Hacker News: sphars

New comment by sphars in "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"

sphars — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:03:44 +0000

According to this[0], yes it's available

[0]: https://support.pluto.tv/s/article/PTV-On-which-devices-can-...

New comment by sphars in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

sphars — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:47:07 +0000

Saved you a click: Tom Bombadil is who they're referring to

New comment by sphars in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

sphars — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:19:01 +0000

There's likely a way to do with via Tasker/MacroDroid but you'll likely need to use Shizuku (or possibly root) to change these system settings.

New comment by sphars in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sphars — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:29:01 +0000

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I had an orange tabby also named Kiki for most of my childhood through early adulthood, 16 years. He suffered from kidney failure and it was a sad day when we had to put him down.

May you have peace during this time.

New comment by sphars in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

sphars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:12:08 +0000

I'm curious about your Android method, just to see if it's something I want to explore as a solution.

New comment by sphars in "Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

sphars — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:45:02 +0000

I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: hn@ycombinator.com

New comment by sphars in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

sphars — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:14:02 +0000

To be fair, that's a direct quote from Vercel themselves introducing Geist Pixel: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel

New comment by sphars in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

sphars — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:50:33 +0000

Jailbreak it now before you forget

https://kindlemodding.org/

New comment by sphars in "Google changes its search box"

sphars — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:59:59 +0000

There is a 99% chance (IMO) that Microsoft is going to go the same route as Google here

New comment by sphars in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

sphars — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:54:17 +0000

Same with all the bigger tech blogs from a decade ago. How-To Geek is completely overrun with the same sort of slop. Finally had to remove it from my RSS reader.

Oh look at that, XDA and HTG are both owned by Valnet:

https://www.valnetinc.com/en/technology

New comment by sphars in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

sphars — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:59:36 +0000

The OP link is not to Pi zero website, here's the actual website that's being hosted on the Raspberry Pi:

https://zero.btxx.org/

ByeDoom: Give a Link –> Get a Feed

sphars — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://byedoom.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769543

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

sphars — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:16:21 +0000

Regarding the infinite scroll with the footer, I like the path Valve has taken with the Steam store homepage. The footer is part of the infinite scroll, as in, when you reach the footer, the infinite scroll continues.

New comment by sphars in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

sphars — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:22:36 +0000

Aurich Lawson (creative director at Ars) posted a comment[0] in response to a thread about what happened, the article has been pulled and they'll follow-up next week.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

sphars — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:09:25 +0000

https://www.spencerharston.com/

New comment by sphars in "How to make a damn website (2024)"

sphars — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:05:43 +0000

Here's many many more you can search from:

https://pixelsea.neocities.org/?m=badge#

Sourced from here:

https://capstasher.neocities.org/88x31collection-page1

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"

sphars — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:38:41 +0000

Not OP but the ascii art generator on your site is broken when selecting to generate from text. All the font style options except Standard, produce unexpected output. Using Block font for example, with ASCII as the input:

https://i.imgur.com/5qhCR3h.png

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

sphars — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:52:17 +0000

I just finished book 4, some chapters of which I started skimming (mostly the Venli/Eshonai throwback ones). I want to finish the series but it's such a slow burn it's getting tough, especially when I have other books on my TBR. I'll get around to book 5 sometime next year.

I did really enjoy the first book, kinda want to go read it again.

New comment by sphars in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

sphars — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:24:44 +0000

The scripts he wrote to pull the data were written in TypeScript, though all the TS I see is in the parameters in the function signature. Also he used Next.js for the dashboard

New comment by sphars in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

sphars — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:23:56 +0000

He used TypeScript for the scripts he wrote to pull the data. He also used Next.js to build the dashboard which is written with TypeScript