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Daniel Jalkut

Personal blog · bitsplitting.orgprogramminghardware

Daniel Jalkut writes Bitsplitting.org, a personal blog at bitsplitting.org about programming and hardware. Since 2012, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Ersatz Free Trials”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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46mentions?
28HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2016

Chasing the impossible with Daniel Jalkut

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ersatz Free Trials
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-07
  2. Log Littering
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-26
  3. Apple Intelligence (2023)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
  4. Whither Help Scout?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-30
  5. The Price of GPL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-30
  6. Unloved Patches
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. iSnow · 2022-01-28
    Could be related to the decision to remove individual names from the product about boxes back when Jobs came back to better control leaking of internal information and cut down on poaching. I would think that Apple does not want anyone to know who is working on the screen capture APIs as this PR would probably come from one member of that group "When Steve came back, one of his company-wide edicts was that the names…

    Comment linking /2014/01/24/cant-take-that-away/

    on “Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit”
  2. frizlab · 2022-06-18

    Submitted Apparently macOS sometimes just kills some apps randomly as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  3. damon_c · 2014-02-20
    You must have figured out how they score the different numbers. 96 is like 780 points, 192 gets 3500, 384 gets around 6200 points, 768 gets 22000 or so... Did you find an obvious pattern? I was curious about this but too busy enjoying the game to think about it. *edit Someone figured it out here: http://bitsplitting.org/2014/02/11/threes-scoring/

    Comment linking /2014/02/11/threes-scoring/

    on “Show HN: ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser”
  4. ingve · 2019-07-22

    Submitted A Real Gatekeeper as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. newscracker · 2018-11-07
    TL;DR The app stores are messy to deal with and come with many restrictions that shouldn't be there, considering they're completely Apple's solutions, and Apple could do a whole lot more within its control (but has not been doing so far after all these years). Conversely, the only reason the App Store on iOS and tvOS are used is because there's no other way to distribute the apps to a large base of customers (at lea…

    Comment linking /2018/06/06/ersatz-free-trials/

    on “Ask HN: Why don't big softwares use App Store on Mac OS X?”
  6. simplimedia · 2013-08-28

    Submitted The Imperfect Craft as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. ingve · 2023-03-17

    Submitted Spelunking Apple’s Open Source as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. flyingyeti · 2013-04-25

    Submitted End WWDC as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. ingve · 2016-10-30

    Submitted The Price of GPL as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  10. ingve · 2018-10-08

    Submitted MacOS Terminal Security Profiles as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. jaxondu · 2018-06-07

    Submitted Ersatz Free Trials as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. walterbell · 2016-11-01

    Submitted The Price of GPL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. okket · 2016-10-31

    Submitted Touch Bar Everywhere as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. ingve · 2015-09-06

    Submitted SiriScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. ingve · 2015-06-16

    Submitted Mobile Is a Fad as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. tambourine_man · 2015-01-05

    Submitted The Functional High Ground as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. tosh · 2025-06-08

    Submitted Whither Help Scout? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. zdw · 2022-07-21

    Submitted Dump FogBugz as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. dangoldin · 2018-06-11

    Submitted Ersatz Free Trials as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. baxtr · 2018-06-07

    Submitted Ersatz Free Trials on Apple’s App Store as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. tambourine_man · 2018-06-07

    Submitted Ersatz Free Trials – Bitsplitting.org as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. tambourine_man · 2017-10-08

    Submitted Sandbox Transparency as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. ingve · 2016-10-26

    Submitted Log Littering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. ingve · 2015-09-12

    Submitted Apple TV: Everything but the Web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. zdw · 2015-05-24

    Submitted Whose Phone Is This? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. protomyth · 2013-04-11

    Submitted Check Your Libel as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. wallflower · 2026-04-05

    Submitted Comfort Zone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. zdw · 2026-04-02

    Submitted The Beginning of Programming as We'll Know It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. ingve · 2025-04-30

    Submitted Whither Help Scout? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. tosh · 2024-06-10

    Submitted Apple Intelligence (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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