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Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 8:52am
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Signals vs. Noise: How to spot architectural shifts

Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 8:48am

How do you map emerging technical terminologies before they hit mainstream/commercial discourse?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168452

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Yes, you can be allergic to water

Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 8:46am
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Show HN: I vibe coded a music box

Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 8:42am

It uses webgl to render a mechanically accurate music box and spatial web audio so the sound direction and volume changes as you move around the virtual world.

It was extremely easy for me to get a AI to generate most of the js/html/css. It was impossible for me to get an AI generate the 3D model so I did it by hand. It was very frustrating to get the tune right (still not 100% happy with the sound but I’m giving up trying to further improve it).

Best enjoyed with headphones!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168410

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Show HN: Snatch Guard – iOS theft detection with accelerometer and Screen Time

Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 7:59am

I got frustrated hearing about phone snatching in London - thieves grab unlocked phones and immediately access banking apps, messages, photos. Android has had Theft Detection Lock since 2024 while iOS still has nothing.

Apple's Stolen Device Protection delays password changes but doesn't touch the content of an unlocked phone. So I wired a few things together:

- CMMotionManager at 20Hz for grab detection. I tried CMMotionActivityManager first - total waste of time. It reports "Unknown" instead of "Running", flickers between states and has a much bigger delay.

- FamilyControls + ManagedSettings for system-level shields. As there's no way to lock the phone programmatically I came up with the idea of locking the desired apps. The shield overlay persists after force-close and there's no way to dismiss it without opening the app and passing Face ID.

- Background location at kCLLocationAccuracyThreeKilometers to keep the accelerometer alive when the app is suspended. The data is never transmitted — coordinates are stored locally only when a snatch triggers so you can see where it happened.

Main weakness I should mention: deleting the app removes the shields. You can mitigate this with Screen Time passcode + disabling app deletion in Settings, but it's not automatic.

No analytics, no tracking, no network calls.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168129

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Show HN: Peeklens – Palantir for Marketing

Hacker News - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 7:56am

Article URL: https://peeklens.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168108

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