TaqPolymerase
Re:Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS
on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:59AM (#45756831)
Super useful and a great price. Added to my Login Items and remapped some of the extra modifier keys on my Keychron Q11 for even easier access to Draw/HUD. Perhaps one nice-to-have would be an indicator that 'Draw' is active so I know what my next click is going to do (maybe the menu icon changes?). Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Vimeo for your app?
on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:58PM (#29611176)
Nothing against Vimeo, but was Mux (https://mux.com - YCW16) also a consideration?
Re:How to 'borrow' your neighbors xfinity internet
on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:06AM (#26608360)
This seems like the tricky part:
> Grab another laptop, iphone, etc and connect to xfinity.
Said laptop must have been authenticated using an xfinity customer’s credentials, right?
Re:Who is Ryan Mack and why does he have facebook.com/r?
on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:49AM (#25889658)
Seemingly a former FB employee, among other things: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmackfb
Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:09AM (#24105761)
This works in Spotlight too!
Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:33PM (#24092926)
Do you have a good way of discovering these keys / syncing them with the UI? I like to do the same thing but sometimes change a setting in the UI and don’t know what to update in my script without diffing the entire prefs directory before and after the change.
Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:28PM (#24092871)
Cmd-Shift-5 for some more nice screenshot options, including disabling that floating window that appears before your screenshot gets saved to the Desktop
Cmd-Down also opens in Finder, just like Cmd-O
Re:Setting up my MacBook from Scratch
on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:08AM (#23962170)
Check out dotbot[1] and the brewfile[2] plugin
1: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot 2: https://github.com/sobolevn/dotbot-brewfile
Re:Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
on Friday April 15, 2016 @07:23PM (#11508370)
I had to turn two-step off in order to enable two-factor
Re:Show HN: Unicode Fonts for iOS/Web
on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @02:30PM (#8794203)
Tried to rate the iOS app to get more keyboards but it keeps crashing :( cool though!
Re:Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes,...
on Thursday October 31, 2013 @08:11AM (#6646319)
I think the author might be referring to clocks not counting in binary, rather than clocks not counting off power cycles. Full text:
> (6) "I figured it was actually 512 seconds (2^9)," one informant speculated. "Or maybe, since the clock is counting (typically) the power cycles from the wall socket, it's because nine minutes is 32,400 cycles, very close to 2^15 (32,768)." Engineer's comment: Nice try, bub, but clocks don't count that way.
Re:Ask HN: A music player for the colourblind?
on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @11:09PM (#6209744)
Looks awesome, as does 8tracks which I hadn't heard of until now. If you're looking for more color schemes, I like http://colorbrewer2.org for colorblind-friendly palettes.