Hacker News: NSUserDefaults

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome"

NSUserDefaults — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:17:47 +0000

Interesting, looks like it's two completely separate implementations, one in Swift and one in Python.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

NSUserDefaults — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:47:53 +0000

Could be a fix for per-device asset optimization that got messed up somehow.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

NSUserDefaults — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:41:38 +0000

I am delaying it because iOS development is currently making me money but once that stops, I am so looking forward to moving back to Linux. Neither Windows or macOS are going in a good direction. The difference is only in the degree and speed of ensh*ttification. Ironically the only thing I might miss is the often criticized Xcode.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

NSUserDefaults — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:30:12 +0000

If you pirate a movie and reencode it, does that apply as well? You can still watch the movie and it is “obviously” the same movie, even though the bytes are completely different. Here you can use the program and it is, to the user, also the same.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "A deep dive into Apple's .car file format"

NSUserDefaults — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:41:40 +0000

At this point if a file format could have rounded corners I’m sure it would too.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "I fixed Windows native development"

NSUserDefaults — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:14:57 +0000

So this fixes the problem when msvc is the required compiler. Does the zig C++ compiler bring anything to the table when clang is an option?

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

NSUserDefaults — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:24:31 +0000

Can I run this on my 486?

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

NSUserDefaults — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:40:34 +0000

On a single drive, deduplicate all you want. But you need to have two drives, at least, anyway.

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

NSUserDefaults — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:22:26 +0000

In that case you are supposed to use your /other/ backup. Which you have.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

NSUserDefaults — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:45:24 +0000

Of course. I was just calling the police on my drive home to report some junk on the road and the operator asked me quite directly “is it on the junction you just passed?”. I didn’t mind actually, saved me some explaining. And if I ever call emergency, I can be pretty sure they will find me.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

NSUserDefaults — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:22:22 +0000

I love the nanotexture on my 2020 27” 5k Intel iMac.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls"

NSUserDefaults — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:02:38 +0000

Doesn't seem newsworthy, unless you are a Windows-centric news site trying too hard to dis Linux.

The slow but steady move to 6+ CPU core systems seems at least a bit more interesting.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

NSUserDefaults — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:58:46 +0000

Many use Dear ImGui for example and some do donate afaik.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

NSUserDefaults — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:58:53 +0000

How crazy do you have to get with # of tracks or plugins before it starts to struggle? I was under the impression that most studios would be fine with an Intel Mac Mini + external storage.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "GrapheneOS Moving Out of France"

NSUserDefaults — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:10:23 +0000

Satellites?

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds"

NSUserDefaults — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:58:01 +0000

No mention of Godot? It seems to be slowly starting to eat their lunch. No mention of the fragmented rendering backends? Oh, but they do talk about basketball. Why would a CEO care about the little things… Unity is going to be fine.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Blender 5.1"

NSUserDefaults — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:04:56 +0000

Insane velocity. The UI is fantastic, would love to see more tools reuse it, like a DAW or a proper dedicated CAD app but from what I read it is deeply integrated in the project.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Asus Ascent GX10"

NSUserDefaults — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:16:51 +0000

Really looking forward to getting this used for $50 in 6 years just for kicks.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "The Swift SDK for Android"

NSUserDefaults — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:31:31 +0000

For JS driving the business logic you do not need a browser to run it. On iOS there is JavaScriptCore and there are other Javascript runtimes out there that are quite small.

That said, it is true that Javascript may not be the right choice for every app and some developers may be used to better language features and performance than that.

New comment by NSUserDefaults in "Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets"

NSUserDefaults — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:17:54 +0000

Better add a profanity filter quick. /s