Hacker News: Crestwave

New comment by Crestwave in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"

Crestwave — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:23:54 +0000

Yeah, user edits/deletes are locked after 2 hours. You can email hn@ycombinator.com to request an edit past the initial window.

New comment by Crestwave in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

Crestwave — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:09:44 +0000

Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

New comment by Crestwave in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

Crestwave — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:13:00 +0000

Static linking packs the dependencies into the executable. This is basically dynamic vendoring.

New comment by Crestwave in "MacBook Neo"

Crestwave — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:49:41 +0000

Good to hear. What hypervisor are you using (UTM, VMWare, Parallels)?

New comment by Crestwave in "Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS"

Crestwave — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:50:12 +0000

A "free side" means being exposed on the left or right, matching your Wikipedia quote. On the other hand, OP's implementation checks if it can be moved up or down.

New comment by Crestwave in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

Crestwave — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:21:58 +0000

I quite like Shelter [1]. Shelter apps are installed in a separate work profile, which essentially sandboxes it from the rest of your data. It also has a neat feature to automatically disable (freeze) specific apps and seamlessly re-enable them when you launch them through Shelter.

[1] https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter

New comment by Crestwave in "The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey"

Crestwave — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:05:35 +0000

What edition are you using? The home edition straight-up has pop-up ads[1] for random Xbox games, even on a clean install with all notification settings turned off.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1j77ro8/window...

New comment by Crestwave in "uLauncher"

Crestwave — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:03:04 +0000

Thanks for the clarification (and your work on Olauncher)! I knew I should have checked the source code before posting my comment. I don't think they need to be removed, but I would appreciate an option to disable them.

New comment by Crestwave in "uLauncher"

Crestwave — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:25:10 +0000

The launcher itself is also very clean and minimal, with a text-only UI. You can pin up to 8 apps to the home screen and the rest are accessible through search. You trigger search with a swipe, and when only a single matching app remains for your query, it automatically opens it, making it pretty efficient.

E.g., if you don't have Firefox pinned, you can swipe and type "fir" (or any other unique substring) and it will open just like that. It's great for muscle memory.

My only complaint with it is that the developer sometimes sends messages (e.g., happy new year) and there doesn't seem to be any way to disable it. I don't see why a minimal launcher should have internet access at all.

New comment by Crestwave in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

Crestwave — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:04:56 +0000

Yes, but Anthropic is specifically claiming their implementation is clean-room, while GNU never made that claim AFAIK.

New comment by Crestwave in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

Crestwave — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:59:48 +0000

Clean-room design is extremely specific. Anyone who has so much as glanced at Windows source code[1] (or even ReactOS code![2]) is permanently banned from contributing to WINE.

This is 100% unambiguously not clean-room unless they can somehow prove it was never trained on any C compiler code (which they can't, because it most certainly was).

[1] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Developer-FAQ#wh...

[2] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

New comment by Crestwave in "Termux"

Crestwave — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:43:52 +0000

Nope, it comes with apt. You might be referring to iSH on iOS, which does use Alpine in a VM.

New comment by Crestwave in "A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice"

Crestwave — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:19:47 +0000

The script you posted is only portable in theory and not in practice. Executing it while using a non-POSIX shell like Elvish (even without having it as a default shell) makes it immediately fail.

Meanwhile, `#!/usr/bin/env` is completely portable in the practical sense. Even systems with non-standard paths like NixOS, Termux and GoboLinux patch in support for it specifically.

New comment by Crestwave in "Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground"

Crestwave — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:26:38 +0000

Oh wow. Your original comment is pretty darn prophetic.

New comment by Crestwave in "A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice"

Crestwave — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:50:53 +0000

`#!/usr/bin/env bash` is the most portable form for executing it from $PATH

New comment by Crestwave in "Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB"

Crestwave — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:16:55 +0000

It makes a lot more sense when you consider that Apple's business model relies heavily on keeping customers locked into their ecosystem.

Clearly a Mac user should also have an iPhone, or face the repurcussions for using a non-Apple device.

New comment by Crestwave in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

Crestwave — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:42:30 +0000

It is a valid strategy for privately owned companies. Look at Valve—they have their flaws, but they're investing into open technologies and actually improving their product because they know they're sitting on an infinite money printer.

If they went public, no amount of profit would be enough. They would have to squeeze every last cent out of their users for the quarterly reports.

New comment by Crestwave in "The problem with farmed seafood"

Crestwave — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:45:27 +0000

There are lots of ways to cook oysters, which significantly lessens the briny taste and gelatinous texture.

While it's true that their rise in the West was mostly from clever marketing, oysters are just considered normal seafood in many countries and are cooked into dishes.

But yes, the premium price due to the raw oyster trend makes it not worth it if you live far away from the sea.

New comment by Crestwave in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

Crestwave — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:36:20 +0000

If you take a peek at the commit history [1], you'll see that the project started only last week with some very vague commit messages. The code is also quite messy and unoptimized. It's a cool project but not exactly industry-level software.

[1] https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi

New comment by Crestwave in "Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua"

Crestwave — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:38:17 +0000

It doesn't, no? You create virtual environments using Python's venv module, not pip. The newer alternatives like uv do handle it, though.