Hacker News: sebastianlay

Show HN: Orange Elephant – a browser extension to add annotations to HN users

sebastianlay — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:41:51 +0000

A little browser extension I wrote for myself because sometimes I want to add little notes about other users. It's fun to see familiar faces pop up in random threads. I know it's not for everyone, and that's okay. For me it renewed a sense of community, which I found interesting, so I wanted to share it.

I consider the extension feature-complete, mostly because I don't want to deal with high maintenance when browser extension APIs invariably change.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724191

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New comment by sebastianlay in "Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder"

sebastianlay — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:07:46 +0000

The level of integration of little electronics (like the LiDAR and the OLED screen) into a print is amazing! I am thinking about an electronic light meter that is coupled to the shutter and saves the current reading to an SD card, so that you could later sync the EXIF data to the scans.

Shameless plug: I have made a website that lists a lot of 3D printable film cameras (including the links to the print files). Feel free to have a look if you are thinking about printing your own camera. Some are really cheap and easy to print.

https://printed.analogcamera.space

New comment by sebastianlay in "I made a history timeline to learn what events happened around the same time"

sebastianlay — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:20:39 +0000

Cool visualization! I was wondering if you could find sources for war deaths before 1800. I would be interested to see how they compared to the later wars. Also, making the icons and the labels for the categories sticky (so that they are always on the left side) would make it more useful and less cluttered. Thanks for sharing it!

New comment by sebastianlay in "Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming"

sebastianlay — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:24:12 +0000

You might be able to do that with built-in git functionality called gitmailmap. It is basically a file where you can map multiple names and emails to the same one.

New comment by sebastianlay in "Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction"

sebastianlay — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:46:43 +0000

Reminds me of the time I applied this technique to basically a webcam stream of the northern night sky. You could immediately see if there were northern lights that night (and when) without having to scrub through the footage. I bet there are other use cases that haven't been explored yet.

New comment by sebastianlay in "Contentlesshtml – An HTML page served entire in HTTP headers"

sebastianlay — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:45:26 +0000

Seems like 'stylesheet' is only supported in Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Li...

New comment by sebastianlay in "Payment systems while working at a pizza place"

sebastianlay — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:38:25 +0000

Your coffee in a café in Germany is taxed differently based on the amount and type of milk in your coffee. Oh and of course the tax rate is different depending on whether you consume it in the café or take it to go.

New comment by sebastianlay in "Kodak Is Hiring Film Technicians: ‘We Cannot Keep Up with Demand’"

sebastianlay — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:03:20 +0000

Also, there is not 'the one' film look. There is still a lot of different films around and even new ones being released each year. I have made a list of films that are currently reasonable easy to obtain with links to example images:

https://analogfilm.space

I think for many people the question is not whether you could recreate the look with a digital camera. Instead you already get the look you chose by selecting your film baked into the image without having to do any post-processing.

Show HN: Overview of currently available 35mm, 110 and medium format film stocks

sebastianlay — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:58:51 +0000

Initially made for myself, this site is something that I thought could help other analog photographers as well. This is also my first 'real' project using Vue.js (or any JS framework for that matter), so any tips (especially regarding performance optimizations) are welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335510

Points: 1

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New comment by sebastianlay in "Ask HN: What Happened to Svbtle?"

sebastianlay — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:03:16 +0000

I am pretty sure that this site was hosted on Svbtle as well. His other personal site still seems to be online: https://dustincurtis.com/

New comment by sebastianlay in "Elementary OS is imploding"

sebastianlay — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:22:40 +0000

I follow the development of elementary for a while now and even contributed a little bit from time to time and this is honestly the first time I heard of this name change. So I think it is an easy mistake to make and would not automatically assume malice here.

Wordle Bans 'Slave' as New York Times Stops Users Entering Offensive Words

sebastianlay — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/wordle-bans-slave-new-york-times-offensive-words-banned-removed-1679793