Hacker News: spartas

New comment by spartas in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

spartas — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:11:58 +0000

https://openclaw.allegro.earth

New comment by spartas in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

spartas — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:27:27 +0000

> Also, nothing is worse than the folks who didn’t pay up ahead of time who bug one, ‘may we switch seats so we can sit together?’

Some of us parents ask that question for your benefit, not ours. Do you want to sit next to my three-year-old?

New comment by spartas in "Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib"

spartas — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:40:23 +0000

Ditto. If you’re able to run an old version of the Android app, then you still have access to all of the Miku features. I haven’t found a similar workaround for the iOS app.

https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/17iuh6r/miku_camera...

New comment by spartas in "Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds"

spartas — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:27:49 +0000

One thing that a lot of people are missing is that the iPhone 15 Pro is using the "A17 Pro" SoC. It'll be interesting to see if the base iPhone 16 will also have the Pro SoC or if they'll be using a non-Pro version.

Will the non-Pro version also be 3nm? Will it support USB3?

New comment by spartas in "GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git"

spartas — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:08:39 +0000

Panda <https://bear.app/panda/> is Bear, but with their new features and markup engine.

Scary obligatory warning: Panda is alpha software (and probably not something that you should trust with your notes). The table support in Panda is nice though.

New comment by spartas in "Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP"

spartas — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:15:51 +0000

https://www.justtherecipe.com

New comment by spartas in "Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia"

spartas — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:15:47 +0000

I still remember WikipediaFS from almost two decades ago when FUSE-based filesystems were popular (and that project allowed editing Wikipedia too).

New comment by spartas in "Show HN: Justyourip.com"

spartas — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:44:30 +0000

https://api.ipify.org/?format=json and https://ipdata.co

New comment by spartas in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

spartas — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:18:20 +0000

Yup. Just watch what happens when the tools reach end-of-life. No more security patches and they will stop working, like all of those early smart TV apps that have been unsupported for years.

You could buy a third-party manufacturer's tools because they're cheaper, but when they can't keep the lights on and they shut off the authentication servers, well you're SOL

New comment by spartas in "Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break"

spartas — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:31:52 +0000

If that is based on calendar month, and not rolling 30-day period, then quit at the beginning of the month

New comment by spartas in "Google removes some IAC browser extensions for 'policy violations'"

spartas — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:37:02 +0000

IAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)

Your second question is valid though

New comment by spartas in "Won’t Subscribe"

spartas — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:27:01 +0000

The publication is still paid a bit for the article when money in the fund is distributed to "all publications participating in the payment system". This presents an opportunity for low-effort publications to crank out oodles of articles in the hopes of getting people to either pay for articles or get paid out by the fund.

Why would I, as a reader, choose to participate in your Kafkaesque payment system when the prevailing solution is to contact my card issuer and dispute the transaction? Certainly that takes a lot less time than having to phone the NY Times (because they do not allow you to cancel a subscription through the website).

New comment by spartas in "I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)"

spartas — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:07:56 +0000

Like many data-collection companies, unless you live in the European Economic Area or the state of California, you are not allowed to see the data about yourself that these companies are collecting

https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/data-subject-rights/

New comment by spartas in "Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing"

spartas — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:24:30 +0000

If this project takes off, I see a lot of people mis-typing gitdick instead. Probably should either look at changing the name or at least also registering gitdick.com pre-emptively

New comment by spartas in "Is It Time to Kill the Penny?"

spartas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:53:50 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyszHg96KI

New comment by spartas in "TSMC officially begins 5 nm production"

spartas — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:41:36 +0000

> Datacenters are the highest-binned parts, and therefore the highest margins.

While I recognized that this is indeed the case, I'd not considered some of the recent plays that Apple has been making. Forget those Gravitons. Forget those low volume datacenter ARM chips too. Also forget those high-binned EYPC and Xeon chips.

What happens when those rackmount Mac Pro machines go to Apple silicon? Datacenters are already paying a premium for processors, but these are much better at performance-per-watt, and Apple can afford to cut the prices on the first and second generation ones to make it up in volume and then ratchet up the prices later once they've got the marketshare.

New comment by spartas in "Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store"

spartas — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:49:47 +0000

My Hey app is also providing me with zero functionality as well. I'm not being dismissive of your issue.

You know, maybe you do have a point (HEY should be using Apple's in-app purchase system). They should set it up as a weekly auto-renewing subscription at the most expensive price point possible ($1,299 USD). Maybe then Apple would leave them alone.

*(@dhh has said that HEY will be removing the invitation-only restriction in July).

New comment by spartas in "Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store"

spartas — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:30:21 +0000

I'm with HEY on this issue.

As of a few months ago, Netflix abandoned in-app purchases entirely on Apple platforms. Try it yourself: sign out of your Netflix account on iOS and try and create a new account. There is no option to pay for a Netflix subscription within the app on iOS. It just isn't there.

Fastmail is another app already on the App store that requires an account (but has no option to sign up within the app itself). Salesforce Inbox and GMail are two other email apps currently on the App store that do not allow the user to sign up within the app itself.

(An aside about Gmail: I'm now receiving almost-daily emails from Google

> Your Gmail is full. Get more storage now with a Google One membership. Plans start at $1.99 a month.

How much of that money do you think Apple would like to get? How much of that money goes to Apple? None. That is not implemented as an in-app purchase. )

New comment by spartas in "Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store"

spartas — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:47:44 +0000

Ditto :/

New comment by spartas in "Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store"

spartas — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:04:11 +0000

So would everyone else. Part of the problem is that hey is still in invite-only, and everyone who is able would just pay $1 or $2 to get around the invitation list.