Hacker News: indianhippie

New comment by indianhippie in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

indianhippie — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:07:12 +0000

This is reaching an unacceptable level of performance. There isn't a week that work isn't interrupted by GH.

New comment by indianhippie in "iPhone dumbphone"

indianhippie — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:42:00 +0000

I have App Store disabled on my kids iPad and it does disable updates. I have to manually re-enable it and install updates every few days.

New comment by indianhippie in "[dead]"

indianhippie — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:24:45 +0000

This sounds like an excuse not to do raises. They were happy to up the prices during COVID, and those have not come down even though the supply chain has settled.

New comment by indianhippie in "Argus – monitor the versions of software and trigger alerts when a new release"

indianhippie — Thu, 04 May 2023 03:30:48 +0000

Why does the website instantly remind me of year 2014 UIs

New comment by indianhippie in "Why Medium Failed"

indianhippie — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:59:01 +0000

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New comment by indianhippie in "Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard"

indianhippie — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:31:34 +0000

I have tried quite a few online whiteboards during the pandemic WFH. IMHO nothing comes close to https://excalidraw.com

No signup needed, clean interface, fast load times and an option to self host makes it an excellent product.

New comment by indianhippie in "Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension"

indianhippie — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 22:36:09 +0000

I wrote a custom script for myself about two years ago to do the exact same thing! It’s still publicly accessible in my GitHub gists. I had no idea that others will find it useful.

I unfollowed everyone. Then I added a selective few to follow. I have tweaked who I follow and who I unfollow over the last two years to give me a balanced news feed that I enjoy. Basically twitter behavior but on FB.

New comment by indianhippie in "An update to storage policies across your Google Account"

indianhippie — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:08:01 +0000

Definitely! A while back Yahoo! purged a ton of addresses and allowed individuals to signup with them to get unique/clean email handles.

I was able to grab myfirstname@yahoo.com. The address looks neat.

Since I’ve had that address, I’ve received password reset emails, bank documents, airline tickets and what not.

Massive security hole is an understatement.

New comment by indianhippie in "27-inch iMac gets a major update"

indianhippie — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:20:11 +0000

Yes it is. This might be the last iMac with user accessible RAM chip though.

New comment by indianhippie in "AirPods with Wireless Charging Case"

indianhippie — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:43:21 +0000

AirPods have a lot of criticism? I would understand that if you made the same claim about iMac, Mac mini, iPad mini, i9 MacBook Pro or the stupid butterfly keyboards.

AirPods sold 36 million units and everyone and their grandma got it on Christmas. They have been sold at most holidays.

I personally think this is one of the best device Apple has created in a long time. It’s not for everyone but once you get used to it, you won’t go anywhere without them.

New comment by indianhippie in "iPhone Future"

indianhippie — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:49:08 +0000

Paid apps are far from dead. I buy apps all the time. I bought a watch face for Pebble half hour ago. Developers need to feed their families and I see buying quality apps very similar to buying good coffee or food.

New comment by indianhippie in "iPhone Future"

indianhippie — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:46:17 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more. I'm bored. The thing is I like the simplicity of iPhones and I have been using them for past 7 years as well. Now it got to a point where small incremental features were not doing anything for me. I switched to Nexus 6P recently. It is one hell of a phone. So many features, so much customization! The access to file system (not root) is one thing that I would not be able to live without anymore. Having directories to put files and music in is so simple and similar to using a Mac/PC. I do miss iMessage and FaceTime though. If the rumor about WWDC bringing iMessage to Android is true I don't see a reason to go back to the iPhone.

New comment by indianhippie in "Tokamak: A Rust IDE for Atom"

indianhippie — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:33:46 +0000

Same here. I have tried it a few times. The sole reason I'm not moving from Sublime is the speed of the editor.