Hacker News: mhovan

New comment by mhovan in "Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell"

mhovan — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:09:41 +0000

That was definitely hell on my LittleSnitch "protected" laptop. I was bombarded with outgoing network connections before I closed the browser tab. I must have approved/denied several hundred connections to different sites before abandoning the effort.

New comment by mhovan in "Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS"

mhovan — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:25:04 +0000

One Million Checkboxes seems like a candidate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Checkboxes

New comment by mhovan in "Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'"

mhovan — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 04:38:29 +0000

Especially if they open the draw bridge in front of you:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7m8dmkglxo

New comment by mhovan in "Dr. Dobb's Journal – Vol 1 (1976)"

mhovan — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:20:08 +0000

One little magazine that I discovered in its later years was Micro Cornucopia. Its articles were quirky dives into (what I thought at the time were) the coolest micro computer technical topics. I just saw that Walter Bright had a few articles published in there. I need to go dig out my old copies and give them a good perusal...

New comment by mhovan in "FedNow Is Live"

mhovan — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:38:42 +0000

CBDC is a new acronym for me... For others like me: CBDC == Central Bank Digital Currency

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

New comment by mhovan in "What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)"

mhovan — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:37:11 +0000

Reminds me of a silly skit one of my old coworkers did a while back (one of many):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_ynnZzJjg

New comment by mhovan in "Our Approach to Privacy"

mhovan — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:37:40 +0000

Not strictly true. I regularly test push notifications on sideloaded builds at client sites. Getting provisioning profiles and certificates setup correctly (especially on all extensions) is a bit cumbersome. To get those certificates may require an Apple enterprise developer account. And the builds signed this way are not debuggable.