Hacker News: sphars

ByeDoom: Give a Link –> Get a Feed

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

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

Points: 2

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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

New comment by sphars in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

sphars — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:49:35 +0000

Been scrobbling since 2008. I found out what last.fm was thanks to installing Rockbox on my iPod nano, and seeing they had this "scrobbling" feature. Had to remember to plug in the iPod, pull the scrobble log and upload it using a website someone created.

If you need a scrobbler for Android (and Linux) I recommend Pano Scrobbler: https://github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler

New comment by sphars in "How I block all online ads"

sphars — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:38:19 +0000

Same here, joined up when GPM was in beta. Still on the $7.99/month. I really only use it for YTM, so if they ever up my price, I'll cancel and use Tidal or Deezer.

New comment by sphars in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

sphars — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:16:45 +0000

If you're looking for a good resource on jailbreaking and installing KOReader on your Kindle, I highly recommend the guides at https://kindlemodding.org/

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

sphars — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:13:45 +0000

It took me way too long to realize it has infinite scroll and keeps repeating, bravo!

New comment by sphars in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

sphars — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:23:31 +0000

> Netflix seems to basically do everything in their power to own the experience of using Netflix as much as possible, short of making a device and OS themselves.

I'm suddenly feeling that the next step for Netflix is making a dedicated streaming hardware device solely for Netflix. Subsidized by ads of course. Like the reverse of Roku.

New comment by sphars in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

sphars — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:20:12 +0000

You mean like PopcornTime? I think it's still around in various capacities and different forks

New comment by sphars in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

sphars — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:18:49 +0000

This is my sole reason for sticking with smart TVs or a streaming device. How is anyone getting proper 1080p+ streams from Netflix using a Linux device? 4K is not necessary, but 1080p at least it's what I need. Not even considering proper HDR support

New comment by sphars in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

sphars — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:32:27 +0000

Here's his post: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas"

sphars — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:36:20 +0000

One suggestion (feel free to ignore) is to hide the vote counts until after a choice is selected, just to prevent some sort of bias. But again it's your site, thanks for the fun!

New comment by sphars in "iPod Socks"

sphars — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:20:01 +0000

Context for this submission:

Apple releases the iPhone Pocket: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-po...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885813

New comment by sphars in "New Work by Gary Larson"

sphars — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:47:33 +0000

In case anyone finds this, I received a DMCA notice from the publisher of The Far Side this morning, and out of respect for Gary Larsen, I'll removed the scraper and RSS feed.