Hacker News: akulbe

New comment by akulbe in "Show HN: Oliphaunt – a native macOS Mastodon client built with AppKit"

akulbe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:24:09 +0000

That's all at the very bottom of the crash report.

New comment by akulbe in "Show HN: Oliphaunt – a native macOS Mastodon client built with AppKit"

akulbe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:15:54 +0000

OP - I don't know if there's anything else I can do to assist, other than the bug report output I put in the gist, but let me know. I'm happy to help.

New comment by akulbe in "Show HN: Oliphaunt – a native macOS Mastodon client built with AppKit"

akulbe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:02:44 +0000

Sorry... it's DOA for me. Just installed it, and I can't even open it. Immediately crashes on open. Repeatedly.

https://gist.github.com/akulbe/26b71df4a3fd069dd71824f000c9a...

New comment by akulbe in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

akulbe — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:21:20 +0000

Is this a direct shot at things like OpenClaw, or am I reading it wrong?

New comment by akulbe in "GitHub is down again"

akulbe — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:37:15 +0000

No, the reason it's happening is because they must be vibe coding! :P

New comment by akulbe in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

akulbe — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:02:33 +0000

I still have my Windows 11 machine, but I haven't booted into it in a couple months now.

The "Windows is going to be an agentic OS" announcement was the last straw.

Linux and Mac it is.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?"

akulbe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:16:28 +0000

https://x.com/profstonge/status/2001631029799608525

More evidence as to why it’s not worth it.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?"

akulbe — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:25:02 +0000

Absolutely not. Total waste. Nothing but regret about it. I graduated 13 years ago, and I'm still paying on it.

The valuable "education" came after, wasn't related to the school curriculum, and was mostly learned on the job.

Some professions require the pedigree, in those cases, you have no choice but to play the game.

If you want to get educated, take the courses that align with your chosen vocation, don't bother with following a degree track. It's not worth the money/hassle. Also, and this is key, marry what you learn with hands-on doing of the stuff you're covering in class.

Get into an internship/apprenticeship. Learn a trade.

The "you have to go to college to be successful" mantra is a lie. And we've saddled ourselves (and our kids) with this idea and the horrendous debt that comes with it.

It's a terrible, terrible idea.

"I have never let schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain

New comment by akulbe in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

akulbe — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:40:37 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks 120Hz is still low for a display of that size?

My 38" LG goes up to 144Hz. I would have figured something larger would be at least that much.

New comment by akulbe in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

akulbe — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:32:09 +0000

What are you pivoting to?

New comment by akulbe in "Gpg.fail"

akulbe — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:30:59 +0000

Is there a better alternative to GPG?

New comment by akulbe in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

akulbe — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:34:14 +0000

This article was good, but the blaming the us-east-1 outage on layoffs doesn't seem accurate.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: What is your monitor setup?"

akulbe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:38:28 +0000

LG 38" ultrawide.

Moved to it from 2 Dell displays. After years of dual displays, I'm glad I made this switch.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: What could possibly happen so people would want to read more?"

akulbe — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:01:27 +0000

No, we cannot be fine without reading. That's my strong opinion.

I think AI is definitely a tool, but if we outsource all of our thinking, I think that it will become detrimental to our existence, that we certainly would not thrive from doing so.

Reading is one of the primary ways we learn, and engage our minds.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?"

akulbe — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:29:43 +0000

I came here to say this, but you beat me to it. :D

New comment by akulbe in "Eating stinging nettles"

akulbe — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:53:44 +0000

I'm originally from W. WA. too, and I never heard about people eating them until I grew up.

I remember dreading them when we'd go through the ravines with friends to our hideouts. :D

New comment by akulbe in "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions"

akulbe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:22:59 +0000

Google is doing exactly the same thing. Our monthly rates for Workspace went up because of the AI crap we didn't ask for.

New comment by akulbe in "Australia sues Microsoft over AI-linked subscription price hikes"

akulbe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:14:56 +0000

Google is doing the exact same thing, to a lesser degree. Our Workspace sub increased in price, because of their AI features that we never asked for.

New comment by akulbe in "M5 MacBook Pro"

akulbe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:36:11 +0000

I want to love Linux on the desktop as much as the next Linux fan, but I always end up coming back to the Mac (begrudgingly).

I really liked Windows when WSL came out, but the direction Microsoft seems to be going makes me want to run the other way.

Windows or macOS... for the hardware working well, generally just works as expected. The tradeoffs you make with each, are different. But it's usually not a hardware thing, as to why (in my experience).

I just put Linux on a 5th-gen ThinkPad P1. It works... mostly. Sound works... at about 50% volume of what Windows or macOS would output. This has consistently been an issue with me, every time I've tried to use Linux on the desktop.

It ends up being some set of compromises to use Linux.

And when video is a frequent part of my work and personal use... the quality of it on Linux just doesn't cut it.

For server usage... forget it. Linux wins, hands down. Zero contest. :D

New comment by akulbe in "Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, Ported to Zig"

akulbe — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:42:25 +0000

Does this do something like TextExpander and Keyboard Maestro? is that the general idea?

The one thing I really can't stand about macOS is "Secure Input". It won't let you use something like TE or KM to input a password. You're forced to copy and paste.

As far as I understand, you can't disable that feature either... because securiteh! :/