Hacker News: barbs

New comment by barbs in "Dopamine Fracking"

barbs — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:38:01 +0000

Heh, I thought of maple syrup as well. And I'm ashamed to say I prefer the fake stuff! Although it's likely because it's what I had as a child, so there's a strong nostalgia factor.

New comment by barbs in "The desperation of NYTimes"

barbs — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:02:46 +0000

This is what I use to block the news feed on FB to prevent doomscrolling.

New comment by barbs in "Chuwi Minibook X"

barbs — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:44:55 +0000

Did you also have the screen rotation issue? Curious to know what's causing that.

New comment by barbs in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

barbs — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:15:09 +0000

Not sure what part of the world you're from but I'm sure you can find some decent authentic gigs around where people aren't doing it for the likes and follows :)

Honestly, going to a rave with a dancefloor and cool people is kind of lifechanging. It's kind of the environment that a lot of (most?) dance music is made for. Have a great time!

New comment by barbs in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

barbs — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:40:19 +0000

> "Now, Kevin is an incredible young man and we are tremendously proud of him. He works out of state as a software developer"

Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN

New comment by barbs in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

barbs — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:26:01 +0000

"Your screen is 320 by 568 pixels, rendered at 2x density — which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display."

Not quite, I'm on a 2016 iPhone SE

New comment by barbs in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

barbs — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:26:44 +0000

What are these hacker camps you speak of?

New comment by barbs in "Write some software, give it away for free"

barbs — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:30:14 +0000

Sounds like a hard lesson in boundaries. No-one is entitled to your time but you.

New comment by barbs in "NetHack 5.0.0"

barbs — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:08:08 +0000

I'm going to quote myself from a blog post I wrote back in 2012:

> Nethack is incredibly difficult, and near impossible to win without some knowledge. Whilst it could be argued that one could attain this knowledge through trial and error, it would take many many playthroughs to make any headway, even if you played in the invincible “Wizard” mode. Whilst I would recommend the use of spoilers if you wish to make progress in the game and discover what it has to offer, I wouldn’t suggest reading up on absolutely everything to give yourself an advantage. My general rule of thumb was to look something up when I came across it. I still found the game incredibly challenging, as I was placed in situations that I couldn’t predict or prepare for, and I still had that thrill of discovery and amazement.

https://marzzbar.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/awesome-game-exper...

New comment by barbs in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

barbs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:29:38 +0000

Reminds me of this blog post where someone was trying to reverse-engineer a hand-rolled encryption protocol in a crossword app by colorizing the output and looking for patterns.

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/acre.html

New comment by barbs in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

barbs — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:47:33 +0000

That's what Signal does on my iPhone, I thought it was the default?

New comment by barbs in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

barbs — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:37:14 +0000

So many upvotes. And not even any accompanying submission text. I love it.

New comment by barbs in "Flighty Airports"

barbs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:16:46 +0000

Makes me wonder then why they can't afford a team of Android developers to make the Android version.

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

barbs — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:06:01 +0000

I'm guessing it's a lot more expensive to install and maintain card readers than to essentially just have signs prompting people to use their phone.

New comment by barbs in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

barbs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:27:30 +0000

Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.

New comment by barbs in "Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015"

barbs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:54:53 +0000

Was it this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXqVV8_GORE

He finds a solution involving copying files across from an older version of xcode

New comment by barbs in "Building a new Flash"

barbs — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:14:11 +0000

New comment by barbs in "iPhone 17e"

barbs — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:45:35 +0000

I'm on my 8th year of using my 2016 SE. Have replaced the battery and screen a few times over the years. A fair few of the apps I used stopped supporting iOS 15 so I've got old versions of those apps installed, but WhatsApp, Signal and my banking app still actively support iOS 15 so it works well enough for me, for now.

I have an iPhone 13 mini sitting in a drawer for when I need to switch.

New comment by barbs in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

barbs — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:05:10 +0000

In my experience that's not true at all, but I think a lot of people have that perception, which is sad.

New comment by barbs in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

barbs — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:47:07 +0000

I mean...you could just not have it changing constantly? It seems pretty unnecessary.

Here's a screen recording from my phone: https://imgur.com/a/snw8qbc