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jascination··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
This looks old and outdated if you have anything newer than a tv from 2021 sadly
jascination··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
1kk? Why not say 1M?
jascination··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
This is such a weird hill to die on dude. People are angry and it's been an embarrassing disaster filled with fraud on the highest scale, jumping on the fact that 1 out of 500 of his policies hasn't been bad just makes you look like you've completely missed the point
jascination··on Claude: System Prompts
There was one about NHS giving all of UK's medical data to Palantir by accident last week that got pulled from the front page about 20mins after it was posted too, feels fishy af
jascination··on NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data
This is insanely fucked up, but also unsurprising.
jascination··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
FWIW - In the Claude app (on android) when in transcript mode, it has a hard limit of 10 minutes. If you transcribe longer than that, it crashes and you lose everything you've said.

To make matters worse, they've recently gotten rid of the timer, so you have NFI how long you've been speaking for.

I use it for therapy-based stream-of-consciousnesses + venting and then have my project set up to understand the schema therapy work I've done with my psychologist and give me insights / draw threads between things from my past and now, and losing 10 whole minutes of talking and processing is SO FRUSTRATING!

jascination··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Deep link now ( https://Deeplinknow.com ) - deferred deep linking for developers / people who dont want their links blocked by adockers because Branch/Appsflyer et al are actually under-the-hood cross platform ad tracking services.

I do no tracking, no analytics, just help you cross the airgap between web and mobile app so you can send users to the right place (and track them however you deem necessary)

jascination··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
This, but Real-Debrid. No need to self-host TBs of content and manually download them.

This slightly outdated guide helps you set it up pretty easily - instead of Zurg+ Black hole, use Decypharr

https://savvyguides.wiki/sailarrsguide/

Real-debrid == imagine a huge cloud storage service. You have 1000 people trying to download Burgonia.4k.mkv. it downloads the torrent once to the shared server, then gives each user their own access to it via a WebDAV mount.

WebDAV == trick you server into thinking a cloud server is a local folder. You use RClone to mount this and it's accessible from your local drive so you can stream all your stuff directly.

What this means: you add a show in Sonarr or a movie in Radarr. Prowlarr searches Torrentio or Zilean for torrents. The best match is chosen. It sends to Decypharr (or black hole) to say "download this torrent to my real debrid box". It finds the cached version of the file, which is instantly available in your drive. It's symlinked so Plex can pick up the file.

Basically the lead time from requesting a movie/series to watching it on your tv is about 10 seconds, with no storage overhead required.

jascination··on 'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
I know Duralex because they're the de facto coffee cup for a latte in the world's best cafes. I dunno how or why it happened, but since about 2008 if you go to a cafe in Melbourne and your latte comes in anything BUT one of those Duralex glasses, you should run for the hills.
jascination··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Enshittification. It's a thing.
jascination··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
No questions, but thanks for noting that you hire in APAC! I wrote an (admittedly frustrated) blog post about global startups not hiring in Aus/Asian timezones, it's a bit of a buzzkill when you're on the job hunt and get excited about companies only to find they aren't truly remote: https://www.warmhq.com/blog/why-dont-startups-hire-australia...
jascination··on Why don't startups hire Australians?
Bullfrogs? That's a funny name, I'd've called them Chuzwozzas!
jascination··on Why don't startups hire Australians?
Good point, but if they're operating in the US, UK and Europe, and are fully remote out of the box, is it that much of a stretch to add the other time zones?

Or is it just something that US-led startups don't think about?

One of the first things I think about when I'm launching a new startup is "How will I service clients in the US or Europe when I'm asleep?", I'd hope that global companies think about Asia that way too.

jascination··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)

  Location: Melbourne, Australia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: React Native, React, NodeJS, NextJS 
  Résumé/CV: https://au.linkedin.com/in/gallichio
  Email:  jvg [at] warmhq [dot] com

I build apps, also webapps. My most recent project is https://deeplinknow.com, a pretty complex NextJS SaaS tool for deferred deep linking, competitor to branch, Appsflyer and firebase dynamic links.

Looking for meaty senior engineer roles, preferably with a global team who has some decent AI/ML Devs on board as I'd love to learn about this area and upskill.

jascination··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I'm an app developer, and I've had such a terrible experience with deferred deep linking providers like Branch and Appsflyer that I decided to build a competitor - https://DeepLinkNow.com

Why I think it's good: deferred deep linking has become an also-ran feature for MMPs whose primary focus is tracking users and advertising.

It's so bad that I can't even open deep links for Tiktok on my home network, because onelink links are blocked by adguard.

So that's why I built DLN. It's brand new and open for beta testing, I'd love some feedback and feature requests + to know how people use deferred deep linking.

jascination··on OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API
Your collection of pelicans is so bloody funny, genuinely brightened my day.

I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked the link but it definitely wasn't this: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/

jascination··on Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable
It's a cute quote, but it seems about 5 years out of date. There was a golden period for a while there that indie hackers and self-funded devs could create a useful product and grow it themselves and could 'beat' VCs.

But now you can create some AI generated slop in a day that used to take months. Being an indie hacker used to be a sort of badge of honour, now it's where everyone starts.

I think the VC-backed companies who have budgets to do actual marketing, actual sales, actual outreach beyond "I have a good following on X, I'm gonna sell them stuff" will win in the end.

As a customer, for me I don't care whether the company is profitable, I care about whether it works, whether it's in my budget, whether the company will be around in 2 years regardless of if the founder loses their passion for it.

jascination··on Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?
Unrelated: I love HN; a random database question and fkn jedberg is one of the first responders
jascination··on Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative
I'm not in YC, but I want to launch my startup here as it's relevant to the audience. Can I go through a process like this to coordinate with you for a launch, or should we just follow the guidelines, make a submission and hope for the best?
jascination··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
What's the difference when using your own anthropic key vs vanilla? Are you hitting limits with Claude in cursor that they key unlocks?

I ask cos I use it very liberally and haven't had any issues that have made me consider adding a key, except when I made it read my whole codebase on every request

jascination··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
1) does it though? It seems like the Google-specific parts of it are pretty ancillary to the whole experience

2) how is it different to Apples integration with Safari?

jascination··on Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
I use Harmonic on android for HN and can highly recommend it
jascination··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Australia / Asia too, no one cares about iMessage
jascination··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
This is hilariously Kafka-esque, what a shitshow
jascination··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
Same, I have nest cameras and nest wifi (now discontinued 2 years later, so can't buy compatible wifi points anymore). Software + Google voice assistant is so goddamn buggy!

Wish I went with a TP-Link solution instead

jascination··on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
Start a company then do my nefarious work under that, got it!
jascination··on Why doesn't advice work?
Nice try, _dummy_!

/s

jascination··on Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture
I just bought a refurbished 16in M3 pro, no regrets at all. There's always a new one around the corner, it's really just about whether your setup achieves what you need it to.

Look at real world differences between M2 and M3, it's not a massive jump at all.

I do cross platform app development and the machine is excellent for that. Glad to have it now rather than waiting months for a slightly better system

jascination··on A scientific run-down of coffee blooming
There was a post here a few months ago saying that blooming prevented static electricity build up within the coffee grounds which made them clump together (or something like that anyway), I thought it was interesting.
jascination··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I'm a cross-platform app developer and can assure you iOS is much stronger in terms of what data you can/can't get from a user
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