Hacker News: nicky0

New comment by nicky0 in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

nicky0 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:30:58 +0000

I consider it a subscription because it is collected directly by the BBC and spent by the BBC.

Taxes, on the other hand, are collected by the government.

New comment by nicky0 in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

nicky0 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:53:08 +0000

For me it’s groups. Several IRL groups I’m part of (sports/recreation/hobby based) use FB for coordination.

New comment by nicky0 in "The billionaire developer closing London's pubs"

nicky0 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:53:56 +0000

What a strange thing for your friend to say.

New comment by nicky0 in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

nicky0 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:09:25 +0000

You're being intentionally dense. No, people don't accidentally post pictures but they often do post them with the intention of showing a certain thing, e.g. profile picture, something for sale, something related to hobbies, household repairs, whatever. All of thse are posted with intent to include a certain object but may include background info that the poster did not consider.

New comment by nicky0 in "MacBook Air M4"

nicky0 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:25:39 +0000

As a developer, I say Air all the way.

Never noticed any thermal issues at all. It barely gets warm for me.

Make sure to get at least 16GB RAM.

New comment by nicky0 in "SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale"

nicky0 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:07:31 +0000

I think of SQLite on the server as something that you would use when running in a traditional server (VPS or dedicated host) setup rather than an orchestrated, container-based one.

New comment by nicky0 in "Why writing small docs is a game changer"

nicky0 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:03:22 +0000

You say CDN but you're really talking about static web servers in general.

New comment by nicky0 in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

nicky0 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:51:56 +0000

> [Expose] has completely lost any spatial determinism

Could you elaborate on that?

New comment by nicky0 in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

nicky0 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:50:25 +0000

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/

New comment by nicky0 in "Starship Flight 7"

nicky0 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:43:45 +0000

Test code by running it.

Test a rocket by launching it.

New comment by nicky0 in "Starship Flight 7"

nicky0 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:40:17 +0000

> To date, no Starship has been recovered after flight.

This is irrelevant, as none of the flights included any plans to recover the Starship. The objective for each flight has been to dump the vehicle in the sea at the target zone.

New comment by nicky0 in "Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 (video)"

nicky0 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:05:11 +0000

Intermittent fasting?

New comment by nicky0 in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

nicky0 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:02:14 +0000

APIs are not scraped. Web sites are scraped. APIs are simply used.

New comment by nicky0 in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

nicky0 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:56:24 +0000

I hear what you are saying but that's kind of an established-music-industry centric view. There are all kinds of musicians, not just "recording artists" in the 20th century industry mold.

New comment by nicky0 in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

nicky0 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:26:38 +0000

What makes an artist "legitimate"?

New comment by nicky0 in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

nicky0 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:19:13 +0000

I like how you called it ChilledCow to show how OG you are.

New comment by nicky0 in "This website is hosted on Bluesky"

nicky0 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:48:49 +0000

The link in question (linked from the the sumbitted link) is `porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network`. That's hosted by bsky, isn't it?

New comment by nicky0 in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

nicky0 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:14:24 +0000

Government cannot take money from a crypto wallet because of cryptography. They could only do it if they compelled you to hand over your secret keys against your will. They also may not even know you have a crypto wallet since it is not registered in your name and is very easy to hide.

On the other hand, government can sieze funds from your bank account by seeking a court order or whatever legal instrument is needed in your jurisdiction.

New comment by nicky0 in "macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner"

nicky0 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:50:48 +0000

If Apple wanted to implement a simlar feature, they would just do it. They wouldn't buy a 3rd party app when they could just do it themselves.

The value proposition of these kind of third party UI apps is that the developer cleverly figured out how to manipulate Apple's APIs to do something Apple didn't really intend. Apple themselves can just write their own private API to do it, they don't need the clever hacks.

New comment by nicky0 in "Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?"

nicky0 — Mon, 06 May 2024 18:01:41 +0000

I use Uptime Robot for this: https://uptimerobot.com/

I just configure it to access some endpoint on the API server. It checks it every minute and if it fails (non 200) it pings me.

You can also set it up in more complex ways but this is easy.