Hacker News: s0a

New comment by s0a in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

s0a — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:13:29 +0000

PWA has access to bluetooth (BLE on all platforms) and NFC on Android

New comment by s0a in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

s0a — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:15:55 +0000

why not a proper Progress Web App so it can run on any device independent of app stores? it's not as though a social app needs deep OS integration. I'm sure Claude or Codex could vibe code that in an afternoon.

New comment by s0a in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

s0a — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:09:32 +0000

this seems insanely useful and well thought out. kinda surprised something like it doesn’t already exist. def useful in the age of agents

New comment by s0a in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

s0a — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:35:59 +0000

greyscale no longer available for purchase

New comment by s0a in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

s0a — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:28:30 +0000

Frigate NVR + Amcrest cameras. 100% local, private, on-device AI object recognition and classification. Can use a Google Coral USB TPU to speed that up. Runs on hardware as modest as a Raspberry Pi.

New comment by s0a in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

s0a — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:48:53 +0000

quantum computers on the sun!

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:13:01 +0000

I did not criticize your app. I offered that your blanket statement that "The browser is an extremely poor medium to deliver applications" does not comport with my experience. And it looks like I nailed it, too. It is the nature of your application. Had you said "the browser does not offer a real time API which I need for my application", there would have been nothing to say. This is obviously true. Even native desktop apps provide an inadequate environment for "hard RT". So I suspect that is also not a true requirement, either.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:30:10 +0000

spend 30 seconds reading up first. fork it if you disagree.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:59:33 +0000

Makerspaces and education are two areas of focus. no SW install, fully loads in under a second. through the Onshape integration and ability to run on Chromebooks, it's made its way into high school and university STEM curriculum.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:51:47 +0000

it's a combination of JS, WASM, and WebGPU. the JIT engines are so much faster than you would imagine, especially if you tune your code right. workers allow for parallel processing on all of your CPU cores. WebGPU, at least in Chrome, is kind of amazing.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:36:00 +0000

second KiCad. just had my first board printed a few months back. its an esp32 stackable daughterboard. first time doing anything like that outside of breadboarding, and it worked great.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:32:37 +0000

this does not track with my experience, so possibly it's the nature of your app or the way it's coded. frameworks like react are notoriously crap. stick to pure html5/css/js and it can be extremely fast and light.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:21:35 +0000

this. webkit is intentionally hobbled and years behind the standards. browsers on iOS are forced to use webkit for ginned up security excuses/reasons so that no real browsers that implement full standards can complete with heavily taxed app store spyware.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:16:14 +0000

there are desktop builds https://grid.space/downloads.html that run entirely offline. you can also use the center menu to "install" it as a progressive web app.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:14:45 +0000

of Kiri? it's in its 14th year. CAM was added in 2016, but the major work on that mode really kicked in around 2024.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:13:59 +0000

probably adaptive milling, which will be in an upcoming release. sharp path changes in harder metals can wear or break tools if you don't go slow, which has other issues.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:08:39 +0000

this does look like a bug in the default Ender 3 profile. easily fixable.

New comment by s0a in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

s0a — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:52:53 +0000

no shared lineage. Cura and Kiri started around the same time (2011/2012), but as completely separate projects. Cura is a C++ desktop app and Kiri has always been 100% browser-based (no cloud, all computation in the browser sandbox). the licenses are different, too. Cura/Prusa/Orca are GPL based and Kiri is MIT.

New comment by s0a in "Just the Browser"

s0a — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:55:34 +0000

there are already a bunch of electron and chromium projects that give you just a simple and highly performant browser sandbox.

New comment by s0a in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

s0a — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:27:28 +0000

can we just boot to a browser sandbox and call it a day? ditch all the old bloatware. we do not need native apps.