Hacker News: erikwbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=erikwbHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:38:38 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by erikwb in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"]]>100%. You have to advertise that you're a car, basically, before the iphone opens the door to messages.

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:15:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495086erikwbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495086<![CDATA[New comment by erikwb in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"]]>Calls are possible over obex, yeah - see prior art at https://github.com/gabrielmeir53/iphonebridge .

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:12:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495066erikwbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495066<![CDATA[New comment by erikwb in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"]]>Hey! I made blueferry - the bluetooth connection works great on certain adapters, but ANCS is the wild west. I love that Tether is helping to figure out all the quirks there - I had lots of time a month ago and almost none now.

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:26:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494832erikwbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494832https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494832<![CDATA[Show HN: Blueferry, iMessage on Linux]]>Hey;

Blueferry is an app that connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth to expose an iMessage bridge to your Linux desktop. It supports receiving and sending text-based messages, either 1:1 or in group threads. It requires no phone-side software or jailbreak - just Bluetooth pairing.

It accomplishes this by using an undocumented? behavior where enabling ANCS via Bluetooth LE (via https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux 's technique) causes the phone to accept message capability requests over standard Bluetooth. ancs4linux indicate that they've had mixed success with different BT chipsets on the Linux side, though all of the machines I've been able to test it on have been able to negotiate the connection.

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]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:35:53 +0000https://github.com/erikwb/blueferryerikwbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239230<![CDATA[New comment by erikwb in "Cubism.js: time series visualization"]]>We're now using this for production metrics at Square - thanks to the builtin Graphite support - and it's changed everything about how we can visualize them. This is faster, more intuitive, and more beautiful than anything that rrdtool graph or Graphite's grapher can kick out. Absolutely recommended to anybody who needs to have realtime visual feedback about system performance.

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