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Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds

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9 points·by jdeibele·8 giorni fa·5 comments

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jdeibele
·6 giorni fa·discuss
Added full-text search. We still have /t/topic as the backbone but if you want to search for a certain graphics card, not just NVIDIA, you can. Still working on appearance.
jdeibele
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Maybe you'd call it a feed of feeds. https://blogsreader.com/t/supreme_court is the number one topic this past week and it has different blogs talking about recent decisions.

Maybe more appropriate to HN: https://blogsreader.com/t/ux_design https://blogsreader.com/t/large_language_models https://blogsreader.com/t/claude

https://blogsreader.com/blog

Disadvantages: 1. You can't follow feeds. I tried blending it in and I just can't make it work. But I think it's OK: you can still use your favorite newsreader to follow the people you really want to listen to. That's what I plan on doing with NetNewsWire.

2. It only works online. Newsreaders got started when bandwidth was at a premium and nobody had a T1 to their house, let alone 1Gbps.

3. We use the article for classification but you can't read more than a line or two on BlogsReader. I think this is great for authors who will — hopefully — get more visits, but it's different than having the whole thing on your device.
jdeibele
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Read blogs by what they're talking about.
jdeibele
·mese scorso·discuss
My 2005 Honda Odyssey had a locking glovebox. With the move to a start button instead of turning a key or even just the key fob presence (Chevy Equinox we have) or phone apps or cards manufacturers definitely got away from having something that you could lock and unlock.

I thought having the glovebox only unlocked from the screen was dumb when I heard about it but I'd rather have the ability to lock it than not. And it's consistent with the move to using your phone instead of a keyfob.
jdeibele
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I wanted to download and watch YouTube videos. The YouTube app on the Roku is not great and I had all kinds of issues with trying to use the YouTube app on my phone. I was trying to use Plex and it was really clumsy for handling things like this. I'm trying to have something on while exercising so I want to hit as few buttons as possible.

Gemini recommended Jellyfin specifically for this situation and coded me something that deletes the videos once they've been watched in Jellyfin. Before I was manually deleting videos I'd watched.

I bought Plex Pass a long time ago and it continues to work great for serving up movies but it was really bad with the YouTube videos. I have some home movies that I'm going to try with Jellyfin that I'd given up on using with Plex.
jdeibele
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Think you mean channel 17 had a higher frequency. Channel 5 would be VHF (low) in the range 54 MHz – 88 MHz while Channel 17 would UHV in the range 470 MHz – 698 MHz. You're absolutely right about UHF stations being difficult to tune in.
jdeibele
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I'm old. Was anyone else's reaction to wonder what Uber was doing for audio-video companies?

The original title says "self-driving" and that's much more clear.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
That's a great Freudian slip.

Morse code - dots and dashes for characters via light or telegraph or radio

Morris code - Robert Morris wrote the first internet worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
https://www.evchargerreviews.net/best-ev-home-charger-for-hy...

You're right that the poster used V when they meant KW but the Level 3 DC Charging Curve graph shows what I think they're describing: their EV charged at over 200 KW until the battery reached about 46%, then it slowed significantly again at 62 or 63%. Maybe TMI, sorry if so.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
There are the risks you mention plus 3 things that I've heard:

1) You lose any close-up vision that you have. I take off my glasses to read things like books or my phone. Hmmm. Verifying this, Google says you could ask for one eye to be set to see close and the other far https://www.eyecenteroftexas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/... says that if you don't do that than you will lose near vision.

2) There's more problems with oncoming headlights at night blurring your vision or causing halos. This may only last for 6 months to a couple of years at worst.

3) It's not permanent. At some point you'll need glasses again. https://ophthalmology.wustl.edu/does-lasik-last-forever-unde... says 10-20 years before you need to correct your vision again or a lifetime if you're lucky.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
EV batteries charge much faster from 10% or 20% to 60%, maybe somewhat higher than that.

Going from 20% to 80% typically takes as long as going from 80% to 100% and so standard advice is never to charge to 100% unless you absolutely have to.

Every model has a charging curve, which I've never seen a manufacturer provide but some reviews do their own.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-... says that the average monthly gift is $6.25. Somebody else gave figures of 3% of the amount and .30 per transaction, which is common for credit card processing.

$6.25 * 97% =$6.06 - $.30 =$5.76 That's $.49 in processing fees and .49/6.25=0.0784 So 8% rather than 10%.

I assume donations other than monthly are more like $15 or $25 but maybe there are people who do $5 or $3 or even $1.

Add in chargebacks, etc. and 10% unfortunately seems reasonable.

I do wish there was a way to pay companies that was less expensive for them but very little friction on my end. Venmo business is 1.9% + $.10 and that's better than I was expecting but still higher than ideal. I've encountered that once. Zelle depends on the business's bank and I've never encountered it as an alternative to credit cards.

Not affiliated with Mozilla or Venmo or Zelle in any way.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

It’s from 2023 but says 16 to 19 states.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I took the image to be showing how inefficient it was to run that much fiber three times instead of just once. It’s unlikely that they’d do it at the same time but it seems very difficult to show buried fiber and a backhoe ripping up the street.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
She went to an out-of-state school for her master's. Article said that she was a ward of Colorado but went to the University of Oregon for her graduate degree.

No mention of undergrad so hopefully she did go in-state for much lower or free tuition.

I have 2 kids in college and a recent graduate. I am routinely horrified by the choices that some students make in going out of their home state or to a private school instead of a public one.
jdeibele
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Me, too.

There is Mac Cleaner https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ which does a good job of removing preferences as well as the application.
jdeibele
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I drove cheap pieces of crap when I was living with my mother.

What changed when I had kids myself was that there have been noticeable safety improvements in cars, which didn't use to happen often. There's stability control (2007), tire pressure monitoring system (2008), backup cameras (2018), and automatic emergency braking (2022). Other tech that's not required is adaptive cruise control, pedestrian detection, lane departure warning and lane keeping, etc.

Before that it was 3-point seat belts (1973), third rear brake lights (1985), and front-seat shoulder belts required & airbags common (1987).

The only change from 1987 to 2007 was the introduction of five-star safety ratings in 1993.

We handed down our 2015 Mazda CX-5 to our son and he would be driving it today except that somebody else's drunk son hit our car while it was parked and totaled it. So we got him a 2024 vehicle that had all the safety features we could find. It helped that we have more money than my folks did, of course.
jdeibele
·4 mesi fa·discuss
NetNewsWire can't find that feed.

"Can’t add a feed because no feed was found."

I used the RSS validator at w3.org

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww...

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 1, column 10821: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]

... category><category>Web</category></item></channel></rss> ^
jdeibele
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Adaptive cruise control lets you set a speed, usually the speed limit, and then you just have to steer.

In a gas car that means the car is using the brakes and gas engine (obviously) but it’s a jarring experience compared to a BEV or hybrid. The regenerative braking and smooth acceleration are much more pleasant.
jdeibele
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I'm doing the opposite: I respond immediately but use Gmail's scheduled send to send it at a later time.

This does have two disadvantages: I do read everything and sometimes I see or talk to somebody before my response reaches them. But I'm also not Napoleon.