Hacker News: ciex

New comment by ciex in "Push events into a running session with channels"

ciex — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:22:03 +0000

Telegram had always impressed me for the same reasons. They have constantly gotten worse since about 2022/2023 though. Dark patterns, pay gate, they lost chat history for some of my closest contacts including 15k+ lost photos, no support at all. Something changed in their product direction and I started moving all my chats to Signal.

New comment by ciex in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

ciex — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:39:53 +0000

Cost of a car is extremely hard to predict, not just because of unexpected repairs but also because the price of gas is literally political.

The train experience in Germany is as bad as it is because of lobbying by the car industry and corruption both in the government and train operators. Not enough investment over decades paired with the absurd idea that train fares need to cover operating costs. Nobody would ask this of road networks, it’s just infrastructure that a society pays for. In addition to that the Deutsche Bahn suffers from common inefficiencies of large corporations that are not mitigated in effective ways by its leadership.

New comment by ciex in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

ciex — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:11:38 +0000

Fantastic comment, thank you! I am going to dive into several of those sources and ideas.

New comment by ciex in "Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features"

ciex — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:50:02 +0000

Maybe not as extreme but I also always took great care of my hearing, wearing protection whenever I went out dancing when I was younger and never turning up my music to be nice and loud like my friends did in high school. Now in my mid 30s I have stress-induced tinnitus. Oh well.

New comment by ciex in "Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list"

ciex — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:10:57 +0000

Yes, please dont post about any unpromoted venues on hacker news!

New comment by ciex in "Show HN: Aldi Price Map"

ciex — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:42:51 +0000

I don’t see anything indicating criticism in op’s comment, seems more like an expression of surprise.

New comment by ciex in "Sentry new TOS to use data to train AI with no opt-out"

ciex — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:02:11 +0000

They have this as an experimental feature (which is opt-in and I won't try it)

New comment by ciex in "Terminal Smooth Scrolling"

ciex — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:53:23 +0000

The article mentions `.vimrc`, which matches the format of the lines starting with `set ...` but that does not result in smooth scrolling for me.

New comment by ciex in "Gemini AI"

ciex — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:46:01 +0000

Funny enough, OpenAI to this day violates EU requirements on price advertisement by charging VAT on top of the advertised price. They still owe me and every other customer in the EU ca. $3 VAT for every month I've had the ChatGPT subscription.

New comment by ciex in "WASM: Big deal or little deal?"

ciex — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 10:34:35 +0000

If you don't care about transparency your web app will not be transparent today. It takes effort. Same can be said for Wasm-based projects.

New comment by ciex in "A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense"

ciex — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:04:46 +0000

I would be interested in everyone's opinion on that 1 to 10 ratio ballpark number. What has your experience been like?

New comment by ciex in "A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now"

ciex — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:41:55 +0000

My fridge has pull-out shelves. They are very nice the 2x per year I use them.

New comment by ciex in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

ciex — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:32:58 +0000

I recently tried using Sony's (frustrating) Imaging Edge app to transfer photos from a camera to an iPad and gave it limited access and it refused to transfer images! When I changed the permissions to full access it worked. So there must be some difference, maybe not an obvious one.

New comment by ciex in "YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby"

ciex — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:58:09 +0000

Look at TikTok for how it can be done. It's not perfect but it's used very widely and ties context together across videos.

New comment by ciex in "Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest"

ciex — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:58:46 +0000

This is how Reddit started. In the very beginning of the site the founders had a couple of accounts they would use to put content on the site. It's in Reddit's DNA so to speak.

New comment by ciex in "Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest"

ciex — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:24:50 +0000

Legally, yes. Morally, no, they can't do what they want. Users have invested time and effort over literally decades to build today's Reddit communities. Therefore, Reddit needs to give good reasons for substantial changes they make if those could be harmful to community health.

New comment by ciex in "Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest"

ciex — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:59:20 +0000

Mastodon's account migration implementation has some serious issues. AFAIK you can't migrate without access to the original account, so if that instance shuts down you're out of luck. I think it's also not possible to move past posts to a different instance so if your original one gets in bad hands you cannot get your content off of that.

New comment by ciex in "Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest"

ciex — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:35:04 +0000

For now, the modcoord subreddit functionally takes on the role of a union. I know that there have been times in the past when moderators were unhappy about the state of tools that Reddit provides for them to moderate. If I remember correctly there was also some kind of spontaneous organisation of moderators that adressed Reddit admins with their collective voice, although I am not sure if any "strike" kind of action was threatened back then.

New comment by ciex in "Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost"

ciex — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:06:02 +0000

Email has terrible thread navigation and I consider old.reddit.com with reddit enhancement suite the best in class.

New comment by ciex in "Meta preps new social app"

ciex — Mon, 22 May 2023 08:24:44 +0000

Public networks are a lot more hostile than we realize while we have moderation armies at work. That may not be a sustainable model. I think the way forward is building the right tools to help communities self-manage. It will be more like Discord and less like Twitter.