<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: melito</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=melito</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:02:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=melito" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks cool.  I vibe coded this a while back to share some org docs on the web <a href="https://orgmode.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://orgmode.dev/</a> - its currently a mess, but it does mostly work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911951</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>be cool in real life.  the web is toxic can life can suck.  mass media just amplifies it and can make it more annoying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:47:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207952</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Safari doesn't support DASH and probably will not.<p>Chrome does not support HLS.<p>DASH isn't plug and play.  It's an XML representation describing how to ingest media streams using something like Media Source Extensions.<p>There are a lot of players out there that will do this heavy lifting for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050611</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also chiming in with a project I've put together in Swift<p><a href="https://www.github.com/krad/morsel" rel="nofollow">https://www.github.com/krad/morsel</a>
<a href="https://www.github.com/krad/plainview" rel="nofollow">https://www.github.com/krad/plainview</a>
<a href="https://www.github.com/krad/pupil" rel="nofollow">https://www.github.com/krad/pupil</a><p>morsel ingests h264 & aac and produces fragmented mp4 files & playlists.
plainview reads the playlists and uses MSE in the browser to play them via the web
pupil is a WIP server that reads h264 & aac over TCP and passes that data to morsel, then uploads to any s3 compatible storage (AWS, Minio, etc)<p>The swift stuff works on Linux, iOS, tvOS, etc<p>edit:<p>There's also a WIP project called "kubrick" <a href="https://github.com/krad/kubrick" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/krad/kubrick</a><p>It's a simple POP wrapper around AVFoundation that allows for building media processing pipelines.<p>There's an example in the project for reading video samples and passing them through a series of Metal shaders to produce fun effects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 20:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050474</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In iOS you can specify that files in an app's sandbox are "encrypted" when the device is locked.<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010672-CH2-SW21" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileMa...</a> (See "Files Can Be Encrypted On Disk")<p>Implementing the feature is pretty trivial and works on a file by file basis<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/StrategiesforImplementingYourApp/StrategiesforImplementingYourApp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007072-CH5-SW21" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone...</a> (See "Protecting Data Using On-Disk Encryption")<p>More details about the options here:
<a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSData_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/c/econst/NSDataWritingFileProtectionComplete" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...</a><p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSFileManager_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/c/data/NSFileProtectionComplete" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:13:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128406</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "SkySafe – tech to take over badly behaved drones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Giving people a button that would make a drone fall out of the sky sounds like something that would need more regulation than the drones themselves</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461159</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Chris Lattner on Swift"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No different from learning a human language I think.<p>The first thing you're exposed to is its sounds and symbols.<p>They look & sound strange and your brain instinctively tries to make sense of them by comparing it to something you are already familiar with.<p>Then when you dig into it you begin learning vocabulary and grammar.  You focus on that for a long time until the sounds sound less like gibberish and resemble something like what you've been practicing putting on paper.<p>Once you get comfortable with the constructs and stop focusing on them you can start conversing - putting more effort into what you're trying to say then how you would go about saying it.<p>After that then you can start picking up all the idioms, colloquialisms, cliches, double entendres, etc<p>Finally you can start inventing your own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842891</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Chris Lattner on Swift"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's because Swift is so new only a small percentage of people have actually looked at the language spec.<p>First thing I thought of when I saw all the func calls, curly braces and beaks (->) was "this looks like in between Lua and Go"<p>After starting to dig into the book, it's pretty apparent that isn't the case</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842544</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Don't Fly During Ramadan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aditya, if you're reading this: the next time a TSA agent threatens to call the cops, let them.  If you hadn't made any outbursts, you haven't broken any laws.<p>Plus they'd be calling REAL cops.  Ones that have to enforce and abide by real laws or actually face consequences.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://www.tofugu.com/2013/07/22/why-japanese-toilets-are-failing-in-america">http://www.tofugu.com/2013/07/22/why-japanese-toilets-are-failing-in-america</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088985">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088985</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:16:45 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2013/07/22/why-japanese-toilets-are-failing-in-america</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "Stephen Watt discusses how he spent 2 years in prison for writing software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry about that.<p>I was able to see it and assumed everyone else would be able to as well<p><a href="http://infiltratecon.com/watt.html" rel="nofollow">http://infiltratecon.com/watt.html</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://player.vimeo.com/video/66742369">http://player.vimeo.com/video/66742369</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988983">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988983</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/">http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988184">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988184</a></p>
<p>Points: 267</p>
<p># Comments: 110</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "NSLogger – a flexible logging tool for OS X and iOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have used this in combination with CocoaLumberjack on a good number of projects and it has come in VERY handy.  Highly recommended.<p>Not too difficult to get it wired up with papertrailapp.com either - That combo makes it VERY handy</p>
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<p>As much this reads as FUD, I agree.<p>That's what I was getting at with my "Breaking Bad" comment.<p>A sort of "total depravity" is already a big part of pop culture, so it'd be easy to ignore false positives of people crying wolf.<p>What I was getting at is that what they're looking for is kind of a big unknown.  If media about illegal things is so popular and they ignore it, it leads one to think that data being mined is possibly being used in a fashion similar to a personal agenda.<p>That's what's truly dangerous about monitoring at this scale.  It's not so much that it's happening it's that they're creating something that could grant someone almost god like powers.<p>If I were to make an analogy, I'd say it's like a man buying a pistol to protect his family and then his child finds it loaded in a night stand.</p>
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<p>I think there are already a couple products like that....in fact I have a few in my house.<p>I call them my cable modem and tivo</p>
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<p>It's easy to opine about things like educating the public or engineering 'crypto' for the common man.<p>In my opinion that would be an exercise in futility.<p>I think a proper response to this issue is to simply promote social depravity on a grand scale.<p>Everybody should just constantly read/watch/listen to media involving things like methamphetamine manufacturing, nuclear & home made weapons/chemicals, illegal currencies, human trafficking, hardcore pornography, armed rebellions, the middle east, famous terrorists, serial killers, bon jovi, etc<p>All of those are a lot more interesting to the common man than lessons on how to use PGP....which is theoretically breakable thanks to the advent of quantum computing.<p>If everything is being sniffed and stored, there have to be a number of very specific topics that are being sought after in that data.....in my opinion it'd be far worse if  the government wasn't searching for things like human trafficking and nuclear weapons (things, hopefully, we can all agree are not good).<p>Television series like "Breaking Bad" are already pulling weekly audience number of around 3 million plus.  One could argue that you wouldn't even have to do much promotion, as these topics already seem to be mainstays in much present day pop culture</p>
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<p>I don't believe he's in the states</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2172811</link><dc:creator>melito</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2172811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2172811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by melito in "VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have a part in authoring VLC, correct?<p>You did not have a hand in authoring the iPad app, correct?<p>You submitted a claim to Apple about clauses in the GPL not being compatible with the App Store's distribution model, correct?<p>In my original statement, I don't think I made any point that could be considered "wrong".  I stated one fact (a 3rd party developed the app) followed by my opinion.  I'm sorry you don't think my opinion is 'correct', but that doesn't mean I'm going to bet against the proliferation of GPL'd software because of these actions.</p>
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<p>The VLC iOS app was developed by a company in France named Applidium, not the core VLC dev team.  Applidium develops iOS apps.<p>So no.  This does not mean there will be more focus on VLC for Android.<p>If anything I think this is a bad thing for all software currently using the GPL.<p>I understand the claim and ultimately it's the author's decision, but I feel that using the GPL in this fashion is ironic at best and hypocritical at worst.</p>
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