Hacker News: butz

New comment by butz in "HMD Touch 4G"

butz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:20:27 +0000

Neat. Even with all that padding it is smaller than current "compact" devices.

New comment by butz in "Light Flip"

butz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:18:48 +0000

Everything I ever wanted from a phone. And unlike latest HMD Nokia phones, this one has SDK - https://github.com/lightphone/light-sdk .

Shipping dates will definitely test my patience, though.

New comment by butz in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

butz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:13:58 +0000

Someone clearly had a lot of fun making all of those components. Adorable and whimsy. One nitpick - when writing uppercase letters in text field they should make larger ripples than lowercase.

New comment by butz in "HMD Touch 4G"

butz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:12:25 +0000

There is a severe lack of compact smartphones in the market. Are there any devices available with regular OS updates, that fit into normal sized pocket?

New comment by butz in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

butz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:11:24 +0000

It is not "your account", it is literrally called "Microsoft account".

New comment by butz in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

butz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:16:21 +0000

Your app should've been a website.

New comment by butz in "Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon"

butz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:58:59 +0000

And at the 2026 wea are in a very sad state, where only choice for new smartphone is a huge rectangle with varying sizes of camera bumps on the back.

New comment by butz in "Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues"

butz — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:00:13 +0000

Someone probably pushed to prod on Friday.

New comment by butz in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

butz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:53:41 +0000

This is actually a really great feature for everyone else trying to reduce their phone use without switching to different "dumbphone". But why mandatory lock by passcode? I agree, that adding more friction would prevent user to switch back to standard UI, but still - it should be optional.

New comment by butz in "Maestral open-source Dropbox client no longer actively supported"

butz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:19:32 +0000

Sad news. I wonder what project maintainer is using now instead of Dropbox?

New comment by butz in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

butz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:53:05 +0000

It would be amazing if someone could visualize this data in Railroad Tycoon or Transport Tycoon game engine.

New comment by butz in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"

butz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:37:18 +0000

Nice try, Microsoft. You ain't getting any of my personal data.

New comment by butz in "Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)"

butz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:36:00 +0000

Imagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.

New comment by butz in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

butz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:34:55 +0000

I think https://peerseek.video is sort of aggregator website, not sure how much instances it covers, though.

New comment by butz in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

butz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:05:44 +0000

I heard that main source of income for some professional YouTubers are Patreon and sponsorships. Ad revenue is dead last and very unstable. Also, if you are building your business on single platform, which one day might decide that your content does not adhere to their rules - that's a high risk to take.

New comment by butz in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

butz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:00:14 +0000

Personally, I find the lack of videos to watch on PeerTube a huge plus. I tremendously reduced my weekly video watching time and I don't feel like missing out on something important. My favorite instance is makertube.net, but I visit few others too.

New comment by butz in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

butz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:18:37 +0000

Who designed such ridiculous camera bump? It would be a really nice device, if only it had a flat backside.

New comment by butz in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

butz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:14:11 +0000

Easy, just give all RAM to Chrome.

New comment by butz in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

butz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:13:51 +0000

Yes, that's what all classic Nintendo Picross games used to do. And there's a bit of mystery - you never know what you will uncover.

New comment by butz in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

butz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:20:24 +0000

It is possible to build an equivalent PC with Steam Machine specs, with same case size (internal PSU) and similar or lower price? I'll probably still a wait a bit to see reviews from actual users, but I really dig the form factor and was unable to find anything similarly sized with built-in PSU.