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On macOS, you might be able to use /etc/resolver to fix this:

  sudo sh -c 'echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" > /etc/resolver/captive.apple.com'

I did this for an internal website at my university that could only be resolved using the network name server. It just occurred to me that it might also work for the URL macOS uses to detect captive portals. We'll have to see if it works the next time I'm at a café.

jer0meon Van Halen test

Somewhat relatedly, the WordPress.com terms and conditions contain an easter egg:

  If you’re reading this, [here’s a treat](https://wordpress.com/tos/treat/).

jer0meon Why the Slate Truck Only Costs $25K

Preorder shipping late 2026

jer0meon Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

That sounds like “circa 2010” to me. And Canvas was launched in 2011, according to the article you linked.

jer0meon Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him

I think you mean Warren and Maureen Nyerges: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/couple-almost-forecloses-on-ban...

George and Ora Lee appear to be a couple who died hours apart in 2016 after being married for 58 years.

jer0meon We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

a16z

jer0meon Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

Error: Stray end tag end_snark.

jer0meon I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

It looks like this one from National Geographic: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-decorator

jer0meon Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras

You can search for cities' transparency portals. Not sure if every Flock customer has one though.

  site:transparency.flocksafety.com

jer0meon Find SF parking cops

They do! There's a data set, updated daily: https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/SFMTA-Parking-Citation...

It currently has 22 million parking tickets dating back to 2008.

jer0meon Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

Option Shift Hyphen on macOS

jer0meon Princeton Eliminates Tuition for Families Making $250k a Year

Brown & Dartmouth: $125k

Stanford & Columbia: $150k / $100k

Penn: $200k

CMU: $75k

jer0meon uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

When I try to turn it on in Safari (iOS 18.5) I get:

  Unable To Load “uBlock Origin Lite”

jer0meon Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

The Icelandic government has been proactive about helping OpenAI train its models on the language to stave off extinction: https://openai.com/index/government-of-iceland/

jer0meon Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

It sounds like an answering service like Rosie (no affiliation): https://heyrosie.com/

jer0meon Google Opal

Google featured tldraw Computer when it launched: https://ai.google.dev/showcase/tldraw

jer0meon Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail

Make a filter for emails that contain “ñ”

jer0meon Tiny macOS utility that mirrors an external monitor in a resizable window

Neat!

This would be cool as a menu bar application that shows up when it detects an external display, sort of like a rear-view mirror for my Mac. I wonder if it would be possible to move things around inside it with the accessibility APIs that window managers use.

jer0meon Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste

The Berkeley Public Library has a tool lending branch: https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/locations/tool-lending...

jer0meon Long live American Science and Surplus

Axman Surplus in MSP

jer0meon First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

Or perhaps Usonians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia

jer0meon Critical CSS

Kind of funny that the agency that made this has a loader on their site.

jer0meon 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Yes. This site seems to be using https://krpano.com, but https://openseadragon.github.io/ is an open-source alternative. The New York Times has used the latter for features like this one: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/26/world/europe/...

jer0meon A single line of code cost $8000

(2023)

jer0meon Microsoft’s original source code

The source code is linked at the end (warning: it's a 100 MB PDF).

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542...

jer0meon Overengineered Anchor Links

Another solution I quite like is highlighting the headings of all the sections that are currently on screen.

jer0meon I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

I'm curious—what are the philosophical reasons for not having a password on your network?

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

Looking at the JSON data in dev tools, it looks like there are separate `createdAt` and `indexedAt` fields, the latter of which was probably a later addition. For your—likely pre-migration—post, both are set to 9/11. On more recent posts, they're separate dates.

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

I believe this is possible because of how the AT Protocol works. Bluesky shows a warning[1] on these posts and displays both times, but sorts them by the backdated time.

[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/bluemigrate.com/post/3lc3r4fqen62l