Hacker News: 7ewis

New comment by 7ewis in "Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills"

7ewis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:22:09 +0000

Is Okta supported for auth, and how does bring your own cloud work? Can you limit it to only being able to deploy certain things, within a particular VPC?

New comment by 7ewis in "Bet on German Train Delays"

7ewis — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:56:44 +0000

Site is down, archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260303171349/https://bahn.bet/

New comment by 7ewis in "M4 MacBook Pro"

7ewis — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:07:36 +0000

I have exactly the same experience, usually after 3 years I'm desperate for new Mac but right now I genuinely think I'd prefer not to change. I have absolutely no issues with my M1 Pro, battery and performance is still great.

New comment by 7ewis in "Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging"

7ewis — Sun, 26 May 2024 21:43:27 +0000

I had the opportunity to try this last month, it worked really well!

New comment by 7ewis in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

7ewis — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:31:11 +0000

I expect the majority of people really aren't bothered about this though - just a vocal minority, so although maybe a bad ad for some, I expect the benefits of the publicity of this ad far outweight the downsides.

I wouldn't have paid any attention to a new iPad launch or known that it was the thinnest one yet, without this 'bad' press.

If anything, I'd say I'd be more likely to purchase a new iPad as a result

New comment by 7ewis in "Google will start showing AI-powered search results for users who didn't opt-in"

7ewis — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:46:31 +0000

Is SGE any good? Would love to try it, but I'm in the UK. Did try enabling it with a VPN a few months ago without any luck.

New comment by 7ewis in "Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts"

7ewis — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:12:46 +0000

Revanced on Android can patch the Reddit apk to remove those ads.

https://revanced.app/

New comment by 7ewis in "Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio"

7ewis — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:14:45 +0000

Bloomberg said:

"Twilio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lawson is stepping down from leading the software company he co-founded amid slowing sales growth and pressure from activist investors."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/twilio-ce...

New comment by 7ewis in "X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?"

7ewis — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:07:14 +0000

I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc.

Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com.

Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.

New comment by 7ewis in "X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?"

7ewis — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:56:50 +0000

What meaning do they infer?

New comment by 7ewis in "Google Drive files suddenly disappeared"

7ewis — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:47:41 +0000

Has anyone with a Workspace contract had this issue?

New comment by 7ewis in "Google Calendar Service Disruption"

7ewis — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:56:48 +0000

Back up now for most of us

New comment by 7ewis in "Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services"

7ewis — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:10:57 +0000

Are you in the US? I'm in the UK and have had an ad for it in the Google app for a while, but it always errors when I tap it on my phone.

Believe it's US only which is why it won't work, but would love to give it a go. Did try a VPN but no luck still!

New comment by 7ewis in "Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services"

7ewis — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:07:41 +0000

Just tried it out, it pops up and asks you to approve the connection when you go to Bard.

New comment by 7ewis in "Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)"

7ewis — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:49:22 +0000

What's the general consensus on Obsidian?

I've been using Notion on/off for a while and remember reading a lot of people were migrating to Obsidian as I believe it had two features Notion users have been begging for if I remember correctly - offline mode and encrypted at rest (although I believe Obsidian is self hosted?)/

New comment by 7ewis in "Show HN: Host a Website in the URL"

7ewis — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:37 +0000

I was fully expecting to see Rick Astley!

New comment by 7ewis in "Sync for Lemmy"

7ewis — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:41:54 +0000

I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment.

What makes Reddit great is the niche smaller communities and the historical data they have (despite the search being awful). Lemmy sadly doesn't have this, small and even some big communities aren't there - wallstreetbets for example. Even subs with 100k+ users have low hundreds of members on Lemmy.

New comment by 7ewis in "Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?"

7ewis — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:07:58 +0000

Seems to have recovered for me now.

Latest status update:

Slack experiencing an outage across the app. Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

New comment by 7ewis in "Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?"

7ewis — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:44:33 +0000

Status page is now acknowledging the issue:

Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

https://status.slack.com/2023-07/08e3781ccbef33d5

New comment by 7ewis in "GPT-4’s secret"

7ewis — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:58:51 +0000

Yes, to be honest I think they should be banned. Only post mirrors of the content bypassing the paywall.