Hacker News: DuncanCoffee

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "LineageOS Statistics"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:15:27 +0000

I remember on xda with my Galaxy S Plus i9001 [1], we had:

- dual boot [2]

- Ubuntu touch [3]

- different kernels with various optimizations, overclocking, etc

- an absurd amount of ROMs, aside from CyanogenMod and LineagesOS there was ParanoidAndroid, Carbon, JellyBean, AICP, plus all the ROMs made specifically by users for this phone

- the latest linux kernel, somebody just compiled it for AOSP, I think it was version 3 or 4 against 2, which was the standard for every other phone, it ended up on some tech news website

I think It was a really great modding scene and a lot of people learnt stuff from that. Mainly by bricking their phones and having to fix them.

[1] https://xdaforums.com/f/galaxy-s-plus-i9001-android-developm...

[2] https://xdaforums.com/t/app-kernel-dual-boot-s-plus.2462783

[3] https://xdaforums.com/t/new-test-porting-ubuntu-touch.238260...

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf"

DuncanCoffee — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:33:15 +0000

Wow! Definitely not what I was expecting. If you turn around and look at the door there's a menu with some filters.

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"

DuncanCoffee — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:04:26 +0000

Pasta is the only thing I don't miss.

I recently found some pasta made with 100% red lentils, rice or peas, which is really good, I can gladly offer it to people.

They cost a premium but the state gives us around 100€ a month to spend, and I don't eat that much gluten free stuff. Pizza on the other hand makes me sad ;(

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

DuncanCoffee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:35:56 +0000

I once read the manual of one of those small floor cleaning robots (Ecovacs Deebot U2 pro), and it basically said that by using it you were giving them a right to take pictures and send them to a remote server (to analyze issues or something like that)

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:35:19 +0000

Cannot wait for linux phones to be ready... When I switch my current phone I'll check out how the Jolla status is

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

DuncanCoffee — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:26:36 +0000

I know it's an anti-pattern, but what is the alternative if you need to install some software? Pulling its tagged source code, gcc and compile everything?

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:03 +0000

I feel strongly about advertising. Long before streaming, my parents used to leave the ads on in between programs, and it always made me mad. I think my ADD comes into play, the idea of voluntarily watching them feels really strange.

I also wonder how the world would change if we made targeted advertising illegal. One can dream...

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:13:16 +0000

Last week I added to my dolphin toolbar the "Show Hidden Files" button so it was always shown, my only issue was that it was a really long because of its text. "But wait!" I thought, "This is not windows, I'm sure I can change it!". Lo and behold, my button now says "Hidden" and it's as short as I want it, just by editing the normal settings, no mods required.

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

DuncanCoffee — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:42 +0000

I used minumm keyboard a long time ago and it was actually good, 1-2 cm of keyboard height, sadly I think it's been discontinued long ago, but you can see a couple of screenshots here

http://minuum.com/

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS"

DuncanCoffee — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:41:25 +0000

Nice! Wish the supported rotation was bigger, maybe +- 90 instead of only 90 deg?

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:32:34 +0000

I installed stylish for Firefox and sometimes use some custom CSS to enlarge the body. I recently did it for chatgpt, on a 32" having the main content filling 1/4 of the display is ridiculous

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "enclose.horse"

DuncanCoffee — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:56:58 +0000

Nice game, I'm going to sink some time on these! Got 86 points today

https://enclose.horse Day 8 PERFECT! 100%

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

DuncanCoffee — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:23:25 +0000

Love it, I discovered it last week and bought a supporter pack after two days! Everytime I get stuck I'm 100% sure you made a mistake... Until I find my own mistake

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

DuncanCoffee — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:36:38 +0000

Yeah I sign my project APKs so people can install them from the action's artefact

  - name: Retrieve keystore for apk signing
    env:
      KEYSTORE: ${{ secrets.KEYSTORE }}
      run: echo "$KEYSTORE" | base64 --decode > /home/runner/work/keystore.pfk

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Floss Before Brushing"

DuncanCoffee — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:28:33 +0000

Because when you floss you create more particles

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod"

DuncanCoffee — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:10:25 +0000

It's the game that made me stop using cheats. I was young and discovered cheat codes and used them in every game that made them available. I remember completing Deus Ex and finding it "just ok", but then I read how people talked about it, and realized that taking away the challenge from games was making them worse! Never used one again, aside from when I discovered Cheat Engine, which was amazing for somebody who was starting to get interested in programming.

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8"

DuncanCoffee — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:12:48 +0000

I have an xcover 6 pro with dual sim, 3.5 jack, removable battery and micro sd support, it works great (except buying an original battery is not super easy). I know the 7 is out too but I think its reviews were worse on amazon

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Why your website should be under 14kB in size"

DuncanCoffee — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:01:39 +0000

It wasn't required by law and the ocpp charging protocol, used to manage charge sessions at a high level between the charger and the service provider (not the vehicle) did not include payments management. Everybody just found it easier to manage payments using apps and credits. But I think Europe is going to make it mandatory soon(ish)

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations"

DuncanCoffee — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:50:44 +0000

There's an official Golang rewrite called dendrite: https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite it has few start because they recentyl migrated it from the original repo (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite) Development is not fast but it's going on, and it's currently on beta. I haven't tried it, I selfhost a synapse server which I used with friends, and with docker it wasn't hard to set up/maintain after the initial effort.

New comment by DuncanCoffee in "Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices"

DuncanCoffee — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:39:37 +0000

Bazzite was built as a "plug and play" distro to play games on steam, I think their main handheld target is the Steam Deck which has a 7.4 inches display