Hacker News: appel

New comment by appel in "iPhone Air"

appel — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:15:01 +0000

Good point!

New comment by appel in "iPhone Air"

appel — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:41:41 +0000

Pixel user here, but I feel the same way. The fact that my phones are getting heavier instead of lighter seems counterintuitive on its face.

Pixel 1 (143g)

Pixel 3 (148g)

Pixel 5 (151g)

Pixel 8 (187g)

Pixel 9 Pro (198g)

Of course the displays of these models get bigger which presumably contributes to the weight increase. But still, you'd think parts get lighter over time, not heavier.

New comment by appel in "Show HN: Readeck – Mobile client for organizing bookmarks (Android, open source)"

appel — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 03:21:55 +0000

Thanks for working on this, would love to try this! Any chance for a prebuild APK anytime soon?

New comment by appel in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

appel — Sat, 31 May 2025 14:16:10 +0000

Thank you! Hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty to have Gemini convert it to python, since I'm not familiar with Deno. Appears to work just fine. I posted a gist here in case it is useful to anyone else: https://gist.github.com/appel/a6accfab384f80cb12c9c20a1075e9...

I'm of course happy to take it down if you do mind, just let me know. And thank you again!

New comment by appel in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

appel — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:55:57 +0000

Deeply embarrassing and disturbing. What a sad spectacle to see the President and Vice President of the United States so beholden to a foreign dictator that they would debase themselves in this way. Unpresidential doesn’t even begin to describe it.

My heart breaks for Ukraine. The outcome of the November 5, 2024, election will prove to be a tragic mistake.

New comment by appel in "Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans"

appel — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:14:09 +0000

Oh man, this is exciting! Running Mr Walkman FW on my NW-A45, so looks like I should be good to go.

New comment by appel in "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)"

appel — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:43:30 +0000

For what it's worth, I was able to simply rename the ET_Fixed_Final.bin file to ET_Fixed_Final.a26 (which might not even be necessary) and drop it into the ROM folder of my Atari 2600 emulator (running via https://knulli.org/ on my Anbernic RG40XXV). It booted up just fine.

There's a VR Game All the Kids Are Playing, and They're Convinced It's Haunted

appel — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:01:30 +0000

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/gorilla-tag-vr-meta-quest-steamvr-free-ghosts-lucy-pbbv-1851741139

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751398

Points: 2

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New comment by appel in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

appel — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:18:46 +0000

> When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was.

Can I ask what it was you found?

New comment by appel in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

appel — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:09:23 +0000

Another commenter linked to the archived version of the Substack post: https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s...

New comment by appel in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

appel — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:42:19 +0000

All this is truly, truly outstanding, except for one bit:

> Cat doors allow cats access to bedrooms when human doors are closed.

Kenton, you have made a grave mistake.

New comment by appel in "Grim Fandango"

appel — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:56:30 +0000

Excellent article and absolutely fair points by the author. As a kid I completely fell in love with the characters and ambiance, but got hopelessly stuck in Act 1. In fact, I don't think I ever made it out.

But man, what a great story and what a beautiful style. I always half expected to see Hollywood pick this up and turn it into a movie. Just imagine what the folks at Pixar could do with this (with Tim Schafer as executive producer, of course).

New comment by appel in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

appel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:34:25 +0000

Yeah, that sounds perfect. To go from my 256GB P8 to a 256GB P9 Pro would cost me about $610 + 10% tax after trade-in which I don't think I'll have the stomach for.

New comment by appel in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

appel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:28:53 +0000

Google's trade-in estimates for the P9 Pro:

Pixel Fold (256/512): $760

Pixel 8 Pro (128/256/512/1TB): $699

Pixel 8 (128/256): $490

Pixel 7a: $300

Pixel 7 Pro (128/256/512): $540

Pixel 7 (128/256): $360

Edit: there's a complete overview of all trade in estimates in this post: https://slickdeals.net/f/17689866-buy-pixel-9-pro-or-pixel-9...

New comment by appel in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

appel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:16:35 +0000

I'm glad they finally went this route. I can't be the only one who usually wants the specs of the Pro but always opts for the smallest phone (p1, p3, p5 & now p8).

New comment by appel in "Jake Seliger has died"

appel — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:08:36 +0000

I'm so sorry. I only learned about Jake due to his post the other day. I understood this was coming but still felt shock and sadness when I learned just now he has passed. Wishing you much strength.

New comment by appel in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

appel — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:26:06 +0000

I miss Edge. I might still be using it if it wasn't for uBlock Origin and Manifest v3.

New comment by appel in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

appel — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:48:28 +0000

> computers are a very important form of technology. Without it no websites, no Roblox studio, and no nothin.

Well put, Naya!

New comment by appel in "Equinox.space"

appel — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:23:48 +0000

I'm probably showing my age, but I'm just at awe what is possible in a browser in this day and age. Well done, OP. I'd love a hashed out, full length version of this, but with the same vector graphics.

New comment by appel in "OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly"

appel — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:34:10 +0000

I'll never understand companies making genuine product announcements on April 1st, the most famous example of this has to be Gmail. I mean, really? You just have to do it on this day? Couldn't just do it yesterday or tomorrow, or any of the 364 other days in the year?