Hacker News: stingrae

New comment by stingrae in "All I wanted was a custom domain email"

stingrae — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:50:40 +0000

Is it actually free to use? i cant find the pricing page

New comment by stingrae in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

stingrae — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:34:13 +0000

“A 5 GW data center would require a solar array with dimensions of approximately 4 km by 4 km”

I think dodging debris is challenging at that scale.

Also this is the solar cells not the radiators

New comment by stingrae in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

stingrae — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:13:47 +0000

the model is a set of weights, you can take a snapshot and test it. Reinforcement learning itself is largely testing and tuning.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:21:57 +0000

be careful how you mount it, make sure that there is enough dampening. people have had issues with excessive vibration and damaging the OIS and focusing motors in the cameras.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:50 +0000

what is insane, is that ble is largely unsecured in modern implementations. when testing, i kept picking up everyones whoops/assorted ble devices spamming out heart rate data to whomever wanted to connect.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:58:27 +0000

note using a phone mounted to a bike or motorcycle can cause damage over time to the camera assembly especially the motors used for OIS. depending on how much you ride or the quality of the roads you ride, it could be an issue.

your project does look amazing. sorry that the appstore team is holding things up.

RE: ANT+, a hackrf one and fable was key to the hack.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:55:03 +0000

refresh rate is sort of a non issue. i can push the refresh rate to up to 20Hz, it is largely unnecessary for this project.

it has a nice backlight (basically identical to a kindle display)

color is fair, but i dont miss it.

i do absolutely love how readable it is in direct sunlight (when im mostly riding)

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:52:09 +0000

i can push it as high as 20Hz.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:11:14 +0000

yes me too. i may be working on something...

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:10:53 +0000

technically i dont think the coros uses an eink display. but it is definitely one of the cooler bike computers.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:08:05 +0000

I hadnt heard of it. I will check it out.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:07:39 +0000

i have been using it in my car during commutes for testing. modern eink displays can do pretty high refresh rates. i think i can hit 20hz.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:06:07 +0000

i have ridden with this unit over five hundred miles and not had any issues. though SF Bay Area summers arent as tough as other places.

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:04:52 +0000

yes. they luckily the same phy, 1 Mbit/s GFSK modulation.

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

stingrae — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:18:08 +0000

Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.

Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant

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New comment by stingrae in "Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine"

stingrae — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:21:26 +0000

Basically yes. There are a large number of public repositories of data that can dox a persons address. Like property tax rolls, company filings etc. some of these are actually required by Europe (https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co..., which I do not appreciate)

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city"

stingrae — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:54:18 +0000

Nice! there is a website with a similar concept for San Francisco: https://opensfhistory.org/maps/index.php

New comment by stingrae in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

stingrae — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:06:34 +0000

they should wait for the major lockups to pass, there by skipping some of the inevitable volatility they will likely cause.

New comment by stingrae in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

stingrae — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:33:41 +0000

I tried to test an ad in the meta ad platform… and it is insanely terrible. Teams don’t care about B2B software even if it drives the business or there aren’t viable competitors.

New comment by stingrae in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

stingrae — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:20 +0000

This reminds me of a piece I just saw at the Legion of Honor (SF) special exhibit on the etruscans. They have a Etruscan manuscript, written on linen, that was used to wrap a mummy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus