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hummusFiendon Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

Great work!

Super cool to see it do the whole game. I spent my fable budget building something similar this week but only drove it to Brock. I like the "current focus" framing too.

hummusFiendon Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance

Definitely one of the cooler projects to watch while I was there. I recall the goal was to open-source it from early on, so I'm glad to see it come to fruition!

hummusFiendon Claude 4

Is there a source for this? I didn't see anything when Ctrl-F'ing their site.

hummusFiendon Noise

lol

hummusFiendon iOS 18 breaks IMAPS self-signed certs

Ownership philosophy aside, it's funny that you pick those two companies as examples.

The former enabled cert pinning (partially) as a response to a MITM[1] from the latter.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/facebook-secretl...

hummusFiendon European iPhones are more fun now

That is the general idea behind global privacy control[1], though Firefox still has it hidden behind about:config.

[1]: https://globalprivacycontrol.org

hummusFiendon Did you lose your AirPods?

I remember some theories around 2021-2022 that Apple had modified the ANC in AirPods Pro/Max via a firmware update. If I recall, the thought was this was in response to some patent infringement.

Anecdotally, I think I noticed a difference, but I also chalked it up to prematurely-degrading hardware...

hummusFiendon Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt

Is the name a reference to Rdio[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdio

hummusFiendon Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

Agreed, "As many as" is doing some heavy lifting. The only anecdotal evidence I have in support of this claim is how some companies included the employee's laptops as part of severance packages throughout the "forced RTO" layoffs in the past year.

hummusFiendon Opal Tadpole – A webcam for laptops

Same here, as if an unsolicited SMS with attachments will be effective. I also unsubscribed a while back after reading about issues similar to what's mentioned in other comments here.

hummusFiendon Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

Kreya is the only alternative I've used that prioritizes gRPC support (along with REST). Regardless of source availability, thank you for creating this!

hummusFiendon Bear rescued from theme park 'didn't understand trees,' relocated to sanctuary

I can't believe Marineland (and the like) are still allowed to exist. They've always had horrible, abusive practices and should be held criminally liable.

hummusFiendon Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks

FWIW `realpath` on macOS should be functionally equivalent to `readlink -f` - particularly if you ignore all the other functionality `readlink` provides.