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New comment by tomasphan in "Create iPhone Ringtones Without iTunes"

tomasphan — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:46:05 +0000

I didn't know that. How does that work?

Create iPhone Ringtones Without iTunes

tomasphan — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:47:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Frohrer/tonedrop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005230

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by tomasphan in "Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price"

tomasphan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:32:35 +0000

The buyer of your short sale would lose money to you. Remember options are contracts between two parties.

Shorters are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price. So that they may survive.

New comment by tomasphan in "Show HN: Be the ChatBOT"

tomasphan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:05:48 +0000

I broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!

New comment by tomasphan in "GPT‑Live"

tomasphan — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:21:51 +0000

“I don’t translate, I interpret” - Ahmed the best interpreter there ever was

New comment by tomasphan in "Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy"

tomasphan — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:10:04 +0000

Driving a Jaaaaag but not being able to bring women/men home seems like a special kind of hell.

New comment by tomasphan in "If you're a button, you have one job"

tomasphan — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:50:34 +0000

How can you compare if you have only iPhone?

New comment by tomasphan in "EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime"

tomasphan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:15:47 +0000

Highly suggest you read 1984.

New comment by tomasphan in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

tomasphan — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:11:22 +0000

Thanks for your contribution to this problem. Keen to see what you come up with next!

New comment by tomasphan in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

tomasphan — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:45:46 +0000

I request an official statement from Anthropic explaining how they're going to limit outages in the future. Elevated errors almost always means its down for me and I can't be that unlucky statistically speaking. It seems that Anthropic does not have a good grip on the ops side of things.

New comment by tomasphan in "Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role"

tomasphan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:47:02 +0000

Never join a startup for the money. It’s meaningless to even compare your current comp. Will you learn a lot? Will it be fun and do you enjoy working with tight deadlines? You probably won’t learn a lot of technical skills since the other two are non-technical but you could learn sales which is arguably more important.

New comment by tomasphan in "I Fired Google"

tomasphan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:05:10 +0000

It’s not clear to me. What makes you sure it’s AI assisted?

New comment by tomasphan in "Banned by Anthropic?"

tomasphan — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:02:20 +0000

Why not a credit card charge back? That’s what it’s for (assuming he paid with one)

New comment by tomasphan in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

tomasphan — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:15:39 +0000

Pedestrian traffic deaths are going down again after peaking in 2022. Accidents are less survivable in the US due to bigger cars and higher hoods.

Quote from CDC

During 2013–2022, U.S. traffic-related death rates increased a relative 50.0% for pedestrians and 22.5% overall, compared with those in 27 other high-income countries, where they declined a median of 24.7% and 19.4%, respectively. Across countries, U.S. pedestrian death rates were highest overall and among persons aged 15–24 and 25–64 years.

New comment by tomasphan in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

tomasphan — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:48:52 +0000

Better a drone be shot down than a crewed P-8 no?

New comment by tomasphan in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

tomasphan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:11:02 +0000

Business idea - Iran Bitcoin fee intermediary. Realistically the CIA will handle this for US companies and maybe allies until they figure something out.

New comment by tomasphan in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

tomasphan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:20:44 +0000

98% uptime is not great. Our eng department is thinking about going half half with Codex but of course there’s a switching cost.

New comment by tomasphan in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:55:33 +0000

Apple has to make it annoying to use a non-Apple device with your Apple device. That sort of friction probably nets them 2% in keyboard sales per year.

New comment by tomasphan in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:15:27 +0000

I answered 8/10 correctly but mostly on instinct, for example betting that the Trump tweet is misleading. Opus 4.6 got 9/10 correct. You might need an internal time limit (don't show the user) and some strawberry questions.

New comment by tomasphan in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:22:34 +0000

In the case of Iraq, they lied on purpose to support the invasion. In the case of Iran, Trump just ignored the intelligence. I do think the intelligence community is capable. For example, they warned of the Russian invasion weeks before it happened when all other European countries said it wouldn’t.