Hacker News: megraf

New comment by megraf in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

megraf — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:29:38 +0000

You're right - I have to move them to Network Framework when I have time :)

New comment by megraf in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

megraf — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:03:36 +0000

Apple’s MultipeerConnectivity framework -- phones discover and talk over local wifi / bluetooth via MCSession, MCNearbyServiceAdvertiser, and MCNearbyServiceBrowser in PeerSessionManager.

New comment by megraf in "Ghidra by NSA"

megraf — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:52:24 +0000

How interesting.

Anyway, I would recommend YouTube. Find a series you can follow along. Best of luck!

Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?

megraf — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:39:54 +0000

Would it be beneficial for a platform to display the country of account origin on each user’s profile? I’m curious how the HN community thinks about this from angles like privacy, moderation, transparency, anti-abuse, and whether it meaningfully improves discussion quality. Are there strong reasons for or against showing this kind of metadata publicly?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045677

Points: 26

# Comments: 37

New comment by megraf in "China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world"

megraf — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:38:54 +0000

保管国家机密。你的社交信用评分下降了。

New comment by megraf in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

megraf — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:29:15 +0000

This is common at nightclubs (or was) - a DJ can use their headphones as a microphone, speaking into one channel and listening to another

Example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNP6AFkpjs

:-)

New comment by megraf in "Apple reportedly releasing 'total redesign' for MacBook Pro in 2026"

megraf — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:32:04 +0000

Bingo. It's a nice trick because you get the menu bar space back to.

Ask HN: How do you maintain your SDK's?]

megraf — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:04:20 +0000

At work we have several language specific SDK's which handle the basics. The SDK's use our publicly documented OAS files to get folks logged in, and give them enough to get started.

We have thousands of RESTful routes which often get updated (versioned), which has created a number of broken SDK's. How do you maintain your SDK's?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915000

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by megraf in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

megraf — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:45:02 +0000

Checkout woodgears.ca :-)

New comment by megraf in "McDonald's to extend $5 value meal in most markets as diners return"

megraf — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:01:13 +0000

I don't go to mc'ds very often and wasn't even aware of their coupons. Perhaps you're right

New comment by megraf in "Show HN: I've built a child monitoring app with mitmproxy and WireGuard"

megraf — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 02:14:40 +0000

You've created a monster. You're MITM'ing children. You're giving children's data to {whomever}.

You've cherry picked your own beliefs and inserted / removed them along the way.

This is disgusting

New comment by megraf in "Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language"

megraf — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:26:49 +0000

As a 30 something, I completely agree.

New comment by megraf in "Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition"

megraf — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:10:09 +0000

Of course they did. They have to pay separate licensing for the use of DAS – which is developed by M$ and resold from NYPD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System

New comment by megraf in "Pack: A new container format for compressed files"

megraf — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:58:32 +0000

Yes, it's horrendous - I thought I was intoxicated

New comment by megraf in "MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make"

megraf — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:00:04 +0000

Can't you run UTM (QEMU) on these devices? You should be able to run anything you want

New comment by megraf in "The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert"

megraf — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:19:08 +0000

I would say Rails is still in its Heyday. I've been writing ruby since 1.8.7 and I'm constantly surprised by the frequency of major releases of rails, and the backward compatibility (Rails 3 -> 5 was hard). I completely agree about the discipline required to keep a large project clean, although I find that true across the board with large codebases.

New comment by megraf in "Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?"

megraf — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:25:26 +0000

Network hobbyist here: an excellent home project is to setup your own PBX. Complete with VLAN's, and backups running on your favorite HV. Most importantly, use hard phones with SCCP.

It's a challenge of itself, and will force you to demonstrate your understanding

New comment by megraf in "AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro"

megraf — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:12:47 +0000

Likely edible as well

New comment by megraf in "The story of titanium"

megraf — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:51:05 +0000

Resting next to me is a titanium ring, it is extremely light, resistant to ambient temp change, and is usually cool to the touch. It cost $15 or so. It wears in a really beautiful way, aging like it's enjoying itself.

On my finger is a tungsten carbide ring, it's extremely dense (that of gold, slightly heavier than uranium), and has a lot of interesting properties. It's warmed quickly by my fingers, and rings the most beautiful tone when I strike it with some bar stock of AI.

Wolfram has been a very nice metal in my life, I wish it was more common, and would love to try to add some knurling to it.

New comment by megraf in "First Apple M3 Pro Benchmarks Show Surprisingly Low Multi-Core Gains over M2 Pro"

megraf — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:23:56 +0000

I have a work issued M1 Max, which has an incredible amount of computational power.

I wanted a personal computer, and purchased an identical machine, M1 Max, 64Gig, whatever. I realized 4 days later that it wasn't possible for me to push my personal machine anywhere near this machines limits. I returned it, and bought an extremely cheap ($240?) MacBook Pro, i5 - 2017.

It hasn't slowed me down, and my strategy is to use macOS and not sign in with my Apple ID. No Mac App Store, iCloud, etc. I use App tamer and little snitch to eke out any performance gains possible... it's an excellent machine, and I'm so happy with it.

I want to thank Apple for introducing this express route in the rat race, which has lead to an extremely friendly second market of intel, and 1st generation M's.

I implore you to ask yourself if you really need the next generation, or even the previous one before purchasing