Hacker News: swrobel

New comment by swrobel in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

swrobel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:50:07 +0000

Why would it keep the notification history after they’ve been dismissed, though? There’s no user-facing way (that I’m aware of) to access a history of dismissed notifications.

New comment by swrobel in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

swrobel — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:06:54 +0000

For some reason I thought 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 already wouldn’t resolve archive.[today|is|ph] anyway

New comment by swrobel in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

swrobel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:26:40 +0000

Sir, this is an Arby’s

New comment by swrobel in "Show HN: Mist – a lightweight, self-hosted PaaS"

swrobel — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:09:17 +0000

Dokku = steep learning curve according to your comparison chart? As a longtime Heroku user, I’d have to disagree.

New comment by swrobel in "Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL"

swrobel — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:48:56 +0000

Yeah, P30D as presumably intuitive to non-technical users has me chuckling

Also, knowing that TODAY > signup + P30D transpiles to TODAY > signup + 30.days in Ruby. Which one is more readable?

New comment by swrobel in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

swrobel — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:44:05 +0000

The double-tap gesture is something I was very excited about and have completely forgotten about since getting my watch. The caveats around what it takes to activate it (screen activated and facing vertically) are just so great, you wonder if anyone at Apple actually tried this and found it to be a better alternative to interacting with the screen. Their demo video actually does a perfect job of capturing just how ridiculously theatrical you have to be to get it to work: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/use-double-tap-for-com...

New comment by swrobel in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

swrobel — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:40:40 +0000

Always wonder why companies see suing people as a better course of action than hiring them.

New comment by swrobel in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

swrobel — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:33:03 +0000

That’s the bummer for me. The primary place I’d like to use this is surfing. Too much time to think, and too few practical ways to record those thoughts.

New comment by swrobel in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

swrobel — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:35:34 +0000

“Sweden-like gang shootings” is not a phrase I expected to come across

New comment by swrobel in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

swrobel — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:16:40 +0000

First thing I did was check https://nissan.com which apparently I haven’t done in years. RIP Uzi!

New comment by swrobel in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

swrobel — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:25:50 +0000

If it really was a red line, why did Steve even take the meeting, and then take days to decide on it?

New comment by swrobel in "Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can"

swrobel — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:44:30 +0000

Wired CarPlay FTW

New comment by swrobel in "Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar"

swrobel — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:57:06 +0000

I assume you mean you went iStats -> stats

New comment by swrobel in "UUID v7"

swrobel — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:41:59 +0000

Also not comparable to UUIDv7 because it isn't sortable

New comment by swrobel in "Sharrow MX-1: Tipless propeller (2020)"

swrobel — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:33:31 +0000

Here’s an efoil builders discussion of this very prop design https://foil.zone/t/prop-design-share/5849/173

New comment by swrobel in "On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days"

swrobel — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:02:27 +0000

So, just a shade away from Squid Game?

New comment by swrobel in "Issues with upstream DNS provider"

swrobel — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:45:05 +0000

last update at this point: over an hour ago

New comment by swrobel in "Please stop sharing lines of code on medium.com"

swrobel — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:59:59 +0000

This

New comment by swrobel in "Bitcoin Scam App Approved by Apple Robs iPhone User of $600k"

swrobel — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:34:21 +0000

I'm most concerned about how they accomplished what's described here:

> Apple says the fake Trezor app got through the App Store through "a bait-and-switch." It was called Trezor and used the Trezor logo and colors, but said that it was a "cryptography" app that would encrypt iPhone files and store passwords. The developer of the fake app told Apple that it was "not involved in any cryptocurrency." After the fake Trezor app was submitted, it changed itself into a cryptocurrency wallet, which Apple was not able to detect.

New comment by swrobel in "Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors"

swrobel — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:32:59 +0000

Decided to finally get onboard with Github sponsors and was dismayed to see this message:

"You'll be @babel's 13th sponsor, helping them reach their goal of $12,000 per month."

If a project as widely-used as babel can only attract 13 sponsors, this model is definitely broken