Hacker News: swang

New comment by swang in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

swang — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:45:23 +0000

I was asking if this feature is turned on in iOS for Japan residents for earthquakes in Japan.

New comment by swang in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

swang — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:06:20 +0000

An Earthquake happened in SF recently where I got a push notification from Apple/iOS and I felt it maybe 5-10 seconds later. Nothing fancy though just a notification. I'm guessing it's not on for Japan? Seems like this app shows way more.

New comment by swang in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

swang — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:37:33 +0000

larry summers? the epstein guy?

New comment by swang in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

swang — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:40:35 +0000

let me guess... you don't follow politics either...

New comment by swang in "World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok"

swang — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:11:31 +0000

I had to go through a cookie request, a subscribe to us popup and then had to close another popup telling me I could only read two articles.

New comment by swang in "Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach"

swang — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:58:33 +0000

you're not suppose to editorialize or change the title per HN rules.

New comment by swang in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"

swang — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:51:10 +0000

i turned it on while i was heating some hot chocolate

told it, "hold on" as i was putting on my headset, they said "no problem". but then i tried to fill the empty airtime by saying, "i'm uhh heating some hot chocolate?"

the ai's response was something like, "ah.. (something) (something). data processing or is it the real kind with marshmallows"

not 100% on the exact dialog but 100% would not have been fooled by this. closed it there. no uncanny valley situation for me.

New comment by swang in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

swang — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:02:50 +0000

> 小红书 (pronounced Xiaohongshu) is the Chinese version of TikTok by Bytedance. It’s currently #1 on the USA App Store.

抖音 Douyin is the Chinese version of TikTok by Bytedance...

New comment by swang in "I automated my job application process"

swang — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:54:27 +0000

i saw a tiktok where the guy had his phone propped up but not in view of his webcam, and basically the interviewer's mic was going through his phone on some llm and the llm was spitting out responses for him to reply to the soft questions his interviewer was asking. the interviewer also made him "quickly" turn on his screen sharing so he could see that his computer didn't have anything assisting him.

i haven't done an interview in a while, it's kinda crazy all the things people are pulling now for interviews on both sides. the process feels really broken.

New comment by swang in "How I write code using Cursor"

swang — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:21:27 +0000

Trying to remember: Was cursor the one that took yc money and basically reskinned some open source project, the project that was stolen, or neither..?

New comment by swang in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

swang — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:06:27 +0000

the general public is expecting other people to protect them against it. "certainly someone (waves hands in the air) wouldn't allow it"

also combined with how the media has been reporting this, as though it's just another ruling.. certainly doesn't help.

New comment by swang in "Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations"

swang — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:22:56 +0000

the main dude was probably making more than your average software engineer: $235,000. regardless wasn't exactly broke or down on his luck. he just didn't want to sell his home in socal and find an apartment up here.

New comment by swang in "The Mongolian Meta"

swang — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:03:46 +0000

It took me a while to realize that first section was about how to guess based off the Google Street View car's characteristics (tire, roof rack). I didn't know people were even allowed to use that as part of the game. I guess I'm only watching some specific people like rainbolt, who seems to use the terrain and other city landmarks (stop signs, poles along highways, etc) for his guesses.

I'm guessing for Google Street View Car stuff that's probably a differentiator if you're super competitive at this.

New comment by swang in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

swang — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:25:19 +0000

One of the reasons I stopped using Firefox was that the columns in the devtools were unexpandable. I couldn’t see any data past what Firefox decided was enough to show. Did they fix this?

New comment by swang in "First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources"

swang — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:36:09 +0000

a close family member swore they got covid at CES 2020. they went to vegas and came back real sick for a couple of days.

i remember in 2020 or so they were also talking about covid being in the sewage in some european city (i think in italy? and/or spain?) but my assumption was they were detecting things that were also common in other influenza strains.

New comment by swang in "Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation”"

swang — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:20:53 +0000

i think you're extrapolating a bit too much from that tweet from more than 3 years ago considering they resumed buying them ~6 months later.

https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/1326498688621948928

now did they have too many? maybe. but maybe also because they were expecting apple to announce a new ios at the wwdc that was happening in june.. or maybe lots of 0-day exploiters suddenly wanted to dump their exploits knowing that apple was probably going to be patching them soon. oddly enough that tweet about resuming payment coincided with the release timeline of ios 14.

most of this is irrelevant though because we lack any information. what is, "too many"? 10? 100? 1000? it could be that just like any other middleman they sometimes need to sit on "inventory" and they can't just buy up that many at one time in case apple fixes them all in an update.

New comment by swang in "An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects"

swang — Sun, 21 May 2023 22:30:17 +0000

I have a very old account that I still use for some email forwards to my main account. Even though I can verify all the other requirements, since I haven’t logged into that account with a machine it recognizes that I still have, apparently I will never be able to log into the account. Literally nothing can be done because google would rather take the easy way to handle this.

New comment by swang in "Conversation skills essentials"

swang — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 06:51:36 +0000

yeah sorry i don't know who this person is so the minute they wrote that into the article and not bother to editorialize a bit kinda made me not want to read the article.

there have always been students with antisocial behavior. if this article came out in 2002-2003 would someone have written, "9/11" or if in 2011, "H1N1" would the author not challenge this notion?

New comment by swang in "Dilbert removed from over seventy newspapers"

swang — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:03:59 +0000

Knowing Adams he probably has a sockpuppet on HN ready to praise the virtues of Dilbert and Scott Adams.

Dilbert has not been culturally relevant for over 2 decades, and Scott Adams hasn't even stepped into an office setting in that time. Gee wonder why it got the axe.

The only thing that ever keeps Adams in the news is when he's using a mass shooting to promote his apps or when he decries being cancelled.

New comment by swang in "NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens"

swang — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:37:33 +0000

What were they using to hash passwords? sha256? I actually am curious since they didn't mention it in their email.