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New comment by scanny in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

scanny — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:44:19 +0000

I got a Sovol Sv07+ and it’s decently fast, large build space, and can crank out miniatures that are ‘good enough’ for table top.

Wish the resin printers didn’t have the toxic fumes problem though, then I’d get one of them too.

Swiss startup says its AI weather forecaster beats Microsoft, Google

scanny — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:18:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/swiss-startup-jua-ai-weather-forecaster-outperforms-microsoft-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680886

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by scanny in "Overthinking GIS (2024)"

scanny — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:54:55 +0000

QGIS for ArcMap/ArcGIS Geoserver for their REST based servers (ArcGIS Enterprise). GRASS and GDAL do the leg work of much processing found in the spatial toolboxes and such.

However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing!

- former ESRI consultant

New comment by scanny in "Is the attack helicopter dead?"

scanny — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:05:42 +0000

Those shaped charges weren’t envisioned coming from directly above, especially precisely dropped on the engine or on hatches, hence the drones are hitting spots with little to no armour compared to the front and sides.

New comment by scanny in "American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway"

scanny — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:26:29 +0000

Usually shrapnel, working out the depth at which it exploded, the nature of the explosion (recorded on video), and historical evidence of bombing.

There is a buch of forensic methods around this.

New comment by scanny in "Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker"

scanny — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:35:52 +0000

Awesome work, love to see the effort on the technical front of bringing a language into broader use!

New comment by scanny in "Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative"

scanny — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:27:36 +0000

This is a great initiative from Ross, fingers crossed it picks up momentum.

New comment by scanny in "Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet"

scanny — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:58:21 +0000

To be devils advocate here we also have to promote healthy eating, getting screened for cancer, or smoking PSAs. Just because something might be classified as "superior" doesn't mean that it will always self promote or be accessible.

New comment by scanny in "Satellites Spotting Ships"

scanny — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:51:22 +0000

That's not exactly how it works. The satellite operator will be taking paid orders to scan over specific areas of the earth, about 4km in width or so.

So you have to have a pretty good idea where the carrier is, and then you get an image delivered with some latency as the satellite will need to pass over a ground station that downlinks the data.

So it isn't free (although umbra has a CC BY 4.0 license for their data, much more permissive than other providers. Nor is it easy to search huge amounts of the ocean for the carrier.

What most entities probably do is tip and cue, which is use a sensor with coarser resolution to get an approximate location and then use a sensor with finer resolution to look closer.

New comment by scanny in "Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward"

scanny — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:23:54 +0000

This has been brought up by a collective, in response to Ubisoft removing an online-only racing game from players libraries after purchase when they shut it down.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

New comment by scanny in "What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?"

scanny — Wed, 01 May 2024 08:46:31 +0000

In some languages , like German, children are referred to as “it” for quite some time as they grow

New comment by scanny in "Rooster King: A multimedia zine website collage album memoir thing"

scanny — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:55:42 +0000

Great experience reading through this, the multi-media collage is really nicely put together!

New comment by scanny in "Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models"

scanny — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:46:57 +0000

From my understanding it comes from a law passed that allows unlimited access by state intelligence services in China to any firms customer data.

  "The most controversial sections of the law include Article 7 which potentially compels businesses registered or operating in the People's Republic of China to hand over information to Chinese intelligence agencies such as the MSS and to conceal the fact that they do so." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of_t...

New comment by scanny in "Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders"

scanny — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:35:39 +0000

I have found ground.news [1] decent, it limits the AI to creating quick summaries and assessing which side of the political spectrum news articles and organisations fall. The rest is up to the reader.

1. https://ground.news/

New comment by scanny in "Ask HN: Recommendations for Bavaria/Swiss Alps"

scanny — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:21:29 +0000

Depends greatly on the season and how long you have, but for a few tips:

Munich: Cool little artist district with a boat railway bridge - https://maps.app.goo.gl/13Zjw2usCbvcsr1UA

Inner city surf wave with a great spectating spot - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ha1EQBvRoG1dLoyw5

South of Munich:

Murnau is a beautiful town with great views of the alps, reachable via train, and there is a great resteraunt near protected wetlands I can recccommend - https://maps.app.goo.gl/m9317uf5j7qKw8ML6

Cheimsee is also beautiful, little islands with a castle on a lake and a beergarden - https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZbxWRT7cDh66nzbS7

Further into the Alps you can find Königsee which is stunning, has great hiking, and plenty of history - https://maps.app.goo.gl/6fXAN1KwP8PqmTHc7

If you're into snowsports then now is a great time to get into the mountains and rent some gear to have a fun day. For hiking it is probably better to wait for the snow to thaw and then do a hut to hut treck if you can.

As a note, I do not reccommend going to see the Disneyland Castle, a.k.a. Neuschwanstein. It'll involve lots of crowds, a rushed tour, and a mediocre experience overall.

Enjoy!

New comment by scanny in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

scanny — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:19:54 +0000

likewise, learning to sail as a kid and having to go around these large partially submerged objects just kicked off some irrational fear in me (and stil does today, though to a lesser degree).

New comment by scanny in "I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros"

scanny — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:54:35 +0000

I think there is some cost associated with iPhone app development ($100-$300 plus submission costs), as opposed to android, when it comes to publishing, it seems fair enough for an individual to charge a dollar or two to recoup that.

New comment by scanny in "Dynamic Map and Dungeon Generator"

scanny — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:56:47 +0000

I stumbled across this and thought it would be an interesting thing to share. The tool is web-based (electron too) and can generate entire continents that also zooms down to the dungeon level. Ontop of this it has generated encounters and stories that are linked to locations on the map, and allows virtual table top sesions with moving counters and light sources.

trailer with features: https://youtu.be/cHwHRlzU-Gk?t=54

docs: https://docs.hexroll.app/

It even has it's own scripting language: https://docs.hexroll.app/scroll/scroll-tutorial/

Kudos to Ithai Levi who made this, take a look at some of the code here: https://github.com/hexroll/hexroll-backpack

Dynamic Map and Dungeon Generator

scanny — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:56:46 +0000

Article URL: https://hexroll.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602963

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by scanny in "Hitler-Mannerheim Recording"

scanny — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:05:51 +0000

I wonder why there is only a single recording of him in a more natural setting, over 12 years as chancellor I would have expected something more!