Hacker News: speedyapoc

New comment by speedyapoc in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

speedyapoc — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:21:33 +0000

Looks like this tool can provide a jailbroken environment for the latest iOS versions whereas one does not exist on iOS simulator or a real device

New comment by speedyapoc in "I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying"

speedyapoc — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:44:25 +0000

Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.

Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

speedyapoc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:33:34 +0000

Kuala Lumpur

Apple's API's Are Awful (At Least Some of Them)

speedyapoc — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://mzfit.app/blog/apples_apis_are_truly_awful/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41362202

Points: 28

# Comments: 14

New comment by speedyapoc in "Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant"

speedyapoc — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:30:24 +0000

Here's a few recent ones:

1. Xcode 15's "Replace Container" feature replaces the app container with incorrect permissions that results in the app not being able to write to its container (ex. the documents directory). This is an important feature for debugging and flat out doesn't work.

2. Apple's AVPlayer has an API called MTAudioProcessingTap which allows you to get access to low level audio data. Since iOS 17.1, it is not possible to have more than one MTAudioProcessingTap running at the same time.

3. AVPlayer's `addPeriodicTimeObserverForInterval` function will randomly stop calling back to its observer, and never recover, when connected to an Apple TV via AirPlay on iOS 17.

Issue 1 makes debugging more arduous. Issue 2 stops my app from being able to crossfade audio together or play more than one audio stream at once. Issue 3 requires me to build my own time observer which is further technical debt, versus being able to rely on Apple's API.

I've spent hours debugging each of these and trying to find a workaround before resigning myself that it's a platform issue and relegating myself to abandoning that specific API or feature.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant"

speedyapoc — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:56:23 +0000

Here's an excerpt from the reply that I get from filing a TSI for functionality that is ultimately a bug with iOS.

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Hello,

Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS).

We believe this issue is a bug. Please file a bug report via Feedback Assistant (https://feedbackassistant.apple.com). For more information on Feedback Assistant, visit https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting.

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From here, typically the Feedback Assistant bug report will remain open. For years. With no acknowledgement.

I would happily pay Apple a developer rate to fix these bugs. Some of them are massive showstoppers in a large scale production application.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant"

speedyapoc — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:54:26 +0000

I estimate that around 10% of my Feedback Assistant reports ever receive a reply or acknowledgement.

These are for reproducible bugs in iOS, for which I've provided an isolated sample project with a 100% reproduction rate. It takes time to create a thoughtful and detailed bug report and the lack of replies are beyond frustrating. I'm glad to see this post and couldn't agree more.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2B sports betting deal"

speedyapoc — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:23:02 +0000

Oh 100%. Some of them have banned their accounts while others cap them to a $1 max bet. It’s insane.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2B sports betting deal"

speedyapoc — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:58:12 +0000

The advent of sports betting has become so fatiguing. It's impossible to watch a football game without back to back to back betting commercials. Announcers pre-game talking about odds, over-unders, etc. I can't help but feel like the chickens are going to come home to roost.

I've had a bunch of friends that went from never gambling to spending a few hundred dollars per Sunday placing random bets. All destined to lose eventually due to the insane 10-15% vig (ie. a coin flip is priced at -110 or -115).

The few friends (sharps) that I had that were able to earn a profit over a large enough sample were all eventually backed off by the major sports betting sites. One site backed off a large long term winner in order to "protect the player against creating a compulsive habit or addiction". It's literally a racket. You can't win long term. You can only lose.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?"

speedyapoc — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:22:22 +0000

I push telemetry to Amazon CloudWatch (my infrastructure is on AWS) and then setup alarms accordingly. If I'm concerned about a service failing or becoming unresponsive, it's easy to create an alarm based on the existence or non-existence of data.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Ask HN: Friendly ways of adding ads to app?"

speedyapoc — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:57:37 +0000

Hard to really say without having more details about your app and its user base. Personally speaking, having my content interrupted by some sort of audio ad, even by the content creator, is 100x worse than ad banners or other visual ad content.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

speedyapoc — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:33:04 +0000

With the way Google and other providers have shutdown accounts with impunity, it’s hard to think of anything but a custom domain being a safe option.

New comment by speedyapoc in "FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client"

speedyapoc — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:41:12 +0000

It just tracks country/city info for internal stats based on IP address. Nothing more granular. Source: built it

New comment by speedyapoc in "Go Style"

speedyapoc — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:44:47 +0000

Right? I have never understood the frustration around named parameters like this. It helps reduce cognitive load quite a bit.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer"

speedyapoc — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:16:33 +0000

As ridiculous as it sounds, have you considered adding report functionality to the other (non-UGC) content in the app? It seems like the review team isn't budging with your current argument so it may be worthwhile to add report functionality (even if the actual reporting is basically a no-op) just to appease them.

Heck, even feature flag it and disable it once the app gets in. Probably won't be flagged again in subsequent reviews.

New comment by speedyapoc in "App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps"

speedyapoc — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:55:25 +0000

Thanks for linking these. What a fun read. The first few years of the App Store always seemed like the golden age. Users had no idea what these devices could do and were so eager to download and try new things, which fuelled some awesome indie creations.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Ask HN: Why are the FAANG tech support forums often useless?"

speedyapoc — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 03:54:12 +0000

The Apple forums are consistently aggravating. With every question, cue the level X “community specialist” telling you to reset your SMC.

New comment by speedyapoc in "Apple's feedback mechanism is broken"

speedyapoc — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:21:56 +0000

I’ve rarely had my Radars receive any attention unless they were coupled with a TSI. Probably makes sense based on the volume of bug reports that Apple likely receives.

The ones that were accompanied with a TSI received attention in 1-3 weeks which seems pretty quick.

New comment by speedyapoc in "You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)"

speedyapoc — Sat, 14 May 2022 21:21:12 +0000

With respect to #1, I'd like to make a shameless plug for "Zevia". As someone that would drink 1-2 cans of soda per day, this has been a game changer.

New comment by speedyapoc in "ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room"

speedyapoc — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 03:53:47 +0000

This past week I setup an e-ink display using a 32” screen from Visionect. It displays the front page of the New York Times (setup by following this guide [1]).

The compliments from friends/family have been insane. It looks like I cut out the page and put it on the wall. Unfortunately the Visionect solution is fairly cost prohibitive and seems like ArtFrame is in the similar price ballpark.

[1] https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-...