Hacker News: _da_

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

_da_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:59:08 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

Points: 347

# Comments: 238

New comment by _da_ in "The Beer Can (2023)"

_da_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:21:49 +0000

It's designed to be raised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen–Scott_South_Pole_Stat...

New comment by _da_ in "Tesla is looking to redesign its door handles following trapped-passenger report"

_da_ — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:13:02 +0000

The Y also has the redesigned release (from the beginning, afaik).

New comment by _da_ in "A postmortem of three recent issues"

_da_ — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:50:54 +0000

> This is pretty concerning. I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.

When you click "thumbs down" you get the message "Submitting this report will send the entire current conversation to Anthropic for future improvements to our models." before you submit the report, I'd consider that pretty explicit.

New comment by _da_ in "United Is Latest to Discover Bogus Parts in Plane Engines"

_da_ — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:33:26 +0000

https://archive.ph/KS9PC

New comment by _da_ in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

_da_ — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:51:40 +0000

Either way is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February#Pronunciation

New comment by _da_ in "GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support"

_da_ — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:33:06 +0000

> Why do people still use Subversion on GitHub, anyhow? Besides simple inertia, there were workflows which Git didn’t support until recently. The main thing we heard when speaking with customers and communities was checking out a subset of the repository–a single directory, or only the latest commit. I have good news: with sparse checkout, sparse index, and partial clone, Git can now do a pretty decent job at these workflows.

Netflix still using insecure cookies, and suppressing bug disclosure

_da_ — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/bugcrowd-tries-to-muzzle-hacker-who-found-netflix-account-compromise-weakness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22629655

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by _da_ in "Ford Was Unprepared for Investor Revolt and C.E.O. Change"

_da_ — Tue, 23 May 2017 22:13:36 +0000

> Tesla is not a battery company.

Tesla owns the world's largest battery factory.

New comment by _da_ in "At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction"

_da_ — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:57:52 +0000

I disagree.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I think many hackers (myself included) find this interesting.

New comment by _da_ in "Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit"

_da_ — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:04:56 +0000

Their shareholders probably don't mind - their share price is up 50+% today. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VHC+Interactive#{"range":...