Hacker News: mrmanner

New comment by mrmanner in "iPhone Duo"

mrmanner — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:23:23 +0000

which they have to be anyway, to support normal iphones and maybe ipads and in many cases a cackle of Android phones too. (but I still think this is brilliant design)

New comment by mrmanner in "Zohran and the Short Link"

mrmanner — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:14:01 +0000

In this day and age it makes sense to amend Tim's statement to "canonical urls don't change". And cool web sites have a canonical URL for most pages.

That way we a) don't lose track of relevant content but b) can have nice things such as short URLs with good names.

New comment by mrmanner in "[dead]"

mrmanner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:35:20 +0000

Came here to say this. I've no idea what the app does, I presume that is because I'm old.

And that doesn't matter. It's cool to make apps in any case!

New comment by mrmanner in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

mrmanner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:10:37 +0000

Trains AND solar power. Awesome.

New comment by mrmanner in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

mrmanner — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:42:39 +0000

I had the same thought at first, but in context I think the quoted text refers to business relationships. Which makes all the difference.

New comment by mrmanner in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

mrmanner — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:10:27 +0000

I noticed how they've marked the features that only Chrome supports (e.g. installation) but not the feature that only Firefox supports (orientation).

(tbh I don't know if the list is simply Chrome-centric or if there's a good reason behind, but it struck me as interesting)

New comment by mrmanner in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

mrmanner — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:45:56 +0000

I mean technically a flash drive could be "a secure environment walled-off from the internet"

New comment by mrmanner in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"

mrmanner — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:55:08 +0000

Maybe I just haven’t discovered the track changes feature in word processors enough, but I find it lacking: no explicit grouping of changes (the git commit), no clear timeline of changes, no tagging / naming of versions etc.

Not saying that a line-by-line diff is that much better. Neither is great imo.

New comment by mrmanner in "Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks?"

mrmanner — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:41:50 +0000

> On the government endpoint, which returns X that the platform uses as "evidence" for you being an adult, yes, that's tied to your identity, as the certificate/whatever is tied to your identity.

In this scenario the government knows all the age-restricted sites I've visited. I'd argue that is worse than if all the age-restricted sites I've visited know who I am...

(FTR I don't know what I think about age restrictions in general, but I'm pretty sure there's no implementation that comes without negative side effects)

New comment by mrmanner in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

mrmanner — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:15:18 +0000

https://www.icehotel.com/ :D

New comment by mrmanner in "Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river"

mrmanner — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:20:35 +0000

> they do not prevent them falling into that river in the first place

The article explains pretty well how the devices prevent cows from falling into the river:

> Solar-powered GPS devices emit a high-pitched sound as the animal moves through a boundary zone towards the water, with a mild electric pulse delivered if it fails to turn around.

Leeks and Leaks

mrmanner — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/leeks-and-leaks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003447

Points: 123

# Comments: 17

New comment by mrmanner in "Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find"

mrmanner — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:15:34 +0000

The carbon dioxide is captured and stored, the actual carbon isn't returned to whatever form it was before burning. So theoretically it _can_ work (but, as it turns out, it still doesn't make sense).

New comment by mrmanner in "We're bringing Pebble back"

mrmanner — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:35:04 +0000

> As a more prolific blog writer at the time I also liked that their bot would include number of people who were subscribed to my blog in their User Agent.

Something I generally appreciate with Google: The level of craftsmanship and the amount of elegant designs like this they come up with. (There are also… other things, but their standards are high compared to many competitors.)

New comment by mrmanner in "AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint"

mrmanner — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:19:22 +0000

> yeah but we don't have time to analyse this for years and years while upping our power consumption

this is 100 % true. we also don’t have time to debate the morality and necessity of each specific activity for years. if AI energy use is indeed as small as some comments here suggest, ignoring it to focus on improving things like heating, cooling, and transportation could be a better course of action.

New comment by mrmanner in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

mrmanner — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:58:08 +0000

well except they allegedly asked said allegedly inexperienced developer to develop the thing for them, for free

New comment by mrmanner in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

mrmanner — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:52:16 +0000

> at the expense of the parent's other employees

rather at the expense of the business owners, which may well be the parent themselves? (ok fine the other employees could have equity in the business, but other than that)

New comment by mrmanner in "Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase"

mrmanner — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:45:22 +0000

Not related to Instant, but saw that the backend is available on their Github: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server

New comment by mrmanner in "This Message Does Not Exist"

mrmanner — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:27:05 +0000

Maybe pose it as a question to the user, rather than an error message: “This message has been deleted from the server. Do you want to:

- discard it permanently - store this version on the server - save as a file to your computer”

New comment by mrmanner in "This Message Does Not Exist"

mrmanner — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:37:33 +0000

It has ceased to be