Hacker News: slivanes

New comment by slivanes in "Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack"

slivanes — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:51:50 +0000

I’m all for companies to not ignore their responsibility for data management, but I’m concerned that type of punishment could be used as a weapon against competitors. I can imagine that certain classes of useful companies would just not be able to exist. Tricky balance to make companies actually care without crippling insurance.

New comment by slivanes in "Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics"

slivanes — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:40:57 +0000

I’d bet they would if they were offered a nearly 30% price reduction.

New comment by slivanes in "The Llama 4 herd"

slivanes — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:13:58 +0000

What one believes vs. what is actually correct can be very different.

It’s very similar to what one feels vs. reality.

New comment by slivanes in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

slivanes — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:06:37 +0000

I think in this context it's that your database server is lost if you accidentally forget to write KEEP DATABASE.

New comment by slivanes in "The history of the barcode"

slivanes — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:16:30 +0000

I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I was told the guide bars on every code (each end, plus middle) is the code for digit 6, so 666 on every one. Something about the mark of the beast on every person. People can find something coincidental when they want I suppose.

New comment by slivanes in "TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them"

slivanes — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:38:20 +0000

A feature of a Sqid library I've used is that it can pad the value out to a minimum set of characters, so even an internal id of 1 can look substantial.

https://github.com/sqids/sqids-php

New comment by slivanes in "macOS in QEMU in Docker"

slivanes — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:20:32 +0000

According to the readme on github, yes, although it takes about an extra 30GB of drive space.

New comment by slivanes in "macOS in QEMU in Docker"

slivanes — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:07:31 +0000

I wonder if progress will halt once newer versions of MacOS without Intel support are released?

Can I run docker inside this container to get MacOS to run inside MacOS? ;)

New comment by slivanes in "Don't use booleans (2019)"

slivanes — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:11:09 +0000

Got it.

use_boolean = false;

New comment by slivanes in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"

slivanes — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:13:23 +0000

Great comment. Authy seems to be taking a user hostile stance by taking hostage peoples OTP's this way.

New comment by slivanes in "Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.?"

slivanes — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:33:24 +0000

Measure twice, cuss once.

Bard AI vs. ChatGPT Scrabble Game

slivanes — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OCQYKHPX4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229424

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by slivanes in "Android features I envy as an iPhone user"

slivanes — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:30:35 +0000

One thing I greatly appreciate on Android is when selecting text of an actual email address (i.e. with long press), it automatically expands to capture the whole email address and gives me relevant email options straight away. On iOS you have to manually move the left and right pins which is its own little mini-game experience.

Try it here: someonesemail@notyahoo.com

Edit: This appears to be a Chrome thing.

New comment by slivanes in "Agile Is a Tainted Term"

slivanes — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:45:51 +0000

By focusing on the product rather than the process.

New comment by slivanes in "Companies that use PHP and pay well"

slivanes — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:16:28 +0000

Sounds like interesting problems to solve, are you looking for more people?

New comment by slivanes in "Base64 Encoding, Explained"

slivanes — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:52:19 +0000

I think mostly because it’s less efficient byte transfer size, roughly +25%, and also it won’t be downloaded as an image in parallel.

New comment by slivanes in "Draggable objects"

slivanes — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:41:58 +0000

In IOS, I'm pretty sure you cannot add an app that currently sits on the far right of the screen to a folder anywhere beneath it.

New comment by slivanes in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

slivanes — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:29:41 +0000

Client is available for Apple ecosystem only.

New comment by slivanes in "Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager"

slivanes — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:42:40 +0000

The fact that you can't use this extension (amongst many others) with Safari - therefore Safari on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS cannot benefit from this type of sharing. Walled garden strikes again.

I'm not saying that Safari is a bad browser, but artificial limitations imposed by Apple on the browser and the OS is quite frustrating for me.

New comment by slivanes in "Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager"

slivanes — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:54:51 +0000

Another reason why Safari shouldn't be considered a user friendly browser.