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Re:Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:25PM (#49859130)
Hello, PHASEONE10841 here. Ask me anything
Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:29PM (#49525081)
Why they don't use their rendering engine on ios at least in eu?
Re:Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only ...
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:41AM (#49346330)
I would like to see driver for my samsung printer. Drivers for mac was only for some very old macOS
Re:Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:42AM (#47686233)
Wait, isn't it how Skynet started?
Re:RFC: Storybook Design Token Addon
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:15PM (#47197771)
I'm working on free addon for storybook. It would enable designers and develepors to quickly review which design tokens from your collection is used in a particular component. Initially I will only support css modules and theme file where all your design token lives. I would like to hear from you, if there is any interest in something like this... Feedback is welcome. Project is in early stage.
Re:Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Sa...
on Sunday December 07, 2025 @09:39AM (#46181979)
I really don’t get why there’s always this group of people who feel the need to constantly manage everything for others—like sysadmins, for example. Sure, there are valid scenarios where management makes sense, like printing or shared drives, but most of the stuff is just over the top. As a developer, I’m sick of all the constant restrictions—broken VPNs, stealth monitoring, and antivirus software that slows everything down. These "security measures" are supposed to help, but they just kill performance and cause frustration. At the end of the day, I just want my system to work smoothly without constant interference.
Project Code Rush (Documentary): Does History Repeats with AI? [video]
Re:Project Code Rush (Documentary): Does History Repeats with AI? [video]
on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:26PM (#46027492)
Project Code Rush documents Netscape’s move to open source and the birth of Mozilla during the first internet boom. The dynamics compared to today’s AI surge were different—commercial web vs. an AI arms race—but the pressure, rapid iteration, stock-driven hype, and “new-tech gold rush” energy feel familiar.
Re:Show HN: Macscope – I decide to built a better Cmd-Tab replacement ...
on Friday September 26, 2025 @02:29AM (#45383377)
does it display minimized apps as default macos switcher? that bothers me to degree i would pay for substitute.
Re:NPM stylus package contained malicious code and was removed from th...
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:16AM (#44657885)
Colleague of mine. Pointed out that github advisory had many new malware reports in last few days. All looking same.
Looks suspicious if you ask me. Maybe somebody hacked the github advisory db?
Re:Show HN: Firefox from Ramdisk (macOS Only)
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @11:58AM (#44145112)
The reason I created this was because I missed the profile sync daemons commonly found in Linux. I haven’t looked into this specific one, but most available solutions are Linux-only.
Show HN: Firefox from Ramdisk (macOS Only)
https://github.com/mauron85/Firefox-Ramdisk
I hacked this app for my needs in one single before noon in Swift. ChatGPT and Grok turned out to be super helpful.It solves the problem, where Firefox writes excessive amounts of data. Even if you disable disk cache. It still stores lot of data. cookies, session storage data...You might wonder why I made this as an app instead of using Automator or a bash script.The main advantage of an app...
Re:The masters of Commodore 64 games
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:20PM (#43356430)
Oh this bring back memories. As during communist era, there were no extra money or even stores where to buy. So we copied casettes. First load game then save on blank cassete. This worked for almost all games, but one. That one instead of waiting for run or save command, started game immediately. So only way to copy was using double decker. But most of double deckers were shitty. Adding so much noise, that copy didn’t work. I remember visiting one friend that has high quality deck, that was able to make a workable copy.
Re:Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:17AM (#42850375)
I'm not stock expert (but bought 80 shares of Nvidia yesterday). My rationale is, that if DeepSeek lowered barier for entry into AI model development, actually more companies can afford to join. Yes, big dogs may require less cards with efficient algorithms, but to me, more companies = more cards needed.
Re:Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser
on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:55PM (#41871941)
it would be cool. to sava be able open two cloud disk providers side by side and copy files from one to other.
Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock
on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:07PM (#41628848)
Can it have rubbery grip, or silicone instead of plastic? Sorry I asked, before asking Google.
Re:What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023)
on Saturday June 08, 2024 @05:06AM (#40616298)
I recently switced to Captura from from ActiveScreen recorded and I love it. Didn’t observe any bugs at all. Great piece of sw.
Re:Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing work effic...
on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:57AM (#36846458)
which version of designer have it? i didn’t upgrade to latest yet.
Re:Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro/Air users, how is it going?
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:46AM (#32648766)
I have M1 Air with 16 gigs of RAM. This is my 3rd Air in row. I had even one with the crapy butterfly keyboard. But this M1 is beast from another realm. For my daily development I have to use PC with 11gen Intel i5. But sometimes I pull work to this Air aswell. Always suprised how much faster the compilation step is. Basically instant for this project. Presing Enter and bum code compiled. On PC i have to wait several seconds, up to 10.
Re:Actual is going open-source
on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:24PM (#31208912)
Thanks. Sure, I had own domain for a year, made promotion on Facebook. This product was not developed with other countries in mind. Idea was to do pilot in my own country and then scale up. Every country has different invoicing rules, so it cannot be just translated to English and put on US market. But since it didn't attract any single customer, I just gave up as my previous experience was that adding features when there is no traction for MVP just prolong your suffering.
Re:Actual is going open-source
on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:11PM (#31207906)
I feel your frustration about business not going as envisioned. My current failure rate is two failed attempts to build profitable busines. Actually the second project is similar to yours. Invoice app for small entrepreneurs. Till today I'm the only user of the app. To reduce costs, I made it run completely without server support, all data is stored in local storage and hosted on netlify for free (no own domain). https://moja--fakturazdarma.netlify.app/. It was nice challenge for me to make it work completely without any backend (generation of pdfs using pdfmake, generating qrcodes and lzma compression ...) I still use it for main own invoicing and use to in my resume as work reference, but with zero money income.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 18
on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:27AM (#31144311)
The only problem with DaVinci on Linux was no builin mp4 codec. So you had the convert mp4 videos to some format and only then you could use it in DaVinci. Windows nor macOS version doesn't had this limitation. It was DaVinci 15 or 16. Not sure if this changed already.
Re:Why not hire part-time developers?
on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:09AM (#30497532)
I would never hire part-time developer once again. I did once and burned heavily. That guy had own startup. For few months it worked to some degree (because he was hungry for cash). But afterwhile, his mind and focus was back to his own startup. Hi performance dropped significantly and he just use us to fund his business and used our hardware to test his app.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:37PM (#29384195)
the difference is the distribution channel. For cordova you still need to use Apple store and pay yearly and share your income with Apple. With PWA, the distribution channel is web, so no commissions for Apple.
Re:Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly
on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:09AM (#29317974)
Wondering if there is possibility having wasm port running game in the browser would be great.
Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:32AM (#28434690)
For me, the good compromise for start would be 3 devices per year per maker to have this prolonged support.
Probably I'm native, but also wonder, why there is no single manufacturer that offers payed updates after product EOL. Like subscription service, canonical is offering after LTS release is EOL.
Re:Microsoft Edge Used More Than Firefox
on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:10AM (#27770465)
Sure, but what exactly chrome like dev tool are you missing in FF? Recently I was looking for Code Coverage reports, which FF lacks, but still prefer FF over chrome.
Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:52AM (#27205418)
In my experience base level items have much better resale value then more expensive items. It's true for notebooks, graphic cards and cars too. For example my iPhone 11 Pro has fallen to half of the price in one year, but entry level iPhone 11 probably has still 70% of its value. Same for Macbook Air, entry level with 8GB and 256 SSD will hold value better then maxed out one. Same with cars, extra premium equipment has basically no value for people that are buying used cars. So doubt that premium graphic cards are exception. Their value falls sharply over time, so not sure people buying them are considering resale value as argument to buy them.
Re:The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:12AM (#26474488)
Still have this little linux phone. It missed compass hw, so map experience was not great and also resistive display was inferior to iPhone, but still loved it. It's bad Nokia didn't manage it create viable platform, but rather switched to Windows phones and also died there with broken teeth.