Hacker News: wstone

New comment by wstone in "Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person"

wstone — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:44:11 +0000

Woah! You were texting whilst driving?!

New comment by wstone in "Alexa will soon lose a popular shopping list feature"

wstone — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:51:14 +0000

This is really sad news. Being able to quickly say “Alexa, add bread” and know that will appear in the bakery section of AnyList has been incredibly useful. I’m not sure I can train (or want) to say “Alexa tell AnyList to add bread to my grocery list”.

Alexa will soon lose a popular shopping list feature

wstone — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168681/amazon-alexa-third-party-shopping-list-integration-going-away

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542721

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by wstone in "A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel"

wstone — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:02:35 +0000

I think they know what they’re doing there

Quiche browser now automatically blocks ads

wstone — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://quiche.works/browser/whatsnew/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544232

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wstone in "LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices"

wstone — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:32:31 +0000

And bring back the plastic back (albeit using recycled supermarket bags or whatever). The 5c was such a great phone.

New comment by wstone in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

wstone — Sat, 20 May 2023 17:43:09 +0000

Try Kagi instead. It’s a very nice search experience and and actually grants more control over results than Neeva did.

New comment by wstone in "Ink: React for interactive command-line apps"

wstone — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:52:43 +0000

I love Ink. Made a game with it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/5dice

New comment by wstone in "Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?"

wstone — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:49:07 +0000

Hack:

https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

New comment by wstone in "How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%"

wstone — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:22:46 +0000

…but there is in Wendows?

New comment by wstone in "Git undo: We can do better"

wstone — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:52:12 +0000

Thank you. It seems silly but my first parse was "-c(heckout)" but that comes from not using "switch" yet; I need to rewire my brain from "checkout".