Hacker News: hofo

New comment by hofo in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

hofo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:05:08 +0000

Not a mandate at this point. The bill was only introduced on April 13th.

New comment by hofo in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

hofo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:27:56 +0000

I thought the use case would be for cyclists to alert runners with NC headphones that the cyclist is about to pass them

New comment by hofo in "Grief and the AI split"

hofo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:05:41 +0000

There’s a similar divide in the woodworking community between people that use CNC and the like to mill and shape wood vs those that use hand and power tools.

New comment by hofo in "NASA Will Let Its Astronauts Bring iPhones to the Moon"

hofo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:38:11 +0000

I assume they’ll be in Airplane mode?

New comment by hofo in "Google experts tell the US DOJ selling its ad tech business would be impossible"

hofo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:39:04 +0000

Who’s going to be the system that will fill the vacuum when the judge tells them to do it anyway and it breaks along the way?

New comment by hofo in "Workday to acquire Pipedream"

hofo — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:58:14 +0000

Mmm I really think my work day has enough pipe dreams already

New comment by hofo in "Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?"

hofo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:52:06 +0000

How is this relevant to the app?

New comment by hofo in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

hofo — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:52:02 +0000

They either exercise intellectual curiosity through Google and YouTube, or they wait until someone decides it’s worth making a commercial offering.

New comment by hofo in "MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data"

hofo — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:22:14 +0000

Social media algorithm overload

New comment by hofo in "Gemini in Chrome"

hofo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:29:35 +0000

lol any answer to “do we use your data” that isn’t “no” is a yes

New comment by hofo in "Alto turns Apple Notes into a website"

hofo — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:03:32 +0000

What’s processing the mail?

New comment by hofo in "A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used"

hofo — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:53:19 +0000

The use of opengraph doesn’t change the usage rights on the content that the opengraph tag refers to

New comment by hofo in "A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used"

hofo — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:50:21 +0000

I thought the “open” part was that anyone could use the “protocol”, not that it had any usage context for the content in the tags.

New comment by hofo in "Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity"

hofo — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 04:01:45 +0000

I mean yeah it’s great that it’s system that can make plastic without oil. But really, do we need more plastic?

New comment by hofo in "Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server"

hofo — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:16:51 +0000

Newbie here: how much of creating agents are portable from one AI platform to another? Do they mostly have the same concepts but differ slightly in implementation? Or something else?

New comment by hofo in "They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?"

hofo — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:25:23 +0000

Only the people that have been there have seen it. Why should experiences not be repeatable? Humanity doesn’t share a to-do list; you doing something doesn’t give me those experiences. If you want to pivot to the wear-and-tear or how people aren’t adhering to leave-no-trace that’s fine but a different argument

New comment by hofo in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

hofo — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:37:49 +0000

Nah it’s for apps like those that monitor a user’s continuous glucose meter. In addition to simple monitoring they alert the user when the reading is on the extreme ends of a safety range. The app for Abbott’s Freestyle Libre requires the setting to be enabled and will not allow the use of the app without it enabled. I suspect that’s what Apple means in their rejection. I can turn it off but the app won’t work without it.

New comment by hofo in "Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs"

hofo — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Dorothy is the “enemy” of the Wizard?

New comment by hofo in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

hofo — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:06:26 +0000

Sounds like waste, fraud, and abuse to me

New comment by hofo in "Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'"

hofo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:30:56 +0000

And who’s going to use your payment service when they can’t buy anything because AI took their job?