Hacker News: ramboldio

New comment by ramboldio in "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"

ramboldio — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:07:02 +0000

Related work: Trello allows 'aging' for tasks. One can set them to become more transparent over time or turn into stained 'pirate' paper.

https://trello.com/power-ups/55a5d917446f517774210012

New comment by ramboldio in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

ramboldio — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:58:17 +0000

A very key problem is the common narrative that green policies and the EU allegedly caused the downfall of the car industry (-> "Verbrennerverbot").

In reality, a way bigger impact seems to be that the Chinese govt stopped buying German cars once they could build their own (which they have been always transparent about).

Unfortunately, this misdiagnosis leads to the wrong conclusion to double-down on a obsolete business model of the car industry, instead of diversifying away from it.

New comment by ramboldio in "Making niche solutions is the point"

ramboldio — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:20:43 +0000

I think that is a fantastic insight that 'Making niche solutions is the point' with 3D printing.

Unfortunately, it is still very hard to _design_ niche solutions. The usability of CAD tools did not really improve at all in the last 20 years..

New comment by ramboldio in "Show HN: 3D printing giant things with a Python jigsaw generator"

ramboldio — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:15:02 +0000

A big advantage of this technique is that the assembled model is 'isotropic'. If it was printed in one piece, it would be easy to split along the layer lines.

But when printing the plates separately, every face is equally strong.

Great project!

New comment by ramboldio in "I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock"

ramboldio — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:54:06 +0000

really nice to see well designed, useful 3D printable products.

These kind of designs are essential for 3D printing to graduate from printing baby yodas only. Also, the high-quality photography and documentation helps a lot to go for the 3D print over temu.

New comment by ramboldio in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

ramboldio — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:41:42 +0000

if only macOS would run on iPad..

German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms

ramboldio — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:56:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARD-und-ZDF-wollen-ihren-Streaming-Code-als-Open-Source-anbieten-9709177.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276714

Points: 217

# Comments: 87

New comment by ramboldio in "Browse Self-Hosted Software"

ramboldio — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:35:22 +0000

We just need to figure out how to get a one-click 'install' button on there ;)

New comment by ramboldio in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

ramboldio — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:56:56 +0000

> The Apple Vision Pro is the Northstar the VR industry needed, whether we admit it or not

I think that sums it up pretty well. More companies should launch products like that!

New comment by ramboldio in "Ask HN: When to Start a Business?"

ramboldio — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:55:57 +0000

There is a cool study that says that the likelihood of your startup suceeding does not peak until your late 50s.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

I think the public debate is so skewed towards young founders because it is so centered around extreme outlier founders and companies.

New comment by ramboldio in "Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare"

ramboldio — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:28:37 +0000

Since self-driving trucks do not need to rest, they can be also a lot slower while on the road to help with safety.

New comment by ramboldio in "Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare"

ramboldio — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:26:09 +0000

I'm wondering why there is so little talk about changing road infrastructure to make self-driving easier to pull off.

E.g. dedicated lanes for self driving or hand-off stations where human drivers can take over etc etc.

Amid the massive potential upsides, any reasonable government would invest in measures that turn out to effectivley improve self-drivability of the respective national grid.

New comment by ramboldio in "Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators"

ramboldio — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:20:08 +0000

This is a cool project that implements role-playing AI:

https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

New comment by ramboldio in "Gold prices are hitting records"

ramboldio — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:12:11 +0000

How can gold and stock prices be at record high at the same time?

BMW EV achieves 1000km in range using Dual-Chemistry batteries

ramboldio — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2023/11/30/our-next-energy-dual-chemistry-battery-achieves-over-600-mile-range/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531621

Points: 71

# Comments: 88

New comment by ramboldio in "TÜV vehicle report 2024 – Tesla Model 3, most issues (German)"

ramboldio — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:59:09 +0000

TL;DR

15% of Model 3's fail the mandatory audit after 2 years due to 'considerable defects'.

3D printing architectural-scale structures in under 1h [video]

ramboldio — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=old54MtTius

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38379189

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by ramboldio in "Adobe’s $20B deal to acquire Figma under threat from EU investigation"

ramboldio — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:22:22 +0000

> There is ample evidence of competition

There is?

New comment by ramboldio in "TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf]"

ramboldio — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:51:08 +0000

What I can verify:

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first work that proposes putting a photorealistic, perspective corrected face on a VR headset.

"FrontFace" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098279.3098548) is the first work that proposes putting eyes on a display on VR to "lower the communication barrier".

New comment by ramboldio in "TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf]"

ramboldio — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:06:35 +0000

Facebooks paper on their technology is quite amazing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450550.3465338

I'm guessing (?) Apple's approach is similar.