Hacker News: shawkinaw

New comment by shawkinaw in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

shawkinaw — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:23:10 +0000

Could really use a good rollback mechanism, is there one in the works perchance? I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates, and rollback was a huge pain. I’ve now disabled cleanup so old versions of packages are kept, but there must be a better way.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Layoffs at Block"

shawkinaw — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:11:05 +0000

Exactly this. Seriously, look at a 10 year graph of SQ/XYZ. How a board of directors puts up with this is beyond me, seems like a massive governance failure.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that"

shawkinaw — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:40:41 +0000

I do love the random stream of pics at the end.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

shawkinaw — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:44:30 +0000

I appear to be in the minority here, but I really like Liquid Glass on iPhone, Apple Watch, and especially Apple TV. But I do hate it on the Mac, the window borders are so thick and rounded, I really can’t stand it.

Hadley Cell

shawkinaw — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235510

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shawkinaw in "An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur"

shawkinaw — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:47:09 +0000

Reading about the Azores high, Hadley cells, etc. on Wikipedia is incredibly illuminating. Hadley cells and related phenomena combined with the Coriolis effect explain a bunch of weather phenomena: trade winds and westerlies, the jet stream, hurricane formation, global rainfall patterns.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Why not Matrix (2023)"

shawkinaw — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:45:50 +0000

Yeah, I tried to read the post and was immediately put off by the lack of capitalization. Then I came to the comments and had to fight the urge to ask “why not capitals”

New comment by shawkinaw in "How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs"

shawkinaw — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:01:15 +0000

Meta, but I’m glad to see Eclectic Light getting some love on HN lately, it’s such a great resource for really in-depth articles on macOS internals (and art!)

New comment by shawkinaw in "An ultra-quiet electric leaf blower"

shawkinaw — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:21:51 +0000

Yeah. I mean, the headline is just straight up false:

> Whisper Aero unveils ultra-quiet electric leaf blower, powered by aerospace tech

New comment by shawkinaw in "Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones"

shawkinaw — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:57:28 +0000

Looks a lot like the app World Clock Pro I’ve used for a while: https://worldclock.pro/mobile/

New comment by shawkinaw in "Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant"

shawkinaw — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:28:08 +0000

What a bad headline. “Raises emission standards” sounds like a good thing, i.e. making the standard more strict, but actually the article is about Texas raising emission limits.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings"

shawkinaw — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:36:43 +0000

The goal was to stop Congress from certifying the vote. That’s not a protest, that’s sedition, plain and simple.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings"

shawkinaw — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:09:04 +0000

No, the tactic used in non-democratic societies is to take power by force, which is what was attempted on January 6.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Bye Bye Semantic Versioning, Say Hello to GitDate"

shawkinaw — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:52:57 +0000

Hard to take seriously when the cons list doesn’t even have “versions no longer indicate breaking changes”.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy"

shawkinaw — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:50:25 +0000

> It contends that there was collusion between Apple and Facebook to protect their abuses of dominance in the marketplace

s/Apple/Google/

New comment by shawkinaw in "Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (1997)"

shawkinaw — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:34:55 +0000

Besides Reader View as mentioned by others, you can increase the zoom of the page (accessible in the “aA” button to the left of the URL.) This particular site renders pretty well at 200% on my phone in portrait. The zoom is site-specific so it won’t screw up any other sites. It’s generally a good way to make desktop sites legible.

New comment by shawkinaw in "The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review"

shawkinaw — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 12:30:25 +0000

From watching the documentary linked in another comment, a big part of the JWST’s potential is its deep-infrared sensitivity, which in turn requires very cold temperatures and exquisite shielding, and why it will be literally 1 million miles from Earth. I don’t think you can fake that with computation.

TreasuryDirect.gov’s Password Input is a Virtual Keyboard

shawkinaw — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/davebwells/status/1400842947923480578

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394887

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shawkinaw in "Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5"

shawkinaw — Fri, 07 May 2021 14:46:21 +0000

If it’s on, apps still have to ask. Global opt-in is what it used to be.

New comment by shawkinaw in "Murex shell now supports mixing SQL and shell pipelines"

shawkinaw — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:22:20 +0000

Boy do I hate blog posts with no link to the page for the actual project. I’m tapping “Murex” in the banner, that should take me to the homepage so I can see what the heck it is!