Hacker News: RichardHesketh

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Apple App Store Is Flooded with AI Slop and Legitimate Developers Are Paying"

RichardHesketh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:26:21 +0000

Hindsight’s 20:20. Why the snark? There’s a lot to like about the App Store experience from a user perspective (I am not a developer).

New comment by RichardHesketh in "I coded a game to turn the Epstein Files into Mad Libs. It's hilarious"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:48:34 +0000

I think the clue’s in the username…

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Show HN: DocuDeeper – private document AI assistant,100% offline, GDPR-compliant"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:24:19 +0000

Links don’t work for me and nor does searching GH for DocuDeeper. I’d love to try this - if I can get to it!

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Banning under-16s won't fix social media, by Jay Graber"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:01:31 +0000

So what? If it helps my son to be a good human in his early teens, I’m in favour…

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Show HN: A Jazz Translations Album with Suno"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:55:36 +0000

Nice. Will it land on Apple Music at some point?

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Parametric BBC TV Clock"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:31:06 +0000

Gorgeous. Thank you, from an aging Brit who feels utterly at home looking at this. :)

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Songs Are Brain Medicine"

RichardHesketh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:08:43 +0000

Question: if dopamine is the answer, what’s the second-order solution the brain is after?

New comment by RichardHesketh in "This is How I Grieve"

RichardHesketh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:49:48 +0000

I have a new respect for Conan O’Brien seeing how he found humour in / dealt with his parents deaths so close together. Inspiring and deliciously, subversively funny! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "[dead]"

RichardHesketh — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:38:34 +0000

Should probably link here: https://0xmm.in/posts/ntfy/

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Late-Night Killing of a Teenage Girl on a Bicycle Unnerves Amsterdam"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:10:31 +0000

Congratulations - that is both glib and facile. Bad shit like this happens even between citizens of the same nation. This is not a borders and migration issue. Characterising it as such has deeply harmful consequences which we’ve been seeing on a global scale in recent years, with alarming echoes of the run up to WW1 and WW2. If we fail to learn the lessons of history…

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Places to Intervene in a System"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:09:02 +0000

Yup. Search ‘case studies’ on that website. Donella Meadows was an environmental scientist and an eminent systems thinker long before the term became mainstream.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "He Laughed Along with Larry David and Borat. Until He Didn't"

RichardHesketh — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:27:00 +0000

https://archive.ph/hr5NN/share

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Show HN: Screenless SMS for Kids"

RichardHesketh — Sun, 25 May 2025 19:28:37 +0000

Awesome project, and a great idea to build a powerful capability using mostly off-the-shelf tools! Do you have a write-up somewhere, please? Even if only a few notes or code snippets, architecture outline, or what-have-you. My son is eight, but I’d love a way to keep him away from mobile devices but in touch with family members and friends.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Recommend an alternative like Pocket to read later"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:54:50 +0000

Came here to say this. Raindrop is great, with all the features most will ever need, and really nice well thought-out browser extensions.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "[dead]"

RichardHesketh — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:08:49 +0000

Not really relevant to HN, and in any case, what was true five years and 3-4 months ago need not be true now.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments"

RichardHesketh — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:53:27 +0000

That last sentence is baseless, alarmist nonsense. The rest, makes some sense. We are definitely one of the most surveilled societies in the western hemisphere, but just look at the press here. If you think there’s a fear of criticising government in the UK, except in a (probably paranoid) minority, you’re deluded. Let’s also remember that an arrest is a very long way from a conviction, and others have pointed out.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "Built a collab grocery list that imports real time prices and macros from stores"

RichardHesketh — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:03:17 +0000

Screenshots imply that this tool maybe useful only in the US. Do the price search and other features work in any other countries and/or currencies?

New comment by RichardHesketh in "9front "The Front End of Tomorrow" Released"

RichardHesketh — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:01:27 +0000

Good job 9front! Pity there isn’t an obvious date and time to pin this as an (obvious if you read it) poisson d’avril.

New comment by RichardHesketh in "BYD confirms new 1000V Super E-Platform capable of fast charging 400 km in 5 min"

RichardHesketh — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:34:24 +0000

Agreed regarding roll out - in the UK the grid is struggling to cope with rollout of Tesla and similar charging networks - there’s no way it’s ready to cope with the demand from widespread adoption of what BYD proposes, nor will it be for many years! I think you pinpointed the ‘category of convenience’ phrase very well. What you say after that is highly subjective and there are no doubt many specifics that could be discussed at all sorts of levels!

New comment by RichardHesketh in "BYD confirms new 1000V Super E-Platform capable of fast charging 400 km in 5 min"

RichardHesketh — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:31:25 +0000

Although even that is moving in the right direction via synthetic fuels to hydrogen and even some battery electric in public projects in the UK. Depends how ‘heavy’ we’re talking I guess. I wonder how long it’ll take the monster machines used in mining to make the shift…