Skip to content
HomeVideosBooksBlogs
AllTop postsTopics
Podcasts
HistoryListsWatch laterLiked videosFollowing

The videos, books, blogs and podcasts Hacker News keeps recommending, all in one place.

VideosBooksBlogsPodcastsAboutPrivacySettings

Data from Hacker News, HackerTube, HackerBooks, HackerBlogs and Open Library. Credits · Not affiliated with Y Combinator.

HomeVideosBooksBlogsPodcasts
Ctrl K
    R

    Rusty Shelf

    rustyshelf.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2014

    Russell Ivanovic, an app developer behind Pocket Casts, writes about Android, Apple, and security, including a stolen Minecraft account.

    Visit blogRSSHN submissions
    Mobile & AppleProgramming
    What HN says

    HN commenters cite his post on the Android screen fragmentation myth to push back on claims that countless screen sizes make Android development hard.

    Stats for nerds
    18HN people shared it
    18linked in comments
    963story points
    Aug 2017last shared
    2015people per year2017

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      My Next Mac Mini
      1 person · 426 points · first shared 2017 · 346 comments on HN
    2. 2
      I/O Thoughts
      1 person · 323 points · first shared 2014 · 133 comments on HN
    3. 3
      The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth
      4 people · 160 points · first shared 2014 · 72 comments on HN
    4. 4
      It Just Works
      3 people · 15 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    5. 5
      How a 17 Year Old Russian Kid Stole My Minecraft Account
      1 person · 11 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Apple People, This Is Why Others Hate You
      1 person · 9 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      2015: The Year of Android
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Security by Deflection
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      How New Versions of Android Work
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Thoughts on Swift, From an Idiot
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • kskJan 2015

      >This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it's just going everywhere.

      Well, you're attacking others' opinions for being opinions, and not facts, but your claims are nothing more than opinions too. Sorry, I don't know what your point is?

      Just to add my own anecdote, my dad recently asked that his macbook air be reformatted to make it 'fast' again. Meanwhile, the '08 PC that I'm using now is running Win8.1 like a champ.

      > Yosemite has some bugs, yes, but so do almost every other major releases of Operating Systems.

      Heh, so Apple is just .. like everyone else? No need to hold Apple to a higher standard if that is the case. The entire point of people complaining is that Apple shouldn't be shipping buggy products like the competition.

      >Apple does have some bugs to iron out, but in six month's time when they're fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else.

      Well, why would Apple fix the bugs if nobody complained? They wouldn't even know about them. Of course that is presuming they fix the bugs they know about.

      >To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality.

      So why are the everyday users complaining?

      Some of the bugs that I've personally come across.

      https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601963?tstart=0

      https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604139

      https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577

      http://rustyshelf.org/2014/10/01/it-just-works/

      --

      Oh.. And

      http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/01/it-just-works

      Ok,…

    • bitmapbrotherAug 2017

      Anyone that uses the excuse that there are "Countless screen sizes to worry about" makes me wonder if they even know what they're talking about when it comes to Android development. The developer of Pocket Casts says this is a fallacy:

      https://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth/

    Related

    Marco Armentmarco.org644 people

    Shame on Y Combinator

    Marco Arment
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Rusty Russellrusty.ozlabs.org24 people

    If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot

    Rusty Russell
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Notchnotch.tumblr.com102 people

    I'm Leaving Mojang

    Notch
    Personal · last shared 2021
    jwzjwz.org880 people

    Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

    jwz
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Project Zerogoogleprojectzero.blogspot.com550 people

    Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

    Project Zero
    Company · last shared 2025
    GNOME Blogsblogs.gnome.org490 people

    AirPods fast connect security vulnerability

    GNOME Blogs
    Company · last shared 2026
    Daring Fireballdaringfireball.net1.8k people

    Facebook is an attack on the open web

    Daring Fireball
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Ignore the Codeignorethecode.net112 people

    Oberon (2009)

    Ignore the Code
    Personal · last shared 2026