Hacker News: raybb

New comment by raybb in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

raybb — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:42:30 +0000

Yeah... Kinda like how Paris used the Olympics to get the political willpower to cleanup the river.

City's trying to brand themselves and look good on a global stage does funny things.

Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer

raybb — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:09:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/los-angeles-subway-public-transportation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089098

Points: 82

# Comments: 46

Why DC's Metro Wants to Automate Its Trains

raybb — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/dc-s-metro-makes-a-case-for-driverless-red-line-subway-trains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088955

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by raybb in "OpenTrafficMap"

raybb — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:28:04 +0000

This is freaking great! How are you involved? Where does it get this cool image from? Dog Eared Books https://cartes.app/?allez=Dog+Eared+Books%7Cn6780338385%7C-1...

Also, I noticed the map is at least a few days behind in my area, how long does it take for you to get updates?

Do you plan to offer any way to sync data between devices?

New comment by raybb in "Waymo in Portland"

raybb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:49:50 +0000

It was $156 million? About half of that was funded by the high speed rail budget

New comment by raybb in "Waymo in Portland"

raybb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:32:28 +0000

California high speed rail isn't running now but it is improving lots of things along the way. For example one of the most dangerous crossings in the state is now grade separated with the Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project.

https://www.metro.net/about/media-relations/156-million-new-...

Thunderbird Pro April 2026 Update

raybb — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/04/thunderbird-pro-april-2026-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928030

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by raybb in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

raybb — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:34:20 +0000

If my position is that we need to pass the regional transit funding measure in the Bay area then I might say:

What do you think of the regional transit funding measure? Seems like it'd be a real disaster if BART stops running at 9PM.

In that way you're signaling your support and they'll probably just continue the conversation in the same direction.

New comment by raybb in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"

raybb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:21:58 +0000

That's absolutely horrifying...

Relatively small increases in speed dramatically increase the stopping distance and as such the danger of driving. Especially with a huge truck like that. That's why Amsterdam (with much more food traffic) has recently reduced speed limits a lot.

> At 30km/h, the stopping distance of a car is 13 metres. At 50km/h it’s more than double at 27 metres. That 20km/h reduction is the crucial difference between a pedestrian or cyclist surviving the impact of an accident – at 30km/h it’s estimated that 95 per cent of pedestrians would emerge relatively unscathed.

https://www.intertraffic.com/news/road-safety/amsterdam-30-s...

Open Library improved search by 10 percent

raybb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.openlibrary.org/2026/04/16/improving-search-by-10-percent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796242

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by raybb in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

raybb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:46:25 +0000

Ente is selfhosted (also has a hosted version) but encourages family use so I think that's why they do E2EE. It also does all the ML on the client side for people tagging and search.

Mozilla backed it with a grant but that was a few years ago.

New comment by raybb in "Cal.com is going closed source"

raybb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:51:01 +0000

You should add some screenshots to the readme or somewhere before a sign in screen.

Sounds like a great tool though. How much is the hosted version?

New comment by raybb in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

raybb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:40:25 +0000

Have you tried Ente.io and have any thoughts on comparison? I only use ente and have been happy with it but hear many good things about immich. Does it support E2EE?

New comment by raybb in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

raybb — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:57:24 +0000

Just today I helped co-host the SF Permacomputing Club.

It was a lot of fun and I love all the good energy people bring to the conversation about long lasting and community driven tech.

https://permacomputing.net/

https://luma.com/e27gae3q

New comment by raybb in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

raybb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:48 +0000

It can be that but sometimes it's nonsense queries being spammed from many IP addresses too.

New comment by raybb in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

raybb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:42 +0000

Just posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466

New comment by raybb in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

raybb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:31 +0000

https://openlibrary.org/volunteer is the general page but I'm assuming you want the technical stuff so https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/C...

I'm a very active volunteer and can always use the help of folks that have tech experience already. We get lots of student volunteers that require a lot of work to shepherd. As such, issues tend to be claimed pretty fast but also medium sized ones don't always get through the finish line.

Anyway, if you're seriously willing to commit some time you can tag me on their slack/github (@raybb). I'm currently doing a lot of performance related work (primarily migrating their codebase to fastapi) and I could use help but don't always open issues for it because sometimes guiding a non-experienced person is more work than just doing it.

There's also quite some design work going on to move things into the modern age and more reliable. One small thing that comes to mind is getting rid of jquery where it's used casually (not where a library depends on it). We have a few files like that.

Happy to chat more with anyone who is seriously willing to spend time to tackle medium sized issues with a few rounds of feedback!

New comment by raybb in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

raybb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:31:15 +0000

Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.

Appwrite 1.9.0: Self-hosting with MongoDB as the underlying database

raybb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:37:55 +0000

Article URL: https://appwrite.io/blog/post/self-hosting-appwrite-with-mongodb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681673

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by raybb in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

raybb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:14:10 +0000

Do any of the apps support taking actions as you talk without having to hit stop?

Like telling it to edit the text or remove a word.