Hacker News: oreilles

New comment by oreilles in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

oreilles — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:47:12 +0000

Or planes.

New comment by oreilles in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

oreilles — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:06:46 +0000

Nope, they don't sign iOS 18 updates anymore.

New comment by oreilles in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

oreilles — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:03:55 +0000

When your trackpad worked in a previous OS version and suddenly don't in the newest, that's called a software bug. Not a trackpad malfunction.

New comment by oreilles in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

oreilles — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:41:46 +0000

One's expectations aren't in any way relevant in considering wether something is an asshole move or not.

New comment by oreilles in "Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle"

oreilles — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:13:30 +0000

Clicking the leftmost menu icon raise the following error:

    Geneguessr encountered a problem:
    runtime-error
    SyntaxError: redeclaration of const NAVIGATION_START

New comment by oreilles in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

oreilles — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:07:18 +0000

I would have went for Catalina.

New comment by oreilles in "Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file"

oreilles — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:54:05 +0000

HTTP auth is not an authentication system, it only describes how credentials should be passed from the client to the server and how the server should respond to them.

New comment by oreilles in "The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know"

oreilles — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:46:57 +0000

Webhooks would be much closer to a sane solution to this use case. Why would you spam a web server asking repeatedly wether something has happened or not, instead of just providing him with an adress so that he can simply let you know in due time ?

New comment by oreilles in "I Saved a PNG Image to a Bird [video]"

oreilles — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:46:56 +0000

This will make IP over Avian Carriers so much more efficient.

New comment by oreilles in "When we get Komooted"

oreilles — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:20:28 +0000

This article is about people who liked their company and their job and lost it all. It's something to lack empathy, but I'm always amazed that there are people so full of themselves that they will go out there and proclaim that they don't give a shit about other people's fate, as if it was something to be proud about.

New comment by oreilles in "What went wrong for Yahoo"

oreilles — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:44:47 +0000

I just tried, pinging Yahoo is about 20 times slower than pinging Google...

New comment by oreilles in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

oreilles — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:15:13 +0000

> It's set to 0 or 1 to enable/disable (can never remember which mapa to which)

That's crazy. Boolean logic is the most fundamental notion of computer science, I can still remember learning that in my very first course on my very first year.

New comment by oreilles in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

oreilles — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:58:30 +0000

Even if was a small % of the Apple lineup, the iPhone mini was one the best selling smartphones all brands considered. I for one switched to iPhone in 2020 specifically because there wasn't a single current-gen small form-factor Android phone anymore. I have a few friend that also made the switch with the 12 / 13 Mini for that reason.

The real reason the iPhone mini failed is not related to screen size, it's because its segment was canibalized by the cheaper alternative, the SE. The 2020 and 2022 sold like hot breads, wherehas their screen was almost an inch smaller than the iPhone mini. This is the proof that there a significant market for people who don't care about size and would gladly take the smallest option at a $100 discount from the regular one.

New comment by oreilles in "Overthinking GIS (2024)"

oreilles — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:00:33 +0000

The USGS provides exactly what the author was looking for, free of charges, no computation required, no download required:

https://elevation.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/3DEPElevat...

Preview in QGIS: https://ibb.co/B5T49YBj

New comment by oreilles in "I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets"

oreilles — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:51:41 +0000

> Just scratch the commit from existence.

Unfortunately, that is impossible: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-a...

New comment by oreilles in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

oreilles — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:32:00 +0000

> The poorest American state, Mississippi, is richer per-capita than most European countries, including France.

The state, maybe. The missisipian, not so much - considering their Human Development Index is right in between that of Hungary and Bulgaria, at the very bottom of the EU. How great is it to be able to buy expansive cars if you can't get access to education, healthcare, retirement, and will find yourself in the street if you lose your job.

New comment by oreilles in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

oreilles — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:19:03 +0000

Well that's an indsight bias if I've seen one. This is the first time I ever read that the "bottom" of a black hole could be a entirely new universe. If there ever "always was" a common hypothesis, it was the wormhole.

New comment by oreilles in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

oreilles — Sun, 04 May 2025 11:34:13 +0000

Chiming in to promote a similar project, a geospatial extension for Polars [1] I'm working on. It's not stable yet (abeit pretty close to), but is already pretty feature complete (it uses GEOS and PROJ as a backend, so has parity with GeoPandas).

[1] https://github.com/oreilles/polars-st/

New comment by oreilles in "Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement"

oreilles — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:40:37 +0000

Chesss960 doesn't have "slightly different rules" than chess, it's a variant where all the pieces are randomnly positioned at the start of each match... It's basically playing a completely different game, and one the FIDE has absolutely zero interest in. Freestyle and FIDE organization are not in competition.

New comment by oreilles in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

oreilles — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:26:27 +0000

The discussion is not wether Spotify will benefit from this situation in the long run or not, it's wether the users of the platform (both the listeners and the artists) should be happy with it and the answer to that is, thanks this lengthy article, demonstrably no.