Hacker News: simongr3dal

New comment by simongr3dal in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

simongr3dal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:34:34 +0000

Kind of like how “Stuff Made Here” has devolved into mark rober content.

New comment by simongr3dal in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

simongr3dal — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:30 +0000

I hope you count "stimulating our minds for either learning or imaginative purposes" as one of those outcomes because if you only count "work produced and kpis met" as an outcome then that sounds pretty bleak.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM"

simongr3dal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:05:04 +0000

Their doc linked at the bottom actually has a pretty nice example.

https://boneyard.vercel.app/how-it-works

New comment by simongr3dal in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

simongr3dal — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:48:11 +0000

I believe the concern is if your primary key in the database is a serial number it might be exposed to users unless you do extra work to hide that ID from any external APIs and if there are any flaws in your authorization checks it can allow enumeration attacks exposing private or semi-private info. With UUIDs being virtually unguessable that makes it less of a concern.

New comment by simongr3dal in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

simongr3dal — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:06:49 +0000

I feel like there are probably cinematic film-making tricks you can use to imply a very dark scene without serving #111 pixels all over the screen.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

simongr3dal — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:22:32 +0000

Because HN is not really a forum geared towards sarcastic quips unless they are extraordinarily funny.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Denmark is returning 15% of its farmland back to nature"

simongr3dal — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:47:49 +0000

Farmland is approximately 2/3 of the country. Most is being used for animal feed and then the animals are exported. I think we’ll make due.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them"

simongr3dal — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:14:50 +0000

Those vehicles typically have many more axles and double-wide wheels to distribute the load.

New comment by simongr3dal in "I kind of like rebasing"

simongr3dal — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:39:25 +0000

You sort of get that if you're consistent in working on a separate branch, rebasing, and keeping the merge commit when you finally merge.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line"

simongr3dal — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:26:03 +0000

It is proprietary, but it's not like it's difficult to decode or interpret.

New comment by simongr3dal in "AI Books4 Dataset for training LLMs further"

simongr3dal — Sun, 19 May 2024 12:51:01 +0000

Around 250GB, several terabytes once uncompressed I assume.

New comment by simongr3dal in "On Terry A. Davis"

simongr3dal — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:24:49 +0000

Thanks for posting. The rest of the blog is also short and sweet, I’m struggling a bit with self worth and self criticism so I found it very touching and relatable.

It’s kind of interesting how I’ve come to expect blog posts to be much longer since microblogging pretty much exists exclusively on social media.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules"

simongr3dal — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:42:30 +0000

How long before some court declares such practice equal to evidence tampering or obstruction?

New comment by simongr3dal in "Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)"

simongr3dal — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:47:35 +0000

In my memory of Plex on my Apple TV device it was off by default and hidden in an advanced menu or something. Not impossible by any means, just annoying.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)"

simongr3dal — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:08:22 +0000

I’m using Infuse as well, and it’s pretty amazing. The main thing that Infuse does differently from all the others is that it always does Direct Play (in Plex parlance) so you don’t need anything powerful or power hungry to be hosting the video.

Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)"

simongr3dal — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:48:05 +0000

I like the yellow theory. Looks like the top of a paint can spraying some yellow paint.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative"

simongr3dal — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:03:16 +0000

They could try the WebKit strategy [1]; a strict policy against performance regression:

> We adhere to a simple directive for all work we do on WebKit: The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower.

[1]: https://webkit.org/performance/

New comment by simongr3dal in "Does any outside service check the integrity of the content on Web Archive?"

simongr3dal — Fri, 19 May 2023 23:16:35 +0000

How exactly would you check if a webpage in the Wayback Machine precisely matches a thing that used to be? You would also have to trust whoever checks them.

New comment by simongr3dal in "M1/M2 Macs Have Bluetooth Issues with the Mouse, Cursor, and Magic Trackpad 2"

simongr3dal — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:49:29 +0000

I have definitely seen that behaviour on my M1 MacBook Air, though not recently.

At the time I tried to do a screen recording but it didn’t show up. I figure it’s some weird hardware acceleration thing with the cursor that gets borked after a bad wake up.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health"

simongr3dal — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:51:05 +0000

A lot of commercial kitchens use stainless steel for their containers.