Hacker News: janv

New comment by janv in "HMD Touch 4G"

janv — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:57:41 +0000

Apparently some other HMD devices (HMD 105, HMD 110) use "RTOS". Most likely their proprietary feature phone OS, don't expect it will provide an option for user-installable apps.

New comment by janv in "HMD Touch 4G"

janv — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:13:46 +0000

No, it uses RTOS Touch. Looks like HMD/Nokia gave up on KaiOS a few years ago.

New comment by janv in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

janv — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:15:26 +0000

Orion is pretty viable alternative. Based on WebKit.

New comment by janv in "Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use"

janv — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:44:28 +0000

Hey folks, article author here. First of all: I didn't submit it to HN.

As few people pointed out, this article was written in 2023 and it's intentionally focused just on pricing – I planned a follow up about accuracy and other aspects, but Superface pivoted away from multi-provider API abstractions and I was laid off.

So for me this is more of a time capsule of what Superface used to be about. I'm glad if you found the article still useful and the discussion here is really informative, but I won't be updating the article any further. Thanks for understanding!

Missing FAQ for Twitter API Free & Basic plans

janv — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://superface.ai/blog/twitter-api-new-plans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35480985

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Obsolete Sounds: collection of disappearing and extinct sounds

janv — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33779629

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI in APIs

janv — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 08:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://superface.ai/blog/ai-in-apis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33679301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by janv in "Mastodon’s eternal September begins?"

janv — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:11:59 +0000

The difference is that Truth Social never intended to federate, while Gab was defederated and isolated by the community. You can still federate with Gab if you own your server.

New comment by janv in "OpenXanadu"

janv — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 07:19:15 +0000

More like Coleridge's unfinished poem Kubla Khan[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan

What are self integrating applications?

janv — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:16:14 +0000

Article URL: https://superface.ai/blog/self-integrating-applications

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31411015

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Bad Mobile Apps: UI Design Gone Wrong

janv — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:08:32 +0000

Article URL: http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/bad-mobile-apps-ui-design-gone-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by janv in "Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14"

janv — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:34:45 +0000

Ain't released yet. https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

New comment by janv in "AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS"

janv — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:38:41 +0000

In presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/veosotano/axr-presentation-betabee... - slides 12 and 13, including new elements creation (http://axr.vg/spec/chapter/55). Didn't find anything on parent property in spec, though. Nesting is also planned (slide 15)

New comment by janv in "AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS"

janv — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:20:40 +0000

These abstract metalanguages are still somewhat limited by the underlying base of HTML and CSS. Some things simply can't be accomplished with CSS, no matter how many SASS macros you write (e.g. reparent an element), or you'll just end up with lot of code to do tasks which would be simple with HSS.

I believe that point of AXR is to replace this underlying base, with something more suitable for web applications. You could still use a metalanguage on top of it (maybe with some tweaking) - you can write XML using HAML anyway.

AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS

janv — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:18:07 +0000

Article URL: http://axr.vg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2648681

Points: 86

# Comments: 61

New comment by janv in "Let's just use Emacs"

janv — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:09:28 +0000

Yet another example would be Neal Stephenson:

"I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor."

- In the Beginning was the Command Line http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

New comment by janv in "Bitcoin app rejected by Apple"

janv — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:57:35 +0000

You can have separate addresses (accounts) for every transaction, which makes tracking much harder (not impossible). Oh, you can also launder your bitcoins. :-) See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity

New comment by janv in "Inspired by an XKCD comic, a new Tetris game"

janv — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:59:08 +0000

Same problem here, I wonder if it's caused by 64-bit Flash Player.

New comment by janv in "The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown"

janv — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:59:56 +0000

You view the site in IE, don't you?

New comment by janv in "Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs"

janv — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:13:12 +0000

So, if the scrobbling API is the same like Last.fm's, there's slight chance some client (player plugins) could support Like.fm thanks to Libre.fm (yay, Micronesian registrar must be very profitable). For example, in Quod Libet's QLScrobbler plugin you can choose to which URL to scrobble, instead of post.audioscrobbler.com you can use turtle.libre.fm or any other URL. And there's much more clients - http://bugs.foocorp.net/projects/librefm/wiki/Clients

Just give us URL to point our scrobblers to.