Hacker News: Summershard

New comment by Summershard in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

Summershard — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:27:31 +0000

As a side note, is there any online community where you find people willing to do this? I’ve always struggled most with finding people eager to play and create music, especially as I get older. What you describe sounds like fun.

New comment by Summershard in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

Summershard — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:29:51 +0000

We definitely must come from different cultures because I raised my eyebrow quite high reading your comment.

My family, close friends, and my partner will definitely tell me when I neglect or abuse my mental and physical health. This includes bad decisions about the way I look.

And every time they do this I am thankful to them, because they usually notice these things way sooner than I would have.

New comment by Summershard in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

Summershard — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:58:31 +0000

Sources needed.

New comment by Summershard in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

Summershard — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:46:01 +0000

The amount of negativity your positive comment has received looks almost overwhelming. I remember HN being a much happier place a few years ago. Perhaps I should take a break from it.

People working in one of the coolest industries on Earth really do not appreciate their lives nowadays.

New comment by Summershard in "Next.js is infuriating"

Summershard — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:40:22 +0000

> .NET

I think you haven't used .NET in a while. Nowadays, logging is absurdly easy to configure. Heck, you usually don't even need to configure it, because the basics are already included in most templates. You just use the Logger class and it works.

The only time you have to spend more than 30 minutes on it is when you use some external logging libraries. And most of them are quite sane and simple to use, because it's so easy to create a custom logging provider.

New comment by Summershard in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

Summershard — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:17:13 +0000

This is much, much less than I would've guessed. I thought the new UI is universally hated.

I should leave my bubble more often.

New comment by Summershard in "Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language"

Summershard — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:56:52 +0000

Where did you get those numbers from? 10k words is generally considered a CEFR B2/C1 level which already is a fluent level.

Semi-fluent, depending on how you describe it, is anywhere between 1k and 5k words. To comfortably communicate with native speakers about simple topics you need 1000-2000 words.

New comment by Summershard in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

Summershard — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:38:59 +0000

I guess you are right. It's trust-based. For an actual obfuscation Signal would need to implement something like onion routing, right? I think Session does it.

New comment by Summershard in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

Summershard — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:27:33 +0000

Well, TIL. That does not refute my comment, though. Signal still does not know who you chat with. It's the cloud provider who might log the IP address of the sender. Identifying the person based on that information alone would be non-trivial if not simply impossible.

New comment by Summershard in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

Summershard — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:38:24 +0000

Signal does not know who you correspond with. The only information they keep is the account creation timestamp, and the date that the account last connected to the Signal service.

You may have confused this information with WhatsApp which indeed keeps a lot of metadata on each user.

New comment by Summershard in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

Summershard — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:17:24 +0000

May I suggest creating an option to add waypoints which should help recreate bus routes?

New comment by Summershard in "VW is putting buttons back in cars"

Summershard — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:46:10 +0000

It actually is. The design is just a small part of the control's cost. Then it has to go through a lot of compliance tests (the controls can't be flammable, can't break easily into shards, and so on). You have to do those tests for every car's interior part. When you squeeze everything into a touchscreen, you have to make the whole screen compliant only once.

New comment by Summershard in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

Summershard — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:16:38 +0000

Telegram's encryption is opt-in which means most people don't use the encrypted chats at all.

New comment by Summershard in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

Summershard — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:10:56 +0000

Signal is private, but not anonymous. Related, but two different things.

New comment by Summershard in "A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy"

Summershard — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:23:28 +0000

I think the related term, the escalation of commitment, suits this better.

Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

Summershard — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37433495

Points: 393

# Comments: 347

New comment by Summershard in "Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law"

Summershard — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:33:45 +0000

You've said it yourself why they wouldn't want to say those things, and yet you expected them to say them. Forcing your opponent to say things that will be cherry picked by the media is a common tactic, and one very hard to defend yourself against.

Yes, I agree it would have been best if they had just agreed on some compromise to the matter. I don't believe they ever would, though.

New comment by Summershard in "France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone"

Summershard — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:31:25 +0000

A few years ago, when I was studying, my friend and I did a project on that in Xamarin. It took us two evenings, and the accuracy was 300 meters at worst, and 30 meters at best. It's worth noting that this was in a larger city.

So, if two students can achieve even 30 meters accuracy in two days, big telecom corporations will certainly do better in a few decades.

EDIT: By the way, it wasn't only triangulation but also signal strength change analysis. It wasn't as serious as it sounds, there are formulas already made for calculating that.

New comment by Summershard in "Threads, an Instagram app"

Summershard — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:40:54 +0000

Come on, Facebook is not doing this out of goodness of their hearts. They have some hidden motive (e.g. EEE, data scraping), as always, and it's good people finally don't trust them from the start.

New comment by Summershard in "Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps"

Summershard — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:32:23 +0000

Well, not really. Tainted coins is a real, growing problem that BTC hasn't solved yet.

In short, BTC is not fungible.