Hacker News: szemy2

New comment by szemy2 in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

szemy2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:39:37 +0000

Why are the rounded edges for eg.: on MacBook Neo defined as small distance specs instead of a radius?

New comment by szemy2 in "Dumbphone 2"

szemy2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:55:31 +0000

best dumbphone is a smartwatch

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: Creating OCD versions of a yearly calendar"

szemy2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:59 +0000

I'm really interested if there are more historical attempts that I'm not aware of!

I've added: - Soviet Revolutionary Calendar - Ancient Egyptian - French Republican - Intl Fixed Calendar

Show HN: Creating OCD versions of a yearly calendar

szemy2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:59:14 +0000

I'm a big fan of history's many attempts to square the circle: divide a hard to factorized number (days in a year) into even chunks, without sacrificing things like agricultural seasons.

This little project explores different calendar versions. I have highlighted my favorite solution :)

- 6 days / week - 5 weeks / month - 3 months / quarter - 4 quarters / year

As a good European the remainder 5 days are end of year holidays.

You can also select some of the historical attempts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716201

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: TinyCard – The TinyLetter of Greeting Cards"

szemy2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:58:35 +0000

I'm not hosting any images, you can only select Unsplash hosted images :)

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: TinyCard – The TinyLetter of Greeting Cards"

szemy2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:41:22 +0000

I'm also happy to talk through the process of how I built this.

Would it make sense to open source this?

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: TinyCard – The TinyLetter of Greeting Cards"

szemy2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:36:37 +0000

If you find a bug or feature request happy to hear!!

Show HN: TinyCard – The TinyLetter of Greeting Cards

szemy2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:34:46 +0000

My brother turned 39, I shipped his gift from a shop directly to him (we live in different countries and couldn't travel home due to my son being born)... Shop wouldn't let me add a postcard. So I went looking for a quick e-card service and every single one was painful; Hallmark wants a subscription, Paperless Post has a coin system, Canva technically works but you're designing a greeting card in a full design tool.

I wanted the tinyletter version of this. You write something, pick a photo, get a link; that's it. No account, no email wall and nothing to install. The recipient taps the link and the card opens with a little animation (flip, envelope, fold :D I (Claude) spent way too long getting the CSS 3D to feel right on mobile).

Built on Cloudflare Workers + D1, React Router 7, images from Unsplash. Free cards expire after 14 days. I added a $3.99 one-time premium if you want to schedule it: but the payment doesn't work right now :) ie didn't have a chance to hook up to Stripe yet.

I built this while my newborn son was sleeping next to me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704311

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: TinyCard – A minimalistic & functional e-Card site, like tinyletter"

szemy2 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:53:09 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I've thought about making this more generic and not just about a gift :) I'll put it on my todo to update it.

Regarding the photo credit & expiration, I'll see how I can move it a bit more to the bottom.

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: TinyCard – A minimalistic & functional e-Card site, like tinyletter"

szemy2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:38:09 +0000

Any bug report/improvement is welcome

Show HN: TinyCard – A minimalistic & functional e-Card site, like tinyletter

szemy2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:02:35 +0000

My brother just had his 39th birthday and as we live in different cities I sent a present to him directly from the shop (it was a gym bag for those who are curious).

The shop didn't let me add a postcard or anything personal to the package so I went looking for an easy/fast eCard service that I considered aesthetically pleasing.

It was a very frustrating search. I thought of creating it with Figma but didn't feel like spending more time building a postcard design (also I wanted it to open in a cool way!!). So I created an app :D (cue Rick & Morty "lets-build-an-app" guy)

This was created with the sentiment how tinyletter (RIP) offered a functional/minimal solution to bloated software.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157817

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Show HN: Our calendar is political, not mathematical – explore alternatives

szemy2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:15:39 +0000

365 is nearly prime (5×73), which is why our months are uneven and weeks don't fit into months. But 360 has 24 divisors — swap 5 days for year-end holidays and you unlock dozens of clean calendar systems where every month is identical.

I built a tool to explore them all: pick a base, see every valid factorization, compare against Gregorian side-by-side.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086526

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by szemy2 in "Cistercian Numbers"

szemy2 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:16:13 +0000

They had limited space.

Show HN: Create new calendar systems to fix uneven months

szemy2 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:00:57 +0000

I was playing around with divisors of numbers near 365 and realized you can generate a ton of valid calendar systems by picking a highly composite base (like 360) and treating the leftover days as end-of-year extra holidays.

365 is nearly prime (5×73), which is why our months are such a mess. But 360 has 24 divisors; enough to build clean hierarchies like 6-day weeks, 5-week months, 3-month quarters, 4 quarters/year + 5 holidays (6 on leap years). Every month identical, every date always the same weekday.

Built a small tool to explore all valid factorizations across different bases (336, 350, 354, 360, 364, 365), with a Gregorian comparison view that really highlights how arbitrary the current system is. Radial year visualization, work/rest analysis, season alignment, etc.

I've also added historical calendars, like the French Revolutionary calendar that was created in a similar sentiment.

Code facilitated by Claude Opus 4.6

Let me know what I should add, or if you catch a bug/mistaken logic!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034465

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by szemy2 in "Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass"

szemy2 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:43:32 +0000

When I select a destination at a bus stop or train station the listings only show the specifics but not the city itself. This kind of defeats the whole purpose as its essentially randomly clicking around

New comment by szemy2 in "Why Did the World Get So Ugly? – Alain de Botton"

szemy2 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:11:59 +0000

I’m posting this as I’m interested in the opinion of the hn folks.

Why Did the World Get So Ugly? – Alain de Botton

szemy2 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/within-reason/id1458675168

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400961

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by szemy2 in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

szemy2 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:26:14 +0000

This is pretty funny!

New comment by szemy2 in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

szemy2 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:48:36 +0000

Check out sunseekr its popular here in the uk: https://sunseekr.com/

New comment by szemy2 in "Tunnl.gg"

szemy2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:53:51 +0000

How is it different to ngrok? Genuinely curious, I might switch.