Hacker News: bm5k

New comment by bm5k in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

bm5k — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:16:42 +0000

Since the switch 2 has mouse capabilities with the joy con, maybe we can port som classic Mac games to switch

New comment by bm5k in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

bm5k — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:35:47 +0000

How much did you pay for keynote?

New comment by bm5k in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

bm5k — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:34:05 +0000

It's ever so slightly disingenuous to call this "showing ads": It appears to be letting you know about a paid DLC for the app you are running not "this space is for sale".

That said, I don't think it's even a slippery slope from here to "this space for sale".

New comment by bm5k in "Apple's Polishing Cloth compatibility updated to support HomeView"

bm5k — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:38:27 +0000

And just like that my investment gets more valuable.

New comment by bm5k in "Zoom is now Chrome only"

bm5k — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:23:51 +0000

Works fine on safari + ios27 beta.

New comment by bm5k in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

bm5k — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:12:29 +0000

I was until new corp rules prevented me from using personal devices.

New comment by bm5k in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

bm5k — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:49:04 +0000

Textile was better, but less popular IIRC

New comment by bm5k in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

bm5k — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:51:02 +0000

Heavier than the iPad Pro. Again. Still.

New comment by bm5k in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

bm5k — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:54:37 +0000

Who is live-streaming the hand history with running commentary?

New comment by bm5k in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

bm5k — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:55:41 +0000

This is satisfactory news. Now we can all get back to coding.

New comment by bm5k in "Vectrex Mini"

bm5k — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:57:35 +0000

Kickstarter? No thanks. But good luck.

New comment by bm5k in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"

bm5k — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:09:00 +0000

Ew. No.

New comment by bm5k in "Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions"

bm5k — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:20:52 +0000

+1 for reading on iPad. Especially the 12.9”. Not sure it’ll replace my eInk reader for pulp fiction, but for technical materials, it’s usually more convenient than going to my shelf to grab a physical book.

New comment by bm5k in "Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available"

bm5k — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:28 +0000

Has there been any word of a physical cartridge release?

New comment by bm5k in "Patreon laid off their security team"

bm5k — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:06:14 +0000

Patreon requires you to "submit your account for deletion" to close your account.

> Starting July 2020, Patreon no longer offers the previous “disable” feature. To close a Patreon account, users must submit their account for deletion through our Privacy center.

New comment by bm5k in "Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S."

bm5k — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:39:47 +0000

Additional anecdata: My iPhone 12 -> iPhone 13 upgrade smoothly transferred the eSIM as well.

New comment by bm5k in "Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts"

bm5k — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:22:35 +0000

Looks like everyone is rushing to check their storage.

> something went wrong while loading usage details

On my free group’s storage page.

New comment by bm5k in "How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked"

bm5k — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:21:00 +0000

A couple of those could be considered "inspired by" if you (a) squint and (b) ignore all the examples that are clearly the same ;)

I played the duke nukem 1 & 2 shareware _back in the day_ but I missed out on Turrican thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.

New comment by bm5k in "CodeSnack IDE: Mobile IDE made from the ground up for mobile devices and tablets"

bm5k — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:07:03 +0000

Could be neat. Lots of "This part of the documentation is not ready yet."

New comment by bm5k in "Notion Acquires Cron"

bm5k — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:57:01 +0000

I discovered cron looking for a way to manage my "two DayJob calendars with 85% duplicate events but 15% unique events".

Specifically since I was annoyed at getting 2 notifications for every event that was duplicated on both calendars.

And cron actually solved that problem by automagically recognizing duplicate events and only notifying once. I turned off all notifications in calendar.app.

The only other differentiating feature I am aware of is how configurable the menu bar app is.

Thankfully, I no longer have the original problem + I don't like things in my menu bar so I'm probably switching back to the built in app.