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jer0meon Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

This is very cool. These features would be useful:

  - If it isn't possible to transfer the video, I'd rather skip them than just posting a thumbnail
  - A way to mass-delete posts after a migration if I regret it
  - The option to add text (e.g. [Migrated from X]) to each post if it fits

As far as competitors, go https://blueark.app/ seems like the most complete. I remember seeing another one, a desktop app, but I can't remember what it was called.

jer0meon Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

A handful of states, including California, have a digital ID that can do this. It only sends the fact that you’re over a certain age.

There’s a video halfway down this page showing the process in Apple Wallet: https://learn.wallet.apple/id/ (notice “Age Over 21”)

jer0meon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

I'm a computer science major at Brown seeking a hybrid or in-person summer internship in the Bay Area or Boston, though I'm open to other locations. I've done several internships (most recently for https://locket.camera working on their Swift UIKit app) and lots of professional-level freelance web development work.

Location: SF Bay Area, Boston/Providence

Remote: No

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Laravel, React, Svelte, Tailwind, React Native, Swift, TypeScript & JavaScript, Livewire & Inertia.js

Résumé: https://jero.zone/resume.pdf

Email: hn@jeromepaulos.com

Production Projects: https://jero.zone/projects

Blog Posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/from? site=jero.zone

jer0meon A Letter to the American People

What are these? It just seems like you've registered a ton of government domains on .dev and filled them with junk data.

jer0meon Debugging an Undebuggable App

It probably didn't crash the phone during review. App Store review is a human tapping through your app's common flows, looking for specific things. You don't provide them with the source code, and they don't really look at the binary, so it's not difficult to use private APIs or hide things from reviewers.

For example, after being kicked off the App Store by sanctions, Russian banks have used "trojan apps" that show different apps inside Russia: https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/12/how-russian-banks...

jer0meon Debugging an Undebuggable App

The video at the top is one of the best programming videos I've ever watched. It's fast-paced, assumes just the right amount of knowledge, and has excellent demos that don't kill the flow of the video.

jer0meon What if Eye...?

To the website author: add the `playsinline` attribute to your <video> tags.

jer0meon U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IAO-logo.png

jer0meon Apple Robot Research

What’s it called?

jer0meon Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected

Yes, electrons are electrons are electrons. But customer X is paying for the renewable sources and customer Y is paying for the non-renewable sources, so customer X can say that they are renewable.

jer0meon No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

Some cities let you pay with contactless credit cards (at least London and New York have it; Boston and San Francisco are working on it) which seems like the most elegant solution to this, at least from a commuter’s point of view.

jer0meon Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

https://jero.zone/posts/reverse-engineering-apis

jer0meon Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG (2022)

Or if you'd like a PNG of a specific style: https://emojicdn.elk.sh/

jer0meon Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes

The editor they forked, Continue, is also funded by YC.

jer0meon I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

No, you only get to download the 3D model.

jer0meon Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre

Another example of the janky configuration UI: https://twitter.com/jeromepaulos/status/1835915486757884413

jer0meon CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)

This one for $800 thousand?

https://wwe2.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/contracts/contract...

jer0meon CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)

Are they themselves large, dysfunctional organizations?

jer0meon CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)

@dang — I found a better link which appears to be a revised version of the current one: https://psc-cuny.org/clarion/2013/may/cunyfirst-users-last/

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This is a post by Prof. David Arnow on the blog of the Brooklyn College’s professors’ union about CUNYfirst, a PeopleSoft-based course registration and HR system sold by Oracle. Posting because the system recently got some attention on Twitter: https://x.com/ChocolateyCrepe/status/1836171439965446441

jer0meon Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28

They just launched Google Wallet support and people have found marketing pages for an imminent Apple Wallet launch.

jer0meon Button Stealer

“It's fun, useless, and free!”

jer0meon How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux)

I used Photoshop CS6 (purchased in a Box from a Store) until macOS dropped support for 32-bit apps. It was amazing.

I kind of preferred the aesthetics of its interface too.

jer0meon Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?

That price is inclusive of room, board, and other expenses.

jer0meon Astro DB

It actually is Drizzle

jer0meon GPT in 500 Lines of SQL

A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726115 - February 2023 (146 comments)

jer0meon Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it

Too dangerous why?

jer0meon Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support

Apple does this for older devices signing into iCloud!

jer0meon Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

This is really neat! I have a receipt printer I’ve been meaning to do something cool with—I think it can even handle images.

jer0meon Show HN: I made a resistor calculator with TS+React

There are…a lot of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_...

jer0meon Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis in mice

Stanford is from the area.