Hacker News: leke

New comment by leke in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

leke — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:43:24 +0000

This is going to make it more difficult for non-open source projects to get a foothold in the future because people are not going to trust a promise any more. Like, I have this thing called a smart phone. Is it open source? No? Oh well.

New comment by leke in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

leke — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:44:57 +0000

The power of meditation :P

New comment by leke in "The great Scouse pasty war"

leke — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:35:32 +0000

Well, not sure if it's classed as a cake, but my favourite desert there was the egg custard tart.

New comment by leke in "The great Scouse pasty war"

leke — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:20:57 +0000

I used to love my Sayers sausage roll as a kid. I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.

Obligatory dad joke.

How do you make a sausage roll?

Push it down a hill.

New comment by leke in "What killed the Florida orange?"

leke — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:16:08 +0000

I find these stories fascinating. Since it mentioned the orange originally came from China, I wonder if there are varieties that are resistant while still tasting good.

New comment by leke in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

leke — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:04:17 +0000

Nice, I made a cotton slip for my seat, which worked the same way I guess.

New comment by leke in "Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)"

leke — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:02:56 +0000

This was happening to a colleague's monitor. As it happened frequently when either of us got up, I suspected it was the fabric of the chair, which was probably some kind of acrylic. I made slips for the ass part of the chair from 100% cotton, and to my amazement it fixed the problem.

New comment by leke in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

leke — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:46:02 +0000

I wonder if I could use this to write browser test cases.

New comment by leke in "New Modern Greek"

leke — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:59:06 +0000

Has nobody tried to create an alternative English spelling a bit like the Chinese have done with Pinyin. This would be more for the benefit of learners rather than trying to change Greek identity.

New comment by leke in "Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time"

leke — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:56:30 +0000

New comment by leke in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

leke — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:24:33 +0000

I'm so confused right now.

New comment by leke in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

leke — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:52:04 +0000

So this is a lighter weight alternative to other Linux desktops?

New comment by leke in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

leke — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:10:54 +0000

This is great news for my wife and my parents, but it would really be nice to have the choice when it comes to my phone's OS. Just like I had with Linux. I boggles my mind how the components in a phone are somehow different to the components in a PC in that they are unaccessible to people who write drivers for them.

New comment by leke in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

leke — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:29:35 +0000

I'm English and have been living in Finland for decades. This is a very Finnish thing in the workplace and I love it. Now and again we will get some new "foreign guy" and it reminds me that some cultures (not all) are following these over polite, social formatting rules. It's a bit annoying, but they eventually assimilate :P

New comment by leke in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

leke — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:43:10 +0000

Ruby and RoR is cool and all, but as these web apps got more and more complex, the need for static types became too important. What gave PHP it's edge was types and is the reason I'm still using it after nearly 20 years. PHP seems to implement those important things just in time. OOP, better OOP, types, speed boost, and next probably concurrency.

New comment by leke in "I put my whole life into a single database"

leke — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:44:18 +0000

I had an idea similar to this where you could add information about yourself and answer daily questions and get paid by companies who access this data. This could be an ethical way to share information benefitting all parties.

New comment by leke in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

leke — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:14:54 +0000

Looks like the Google news has peaked some interest. I'm currently waiting for my Xiaomi account to activate so I can unlock the bootloader and install Ubuntu touch on a Redmi 9.

New comment by leke in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

leke — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:22:36 +0000

i wonder if the solution is to just ask it to refactor its code once it's working.

New comment by leke in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

leke — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:18:47 +0000

Oh, is this the deal with GrapheneOS too? Damn, I was excited about the Moto GrapheneOS collaboration.

New comment by leke in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

leke — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:51:52 +0000

I would buy a cheap Moto with GOS in a heartbeat