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harrisonpageon Hacker News Firehose for iOS

Claude and I vibe-coded an app for browsing Hacker News by /newest, source code here: https://github.com/harrisonpage/firehose-ios

harrisonpageon Weather.baby

I got tired of Weather Underground loading slowly and being bombarded by advertisements looking for basic weather data... so I wrote my own. Started in python3, ended up with single binary Go httpd

harrisonpageon No Cloud Required: Talking Directly to My SunPower Hardware

TL;DR: I discovered an official API for my SunPower hardware

harrisonpageon Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database

I took the name from an internal tool at Slack where I worked. Similar concept, not sure if theirs encrypted in-browser. I notice your URL format stores the secret after a # which won't be logged on the server side, good work there.

harrisonpageon Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

Amazing! I was sad I couldn't zoom in more tho

harrisonpageon Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database

Neat! I made one of these also: https://flashpaper.me

harrisonpageon Ask HN: Can you listen to podcasts while working?

I have to listen to instrumental music, singing or spoken words are too distracting.

harrisonpageon About Homespring.cloud

"Whoa, I know those dudes"

harrisonpageon Ask HN: What's with the Wargames-like UX lately?

You're right, for a while Claude was doing purple-tinged UIs and now it's making retro-terminal designs: http://mirrorball.textfiles.com/CYBERSPACE/

harrisonpageon I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?

https://isp.netscape.com

https://www.compuserve.com

http://www.catcam.com (not even https)

harrisonpageon What happened to the new Activity view in Slack?

"The new version of Activity is being rolled out slowly, so not all customers will have it straight away."

The article is dated Jan 2026 and I don't appear to have the new look in any of my Slacks.

harrisonpageon What it's like to live in Portland, Oregon

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/realestate/portland-ore-w...

harrisonpageon BlackBird – a fast desktop media player built with Electron, Vite and SQLite

Suggestion: Add a screenshot or two to the README

harrisonpageon Every Coen Brothers Movie, Ranked

Same with “Hail, Caesar!"

harrisonpageon Ask HN: What do I do now that software engineering is dead?

whatever you want

you're free

harrisonpageon Resently – macOS menu bar app that sets your Slack status by Wi-Fi network

How do you interface with Slack? By using AppleScript or webhooks or ?

harrisonpageon More Terrible Slack Setups

This is a good guide, it is based on how Slack organized their internal channels: https://slack.com/help/articles/217626408-Create-guidelines-...

harrisonpageon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://harrison.page

harrisonpageon A 10KB game with vanilla JavaScript HTML canvas

Adorable!

harrisonpageon What Are People Still Doing on X?

That's not very nice. Please be nice.

harrisonpageon Why did Microsoft give GitHub Copilot away for free?

A.I. "art" makes me close the window immediately

harrisonpageon Tech jobs are mired in a recession

Good luck to anybody trying to read that page using a mobile device. What a horrible mess.

harrisonpageon Ask HN: Share your personal blog/website

https://harrison.page

harrisonpageon Banned from Bluesky Within 30s

good

harrisonpageon What is your Bluesky handle?

Hello! I am https://bsky.app/profile/harrison.page and I post interesting articles (some tech, some politics) and my own photographs, mostly bunnies I see on early morning walks.

harrisonpageon 45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web

76424,1020

harrisonpageon Vice website is shutting down

yawn

harrisonpageon Google Nest subscription will soon increase by 25%

This has been my experience as well: terrible software, terrible latency. Instead of selling it or giving it away, I've been dumping the hardware at the local electronics recycle center. Maybe this is finally what will get me up on a ladder to replace the camera with another – any other – brand.