Hacker News: ct0

New comment by ct0 in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

ct0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:04:40 +0000

Fairly certain there is no forgiveness with lease terms. Also, Im surprised that Apple Care is not a requirement, but it seem more like a decision to put the risk on the lender rather than Apple in the case of loss. I would expect a majority of people to buy the apple care for a few dollars more per month.

New comment by ct0 in "The Reddit Problem – How a Reddit Alternative Was Banned from RedditAlternatives"

ct0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:57:59 +0000

Totally agree. It was discovered that the main moderator of my local states sub Reddit actually lived in an adjacent state. When this was discovered, I found it very subversive as “how could a person living out of my own state moderate my neighbors opinions?“ Additionally, they would use posts history in a different but legally connected other subreddit as a main reason to ban you from their subreddit.

New comment by ct0 in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

ct0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:54:45 +0000

I'm waiting for a Bosch dishwasher to be delivered today. Supposedly it's one of the best.

New comment by ct0 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

ct0 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:02:50 +0000

How do we know this wasn't Apple's plan all along? A double agent of sorts isn't a new concept.

New comment by ct0 in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

ct0 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:03:55 +0000

There is recent article from scientific beekeeper that goes into detail about these using their own venom as a cleaning agent.

New comment by ct0 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

ct0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:53:31 +0000

You should make an app compatible with android tv devices, not necessarily on google play store, but github would be find. this would be an absolute hit on those devices. well done.

New comment by ct0 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

ct0 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:52:35 +0000

I don't get the alcohol analogy as in most places it's 100% legal for minors to consume alcohol in the home with parental permission in the USA. In public it's a different story.

New comment by ct0 in "Facebook is cooked"

ct0 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:42:41 +0000

This is how I use it too. News feed is basically garbage, but the groups and marketplace is worth keeping my freemium subscription. I never heard of your use case, but I'm impressed that the specific point A to B groups exist!

New comment by ct0 in "Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books"

ct0 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:59:54 +0000

This sounds amazing, totally interested in seeing the approach and repo.

New comment by ct0 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

ct0 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:05:14 +0000

Contacting the Board of Public Utilities in NJ would have probably been your best bet. By law they need to start addressing issues within a week or so. I had some downed comms cable on my property that they took very seriously after contacting the BPU. Fixed within 2 weeks and the ISP support is local and senior.

New comment by ct0 in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

ct0 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:44:40 +0000

What IDE do you use? this functionality sounds great.

New comment by ct0 in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

ct0 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:07:29 +0000

Agreed, in 7th grade we did a stock market simulation, it made winning feel too easy.

New comment by ct0 in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

ct0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:39:50 +0000

There is a similar children's toy called Yoto that uses cards to load stories and songs on a player. I love the idea of hacking something together, this is really cool !

New comment by ct0 in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

ct0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:33:40 +0000

They dont port forward unfortunately

New comment by ct0 in "She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)"

ct0 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:03:48 +0000

Oh if you only knew what was happening in the back room when you transferred your device from one computer to another...

New comment by ct0 in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

ct0 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:05:20 +0000

No they wont, teens everywhere still use IG, and YT.

New comment by ct0 in "A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports"

ct0 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:49:20 +0000

Sounds way more fun than my childhood, all I had was Raisins.

New comment by ct0 in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

ct0 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:11:07 +0000

The pirates version of blockbuster is still alive and well at your local library.

New comment by ct0 in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

ct0 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:34:46 +0000

yes, search for battery

New comment by ct0 in "More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves"

ct0 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:27:39 +0000

a deck for those beek's that are interested https://projectloveforbees.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/...