Hacker News: mahmoudhossam

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

mahmoudhossam — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:39:37 +0000

No.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem"

mahmoudhossam — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:33:05 +0000

It's not a demand problem, it's a pricing problem.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

mahmoudhossam — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:48:57 +0000

Ah yes, the only country that matters /s

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times"

mahmoudhossam — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:52:26 +0000

So the limit is 1.9k times? /s

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

mahmoudhossam — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:53:21 +0000

Hevy existed before gen AI took the world by storm and it's still being actively maintained, highly recommend checking it out. It even lets you import your workouts from Strong.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Reddit Age Verification in Europe"

mahmoudhossam — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:23:41 +0000

Somehow I only get nagged about this on iOS, whereas on desktop I never even got a notification.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

mahmoudhossam — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:57:28 +0000

Only for their old "Art" lenses, the modern "Contemporary" lenses can leverage the camera body update mechanism and only need a file on the SD card containing the firmware update.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement"

mahmoudhossam — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:28:53 +0000

Allegedly?

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

mahmoudhossam — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:00:59 +0000

Alexa, insert David and Victoria Beckham "be honest" meme

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years"

mahmoudhossam — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:24:03 +0000

There is also navidrome https://navidrome.org

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

mahmoudhossam — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:16:13 +0000

Yes, but not every artist is on there. I do use it if the artist has one but that's rare.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

mahmoudhossam — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:59:59 +0000

Qobuz and 7digital both have extensive libraries of high quality music.

Edit: and of course bandcamp exists but I wouldn't call their collection extensive.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification"

mahmoudhossam — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:37:25 +0000

Friendly reminder that the UK left the EU over "sovereignty concerns" among other reasons.

The EU is the one with actual privacy regulations, for now at least.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "BYD Pulls Ahead of Tesla in UK, Closes Sales Gap in Germany"

mahmoudhossam — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:18:46 +0000

Care to expand on why VW and Stellantis are going to dominate the EV market?

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Show HN: Django Keel – 10 Years of Django Best Practices in One Template"

mahmoudhossam — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:05:28 +0000

Cruft solves exactly this problem https://cruft.github.io/cruft/

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

mahmoudhossam — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:53:30 +0000

HSBC used to distribute hardware keys to its retail customers just a few years ago

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

mahmoudhossam — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:11:50 +0000

It's because the consumption side has completely changed. Most people now don't even own a PC so they're not likely to even notice this problem.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"

mahmoudhossam — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:14:50 +0000

I am in the EU and I still get the nag screen sometimes, it's awful.

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Why I'm skeptical of Ground News"

mahmoudhossam — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:13:02 +0000

There's also ExpressVPN

New comment by mahmoudhossam in "Buttplug MCP"

mahmoudhossam — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:49:23 +0000

God forbid programmers have fun