Hacker News: 00deadbeef

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

00deadbeef — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:38:57 +0000

I bought a 24TB for £365 last June. It's £905 now.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

00deadbeef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:07:24 +0000

I like it so far.

Some features I'd like:

- XL bar size - even large feels a bit small on a 6K display

- I have grouped windows off, but it would be nice if there was an option to still sort the chips by app, so all the app's windows are listed adjacent to eachother

- If not using the suggest idea above, it would also be nice to be able to drag and drop chips to sort them in the order I want

- Make the Applications menu open for clicks on the entire bottom left area of the screen so I can slam my cursor in the general direction, where it ends up at the bottom left pixel, and click like I could in Windows to open the Start menu

- Ability to give a desktop a name

- Ability to map a key or sequence (e.g. opt, opt) to open the Applications menu, again like how you could open Windows' Start menu with a key

Bugs:

- Clicking a chip to minimise a window, then clicking it again to restore it sometimes causes the window to change size.

- Quitting boringBar spawned three stacks of these: https://postimg.cc/WhmwHGNz even though it already has permissions granted. Clicking "Allow" just spawns another one so they never go away. boringBar is not running in Activity Monitor. Had no choice but to reboot.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

00deadbeef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:57:11 +0000

I leave it there because I have a large screen and it looks pretty

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:36:01 +0000

But the Mac has a huge trick up its sleeve: it can run iOS and iPadOS apps. Meaning developers only have to make relatively minor adjustments to make it nice in the desktop and bin off the electron app on Mac.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:34:19 +0000

WhatsApp has a native Mac app

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:31:57 +0000

> I wouldn’t even care about the 8GB of ram if I could just add some myself.

I think that’s pretty unreasonable when they’re using an iPhone SoC to keep it cheap because they have massive volume. It was only ever available in 8GB and never designed for user upgradable memory because it’s for a phone.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

00deadbeef — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:22:30 +0000

What everyone else said, plus the cuteness factor

New comment by 00deadbeef in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

00deadbeef — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:06:53 +0000

Opus 4.5 successfully ignored the first line of my CLAUDE.md file last week

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

00deadbeef — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:11:42 +0000

Yeah it's way too vague.

This morning: (new chat) 42 seconds of thinking, 20 lines of code changed in 4 files = 5% usage

Last night: 25 minutes of thinking, 150 lines of code generated in 10 new files = 7% usage

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

00deadbeef — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:11:26 +0000

It does make an actual copy but then it builds a directory structure that you can browse by date (like Time Machine). That directory contains hard links so only one copy of a file is ever backed up but you see contents that match the date of the backup.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

00deadbeef — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:08:10 +0000

Reminds me of a tool I used to use that did a similar thing: https://github.com/jeremywohl/glastree

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

00deadbeef — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:38:16 +0000

They could have expanded the lineup to 2 S 3 X Y 4 U

New comment by 00deadbeef in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

00deadbeef — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:53:13 +0000

Use project-only memory https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-cha...

New comment by 00deadbeef in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

00deadbeef — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:50:46 +0000

You can turn it off

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

00deadbeef — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:56:35 +0000

Tailwind CSS is free and funded by extras like Tailwind Plus.

HTML and CSS are free to use but the W3C is funded by membership fees.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)"

00deadbeef — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:27:10 +0000

It wasn't just the art, but the boxes themselves. I remember buying this GPU which came in an X-shaped box: https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/First-NVidia-GeForce-128MB-Graphi...

New comment by 00deadbeef in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

00deadbeef — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:21:12 +0000

It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Introducing Stargate UK"

00deadbeef — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:49:42 +0000

Green energy like the world’s largest offshore windfarms which are in the UK? Or the SMRs Rolls-Royce are developing?

Chips like those designed by Arm that can be found in almost everything these days?

AI like DeepMind?

New comment by 00deadbeef in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)"

00deadbeef — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:14:23 +0000

You can turn off that "feature" with the "Quiet Mode" toggle on the top right

New comment by 00deadbeef in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)"

00deadbeef — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:13:44 +0000

It's not that expensive everywhere. In the UK I can get 1000/1000Mbps for £29 a month, and 8000/8000Mbps for £99 a month.