Hacker News: carstenhag

New comment by carstenhag in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

carstenhag — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:06:03 +0000

My old mac was supposed to be donated to some place, but they had forgotten me to tell the iCloud lock is still on there. They wrote me on LinkedIn and as they were a good employer, I did unlock it

New comment by carstenhag in "Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?"

carstenhag — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:02:02 +0000

I developed Android apps for an EV charging platform for 5 years. Now working for Mapbox to integrate a navigation app into cars. Quite complex environment. Most Android topics are exactly the same as on a phone, it’s quite fun though because your app can control car functionality

(Germany/Munich)

New comment by carstenhag in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

carstenhag — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:50:46 +0000

This is about 3 people in a meeting room joining with their laptops, without a meeting room audio setup (or it being bad)

New comment by carstenhag in "Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?"

carstenhag — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:16:32 +0000

Probably just above normal b2c backup services, and below company requirements

New comment by carstenhag in "Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?"

carstenhag — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:15:42 +0000

Syncthing will do a 1 to 1 connection if possible, else it will use a relay server. Traffic is encrypted. Open source. After the initial setup of marrying the devices together, it's just a matter of starting the application. Pretty much what you want?

New comment by carstenhag in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

carstenhag — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:33:17 +0000

Do you need a CDN for a static html, no images? I would guess no, even if you.are being bombarded with requests

New comment by carstenhag in "Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions"

carstenhag — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:58:05 +0000

I really hate my bakery, the buns are only edible for some days, after that, they grow mold!

Without sarcasm, it is entirely reasonable that when the OS is EOL by the 1st party, software support for it by 3rd party also ends soon after that.

New comment by carstenhag in "People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones"

carstenhag — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:30:20 +0000

On Android you can use split screen apps. Either some apps are broken (including some I was part of writing...) or it's really annoying to put in text when both apps are open. It's really just useless almost alway

New comment by carstenhag in "You can't cURL a Border"

carstenhag — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:22:45 +0000

It doesn't exist, because it's complex to set up and up until 5 years ago almost no one wanted to do this. Now some people want to do it, and they can use an Employer of Record via facilitating companies. But the visa situation will probably still be difficult, it's pretty much a gap

New comment by carstenhag in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

carstenhag — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:56:05 +0000

I was scrolling and scrolling, waiting for the author to mention the new methods, which of course every Android Dev had to migrate to at some point. And 99% of us probably thought how annoying this change is, even though it probably reduced the number of bugs for Turkish users :)

Unrelated, but a month ago I found a weird behaviour where in a kotlin scratch file, `List.isEmpty()` is always true. Questioned my sanity for at least an hour there... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-35551/

New comment by carstenhag in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

carstenhag — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:55:44 +0000

You can do this in software, I tried it a few times with games and just other stuff ~10 years ago. Why would it have to be a hardware solution?

New comment by carstenhag in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

carstenhag — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:09:41 +0000

I am pretty sure governments around the world want it to be cheaper, but at the same time know that it must be very strictly regulated. Even if that makes it pricier, one can't call that "fake costs".

Also, it takes decades to build them, very often then also getting delayed. Why even consider it nowadays?

New comment by carstenhag in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

carstenhag — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:49:28 +0000

I used to say the same, but now I have to use Slack + Gmail + Meet + Google Calendar + Drive + whatever else Google has.

All of this has integrations into each other. Somehow a slack bot can show me calendar entries. Why I would even need such a broken UI/experience is unclear to me. I can't see when people usually work. Meet chats disappear once the meeting is over.

At Teams/Outlook you have a million other issues, but all things considered, I preferred it.

New comment by carstenhag in "iPhone Air"

carstenhag — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:41:51 +0000

Tried the Fold on a Google event and it was really nice. I would get one, but I don't want to spend so much money.

New comment by carstenhag in "European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices"

carstenhag — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:32:22 +0000

MasterCard leaked address + full credit card data about 90.000 people in Germany. Everyone that signed up for a lawyer (that was paid 15% of a possible payout) got 250-300€, including me. If only 10.000 signed up, it's already 2.5 millions.

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/mastercard-zahlt-kunden-...

New comment by carstenhag in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

carstenhag — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:18:02 +0000

Someone here commented saying they claimed they did not even use it for training, so apparently it was useless.

New comment by carstenhag in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

carstenhag — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:13:38 +0000

This is, as the title mentions, the cheapest EV. It's really old. It did not have tech that pretty much all EVs have nowadays.

Nowadays you don't have to do this. You can. Just like with your phone or laptop.

New comment by carstenhag in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

carstenhag — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:03:00 +0000

Just disable the feature/plugin in your IDE of choice. Android Studio/IntelliJ: https://i.imgur.com/RvRMvvK.png

New comment by carstenhag in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

carstenhag — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:15:39 +0000

"we all know... Play Store... full of malicious garbage" - please point out how that statement is true, given we all know this apparently.

Yes, there are apps out there that try to trick the system and when you use them, instead of looking innocent, it's actually a casino app or something. But Google usually finds those. Are there any apps impersonating a bank? Because that is what regular people care about & think of when someone says "malicious".

They don't care if an app tracks what other apps are installed, what the user taps on, etc. Arguably they should care, but they don't lose money from it.

New comment by carstenhag in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

carstenhag — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:11:45 +0000

Wrong analogy, as you need to register at Steam to sell a product. To share an executable for Windows, you don't. It's also not about taking a cut.