Hacker News: kemayo

New comment by kemayo in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

kemayo — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:08:23 +0000

Granted I've never seen something like this where the chain includes a government agency saying "it's totally on this guy", but normally you can get good results from writing a dispute letter to the debt collection agency telling them to prove that you really owe this debt. The state of the industry normally means that they will not have gotten anything like actual proof from the hospital, just a line item in a spreadsheet... and if they can't prove it they're legally barred from contacting you about it or reporting it to credit bureaus.

(I've never done it, but I suspect you could get rid of a significant percentage of real debts like this, just on the strength of the industry's terrible record keeping practices.)

New comment by kemayo in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

kemayo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:28:19 +0000

Same, I had no sense of the decoy message at all until I read that comment.

New comment by kemayo in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

kemayo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:57:18 +0000

> "Usage of Odin in a world-class product" is enough to count as notable

I'm not even sure that would count, really. A world-class product that gets a lot of coverage is notable, for sure, but that wouldn't be enough to make some implementation detail of that product notable unless the sources really leaned on it.

New comment by kemayo in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

kemayo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:41:03 +0000

Makes sense. The Brainfuck article has a bunch of citations to published journals and books, so it's notable -- people are talking about it in ways that Wikipedia recognizes. That's what "notability" means -- "are unrelated trustworthy people talking about it?"

This is the Odin article as it existed when it was deleted by that AfD: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Odin_(progr...

The references aren't good. I don't have any pre-existing opinion of Odin, since I had never heard of it before I saw this HN post, and those references don't convince me that it matters to anyone.

I'm fairly inclusionist, so I'd personally think it's worth keeping the article if they could point to Odin being used by any notable project, or by a bunch of small projects. But the only user it claims for the language is a company I'd never heard of that doesn't have a wikipedia article.

New comment by kemayo in "CarPlay Is Additive"

kemayo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:15:23 +0000

Here's an explanation of CarPlay Ultra, which really is the phone driving your dash and instrumentation: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/carplay-ultra-the-nex...

There's only a couple of Aston Martin cars that support it, but there's supposed to be more coming. See: https://www.stuff.tv/features/apple-carplay-ultra-compatibil...

New comment by kemayo in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

kemayo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:18:39 +0000

Is it "defrauding" if someone's just following the rules, though? And, at that, is it worth building your citizenship rules around something incredibly rare? (Estimates seem to think it's something like 15k babies a year.)

New comment by kemayo in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

kemayo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:31:28 +0000

There's this quote from the 2010 interview with Waterson:

> If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.

New comment by kemayo in "Siri AI"

kemayo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:49:49 +0000

Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights after I'm in bed.

New comment by kemayo in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

kemayo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:21:29 +0000

Someone did the research-digging a while back about this, if you want a third-party view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136376

New comment by kemayo in "Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace"

kemayo — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:49:58 +0000

> Odysseus

Is the person best known for exploiting security vulnerabilities to get into places you'd rather they didn't, and then getting lost and taking forever to get places the ideal namesake for your AI workspace project?

New comment by kemayo in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

kemayo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:59:10 +0000

Genuinely surprised that I'm only 2,187. Weird to think about how quickly I must have jumped on it.

New comment by kemayo in "Not buying another Kindle"

kemayo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:36:10 +0000

Even new Kindles don't support EPUB, per-se. The Send-to-Kindle service started supporting EPUB, and converts them to AZW3 or KFX for actual delivery to your Kindle.

But you cannot just USB an EPUB onto your Kindle without any conversion process. (Calibre does make it very simple, though.)

New comment by kemayo in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

kemayo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:13:42 +0000

> Personally I think they should offer a way to extend the Control Center and push devs who want persistence towards that.

They actually added that in macOS 26. Just like on iOS, apps can now offer custom actions that you can add into the control center.

New comment by kemayo in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

kemayo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:53:16 +0000

I'm not sure you appreciate why PHP was successful. You might be completely right about all this, but the LAMP-stack "just upload this file to shared hosting" workflow is what made apps like WordPress win out, and the barrier remains significantly higher to do the equivalent with Rust.

New comment by kemayo in "AirPods Max 2"

kemayo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:32:16 +0000

You want Beats, which is owned by Apple. Your $200 budget pair is the Beats Solo 4: https://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/solo4-wireless/MUW43/s...

New comment by kemayo in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

kemayo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:35:54 +0000

It's a mismatch with our intuition about how much effort things take.

If there's humans involved, "I took this data and made a really fancy interactive chart" means that you put a lot more work into it, and you can probably somewhat assume that this means some more effort was also put into the accuracy of the data.

But with the LLM it's not really very much more work to get the fancy chart. So the thing that was a signifier of effort is now misleading us into trusting data that got no extra effort.

(Humans have been exploiting this tendency to trust fancy graphics forever, of course.)

New comment by kemayo in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

kemayo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:31:31 +0000

> Developers would often write helper functions that accidently mutated the original Date object in place when they intended to return a new one

It's weird that they picked example code that is extremely non-accidentally doing this.

New comment by kemayo in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

kemayo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:15:59 +0000

It's a mediawiki feature: there's a set of pages that get treated as JS/CSS and shown for either all users or specifically you. You do need to be an admin to edit the ones that get shown to all users.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/JavaScript

New comment by kemayo in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

kemayo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:42:47 +0000

As an aside, it does seem like a bit of a bad sign for a feature that you know up-front that it'll be so polarizing that you need to have an always-visible top-level "hide this forever!" button.

New comment by kemayo in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

kemayo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:21:38 +0000

I dunno, I think that multiple people doing a workout together in the same at-home room is a bit of an edge case for this app. I have a not-tiny house, and I don't have a space where I could do that without having to move heavy furniture around first. People who live in apartments are really out of luck.

They do support syncing up the workouts of people who're each using their own device: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101979