Hacker News: binarysneaker

New comment by binarysneaker in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

binarysneaker — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:33:22 +0000

After many years of Android freedom and choice, this'll likely be the reason I switch back to iOS/Apple. If I'm forced into a walled garden, it may as well be the best one.

Make your own GitHub health indicator and LED lamp

binarysneaker — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:32:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davenicoll/usermod-github-health

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593729

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by binarysneaker in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

binarysneaker — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:53:02 +0000

Next time you decide to post something so snarky, maybe remember where you are. This is hackernews, people experiment and build things. Not always for the right reasons, and that's fine. If you don't like it, just move along. There's plenty of people, myself included, that are thankful for posts like this.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength"

binarysneaker — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:26:19 +0000

Just tried the Android version and it was ok.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Free software scares normal people"

binarysneaker — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:24:35 +0000

Completely agree with the author. Would love most power tools to start off in "simple mode" so I could recommend them to friends/family, and have a toggle for advanced mode which shows everything to power users.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

binarysneaker — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:23:33 +0000

And what will you do if Google decides to disable your account?

Bitwarden is free, has clients and browser extensions for every platform, and it's easy to export your passwords and import them. Plus it supports SSH keys.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents"

binarysneaker — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:39:35 +0000

Which way should we be going?

New comment by binarysneaker in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

binarysneaker — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:48:39 +0000

If you care about this, please sign the petition https://chng.it/cdrys9WDDk

New comment by binarysneaker in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

binarysneaker — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:24:47 +0000

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by binarysneaker in "Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)"

binarysneaker — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 02:14:29 +0000

Nope.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Writing in the Age of LLMs"

binarysneaker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:50:30 +0000

Great post, thank you. You articulated my feeling with ChatGPT models, and one of the reasons I prefer Claude to ChatGPT. I find Claude tries to please less. Anyway, I turned your blog post in a Cursor rule, and told ChatGPT to follow it too, and so far the output is much improved IMO. If you want to try it, the rule is here: https://github.com/davenicoll/cursor-rules/blob/main/.cursor...

New comment by binarysneaker in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

binarysneaker — Mon, 26 May 2025 03:24:54 +0000

This!

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

binarysneaker — Fri, 23 May 2025 07:30:25 +0000

Ever since Microsoft announced Edge was going to use Chromium, I've been wondering why Firefox doesn't do the same. By adopting the same renderer as everyone else, consumers get a consistent rendering experience and Firefox devs can focus on the features that keep us using Firefox.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

binarysneaker — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:36:45 +0000

This was gpt-4o ...

This is a twist on a classic riddle designed to expose unconscious gender bias.

The correct version usually goes:

A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon looks at the boy and says, “I can’t operate on him — he’s my son!”

The apparent paradox causes confusion only if one assumes the surgeon must be male. The resolution: the surgeon is the boy’s mother.

Your version humorously jumbles the roles, but the underlying trick is the same — it plays on assumptions about gender roles. Nice remix.

New comment by binarysneaker in "The Dark Side of the Moomins"

binarysneaker — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:44:59 +0000

Same. Here's the first season (in English) for anyone who's interested https://archive.org/details/moomin-season-1/%5BMoomin+Master...

New comment by binarysneaker in "Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns"

binarysneaker — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:54:53 +0000

Secure it all vs secure just the login...may as well do it all.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k"

binarysneaker — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:01:21 +0000

Same. Oddly worded title.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Dear Mr. Vice President, Please Take Off Your Apple Watch"

binarysneaker — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:54:31 +0000

Who cares about Biden? He's history.

New comment by binarysneaker in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

binarysneaker — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Maybe it could also send automated petitions to the EU to undo cookie consent legislation, and reverse some of the enshitification.

New comment by binarysneaker in "A feature-rich Hacker News client"

binarysneaker — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:06:18 +0000

After looking at the screenshots of this, I came here to say the same. It's gonna take a lot to persuade me to switch from Harmonic.