News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

svarrall

Re:Shrinkle – Shrink words, find hidden phrase on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:27PM (#44717925)
My only confusion was when I’d correctly reduced one word to the required for the phrase, but didn’t get any feedback that it was correct. I didn’t understand why it wouldn’t accept my “valid” shorter word
If you scroll down on to the bottom of Apple Weather it has a “Report an Issue” button which allows you to report current weather conditions at your location.

I have no idea what happens to that data and if it contributes to the report in any way.

Re:Show HN: Rad Type - Can we make gamepad typing fast? on Monday April 28, 2025 @10:40PM (#43828236)
Be good to get some numbers to compare input speed/accuracy of the different variations.

Reminded me of the Nokia 3600/3650 [1] with its radial button layout.

Wonder if a similar concept would allow input with only one stick.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3650

Re:How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:13PM (#43500285)
They mentioned the name of the app in the article “KiwiServices”
Interesting concept. Certainly took a bit of head scratching to get the concept, but now starting to solve them. I did get a successful solve that wasn’t correct, some of the roads weren’t connected.

https://imgur.com/a/UEBe8uv

Re:How random are TOTP codes? on Friday July 05, 2024 @06:09PM (#40886506)
You mean like this? You can get push notifications when your codes are “cool”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobbartlett/p/building-a-2fa...

There seems to have been a fair amount of research into this based on the COVID lockdowns around the world. One such study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33443542/
Re:Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:07PM (#25491456)
Would love to see a making of for this. Would be fascinating seeing the experimentation involved
Re:Sony spins off camera business into separate company on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:06PM (#22708334)
Getting the ducks in line for a sale?
Re:Apple has removed us from the App Store on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:00AM (#18420974)
This seems pretty clear. They’re giving you a heads up that in a future iOS version you won’t be able to get awake/pickup information whilst using the background location api.
Indeed, I’m impressed the speed in which Apple maps updates happen and they send notifications when they have made an update based on your feedback.
Re:World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:38PM (#15942286)
The Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains, NSW is listed at 52deg so I believe it’s still steeper?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katoomba_Scenic_World#Railwa...

That was my initial though to. Here’s a good discussion from Sessionable on the subject from independent breweries perspective and their main concerns seem to be around access to taps and consumer awareness when independents get bought out.

https://overcast.fm/+BwaxYul7M

Re:How We Built r/Place on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:06AM (#14120117)
Anyone with any insight into how much something like this 'cost' Reddit, resource wise. Is the main outlay in time and the server costs already covered by their infrastructure or does the high traffic add enough to make a difference?
Looks like it does exactly what it says. Mind writing a bit about the app, reasons for making it, development process, pricing model?
Re:Reasons Not to Use Google (2015) on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:10AM (#13343724)
Agree. I'm in the same position. I find it particularly poor and combining multiple search terms, where it seems to favour the most popular of the terms and ignore the important narrowing keywords important to the search.
Re:Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video] on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:59AM (#13269365)
The opposite, you should release the brakes to reduce the effect of the impact so you actually acted correctly.
Re:Windows update knocks out internet connections on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:16AM (#13175189)
I've had this on all 5 machines I've updated to windows 10, it always loses the internet when first installed and various amounts of fiddling as you've described eventually fixes it. Very frustrating, especially when trying to talk a untechnical family member through the process remotely. This certainly isn't a new problem.
Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:04AM (#13158058)
Agree with this, a non retina resolution monitor just looks unfocussed to me next to a MBPro screen.
Re:MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:54AM (#13095643)
Check out RenderFab[0], this is exactly what they have solved.

[0] www.renderfab.com

Surely they can get the pick up points from the drivers data, can't they flag where the found the passenger? Why would they need it from the users side too?
I believe it's already possible to hook up and external card to a Pro. At least I've seen pictures of it on a gamers machine so don't know how viable it actually is
Re:Having Fun with Touch ID and the Touch Bar in 1Password on Monday October 31, 2016 @07:58AM (#12835947)
Great writeup, I remember the excitement around TouchID at WWDC that year. Any technical limitations/issues you've come across with the Touch Bar yet? Interested in diving into the api's to see what can be done but there's always some gotchas, especially when trying to debug on simulated hardware!

Older »