Hacker News: ourcat

New comment by ourcat in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

ourcat — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:04:00 +0000

Claude is in the contributor list on the repo.

New comment by ourcat in "Flipper One – we need your help"

ourcat — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Actually, after closer inspection of the screen on the third image of the device in the article, there does appear to be a Bluetooth icon.

Confirmed in the Dev Portal. https://docs.flipper.net/one/hardware/wifi-bluetooth

New comment by ourcat in "Flipper One – we need your help"

ourcat — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:06:19 +0000

The 'Layers' comparison image suggests that there would be no Bluetooth in the Flipper One. I would have thought that would still be very useful in 'Layer One'?

New comment by ourcat in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

ourcat — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:21:01 +0000

Genius. And also terrifying.

New comment by ourcat in "When Cats Came to My California Prison"

ourcat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:58:08 +0000

I call it "furapy".

New comment by ourcat in "Show HN: heyyy.chat – WebRTC-based Omegle-clone, Video Chat with Random People"

ourcat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:51:17 +0000

Nicely done. I started a simple idea/project based on PeerJs (with self-hosted CoTURN) to make a little private 'zoom-like' chat.

I'd been considering doing an Omegle clone too, but have been side-tracked.

I also might take a look at the p2p file transfer ability WebRTC has for some other ideas.

New comment by ourcat in "Building a Custom 2G GSM Cellular Base Station [video]"

ourcat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:02:19 +0000

In the video he says the Full-Duplex SDR (Nuand bladeRF X40) hardware can be quite expensive. But he found one on ebay for $270.

Building a Custom 2G GSM Cellular Base Station [video]

ourcat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWvA4Ty1Wk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462664

Points: 2

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New comment by ourcat in "Matt's Script Archive (1995)"

ourcat — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:32:21 +0000

Ahhh, WWWBoard. Those were the days!

New comment by ourcat in "Threads.net is the new app.net but with ads and interoperable"

ourcat — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:14:49 +0000

app.net was great for developers. We made money each month based on user feedback. It was worth the higher membership fee to access all that too.

Sadly, and despite the way it was originally funded (by the users), I believe they took some VC funding, which ultimately killed the platform since it wasn't getting the growth that the investors wanted.

Actually, if Elon wants 'X' to become an 'everything app', one way which that could be done is through opening up to more app devs to build their own apps on the platform, as it used to be. Sadly, I don't think they've got the will or the manpower to do that these days.

New comment by ourcat in "Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD"

ourcat — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:28:35 +0000

I assume this is to cover any losses from them soon making it possible to use the Quest without a Facebook account? ie: The data they will not be able to sell.

New comment by ourcat in "Asking for a date of birth (2013)"

ourcat — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:01:32 +0000

The cross-browser support and standardisation for `input=date` (and `input=datetime`) has been notoriously poor for years. It's still only listed as 'partially' supported on some browsers on caniuse.

That's why so many people roll their own.

New comment by ourcat in "Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing"

ourcat — Sat, 14 May 2022 10:22:02 +0000

That's not a million miles away from how Second Life operated (and still does). Where the 'Land' & 'Estates' (and parcels within them) were servers. Each has their own limitations to how many user avatars they can support at one time.

People flock to places they identity with. Buy parcels. Build their own space and communities within communities.

As far as 'voting' and governance goes, I think there's room for development with blockchain login/identity/ownership and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) which support that.

New comment by ourcat in "GraphQL Is a Trap?"

ourcat — Fri, 06 May 2022 17:12:41 +0000

For querying and subscribing to events for defi, using the Uniswap and ETH Subgraphs, it's great for building 'web3' apps.

New comment by ourcat in "Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation"

ourcat — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:54:52 +0000

Nice. But I searched for 'Aluminium'. It gave me results for 'Aluminum' (American English).

New comment by ourcat in "Massive Shibu Inu YouTube LiveStream Scam Network, $320k Stolen"

ourcat — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:20:18 +0000

I must report about 10-15 of these every week to YouTube. Recently, it's been Shiba Inu due to the pump it's been getting.

Most of the scam live streams I've seen and reported are channels which appear to have been 'taken over'/'hacked' and their content changed or deleted to then kick off a 'giveaway' stream which are all scams.

They all have the same basic layout on screen, so really YouTube's bots should do a better job of detecting them. YouTube are literally recommending content which perpetrates fraud, at this point.

New comment by ourcat in "RSS is wonderful"

ourcat — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:06:36 +0000

OPML is the tree. RSS are the vines. Items (articles, podcasts etc.) are the fruit.

And with OPML's ability of 'inclusion' (to any remote tree or branch), it makes creation, curation and 'harvesting' the fruit, a joy.

New comment by ourcat in "Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?"

ourcat — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:14:41 +0000

That's more or less what Shakespeare did 500 years ago. ;)

New comment by ourcat in "Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon"

ourcat — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:59:33 +0000

Out of interest, what's to stop them publishing some 'version' of the modified code, but actually running a different version on their servers? Would that be easy to detect?

New comment by ourcat in "Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro"

ourcat — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:53:32 +0000

Oh! Ha! I did not notice that! I thought something seemed weird though. ;)