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(I've used GraphQL at Facebook, but I don't work on it.) If I understand your post correctly, I think it could. GraphQL prefers to expose full objects, rather than IDs, which lets …

Facebook Groups is available for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.g...

Hey, I wrote HNKit. I'll admit I haven't had time to write documentation. However, most everything follows Cocoa conventions, and the headers should be pretty readable. Absolute wo…

Interesting: comScore had iOS up and Android down. I think all that proves is that these numbers are essentially meaningless. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/04/04/comscore-apple…

Those are also in an uncomfortable place to reach with your thumb when holding the device once-handed — and might even be covered by the thumb, depending on how you're holding it.

Think about everyone who doesn't see this post. Will they figure this gesture out? Did you? If it takes a blog post at the top of Hacker News for people here to find this, it's pre…

How do you know that more about this than Apple does? I don't see any reason to believe they're lying, from what you said?

I think the actual number is 65536 or similar — the 3 million may have been a misquote by TechCrunch.

Try putting a different browser renderer on Firefox OS. You're pretty much locked in to JavaScript — unless you can somehow build WebKit with Emscripten, you're already behind what…

Counterpoint: as a developer, this looks awful. For iOS: write an app, set a price, release it. For at least 90+% of potential customers, they have to pay for it. Piracy requires m…

The Phone app has a blue status bar in iOS 6.

Yes, and you will note I said "slightly faster CPU and GPU". The point is that the whole device is much more resource constrained, as what needs to be done with the CPU and GPU on …

The iPhone 3GS is much faster than the original iPad. On the iPhone 3GS, you have a reasonably slow CPU and GPU, but you also only have 320x480 pixels to deal with. On the iPad, yo…

Yeah, but there's nothing stopping someone from porting JailbreakMe to 4.2.1 — it already works on 4.2.8 for the Verizon iPhone 4, and the other versions are similar enough. The ha…

Removal of a specific exemption from a law is not the same as "becomes illegal". Do we have any clear reasons that this becomes illegal, or is it now just more of an unexplored gra…

It wouldn't be perfect, but the Google Now app could recognize that you're nearing an airport — something iOS does support, with background location updates — and then download the…

User location is available to background iOS applications; Apple includes two APIs specifically for that purpose: fine and course background location updates. The app will be notif…

What APIs would something like Google Now need that don't currently exist? The only one I can think of is a way to launch it easier, rather than with an icon. But the push and loca…

But your two cousins, who may have smartphones, could both have your grandmother as a shared friend — and thus, since they were both connected to you and were connected to your gra…