Hacker News: k4rli

New comment by k4rli in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

k4rli — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:50:24 +0000

Pretty sure it's already possible. I have a small service running on homelab that syncs all the withings data to garmin. Has needed no attention in years and just works.

New comment by k4rli in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

k4rli — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:04:54 +0000

When the editor for this blog lives in the country that is being criticised [0], this article is furthest thing from seeking objectivity.

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

New comment by k4rli in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

k4rli — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:40:17 +0000

Last fuel related death was in 1986. The incident in 2020 with Grosjean's fireball was a 67g impact. If the car were to only have one big EV battery, which it almost is in current regulations, then in such a crash would very likely get punctured and be even riskier fire. So to answer the question, no.

At end of the day, it is a motorsport and it will always have its risks.

New comment by k4rli in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

k4rli — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:38:14 +0000

Do you swap out the rotors anytime there's rust on them?

New comment by k4rli in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

k4rli — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:42:00 +0000

Source: the aggressors

New comment by k4rli in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

k4rli — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:08:00 +0000

Morphe/revanced with good configuration makes the official app super nice. Swipe controls, full OLED, no shorts, Sponsorblock.

Default app for sure is an abomination and so are most Androids straight out of the box before debloat + clean rom + root.

New comment by k4rli in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

k4rli — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:11:20 +0000

Will you ever get tired of defending your precious Isr*el? The article did not even make it about "jews".

Not sure what the serial-number looking acronym is about.

New comment by k4rli in "Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models"

k4rli — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:49:59 +0000

Surely not impossible for them to have already cracked it.

Also not impossible that they have had much better models than OAI/Anthropic flagships for years, and we're only being dripfed upgrades to subpar ones. Improbable but possible.

New comment by k4rli in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

k4rli — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:42:17 +0000

Nothing was "started" by him joining. Name was the same and they were already producing car(s). He did bring his skills for fraud and puffery though.

New comment by k4rli in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

k4rli — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:36:41 +0000

The comments there just seem like agents talking to each other.

New comment by k4rli in "No AI Fridays"

k4rli — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:29:47 +0000

He was just taking the piss, being both OP and the boss of htmx.

New comment by k4rli in "Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems"

k4rli — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:29:34 +0000

Reason why it's super hard for juniors at the moment. For "agents" to produce good results, the operator must have the experience to direct it in the right direction and properly validate the output.

I've had some weird bug investigations where it has suggested wrong fixes confidently multiple times before arriving at the actual fix. Only with extra details from manual testing did we arrive at the real bug. The ~5 first suggested fixes would've hidden the root cause even more.

New comment by k4rli in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

k4rli — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:56:48 +0000

Or leave the walled garden entirely. GrapheneOS has all the same stuff.

New comment by k4rli in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

k4rli — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:55:39 +0000

I've only had experience in one full-stack project with supabase RLS so experience is limited. However it seemed like a mess. Seems much more human-maintainable to have a classic spring/golang backend. For sure in some projects, esp mobile apps, it makes more sense, and fable-level models might also keep it from being full spaghetti.

Also Supabase at that time wasn't reliable and it's not really made for self-hosting. Felt almost as bad as Github stability these days.

Still, based on this limited experience, I've been avoiding RLS and supabase.

New comment by k4rli in "Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS"

k4rli — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:12:33 +0000

So both Paypal and Visa/Mastercard get a cut of every transaction. At least with a regular virtual card Paypal isn't getting their cut. Having Paypal as a middleman will make chargeback requests harder as well since they likely need to be negotiated with before the actual card issuing bank.

New comment by k4rli in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

k4rli — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:16:13 +0000

Computer isn't quite it, internet connection itself seems closer. Then again an Android phone with terminal emulator could also run attacks.

Seems like a nonsense comparison either way. These cameras are in public places and provide surveillance intel for governmental entities.

New comment by k4rli in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

k4rli — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:37:06 +0000

Obsidian might be even greater for notes. Looks beautiful, and it's super immersive on OLED especially. Worth trying for sure.

Tap to scroll might be possible to get also. Haven't felt need for it when it takes a few regular scrolls anyway.

New comment by k4rli in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

k4rli — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:57:59 +0000

If it's something worth watching, then very unlikely. 99.9% of movies/tv simply aren't.

New comment by k4rli in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

k4rli — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:35:52 +0000

Almost all of their promises since start have just been corporate puffery and pure vaporware. Going to Mars, point-to-point Earth travel, Starship, reusable rockets...

Same with all his other companies.

New comment by k4rli in "If you're a button, you have one job"

k4rli — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:29:22 +0000

Using AOSP-based Android roms, I haven't noticed any big changes in years. In current "android 16" and my old "android 10" device one couldn't really tell a difference. Very simple UX, no bloatware apps, no hidden drawers coming out from sides.

I've tried the vendor ones by Samsung, OnePlus etc with fresh devices and this Android experience really is awful.