Hacker News: sammularczyk

New comment by sammularczyk in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

sammularczyk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:51:01 +0000

The background music is ripped from the PS5 home menu too.

New comment by sammularczyk in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

sammularczyk — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:27:25 +0000

The banks will be fine. Australia implemented a similar system a while back (NPP/Osko) which is a standard adopted by 100+ banks. It was designed as a replacement for standard bank transfers which usually took a couple of days.

Now, even transfers in the tens of thousands move instantly. This was also a response to apps like Venmo potentially entering the market - now you can just pay to a phone number or email, as long as it’s been explicitly linked to a bank account. This is by far the preferred way to send money here and third party apps are not common.

They’ve also now introduced PayTo which manages debits and payments online with no fee. You simply approve the transaction in your bank’s app.

Australia also has widespread Visa and Mastercard use, but Eftpos has always existed - which is a fee free alternative around since the 1980s. It supports contactless, but that isn’t widespread due to weak international support and can only be used with debit cards.

The downside is that new features need to be implemented by each bank app, but it’s been interesting to see some of the smaller credit unions collaborating for example.

New comment by sammularczyk in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

sammularczyk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:17:01 +0000

There's another Vimeo alternative at https://framerate.tv - not sure which came first!

New comment by sammularczyk in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

sammularczyk — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:10:51 +0000

If you have a Kobo, it has built in Pocket integration and sync out of the box

New comment by sammularczyk in "Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)"

sammularczyk — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:14:25 +0000

I find the design of Chrome to be nicer in general. Feels like there's less going on.

New comment by sammularczyk in "San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite"

sammularczyk — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:47:57 +0000

I just installed it on my Air, and it seems a lot smoother than Helvetica ever was. YMMV though

New comment by sammularczyk in "San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite"

sammularczyk — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:46:47 +0000

At first glance, they look very similar. However, in use there's a big difference between the two.

San Francisco is squarer which makes its x-height seem higher. The minor variations in lettering make a massive difference when used in application.

100% not a knockoff of Roboto. They're really, really different.

New comment by sammularczyk in "200,000 private Snapchat images astray"

sammularczyk — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:13:14 +0000

Agreed. I'd also be very surprised if Snapsave was routing user traffic through their servers. Apps like 6snap connect directly to Snapchat and everything works fine... so storing images on their own servers shouldn't be necessary.

New comment by sammularczyk in "Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores"

sammularczyk — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:50:55 +0000

Updated the site a couple of hours ago with Ubuntu instructions, thanks to our German translator

New comment by sammularczyk in "Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores"

sammularczyk — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:39:58 +0000

Yeah, would have loved to have something for all platforms... Haven't used Linux in a long time so I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with it all. Did try to do some research but couldn't find a solution that would cover all distros.

Next year, with more time, I'll try and add something there!

New comment by sammularczyk in "Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores"

sammularczyk — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:42:20 +0000

Hm, really? No such issues here. Could it the transform-3D SVG animation on page load?

New comment by sammularczyk in "Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores"

sammularczyk — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:41:21 +0000

Check the site. No sponsors/offers this year and we've taken steps to avoid what happened last time - our brand/logo is released under a loose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, and the content on the site is pretty much all Creative Commons.

We've got the Attribution/NonCommercial stuff in the logo license to protect against sites implying that we approve of what they're selling. We just want businesses using the logo FOR PROFIT to state that we don't endorse or promote their product. Everything else is free reign!

We definitely never intended to trademark/restrict the use of the term. We just got a bit over-enthusiastic with the legal side of things - now we're trying to put trust in the community instead (which, admittedly, should have happened in the first place).

If none of this makes sense, I'd be happy to explain it further

Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

sammularczyk — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:58:32 +0000

Article URL: http://worldbackupday.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500527

Points: 108

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New comment by sammularczyk in "The Day We Fought Back: By The Numbers"

sammularczyk — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 01:24:50 +0000

My bad. Should've picked that up, all fixed now

Show HN: Custom "upgrade your browser" page with recommendations & more

sammularczyk — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:42:55 +0000

Article URL: http://yourbrowser.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546067

Points: 2

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