Hacker News: APock

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

APock — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:10:46 +0000

Of coarse its a subscription...

New comment by APock in "Imo.im – Instant Messenger"

APock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:18:45 +0000

I'm surprised Imo still exists to be honest.

New comment by APock in "Fluent Search"

APock — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:10:33 +0000

What happened to wox launcher?

New comment by APock in "Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% client-side (WASM)"

APock — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:06:40 +0000

I want this but let me upload a file first.

New comment by APock in "Web3 is expensive P2P"

APock — Mon, 16 May 2022 14:23:11 +0000

So, being FULLY tracked by every website ever, on every device at the same time, since all your data is whatever wallet you use across devices anyway, is now a good thing?

New comment by APock in "Web3 is expensive P2P"

APock — Mon, 16 May 2022 14:21:11 +0000

The ponzi schemes ran by governments are ultimately run as a benefit to your retirement, and most importantly, you can overthrow a government.

New comment by APock in "Ask HN: Has the iPad Won the Tablet Wars?"

APock — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:12:47 +0000

> Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC

This is completely untrue and the fact that people think being able to connect a mouse and keyboard make it a PC is appaling.

The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that.

New comment by APock in "Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse"

APock — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:43:53 +0000

Why would I EVER even want that? Windows on phones is dead and tablets/hybrids are perfectly able to display the regular UI in a usable way.

New comment by APock in "Built to Last – RSS, HTTP (2015)"

APock — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:02:38 +0000

I use InoReader, its essentially google reader in all the ways that (used to) matter

New comment by APock in "Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack"

APock — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:43:13 +0000

Dropbox paper is amazing though if you need to create an "easy to collaborate that look decent" document. And it does not affect in anyway your experience with the "cloud sync" functionality

New comment by APock in "Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker"

APock — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:31:09 +0000

I'm just going to point out that if you kid was 2-3 years old, both you and your wife would be having a VERY different experience. A newborn mostly eats and sleeps. A toddler will tear your house appart, constantly interrupt you, call for you (usually lowdly), etc.

Those are not comparable experience, the month I spent at home when my kid was born was spend playing MMOs most of the day, now I cant have 5 minutes alone unless the TV is on 24/7 (wich is terrible, also).

New comment by APock in "Office noise generator"

APock — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:35:13 +0000

Don't forget the horribly loud air circulation system right above you, either.

New comment by APock in "Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)"

APock — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:38:21 +0000

People really undervalue the awesomeness of not having to set up an account to use an online service.

New comment by APock in "The falling price of a TV set"

APock — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:01:57 +0000

Most routers allow some kind of traffic denial, even the home use ones. But I guess you could get a rpi and set it up as a firewall or something

New comment by APock in "If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead"

APock — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:37:48 +0000

I work with senior developers all around me all day, most of them don't see a reason to spend more than $10 on a keyboard, and mock me constantly whenever I get a typo somewhere about my $150 daskeyboard.

New comment by APock in "Facebook's News Feed"

APock — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:06:10 +0000

Facebook really wants to display that kind of content because it triggers positivity on most people,getting you to comment and like said post,thus making your comment get likes and so on.. feeding you positive engagement in the process, so you don't stop using Facebook.