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Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:07AM (#49371393)
Amazing mnemonics, thank you for sharing. Do you practice this as a mental exercise, or do you actually need to know the day of the week for a specific date that often?
Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:56AM (#49371322)
“All of that is math you can easily do in your head in seconds.”
It takes me way too long and I still have to use my fingers nowadays
Re:"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"
on Friday August 14, 2026 @02:00PM (#49302369)
I always switch to a light theme when the sun is shining on my screen
You hit the nail on the head, and it matters.
Re:LLM Honeypot
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:45AM (#49107805)
That <div class="marquee-box"> with `animation: scroll-left 18s linear infinite;` is just plain disrespect to the still working <marquee> element.
Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:25AM (#48908282)
It’s too bad Apple made the option to install a website as a webapp so hard to find. It’s now hidden in ‘Share’ > ‘View more’ > ‘Add to home screen’
This has nothing to do with ‘sharing’ something
Re:Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:53AM (#48902766)
Half a year ago, I captured a photograph of a long train of satellites. However, when I navigate to that location using this tool, I don’t see any satellite train present at that specific timestamp.
I wonder if there are other satellites not included in this dataset, or if I should search way further from the location on the map
Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:22AM (#48292526)
You can send them this: https://noslopgrenade.com
Re:I hate soldering existentially
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:55AM (#48105083)
I got into soldering as a child, but never learned how to do it properly. Years later I found this comic-book-style guide somewhere online, which made it quite easy to do without messing it up: https://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.p...
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:11PM (#48013497)
Even written these jokes made me smile, you’re a natural!
Re:Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:26PM (#47978220)
Where is level 2?
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home
on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:13AM (#47624032)
You can use `delete` instead of `write`:
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
Re:Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians
on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:47AM (#47396135)
Regarding banning platforms I’d say just ban the attention driven business model online by forbidding all social media platforms from serving ads entirely.
Re:Bugs Apple Loves
on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:31AM (#46731248)
Just typing on iOS randomly inserts the wrong characters: https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo
I thought it was just me until someone mentioned this on HN
Re:Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:49AM (#46730114)
Same here, I've found too many bugs in Proton's email client and instead of fixing them they just release new products. FastMail support has been great, I think the developers themselves reply (some of the?) emails, going into technical details and being actually helpful.
Re:Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:53AM (#46408812)
I’ve tried replacing my modal components with the <dialog> element, but had to reverse everything due to this issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9936
In short: you can’t have an interactive popover (e.g. a toast notification) on top of a dialog modal.
I’d love to use the new native elements but we’re sadly not quite there yet.
Re:Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:28PM (#46348094)
One CSS tip: make sure the input fields have a minimum font-size of 16px. That way iOS won’t zoom-in the page when focussing one.
Re:Backing Up Spotify
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:04PM (#46340522)
This works nicely: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
Re:Steam Frame
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:08AM (#45914476)
Opening it in private tabs should help, at least on iOS.
Re:I'm recomming my customers switch to Linux rather that Upgrade to W...
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:55AM (#45602199)
Perhaps https://zorin.com/os/ might be a nice distro for your customers. It has 2 UI options: one that is close to macOS and one that looks more like Windows.
Re:Apple M5 chip
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:48AM (#45602163)
I’ve been having the same idea for a while. I think it would be a great way to let them prioritize the stability a bit more by publicly displaying how shamefully the UI behaves.
Interested in collaborating on this? Perhaps a simple open-source static blog built with Astro?
I used to love Proton, but they focus too much on feature development instead of stability and fixing long-standing bugs. E.g. zooming has been broken for years in ProtonMail on iOS. Some emails won’t even render at all :(
Re:Apple Photos App Corrupts Images
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:02PM (#45277503)
I remember years ago I lost some random videos on iCloud (synced via the Photos app). The filenames were there but they couldn't be opened anymore and seemed corrupt. Since then I never trusted iCloud anymore and switched to Syncthing (which back then also messed up some of my data if I recall correctly) and then Nextcloud.
Re:Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yaman...
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:22AM (#45049769)
Love it! Thanks for sharing
Re:Show HN: 1 Million Rows
on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:47AM (#44865554)
Having the column widths jump around while scrolling and the absent page search doesn’t seem like ‘rock-solid reliability’ to me.
It seems this is just a minimum implementation of a ‘virtual list’.
Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Us...
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @02:14AM (#44478260)
on MacOS you can use Fn+Up and Fn+Down
Re:How to Think About Time in Programming
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:30AM (#44374176)
One thing I found out when programming a timeline lately was that year zero doesn’t exist. It just goes from -1 to 1. Which looks very weird if you want to display intervals of e.g. 500 years: -1001, -501, -1, 500, 1000, etc
Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...
Out of curiosity-what brought you to this perspective on life? This view of the universe dreaming itself into existence, was it shaped more by philosophy, spirituality, a specific tradition like Buddhism, or just personal exploration?
Re:Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you...
on Saturday April 05, 2025 @12:00PM (#43594435)
Very nice! On iOS it does not seem to register fast consecutive taps correctly, if that’s fixed I would actually like to play this more often