Hacker News: nreilly

New comment by nreilly in "Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker"

nreilly — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:53:19 +0000

Would be good if you can set a hemisphere (I assume nuptial flights are different in northern vs southern hemisphere. Adding more ant species would be helpful too. Camponotus consobrinus, iridomyrmex purpureus and aphaenogaster longiceps are pretty common in Australia.

Why Hyundai Has to Recall Only Silver Cars over a Serious Safety Defect

nreilly — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theautopian.com/why-hyundai-has-to-recall-only-silver-cars-over-a-serious-safety-defect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197112

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by nreilly in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

nreilly — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:57:48 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Border Is a pretty famous cricketer.

New comment by nreilly in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

nreilly — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:13 +0000

This has a pretty good view of the aurora now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfF9bhaBuvw

New comment by nreilly in "Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)"

nreilly — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:37:09 +0000

Maybe we should move to something like termcap for browsers? /s

Most Kea Hooks Open-Sourced

nreilly — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.isc.org/blogs/kea-hooks-opensourced/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nreilly in "Dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History"

nreilly — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:42:31 +0000

Something similar, but entirely on (iOS) device, and focused on tracking activities based on location (hours at work, shopping, travelling, etc): https://apps.apple.com/au/app/life-cycle-track-your-time/id1... (No affiliation, just a user)

New comment by nreilly in "Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City"

nreilly — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:03:27 +0000

Thank you for glider!

Equinix Exposed: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay

nreilly — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://hindenburgresearch.com/equinix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39765650

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by nreilly in "Features lost across versions of macOS"

nreilly — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:40:44 +0000

It seems to still be there?

System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Text

Text Size and Menu Bar Size may allow you to do this adjustment?

Simple monitoring system with a single configuration file

nreilly — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:39:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/berthubert/simplomon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675251

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Vmdiff: Diff and display virtual machine snapshots

nreilly — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:30:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vmdiff/vmdiff-prototype

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35465373

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nreilly in "Wavelength"

nreilly — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:22:00 +0000

Worked. Thanks!

New comment by nreilly in "Wavelength"

nreilly — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:08:09 +0000

Me too for no code in Australia

Unlock the Power of Australian Suburb Data with the Microburbs API

nreilly — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microburbs.com.au/blog/unlock-the-power-of-australian-suburb-data-with-the-microburbs-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35053091

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Libcpucycles

nreilly — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://cpucycles.cr.yp.to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258280

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Working copy creates festive activity for GitHub

nreilly — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:04:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/workingcopyapp/status/1601598866775687169

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33938005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nreilly in "Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points"

nreilly — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:33:01 +0000

If the in-app purchase to remove ads is shareable across the family, then that’s fine. If not, I’d prefer to just buy the app and have it share across my kids iPads instead.

New comment by nreilly in "FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi"

nreilly — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:33:46 +0000

FreeBSD update does work fine. This started with aarch64 being promoted to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD-13.

New comment by nreilly in "Ask HN: If I enter account or order in a phone tree, why am I asked again?"

nreilly — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:40:24 +0000

You may also find agents don't trust the supplied information, even if they have access to it.