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Re:Delta – A Multiplayer Environment for Coding with Agents on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:51AM (#49728912)

git worktrees

Re:The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:44PM (#49652553)

I tried it on macOS Sequoia and it froze everything except the cursor movement.

Re:Show HN: Barstool, a Prettier macOS Menubar on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:07AM (#48209066)

Looks great. Is it open source?

Re: on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:38PM (#46212645)

Hah, "censorship"; it's simple regulation.

US companies follow the law when in US so why not the same for EU?

EU laws only apply when a company is serving EU residents.

Also, background on founder of posted source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/michael-benz-rising-vo...

Re: on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:50AM (#45962099)

xkcd/927

Re:Interactive Double Pendulum Playground on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @03:17AM (#45513075)

There's a "How To Use?" section on the GitHub repo page.

https://github.com/theabbie/DoublePendulum?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Re:The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:35AM (#44951352)

Yup, human progress is positive-sum in the long run. It only looks zero-sum because of short-term politics.

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:10AM (#42980804)

yea, i agree — it’s definitely not just a software thing. good intentions don’t always translate into good execution.

i wonder if/when AGI becomes real, could it help with writing better policies/laws since it would have a broader understanding of issues and (hopefully) no bias so it would be able to predict outcomes we can't

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:31AM (#42944677)

wow.. our society really has a tendency to overcorrect regarding social issues

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Sunday October 27, 2024 @11:43PM (#41967658)

Working on a macOS app for the empty space around the MacBook notch.

https://github.com/navtoj/NotchBar

Need some ideas for what kind of widgets would be useful...

Show HN: NotchBar – Open-source macOS app to add widgets around the notch

Posted by navtoj on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:35AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/navtoj/NotchBar

Hi everyone! I wanted to learn swift so thought I'd try making an app that's useful to me. I hope you give it a try and please suggest what widgets you'd want to see :)

( Read More... | 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )

Re:The Everything NPM Package on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:47PM (#38895279)

NPM still hasn't fixed the "*" package version bug on their end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzqtWTMFv9Y&t=465

Re:The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:31AM (#37429343)

The Rome Statute limits the "Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court".

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

Re:Linker, can you spare a meg? (2021) on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:06AM (#33391274)

> While we were busy fixing the linker to save 1MB, iOS 15 launched and quietly gave us 35MB more.

why didn't the ios team do this before? 15 MB seems very low for network extensions