Show HN: Pomak – focus timer for Mac/Windows written in Rust+wgpu
https://brutalism.rs/project/pomak/
Let's make software weird again.Free to download until the end of the weekend (December 4th). Cheers!
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and ...
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:34AM (#49445694)
I thought so too when I bought a beefy iMac Pro in 2017. But then guess what, new CPU architecture and 10 years down the line it's not supported anymore. Yes I can stay on whatever OS was last supported, but the tools also start ditching support slowly. For example, Rust no longer has tier 1 support for x86_64-apple-darwin so it's a matter of time when things will start breaking.
I am quite sure Apple will think of a reason to deprecate my M1 Macbook Pro (which works great BTW!) in a couple of years, at which point I'm switching back to Linux and will not be coming back. I'm tired of accumulating perfectly good hardware in my house which is nerfed by lack of software updates.
Re:Monitors for Work
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:45AM (#49229004)
No this was in the UK.
Re:Monitors for Work
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:44AM (#49228998)
16pt is huge on this monitor, fits too few code lines on screen. 18 is almost headline sized.
But anyway doing these acrobatics is not what a professional should be doing in 2026.
Re:Monitors for Work
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:39AM (#49228973)
No, just normal font sizes, macOS. 14pt looks huge, had to lower it to 12pt to look physically about the same as 14pt on a 4K/5K 27”, but at that physical size it’s a blurry mess due to low ppi.
Edit: Oh I misread your comment as 6 pixels large, not 6 pixels wide. Yes, you’re correct.
Re:Monitors for Work
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:36AM (#49228962)
Yeah I’m on macOS.
Re:Monitors for Work
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @05:00PM (#49225872)
Just started a new remote contracting gig and did a one-week on-site “getting to know each other” thing. I was shocked that everyone in the office had dual 27” 1080p monitors. Didn’t know they even made 1080p monitors that big!
Anyway after a week of staring at that blurry mess I was having eye focusing issues every night trying to read a book. Those monitors should be treated as ergonomic hazard. Total disgrace.
Re:A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting...
on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:20AM (#46942141)
https://archive.li/OAEU2 (archive.is seems down for me)
Re:Quake Brutalist Jam III
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:00AM (#46527910)
vkQuake.app works great on Apple silicon Macs.
Re:Typepad Is Closed for Business
on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:48AM (#45448442)
Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.
Re:macOS Tahoe
on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:49PM (#45253505)
https://xkcd.com/2224/
But yeah, I agree with you.
Re:From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became ...
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:51AM (#44994140)
+1, shame people are downvoting this.
Re:Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles
on Friday May 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#44137717)
Make triangles great again
Re:The Frontend Treadmill
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:54PM (#43428088)
“I just fuck around til it works”
Re:Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:18PM (#43285613)
cgmath?
Re:The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots
on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:20PM (#36381622)
Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct?
on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:32AM (#35750879)
+1, although I didn’t read it. Close tab.
Re:He who submits a resume has already lost
on Saturday April 01, 2023 @08:57AM (#35399962)
Very ranty, I’m surprised it got this many upvotes.
Re:Brown Widows Are Winning the Fight for Your Attic and Garage
on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:19AM (#35229956)
I thought it was about windows as well :D
Re:Meta employees grill Mark Zuckerberg at all-hands meeting following...
on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:18AM (#35206628)
Re:A Balloon Engineer Explains What’s Up
on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:58AM (#34859349)
“Let’s put a pun in the headline, to make it pop”
Re:Dominance of App Store and Google Play is hurting developers and users
on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:00PM (#33660127)
Can we stop upvoting these clumsily disguised adguard marketing posts? It’s annoying: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=adguard.com
Re:Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]
on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:55AM (#32921253)
Note: this is from 2017.
Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:16PM (#32461517)
An experimental weather forecast visualization app: https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:53AM (#19643183)
Thank you, I appreciate it! :) There's https://kev.town/raymarching-toolkit/ but I haven't tried it. Looks promising!
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:26PM (#19639402)
No library, I wrote the SDF/raymarching shaders from scratch. But there are libraries out there...
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:25PM (#19639391)
I’m using DarkSky which gives you 1000 requests per day for free, and beyond that the pricing is quite reasonable.
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:08AM (#19623498)
I'm considering it!
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:04PM (#19619872)
Thanks! :) By all means do, we need more playful software if you ask me!
Re:Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:02PM (#19619858)
I'm not sure, although I developed this in Unity so I imagine it would be a lot of jumping through hoops to get there... (upvote for the pun :D)