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nchase··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
I happened upon this article around the same time this was posted, too.

Very sad indeed. Everything somehow kept getting worse after the cannibalism and the related neurological disease.

nchase··on iPhone Air
Agree, and as an ex-mini user, I wish this was the world we lived in.

I presume the problem is that iPhones are a lot more expensive to produce than tomato sauce, and it's a lot more difficult to get rid of the ones that people don't buy.

nchase··on In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use
I had anesthesia for a surgery at age 15 and I was depressed for a year afterward.

I’m sure everyone’s experience is different, but it made me feel groggy in a way that was difficult to bounce back from.

nchase··on Apple Watch Series 10
I presume they can use over-the-air updates to disable the feature when the device is activated?

My watch’s logs always have some OTA stuff.

nchase··on Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
This shows up here every now and then. Interesting story!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570713

nchase··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
I’m glad there are alternatives to CPAPs for treating sleep apnea.

Given the link between some CPAP machines and certain types of cancer, the entire category makes me nervous.

nchase··on Launch HN: CamelQA (YC W24) – AI that tests mobile apps
Why is the branding/mascot a camel?

I'm reminded of Waldo, a mobile testing automation product that was acquired in 2023.

Their mascot is another camelid (not sure if alpaca or llama). https://www.waldo.com/

nchase··on Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
Lots of folks are on this list!

Todd Rundgren said “If it weren't for my musical career, I probably would have ended up attending college to become a computer programmer.”

nchase··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
Love this. Congrats and thank you for the writeup!
nchase··on Keyboard Maestro 11
I wonder why. my hammerspoon window management stuff happens almost instantly
nchase··on Support HDR images in your app [video]
Naive question: why is this newsworthy? What are the implications?
nchase··on The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble
Dead for me - anyone have a mirror?
nchase··on Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?
How old are you now?
nchase··on Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)
What is a cokeauction in 2023?
nchase··on EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera
Thank you for your hard work!
nchase··on TypeChat
this is going to create space for some hilarious and funky input attacks.
nchase··on Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
This is exciting.

I'd love it if they opened the iPad up to tools like Rogue Amoeba's Loopback[1], because a tool that allows audio capture from the device is critical for any sampling workflow.

I'm not holding my breath, but that would complete the dream, for me.

[1]: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

nchase··on Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?
I believe that the issue is real, but this article suggests a mind-bogglingly unsafe solution.

The steps include downloading a remote script, then entering the password of a privileged user.

Goodness, it would be a shame if someone were to change the contents of that remote script.

nchase··on Puter
> Why should I develop apps for Puter? > > We could get you an incredible number of users: Puter's is growing with no sign of slowing down. By building and publishing apps on Puter, you will instantly get access to our ever-growing user base.

This seems dishonest, or maybe I'm just missing the point of Puter. Who the heck is using this?

https://docs.puter.com/#/?id=why-should-i-develop-apps-for-p...

nchase··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
I recently started using Reflect[^1] and I rather like it, especially after trying the task management feature, which is now in beta.

My usage of Reflect has made me very curious about other apps that do similar things (e.g. Obsidian)

Has anyone here tried Obsidian _and_ Reflect?

[^1]: https://reflect.app/

nchase··on Ask HN: Xcode users – how do you make it more usable?
I don't spend very much time in Xcode.

I try to use the command-line tools instead.

xcodebuild and xcrun are solid. check out xcpretty[^1] to improve the output of xcodebuild.

Here's a blog post that someone wrote about using xctest from the terminal with xcpretty to make the output nice: https://mokacoding.com/blog/running-tests-from-the-terminal/

[^1]: https://github.com/xcpretty/xcpretty

nchase··on The GPU Banana Stand
This reminds me of react-three-fiber[1], which is built on top of Three.js.

react-three-fiber is a really nice way to build 3-d scenes on the web for those of us who aren't skilled in graphics and GPU programming.

Looks like Three.js supports WebGPU rendering now. Naively, I wonder how performance differs between UseGPU and R3F with Three's WebGPU renderer.

[1]: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

nchase··on Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned from working in tech
if web scraping excites you, let’s talk!
nchase··on GraphQL kinda sucks
> GraphQL came about as a way for mobile clients to call backend services. At Facebook, once a version (of the mobile app) was released, it was essentially out there forever. Some people would simply never upgrade until they absolutely had to. > > The point of GraphQL is that you want to get away from thinking about versioning your API and cleanly upgrading because you probably can't. You can do versions but you don't have clean divisions. You'll mark a given field as "since v2.1". And fields that you have added can basically never be removed. The best you can do is make them return null or an error.

This nails it. For distributed apps where a client might never be updated, you can't really change your schema if you want to guarantee that your app works for everyone. You can build in a mechanism to prompt users to update to a later version, though, and that can be very effective.

nchase··on $9.99/month
Truebill supports most banks in the US.

Source: I work for Truebill.

We use Plaid for this support - there’s more detail here: https://help.truebill.com/en/articles/931156-i-can-t-find-my...

nchase··on Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS
it doesn't function without it. In order to paste something through Maccy, you need to give it this access.

Aside: even after getting this prompt, I don't see an option to choose Maccy in the System Preferences -> Accessibility menu, hmm...

PS: I'm a huge Flycut fan – clipboard management massively improves my life, and it's the best clipboard manager that I've found.

nchase··on Type-ish – A runtime type checker for bash, in bash
This is wild. Bravo to the author! (For the tool, and also for really funny documentation and commit history)
nchase··on How to code, build, and deploy from an iPad using Gitlab and Gitpod
I tried pretty hard to make my iPad Pro a development machine by installing a great ssh/mosh client, then setting up an EC2 instance in the cloud with my favorite terminal tools.

It was always "almost good enough" but the effort required outweighed the benefits. Any time I needed a new tool, I had to try to figure out if the tool was going to be resource-hungry enough to bring down my EC2 instance. This stopped the whole show multiple times.

nchase··on Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?
same here :)
nchase··on Killed by Google
It feels a bit dishonest to have AngularJS on there without mentioning that Angular superseded it.
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