Hacker News: Contortion

New comment by Contortion in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

Contortion — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:46:39 +0000

I think OP has envisioned a situation half way between what we now have and what will soon be the actual reality and that his idea will just be quickly skipped over.

I don't think website design will go away, but I do expect that people will soon be ordering products and booking holidays through AI chats instead of doing it themselves, which will require the kind of manifests he's talking about, but will skip the UI layer completely.

New comment by Contortion in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

Contortion — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:45:43 +0000

Reminds me of https://ytch.tv/ which I really like for its simplicity.

New comment by Contortion in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

Contortion — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:08:24 +0000

Yeah, it makes searching for bug reports/help rather troublesome

New comment by Contortion in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

Contortion — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:04:18 +0000

I had this problem and it turned out to be an upstream issue with MicroG which was eventually patched. If you have an error message you can search for existing issues on /e/OS' gitlab/forum.

Revolut stopped working for me for a while with the error that the bootloader wasn't recognised and rooted phones aren't supported. After about a month an OS update solved it.

New comment by Contortion in "Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun"

Contortion — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:58:49 +0000

My browser auto-declines cookies so I also had the same thought. On reloading I can briefly see a pop-over with a lot of text in it before it disappears, so I guess that is the cookie game I initially missed.

New comment by Contortion in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"

Contortion — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:59:26 +0000

And next to impossible to get rid of. I would much rather use Signal but convincing even privacy-conscious people to switch is an uphill battle.

New comment by Contortion in "Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications"

Contortion — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:07:17 +0000

Microsoft documentation is a nightmare, it doesn't surprise me there are vulnerabilities.

I recently built an SSO login using Entra ID (which was thankfully single-tenant) and I basically had to keep randomly stabbing in the dark until I got it to work with the correct scopes and extra fields returned with the access token.

Trying to search for any kind of Getting started guide just took me to child pages several levels deep full of incomprehensible Microsoft jargon and hyperlinks to helpful-sounding but ultimately similarly useless articles.

New comment by Contortion in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

Contortion — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 06:11:27 +0000

Agreed. Like in JS and Java, it would be a lot nicer if the language itself had the chainable methods.

New comment by Contortion in "Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets"

Contortion — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:21:49 +0000

If you never wash your sheets, you never have to fold them.

New comment by Contortion in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

Contortion — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:14:02 +0000

Basically what Collections do in Laravel.

New comment by Contortion in "Forced to upgrade"

Contortion — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:38:51 +0000

Fairphone guarantees 8 years of updates for the Fairphone 5.

New comment by Contortion in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

Contortion — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:32:14 +0000

I've tried VS Code and Haystack (based on VS Code) for writing PHP and I just couldn't stand it after having used PhpStorm. Basic things like copying variables, indenting, moving lines into if statements, multiple cursors etc. just aren't intuitive in VS Code when writing PHP and a lot of the things I can do in PhpStorm with the press of a button just aren't possible.

I really hope they move PhpStorm to the same payment model as Rider so I can also use it for my own non-work projects.

New comment by Contortion in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

Contortion — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:32:21 +0000

Slightly similar bug in DuckDuckGo on Android, unmuting causes the video to buffer again but it then pauses itself and there's no way to unpause it.

New comment by Contortion in "OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application"

Contortion — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:10:23 +0000

Honestly, it's not a bad article. I'd not heard of OWASP Juice Shop and now I'm interested to check it out. The article also prompted me to look into how user input sanitising works in the framework I use. So all in all I'd say it's a positive addition to the internet.

New comment by Contortion in "Edinburgh, Scotland makes it illegal to advertise SUVs"

Contortion — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:26:23 +0000

Paper is environmentally expensive to produce and recycle. If it's worse than plastic is surely debatable but it's definitely not significantly better.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

New comment by Contortion in "Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward"

Contortion — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:46:05 +0000

Ah okay, that's pretty awful and explains the huge backlash. Thanks for the extra info.

New comment by Contortion in "Social engineering takeovers of open source projects"

Contortion — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:43:37 +0000

Mutually Assured Backdoors

New comment by Contortion in "Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward"

Contortion — Mon, 06 May 2024 05:48:59 +0000

I didn't think having to create a PSN account was that bad to be honest. I'd have preferred them to back down about the NProtect GameGuard rootkit that comes with the game.

New comment by Contortion in "The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee"

Contortion — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:32:25 +0000

The one real downside is that learning to cook well at home spoils eating out - it sets your standards for what constitutes a good meal that much higher. If I'm spending €16 on a plate of pasta, it better be a lot better than I can make myself.

New comment by Contortion in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

Contortion — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:36:37 +0000

You are correct. I was adding what I considered extra privacy-relevant information in response to GPs statement about WordPress sharing data with other companies, but the fact that I'd not heard of Beeper before unintentionally influenced my word choice.