Hacker News: HnUser12

New comment by HnUser12 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

HnUser12 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:45:36 +0000

You may not get ads in the app, but they can still sell your data for other services who will give you ads.

New comment by HnUser12 in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

HnUser12 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:26:18 +0000

I can't read the article because it blocks me. But I see all the actual search results. Just the AI part says "Got it! Message disregarded. Let me know if you need help with anything else." and shows half a blank screen.

EDIT: I guess if you're on a smaller screen you don't see the search results on the bottom because of the AI answer blank space.

New comment by HnUser12 in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

HnUser12 — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:24:33 +0000

“Heads up: This is a research project — bounties listed here are symbolic and part of an academic study on open-source contribution patterns. PRs are reviewed for research purposes only and will not be merged into production. If you're looking for paid bounty work, this is not the right repo.”

New comment by HnUser12 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

HnUser12 — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:25:57 +0000

I recently switched to a carrier (Fido/Rogers in Canada). My plan limits hotspot by disabling the hotspot settings on ios. However, I was able to enable it again by changing the access point name.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

HnUser12 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:50:08 +0000

Did you give it an email tool? It uses the tool it’s given. HF example only has timer tool.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

HnUser12 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:17:00 +0000

I’m on Safari iOS. I had to do “reduce other privacy protections” to get it to load.

New comment by HnUser12 in "NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks"

HnUser12 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:11:28 +0000

I don’t know about other countries, but it is taught in India in a few schools I am exposed to.

Analog wall clocks are fairly common in most Indian households.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

HnUser12 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:03:36 +0000

Don’t the matter compatible ones work with any hub?

New comment by HnUser12 in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

HnUser12 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:59:17 +0000

Native calculator is available on iPad now. I think starting last year.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles"

HnUser12 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:00:41 +0000

Bay Area isn't rest of US and Canada. Based on my limited experience most of Bay Area looks like that, not just Starbucks.

The Starbucks's near me in Canada are fine. If they get rid of the long line of mobile order people, they'd be pretty fine.

New comment by HnUser12 in "PureVPN IPv6 Leak"

HnUser12 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:29:12 +0000

Also Kape was formerly known as Crossrider and had alleged ties to shady apps in the past.

https://mronline.org/2024/09/13/exposed-how-israeli-spies-co...

New comment by HnUser12 in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

HnUser12 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:17:53 +0000

Depends on where in the US. Most populated places have inexpensive internet. Smaller towns have these issues because there's not much competition.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

HnUser12 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:34:43 +0000

If it's just a signing thing that Apple checks, you open run it by doing `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename` first.

New comment by HnUser12 in " and (2020)"
HnUser12 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:24:21 +0000

All of that is true. However, to be fair, these are older sites. The newer ones are generally cleaner and usable[1]. Even the services provided is much more streamlined.
https://web.umang.gov.in/landing/

New comment by HnUser12 in " and (2020)"
HnUser12 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:27:44 +0000

Lot of older India gov sites still seem to use these tags.
https://www.epfindia.gov.in/site_en/index.php

New comment by HnUser12 in "A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network"

HnUser12 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:29:59 +0000

Looks to me like it was a bug. Not giving access to any contacts broke the app completely but limited access works fine except for an annoying persistent in app notification.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Build your own Siri locally and on-device"

HnUser12 — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:07:36 +0000

You can now setup Vocal Shortcuts[1] which can be used to run any shortcut or action with almost any trigger word and without saying "Siri". However, I'm not certain if it can wake the device from sleep or not.
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/iphone/iph7f242ea2c/io...

New comment by HnUser12 in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

HnUser12 — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:56:57 +0000

Oh interesting, thank you! I wonder doing this will fix the issue where slack repeatedly asks admin password for updating.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order"

HnUser12 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:15:40 +0000

>If apple cared about providing encryption to the masses, ADP would be enabled by default and you'd have to opt out of it.
Apple is also a company that needs to cater to its customers. If they enabled ADP by default and customer locks themselves out and goes to Apple, they want to be able to help. ADP is intended for people who understand what it is but nit savvy enough to run their own system.

New comment by HnUser12 in "Protoclone, the first bipedal, musculoskeletal Android"

HnUser12 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:39:56 +0000

If the goal is to commoditize, does it not make sense to have a humanoid that you can sell to individual households? Not everyone would want to have a purpose-built robot arm in their kitchen. But this may be an easier sell if it works well.