Hacker News: flemhans

New comment by flemhans in "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz"

flemhans — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:28:10 +0000

Brings back memories of Gammu hooked up to a Nokia 6150 over serial. It was already questionable back then but never got caught by the telco

New comment by flemhans in "Flighty Airports"

flemhans — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:05:54 +0000

Happy to see Kyiv doing so well! Not a single delayed flight.

New comment by flemhans in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

flemhans — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:27:16 +0000

Disconnect its modem

New comment by flemhans in "Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit"

flemhans — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:26:03 +0000

I remember that existed way back then.

And MacSaber... MacSaber!!!

New comment by flemhans in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

flemhans — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:49:02 +0000

And saved in files

New comment by flemhans in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

flemhans — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:44:42 +0000

My Claude Code has been running weeks on end churning through a huge task list almost unattended on a complex 15 yr old code base, auto-committing thousands of features. It is high quality code that will go live very soon.

New comment by flemhans in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

flemhans — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:19:00 +0000

One method is a "hidden sms" which your device sends after you called the emergency number on your own merit.

The article seems to describe another system which can be involved externally.

New comment by flemhans in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

flemhans — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:16:54 +0000

But it seems this article is arguing is that there is another (non SMS based) way of accessing the precise location data which is not so difficult to access.

New comment by flemhans in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

flemhans — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:10:49 +0000

I've used email as MQ since forever also, and can highly recommend this pattern.

New comment by flemhans in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

flemhans — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:08:21 +0000

"We are lucky they're so stupid"

New comment by flemhans in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

flemhans — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:27:16 +0000

Soon you'll be seen as irresponsible and wasteful if you don't let the smarter LLM do it.

New comment by flemhans in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

flemhans — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:50:57 +0000

In these times, even running your own software on a provisioned VM is considered self-hosting sometimes.

New comment by flemhans in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

flemhans — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:08:14 +0000

I use outline buttons for "link" buttons and colored-in ones for those that perform actions.

New comment by flemhans in "Poland arrests Ukrainians utilizing 'advanced' hacking equipment"

flemhans — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:53:56 +0000

When we first shopped around for a data center location, RFID access cards were kind of a new thing. Like the article, we erroneously pronounced it RDIF when asking about which technology their door systems used. I'm still thinking about it occasionally.

New comment by flemhans in "I hate screenshots of text"

flemhans — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:54:04 +0000

Fun side-fact: The original MacPaint, while in development, had an "ocr" copy feature, albeit much simpler of course.

It didn't make it in the release version out of fear that people would use MacPaint as a Word Processor.

New comment by flemhans in "Just use a button"

flemhans — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:49:35 +0000

Why is the

option proposed by anyone in the first place?

New comment by flemhans in "Building a Robot Dog (with an airsoft gun)"

flemhans — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:27:13 +0000

Any plans to release the files or a build guide?

New comment by flemhans in "M5 MacBook Pro"

flemhans — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:30:49 +0000

I think 8GB was also what we had in ... 2012? Or am I wrong. Memory has been going so slow.

New comment by flemhans in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

flemhans — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:47:15 +0000

Mattermost is crippling their open-source edition and it gets worse every year. At the same time, it's difficult not to update, since the mobile app will require a new server version, and most regular users install and auto-update the mobile apps.

It will be a matter of time before Hack Club needs to migrate to something else again.

New comment by flemhans in "Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)"

flemhans — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:45:53 +0000

Agreed, I'm always relieved to visit sites made the "old" way because they are fast.