Hacker News: vpmadd52huq

New comment by vpmadd52huq in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

vpmadd52huq — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:29:31 +0000

Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3038/

Building DuckDB's Community Extensions, Faster and More Consistently

vpmadd52huq — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:20:42 +0000

Article URL: https://query.farm/blog/duckdb-community-extensions-distribution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241174

Points: 2

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Is Starlink a Secret Radar Constellation?

vpmadd52huq — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:01:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbp3kdJZ1_A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867047

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by vpmadd52huq in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

vpmadd52huq — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:42:43 +0000

I've always wondered why humans seem to be unable to visualize four-dimensional objects in their heads.

When discussing this with others, the arguments often revolve around the fact that as we experience our reality in 3D, there should be no reason for us to be able to visualize anything in a higher dimension.

This argument seems like an arbitrary limitation of the human mind, which I don't think holds up. It is sometimes associated with our inability to think of new colors, but I think this is a completely different problem.

Show HN: Quest - A GeoGuessr-inspired game for finding mountain peaks

vpmadd52huq — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:03:40 +0000

Howdy HN! I spend a lot of time roaming around the Pyrenees and wanted an interesting way to learn the names of mountain peaks, so I built Quest.

It's a geography challenge where you are given the name and elevation of a peak and have to determine where it is on the map. It's built using OSM data, you get 10 rounds of 2 minutes max to pinpoint the location of a random peak, either globally or in a specific region.

It's free and does not require an account to start playing, but you can create one if leaderboards are your thing.

On the technical side, I used DuckDB-WASM to offload spatial queries to the client, so that I can (hopefully) keep this running on low-end hardware. The server is running a Sveltekit app on Hetzner. Major props to Better Auth for making auth enjoyable.

Happy to hear feedback and answer questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120787

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Day I Hacked XCTrack

vpmadd52huq — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:32:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.syrac.org/posts/xctrack-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539555

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Public terrain tiles for interactive web map visualizations

vpmadd52huq — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:38:13 +0000

Article URL: https://mapterhorn.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863938

Points: 3

# Comments: 1