Hacker News: spinningarrow

New comment by spinningarrow in "EFF is leaving X"

spinningarrow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:40 +0000

It’s just another word for a group, same as people.

New comment by spinningarrow in "I Quit Editing Photos"

spinningarrow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:03:44 +0000

Personally, I’ve spent a lot of time on both film and digital and currently I’m a lot happier with the results of my film work. Is it a combination of the camera, lens, medium, and process? I’m sure it is. Could I get similar artifacts out of digital? Probably but the key difference is that I don’t and the medium for me doesn’t make me want to. In the end creative work like photography has as many manifestations as people and your comment reads as rather dismissive than curious.

New comment by spinningarrow in "MacBook Neo"

spinningarrow — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:56:31 +0000

> No keyboard backlighting

When was the last time Apple had a laptop without keyboard lighting?

New comment by spinningarrow in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

spinningarrow — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:20:53 +0000

A long time ago I made a smart home automation web page for my Kindle, so that should definitely work.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

spinningarrow — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:32:09 +0000

Tipping culture has been around in Germany for a long time, hasn’t it? It’s surprisingly common there

New comment by spinningarrow in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

spinningarrow — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:38:51 +0000

I agree with this. I was curious and tried it out just now - there's a good part of the inside corner that is draggable and a decent amount outside as well. The cursor changes to indicate resizability make it quite difficult for me to make a mistake here.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

spinningarrow — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:36:47 +0000

Creating calendar events and reminders too!

A feature set that has remained unchanged since Siri’s launch…

New comment by spinningarrow in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

spinningarrow — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:05:00 +0000

Why would checking be duplicated? One would need to check only the discussions in this case, since issues will be created from discussions once something is ready to be worked on (as I understood it)

New comment by spinningarrow in "European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s"

spinningarrow — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:57:14 +0000

> unless their parents decide otherwise

is a key point I’d say.

New comment by spinningarrow in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

spinningarrow — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:03:33 +0000

> keeping screen on

`caffeinate -d` in the terminal - it’s built-in

New comment by spinningarrow in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

spinningarrow — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:49:40 +0000

I’ve been building sites since around 2000 and I’ve used HTML tables a lot (including for page layouts, remember those days?). There was a time when I thought I was fluent enough to not have to look up HTML or CSS docs for most things. But I don’t think I’ve ever actively used the DOM API that this article mentions so I learned something new today.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem"

spinningarrow — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:45:52 +0000

Do you have an example you can share?

We have about 30 services with each managing their own terraform state. We also have a shared infra repo managing some top level items. We haven’t run into any issues (with any regularity at least) that I can think of but I’m wondering if this could be a good tool for us as we grow and things become even more complex?

New comment by spinningarrow in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

spinningarrow — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:35:27 +0000

> This kind of search could potentially compromise someone's privacy

Well this is true

New comment by spinningarrow in "MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model"

spinningarrow — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:19:46 +0000

> It's conventional to do so

Where do you see that? e.g. I just checked https://openai.com/about/ and it doesn't say where they are based. I have no associations either way, but I usually have to work hard to find out where startups are based.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Red Programming Language"

spinningarrow — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:01:34 +0000

I think regex gets some of its hate from people writing painfully complex matchers. 99% of my day to day regex use is simpler string searches on the command line or in my editor. I’m really happy I took the time to learn the syntax (spent about a week on it around 15 years ago) because now it doesn’t get in my way.

New comment by spinningarrow in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

spinningarrow — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:12:50 +0000

Is it being maintained? From the README:

> Closure Library has been archived. We no longer see it as meeting the needs of modern JavaScript development, and we recommend that users look for alternative solutions.

Edit: ah I see that the Clojure folks are going to take that up. I missed that!

New comment by spinningarrow in "Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco"

spinningarrow — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:46:20 +0000

Sorry, where are you quoting from? I can't find that in the comment I replied to or in the original article.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

spinningarrow — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:46:54 +0000

Mine told me the entire date instead of just the month.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco"

spinningarrow — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:46:54 +0000

> But who takes random street scene photos?

What do you mean? This is exactly what street photographers do.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

spinningarrow — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:35:43 +0000

Can you elaborate on that? Why would it be significant and what could it mean?