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Kuba Suder
Personal blog · mackuba.euprogramming
Kuba Suder writes MacKuba.eu, a personal blog at mackuba.eu about programming. Since 2015, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “A Guide to NSButton Styles”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kuba Suder's mackuba.eu pages mainly for COVID-19 case-number charts by country, US state and Nordic comparison, and for a 2015 post on accessing user location data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kuba Suder's blog on Mac/iOS & web dev
Most-linked posts?
- /corona/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-18
- A Guide to NSButton Styles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
- The Longest Names in Cocoa2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-10
- Coronavirus charts showing growth in each country separately2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
- Introduction to AT Protocol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-20
- /corona/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-05
- Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- ATProto in Practice #1: Identity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- A complete guide to Bluesky2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
What Hacker News says?
They seem to be getting things under control. [0] [0] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#south_korea
Comment linking /corona/
on “Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says”Submitted Introduction to AT Protocol as a story · 197 points
HN discussionIt's not true that they are similar in all affected countries. The ones in that graph are cherry picked for similarity. If you look at China, Taiwan, Singapore etc there are differences. eg Fujian https://mackuba.eu/corona/#fujian_china Taiwan https://mackuba.eu/corona/#taiwan HK https://mackuba.eu/corona/#hong_kong Taiwan is impressive in that they had thousands of flights a month to China, have only 30 active case…
Comment linking /corona/
on “Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community”Submitted Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials as a story · 187 points
HN discussionI’ve skirted around this in the post to keep conceptual clarity but you can always move away from the domain (as a handle) without breaking links. This is because there’s a more persistent identifier that represents your identity (or at least there’s an option of having one, and that’s the default mechanism). Links between records actually use that identifier instead of the domain handle. For a more technical overvi…
Comment linking /2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
on “Open Social”Submitted ATProto in Practice #1: Identity as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe world-wide total numbers are a very unfortunate choice of graph. It overlays the earlier development in China and their static number of cases (no new ones) with exponential growth in the rest of the world (= the beginning of a logistic curve looks like an exponential). Better look at each of the different countries. China and South Korea as examples when the problem is managed ; Italy, Germany and Spain as exam…
Comment linking /corona/
on “GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization”Submitted A Complete Guide to Bluesky as a story · 3 points
HN discussionViral spread is more complicated than a simple exponential curve. This is even visible when just eyeballing graphs in log space, e.g. here: https://mackuba.eu/corona/#total
Comment linking /corona/
on “GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization”Submitted A complete guide to Bluesky as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is another page that shows the case numbers by country. https://mackuba.eu/corona/ A few countries look like they have reached an inflection point (see number of daily new cases going back for example) but that could be a problem of testing (or lack thereof).
Comment linking /corona/
on “Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread”Submitted 2023: Year of Social Media Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThese actions are for the ~5-10% of people who get this bug and who require intensive care in order to survive. The death rate is pretty low even for those who end up with severe symptoms if the full weight of modern medical technology and care can be applied to their recovery. Right now, as I type this, many hospitals in the United States have had all of their excess intensive care capacity used up by Covid-19 case…
Comment linking /corona/
on “State projections for Covid-19”Submitted Coronavirus charts showing growth in each country separately as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Nobody is proposing we just let people die. Agreed, but a lot of people are arguing for the thing that will almost certainly lead to a lot more deaths. Right now, as I type this, many hospitals in the United States have had all of their excess capacity filled with Covid-19 cases. Not most, but many. Now, please click this link, then click Logarithmic on the top. https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states Once large…
Comment linking /corona/
on “State projections for Covid-19”Submitted SwiftUI on AppKit: Building a Dark Mode Switcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOuch: https://mackuba.eu/corona/#indiana_united_states.daily?trend... I appreciate the contrary feedback. Do you have a link to the high mask compliance in Indiana handy? I've honestly looked for this kind of data and haven't been able to find it, and so assumed fairly poor (US-wide at least) mask wear based on anecdotes.
Comment linking /corona/
on “South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'”Submitted Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI spent a weekend in Oklahoma last month (October 10-11), and was unable to enjoy myself because so few people were wearing masks, observing anything like distancing, etc. I saw a Carls Jr. employee wearing a corporate-supplied t-shirt that used "maskhole" to describe anyone not wearing a mask... and he was not wearing a mask, just like all the other employees. The hotel itself was the only place that seemed to be t…
Comment linking /corona/
on “South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'”Submitted New stuff from WWDC 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mackuba.eu/corona/#south_dakota_united_states.daily?...
Comment linking /corona/
on “South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'”Submitted ATProto in Practice #1: Identity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat screenshot of the modal prompt re: device location is virtually identical to the iOS dialog. Not trying to start a flame war here just interesting to see the striking resemblance. Example: https://mackuba.eu/images/posts/ios11-location/ios11-always.... (taken from https://mackuba.eu/2017/07/13/changes-to-location-tracking-i... )
Comment linking /2017/07/13/changes-to-location-tracking-in-ios-11/
on “Android Q Beta”Submitted Social Comments on My Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMetropolitan areas might not be the best comparison for a territorial state like Sweden. The actual effect of policies might be more visible when viewed next to comparable countries, like their nordic neighbours. Here are the case numbers per inhabitant from the Johns Hopkins university dataset plotted against time (moving average with a window of seven days): https://mackuba.eu/corona/#compare.daily?pop=1&c=no,fi,d…
Comment linking /corona/
on “The end of the pandemic is near”Submitted A Guide to NSButton Styles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot really true anymore, according to https://mackuba.eu/corona/#compare.daily?pop=1&c=ca-on,ca-qc...
Comment linking /corona/
on “We should administer Covid-19 vaccines as fast as possible, not reserve doses”Submitted A Guide to NSButton Styles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAt least 895 people died of Covid-19 yesterday in the United States; I say 'at least' because poor test coverage guarantees the number is much higher. 895 annualized to a year is about 330,000, which puts it above all other causes of death in the US except cancer and heart disease, higher than: Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases):…
Comment linking /corona/
on “Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown”Submitted A big ordered collection of features and APIs added in latest macOS/iOS/watchOS as a story · 1 points
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