Hacker News: TheSilva

New comment by TheSilva in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

TheSilva — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:14:35 +0000

This is huge, congrats to the lichess team.

New comment by TheSilva in "Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points"

TheSilva — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:21:00 +0000

hijacking the thread to ask: under 200€ DSLR to get started?

New comment by TheSilva in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

TheSilva — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:15:27 +0000

Tangential, sort of: in the early days of mobile phones for the masses, when there was no WiFi/3G in the underground, I will often enable Bluetooth in my phone, look for nearby devices and try to match names and looks.

That was before everyone had their "John's IPhone" or "Samsung A55" boring names everywhere and some of us cared to personalise our device's name.

Anyone else played this game?

New comment by TheSilva in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

TheSilva — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:40:45 +0000

Also he became a father[0] around that time. Everything adds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Nakamura#Personal_life

New comment by TheSilva in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

TheSilva — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:04:30 +0000

I mean, you should totally go and rewatch it, don't let me stop you from enjoying again the movie!

New comment by TheSilva in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

TheSilva — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:28:55 +0000

Sadly, looking through the code, doesn't show up any "GARBAGE" file easter egg to be found.

Amazing stuff, nevertheless!

New comment by TheSilva in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

TheSilva — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:30:40 +0000

Too little too late, already ditched the whole ecosystem after so many years and devices.

New comment by TheSilva in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

TheSilva — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:23:09 +0000

Well, they have this list in their repo: https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock/blob/main/Adblock_Compariso...

Only one I can see is (slightly) less RAM use.

New comment by TheSilva in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

TheSilva — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:57:32 +0000

Sanding and polishing, likely.

New comment by TheSilva in "2025 OWASP Top"

TheSilva — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:01:57 +0000

@admin, we need the 10 at the end of the title.

New comment by TheSilva in "OWASP Top"

TheSilva — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:00:53 +0000

Added then deleted, but git remembers.

OWASP Top

TheSilva — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/OWASP/Top10/tree/509c68043ec513c6f1f53d7eb504bfdd58b402b8/2025/docs/en/2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848439

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by TheSilva in "HTML Slides with notes"

TheSilva — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:06:49 +0000

Have you check https://pitch.com/ ?

CSS Custom Highlight API

TheSilva — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_Highlight_API

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643979

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Flyby33: Real-time aircraft flyby prediction tool with interactive web interface

TheSilva — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hodel33/flyby33

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617731

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheSilva in "Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons"

TheSilva — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:40:43 +0000

Yes, and I do the same. However, Kids Corner was a curated list of apps that you chose to share freely without password/FaceID.

I don't want to lock my browser, photos, maps, etc. behind FaceID. I want to hand my phone knowing they will only use one or two apps and the fun stops when they hand me over the device.

New comment by TheSilva in "Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons"

TheSilva — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:38:58 +0000

That's parental control, that's not the same. I want to hand my phone to my kids and let them access only one or two apps that I have listed as allowed.

I don't want (yet, but it will come) for them to have their own device that I control as you explained.

New comment by TheSilva in "Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons"

TheSilva — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:25:51 +0000

Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone...

I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1].

Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not have access to the whole platform.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/kids-corner-windows-phone-8

New comment by TheSilva in "Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack"

TheSilva — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:05:06 +0000

Just two days ago the BBC published[1] a story about how a ransomware group tried to infiltrate their network by.... approaching their cybersecurity correspondent.

I wonder if it was the same group.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5n903447o

New comment by TheSilva in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

TheSilva — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:56:54 +0000

50/50 title here: it can be the app devs or it can be the reporter.