Hacker News: paulcapewell

New comment by paulcapewell in "ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers"

paulcapewell — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:40:37 +0000

Literally "as seen on screen".

New comment by paulcapewell in "Pirating the Pirates"

paulcapewell — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:50:50 +0000

I wondered this and then checked and saw they're not on Mubi (at least in the UK - I hadn't realised until someone mentioned VPNs that Mubi might have different catalogues internationally, but of course they will...)

Just dropping my referral code in case anyone wants a Mubi trial btw: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/fpiivi3

Fabian's Arena

paulcapewell — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewculnane.co.uk/posts/fabians-arena

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673529

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Muninn: Web Statistics

paulcapewell — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:14:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.chrislewis.me.uk/?post=2026-04-06-Muninn-Web-Statistics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672548

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulcapewell in "During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website"

paulcapewell — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:34:20 +0000

oh my god.

Millions Ditch TV Licence as BBC Enforcement Struggles

paulcapewell — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/millions-ditch-tv-licence-bbc-enforcement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369620

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulcapewell in "Why English doesn't use accents"

paulcapewell — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:23:33 +0000

And as a British speaker of English it amuses me that we say "fillit" steak when Americans (afaik) correctly say "fillay". There are others, but I guess there are more 'correct' British English pronunciations of words with origins like this than there are American English.

New comment by paulcapewell in "Merlin Bird ID"

paulcapewell — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:09:38 +0000

This is exactly the metaphor I use for this app! It's great.

I've used Merlin for years and it works great most of the time. Agree with others that it's a great example of something we should all have on the tiny computers in our pockets.

Until this thread I didn't realise it did photo ID! I took a photo of a black redstart last year and at the time was able to identify it via photos uploaded to social media. But I just tried the app and it got it straight away. It also added it as a new 'lifer' because I hadn't previously logged it via audio ID. Cool!

Creating a static website for all my bookmarks

paulcapewell — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://alexwlchan.net/2025/bookmarks-static-site/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43960470

Points: 47

# Comments: 6

New comment by paulcapewell in "Obscure islands I find interesting"

paulcapewell — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:43:59 +0000

came here to say this. It's a wonderful book!

New comment by paulcapewell in "Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater"

paulcapewell — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:42:33 +0000

Yeah I own this watch and it is infuriatingly almost accurate for my location, but drifts over the course of the moon cycle. I now just use it as indicative but check other sources if I want the exact high and low tide times. It definitely helps solve the main thing I wanted it for though: glanceable sunrise/set, moon cycle and tide strength (as well as approximate highs and low tide).

The app is kind of clunky and I have had issues with the live GPS tracking of activities but as they're not the main reasons I got it, I don't mind too much.

New comment by paulcapewell in "Goodbye, Slopify"

paulcapewell — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:48:22 +0000

Possibly Jellyfin?

Eurosport is closing down in the UK – cycling will get more expensive to watch

paulcapewell — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/eurosport-is-closing-down-in-the-uk-cycling-is-about-to-get-a-lot-more-expensive-to-watch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852216

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulcapewell in "Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online"

paulcapewell — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:27:49 +0000

Just echoing other comments as the first post I saw was from someone who wanted a knife so they could "stab girls" while whispering in their ear that they are "getting their hormones". Wow.

New comment by paulcapewell in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

paulcapewell — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:25:54 +0000

Android's Digital Wellbeing also has an option for Bedtime Mode to enable greyscale mode (along with do not disturb etc.). I find that really useful and it also has a sort of snooze option in the notifications if you quickly need to disable it for a short period.

New comment by paulcapewell in "Mixxx: GPL DJ Software"

paulcapewell — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:45:10 +0000

Genuinely curious: when people submit URLs like this to HN - rather than say a specific link to an article or blog post - without comment or actually submitting responses to the conversation, are they just posting it to say 'hey, take a look at this if you haven't heard of it'? Or am I missing something? (Possibly their descriptive text to go with the URL isn't obvious/visible to me somehow?)

New comment by paulcapewell in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

paulcapewell — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:39:15 +0000

On Firefox v134 with British English dictionary, I pasted your wordlist into a text box and I get only the following marked as misspelled:

hominem, implementor, plough, passthrough, seatbelt, underspecified, untraceably, untyped

The rest are all fine. (Plough is especially weird!)

I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

paulcapewell — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/they-spy-on-you-but-not-like-that/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580659

Points: 210

# Comments: 343

Plans for your blog after you die

paulcapewell — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:29:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.avas.space/blog-after-death/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375875

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by paulcapewell in "OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

paulcapewell — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:57:40 +0000

Played TTD for hundreds of hours as a kid. The soundtrack and ambient sound effects are still so clear in my head - distant sounds of industry and vans and busses and trains just doing their thing. And then occasional updates popping up. It had a really nice flow to it. Very addictive. I'm fairly sure I spent at least one 'sick day' off school playing TTD instead.

I've tried OpenTTD and the touch versions but they didn't grab me the same way. Maybe just a different stage in life? I just try OpenTTD again though... Just to scratch that itch.