the first days that I spent the second days revisiting to a ton of makers I’d met the first day to talk more. And I still didn’t see everything.

This year my friends and I felt it swayed a bit far to sponsored booths. There were fewer cool experiences (like the mini-golf) and I’d seen everything in one day. We wondered if the cool booths got denied in favor of ones that could pay more.

We still had great conversations and met incredible people, but felt we had to work harder to find it.

That said.. I think William’s team has been in a deficit each year and he said in his OpenSauce+ video how he is trying to be more sustainable.. I still remember buying the $69.69 early early bird ticket on the way out of 2023 for 2024 just to help them cover existing costs.

I really hope they figure it out. It’s such a great environment and has a great team behind it

New comment by pininja in "Kepler.gl"

pininja — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:58:47 +0000

That was a fun mobile challenge! I just exported my Google Maps Timeline, used ChatGPT to convert it to a CSV of points, and then made a heatmap with Kepler’s grid layer.. I had to tweak the color breaks a bit or else it only highlighted my home and (old) office

New comment by pininja in "Kepler.gl"

pininja — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:28:17 +0000

CARTO is more focused on backend pipelines and large-scale data (where everything needs to be tiled before it can be visualized), while Kepler is a great last-mile visualization tool. It probably makes more sense for enterprises that scale beyond what Kepler can do.

That said, credit where it’s due - their engineering team is a super active contributor to the deck.gl framework powering kepler.gl.

New comment by pininja in "Kepler.gl"

pininja — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:13:12 +0000

It’d be great to have contributors join our collaborator summit [0] in the Seattle area this fall!

It’s a free event, supported by the OpenJS Foundation, kepler.gl’s host foundation.

We’re expecting to have a session from Shan, the creator of Kepler.gl as well as Ilya, the creator of SQLRooms. We’re still accepting session proposals as well [1]!

[0] https://deck.gl/events/seattle-summit-2025/ [1] https://github.com/openjs-foundation/summit/issues/450

New comment by pininja in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

pininja — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:33:56 +0000

Mapbox is just a small step away from that with their MCP server wrapping their pay-by-use API. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a subscription offering with usage limits if that somehow appealed to them. MapTiler already offers their service as a subscription so they’re even closer if they hosted a server like this on their own.

https://github.com/mapbox/mcp-server

New comment by pininja in "Lego Islands Running as Website"

pininja — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:33:38 +0000

Pretty incredible result having followed along on MattKC Byte’s YouTube channel for a couple of years. Their GitHub projects have become a great resource for software preservation projects.

New comment by pininja in "Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline"

pininja — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:06:25 +0000

I was curious about this too and enjoyed reading the routes file https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer/blob/main/server/in...

New comment by pininja in "OCR4all"

pininja — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:14:38 +0000

This tool says it includes a workflow GUI and refinement tools, like creating work-specific text recognition models - maybe the others do too? tesseract isn’t packaged with a GUI, but is wrapped by many.

This project seems focused on making tools more accessible and helping the user be more efficient and organized

New comment by pininja in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

pininja — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:57:16 +0000

Can this detect if you’re left your garage door open for a while and notify me?

New comment by pininja in "How to Fly the Joby Aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [video]"

pininja — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:57:15 +0000

Joby posted an overview of how to fly their aircraft in MSFS 2024! I’m an engineer at Joby and was lucky enough to be part of the project. If you’d like help setting up your control mappings, let me know!

How to Fly the Joby Aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [video]

pininja — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:57:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98VIrvMgEQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259151

Points: 2

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New comment by pininja in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

pininja — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:25:04 +0000

Super fun. Loved the rubbery sound design.

I’d want to watch the CEO host a speed run stream.

New comment by pininja in "Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash"

pininja — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:13:52 +0000

They've had huge pushes to add EVs to their network, which is great but this means it’s an increasingly likely for someone to get stuck. I’d include these instructions in their in-app safety center if I were them…

New comment by pininja in "Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash"

pininja — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:44:44 +0000

Every Uber I take in a Tesla would practically need an airline safety briefing for this. There’s no way I’d find it on my own.

New comment by pininja in "Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash"

pininja — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:38:42 +0000

Regulations are written in blood.. it’s really disappointing to see a car make it to production without an obvious mechanical way to open the door. I’ve been in many teslas and hadn’t given this much thought, figuring there’d surely be a way to open the door if I need to get out.

New comment by pininja in "Gross Apple Marketing"

pininja — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:35:20 +0000

These ads feel like YouTube Short sketches. A little absurd, and a bit of a fantasy land. Would people really interact this way - word for word?

I think being aspirational with AI can feel a bit in-humane. A lot of people seeing this experience a bit of cringe when the topic of AI is brought up. Maybe they’re worried about their job, that technology is too pervasive - whatever it is, they’re uncomfortable. It’s an easier pill to swallow if I can laugh at it. Apple seems to be picking up on that in these ads.

New comment by pininja in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

pininja — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:31:15 +0000

I remember first discussions about removing the GIL back in 2021 and a lot of initial confusion about what the implications would be. This is a great summary if, like me, you weren’t satisfied with the initial explanations given at the time.

New comment by pininja in "I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them"

pininja — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:33:45 +0000

I only started to really appreciate having a web page archive after cataloging the coffee I drank, which often have pages full of detail about the beans until they sell out and then, poof!, they’re taken offline.

New comment by pininja in "Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data"

pininja — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:24:46 +0000

In case anyone wants to do a similar visualization on their own, this looks like a screen capture of kepler.gl which is an open source web tool for this kind of map data exploration.

New comment by pininja in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

pininja — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:15:15 +0000

The great thing about open map projects is that they can be updated, and store a historical edit log along with discussions and sources for each change.