Hacker News: shrx

New comment by shrx in "Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game"

shrx — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:29:58 +0000

The light is also reflected from the Earth back into the sky, e.g. over bodies of water.

New comment by shrx in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

shrx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:43:44 +0000

A lesser model can supervise.

New comment by shrx in "Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released"

shrx — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:13:20 +0000

The silent forced replacement of deb packages with snaps during regular apt updates is pretty hostile, IMO.

New comment by shrx in "Creating a Garmin "MCP""

shrx — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:53:48 +0000

I'm not using it for sleep tracking so I can't comment on that. I mostly use it with Garmin Instinct 3 Solar for recording and exporting gpx tracks of my hikes and bicycle trips.

New comment by shrx in "Creating a Garmin "MCP""

shrx — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:31:40 +0000

I highly recommend GadgetBridge for anyone wanting to avoid Garmin's cloud services: https://gadgetbridge.org/

New comment by shrx in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

shrx — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:15:28 +0000

> What if gun owners had to walk around wearing a huge plate with their gun registration number when they wanted to carry a gun?

Actually a very sensible proposition.

New comment by shrx in "Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing"

shrx — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:00:55 +0000

Can you provide an example of this schema?

New comment by shrx in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

shrx — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:19:48 +0000

> "It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement."

Can they back up this statement somehow?

New comment by shrx in "RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3"

shrx — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:41:49 +0000

We have a similarly converted rotary phone at my local astronomy club's observatory, used to receive visitors. It's driven by an arduino if I remember correctly. The main issue is that the sound quality of its built-in speaker is quite poor, especially compared to modern cell phone speakers we're used to nowadays, with a narrow frequency window and frequent echoes.

New comment by shrx in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

shrx — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:34:48 +0000

Wikipedia has an article listing some of the notable (walking) straight line missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_line_mission

edit: and the article already notes this longest possible path from Portugal to China, citing a 2023 article: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-are-the-worlds-longe...

New comment by shrx in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

shrx — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:21:12 +0000

> Figure 9: Longest Drivable Straight Line Path on Earth.

Walkable, maybe, but definitely not drivable (it crosses directly over the Alps, for example).

New comment by shrx in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

shrx — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:08:10 +0000

I realize I've been spoiled by finally having the ability to tailor almost anything to my exact personal preference. Related: https://vibingwithai.substack.com/p/software-for-one-how-vib... and the HN discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096605

New comment by shrx in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

shrx — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:33:12 +0000

2D map would work the same way with my proposal. The "north is up" part is the issue for me, I'd like to have the rotation oriented in such a way that (the visible part of the path to) my destination is up.

New comment by shrx in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

shrx — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:28:36 +0000

Of course it could still have some maximum allowed rotation threshold.

New comment by shrx in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

shrx — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:26:12 +0000

>"up is direction of motion"

Yes, this is how it's currently implemented. My proposal is "up is the intersection of the path with the edge of the screen". Here's a mock comparison of the current behavior with my proposal: https://i.imgur.com/AmUnzfS.jpeg (The mocked perspective is wrong because I just cut out and rotated the image, but hopefully you get the idea)

New comment by shrx in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

shrx — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:04:59 +0000

This is also a problem with Google Maps navigation. It is always showing the perspective looking straight ahead of your current direction, even when you're approaching a sharp turn. Instead, the perspective should be along a vector connecting your current location with the point where the navigation's path crosses the edge of the display, pointing straight up.

New comment by shrx in "Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days"

shrx — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:57:24 +0000

Can you describe with a bit more detail how you're approaching the BIOS reverse engineering?

New comment by shrx in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

shrx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:52:43 +0000

https://gshock.casio.com/europe/products/mr-g/

The MR-G models are priced in the thousands.

New comment by shrx in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

shrx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:12:32 +0000

Time is necessary for change, not existence.

New comment by shrx in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

shrx — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:55:32 +0000

Maybe it's time to develop new sealing materials?

edit: thanks for the downvote. I should've said "Maybe it's time to _invest into developing_ new sealing materials?" ;)