Andi | 2 months ago | on: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
Solution: Just use a firewall to block all remote requests.
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Andi | 5 months ago | on: Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art
It always gives me exactly 16 (or less) images. So this cannot be very reliable because there are more results. Proof: Add a space anwhere to your search string in the form and hit enter again, then some new results are mixed in.
Andi | 6 months ago | on: Just let me select text
This is how I solve this problem on my Samsung Galaxy S22: make a screenshot, then you are able to select text in the builtin Gallery app via instant OCR. Works surprisingly well. I needed some time to find this feature out.
Andi | 6 months ago | on: Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
I am missing an archive of old versions, so I can run it on Mac OS 10.14.
Andi | 10 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
May take some weeks.
Andi | 10 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
A compound word splitter in JS that splits up words of different (esp. Germanic) languages down to simplexes reliably based on a dictionary, including Segmenter API and SQLite FTS connector. Works very reliably by internally using statistics for known compound words, too, and a stemmer.
Andi | 1 year ago | on: Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
This isn't even alpha: Vector simplifications look cruel, especially on vector tile edges, and my Macbook Pro 2012's fan starts spinning.
Andi | 2 years ago | on: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
The website is not usable. The cookie dialogue is shown again and again.
Andi | 3 years ago | on: The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
Haley Nahman failed to talk about the ACTORS and how they act; the word "actor"/"actress" appears 0 times in this article.
Just compare those boring faces with the personalities of former decades!
Andi | 4 years ago | on: f.lux
I'm using this now for years on my Mac, and due to the great configurability I prefer it to the builtin mode.
Thank you!
Andi | 4 years ago | on: Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
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Which idiot is publishing this site?
Andi | 9 years ago | on: Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy
"... focus on longevity, portability, and privacy." - "Sign in or register."
That must be a joke.
Andi | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Hiro – Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search
Does not work offline! No choice for me.
Andi | 13 years ago | on: TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
For stuff like this, you use schema.js.
Andi | 13 years ago | on: Google trends: Facebook
Andi | 13 years ago | on: PointerPointer: points to your cursor
That's it, the developer has defined the pointing position for every photo manually.
Andi | 13 years ago | on: PointerPointer: points to your cursor
What is the point about this beyond showing pictures where the finger is next to my cursor? (Why is this popular?) It's not more interesting than a circumference search. You could implement that with a simple rtree.
Andi | 14 years ago | on: CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out
Better you don't work with those people. I don't want to blame you for their lack of knowledge. But if you want to do them (and you and your project) some good, order them to learn JavaScript thoroughly (which includes the unexpected but regular features that deviate from other languages and the common pitfalls), and then go back to CS! CS inherits from JS and makes no sense without it and it fixes some pitfalls but just the ones that you can fix with the constraints and additions of a new grammar.
This is not the hard path but the only path to CS.
Andi | 14 years ago | on: CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out
We have learned JS, probably you forgot that you need to know it to learn CS?
Andi | 14 years ago | on: CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out
This is not necessary since you usually add the CS version to your dev dependencies (package.json). That should be enough. The resulting JS should not show any reference to CS at all.
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