Hacker News: hbs18

New comment by hbs18 in "Car Seats as Contraception"

hbs18 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:55:49 +0000

Assuming the kids would be facing forward, wouldn't that require a helmet and a HANS device as well?

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:59:56 +0000

Lint was only ever an issue with my Lightning connector iPhone. Unfortunately it wasn't the issue with the USB-C phones, the ports were just worn out.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:00:48 +0000

They were an LG Nexus 5X, a OnePlus 3T and a Xiaomi Mi 8. The ports became loose on all of them over time, especially on the OnePlus where the cable would just fall out if you held the device upright, and in its final days the Xiaomi would need the cable pushed at an angle to make a connection.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:02 +0000

I treat my phones carefully, I've literally never cracked a screen on any of them, the same goes for handling the charging cable and port. I'm always quite gentle with it, never leaving it propped up by the cable or at a weird angle, and the cables I used were the original ones that came with my devices. Mainly because my phones spend a lot of time plugged in acting as a hotspot for half a week, so I try to minimize the harm I cause by the extra (un)plug events.

The Lightning port iPhone that I used for 3 years however handled my usage just fine (just tried it now and it feels just like it did new), and the USB-C one I've had for half a year seems to be holding up fine as well. These I used with a mix of cheap Aliexpress cables and the genuine Apple ones.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:02:58 +0000

> I've never seen the male part of the female USB-C break, but I'm sure it's possible

I know anecdotes don't mean anything, but I have. Every USB-C phone I've ever had, apart from my iPhone that I currently use, ended up with having completely worn out connectors after two-three years of use. They stop holding cables in firm enough and start only making the connection when holding the cable at an angle.

New comment by hbs18 in "iPhone 17e"

hbs18 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:22:53 +0000

What obsession about making thin phones? iPhones are pretty thick and have been that way for years. The Air being an outlier, of course, but it's an intentionally thin phone in a lineup of thick and heavy ones.

New comment by hbs18 in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

hbs18 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:24:08 +0000

Which slavic languages have that? In mine I can't think of a single word for that other than kipuća voda which literally means boiling water.

New comment by hbs18 in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

hbs18 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:34:15 +0000

Have you ever used Windows 8.1? With a classic start button app the UI layout is the good Windows 7 one with the "modern" Windows appearance.

New comment by hbs18 in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

hbs18 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:55:49 +0000

As a non-native English speaker, pronouncing it scan-xiety (sken-ZAHyetee) feels correct.

New comment by hbs18 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

hbs18 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:18:39 +0000

The physical keyboard on your computer is also always in capital letters. Is that bad design too?

New comment by hbs18 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

hbs18 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:22:50 +0000

As a European, I never understood why you'd tip automatically. I get that waiters are allowed to be paid less, but I don't see why that would be the customer's problem.

New comment by hbs18 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

hbs18 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:45:25 +0000

I'm not trying to make excuses for Grok, but how exactly isn't the user creating the content? Grok doesn't have create images on its own volition, the user is still required to give it some input, therefore "creating" the content.

New comment by hbs18 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

hbs18 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:58:53 +0000

It's not that bad actually. Over the years stuff like electrical installations, cables and random manholes often get retrofitted in an ugly way to existing architecture.

New comment by hbs18 in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

hbs18 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:23:57 +0000

It's not US only, I didn't get stickers with my EU market iPhone Air.

New comment by hbs18 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

hbs18 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:28:25 +0000

It's a warrant canary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

New comment by hbs18 in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

hbs18 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:16:24 +0000

I used to think like that before I started driving, it's way more structured and harder to screw up than you'd think.

Avoiding potholes is the hardest part of driving, really.

New comment by hbs18 in "Cold-blooded software (2023)"

hbs18 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:22:48 +0000

> Will the newest system be able to easily run that compiled binary?

I feel like releasing it as a win32 app covers you best there

New comment by hbs18 in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

hbs18 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:20:10 +0000

So what is the correct solution to that specific problem then, adjust loading time per customer?

New comment by hbs18 in "Backing up Spotify"

hbs18 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:55 +0000

> Nobody is gonna download a 300TB torrent just to get the latest Taylor Swift album

Well, no. They'll just select the album download it selectively from the torrent.

New comment by hbs18 in "You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser"

hbs18 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:17:48 +0000

Refresh the page after adding the flag