Hacker News: asimovDev

New comment by asimovDev in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

asimovDev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:24 +0000

Daft Punk didn't have helmets in the 90s, did they?

New comment by asimovDev in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

asimovDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:42:48 +0000

cmd+shift+R for reader mode if you prefer a keyboard shortcut

New comment by asimovDev in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

asimovDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:33:01 +0000

I wonder if Gamecube's PPC CPU is sufficiently compatible. then you have the easy Cube puns to use in reference to G4 cube

New comment by asimovDev in "A new spam policy for "back button hijacking""

asimovDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:54:44 +0000

yeah, with spacebar i can use either of my hands while the arrow keys would require me to use both of my hands

New comment by asimovDev in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

asimovDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:04:22 +0000

i love it. my mac doesn't have the home row (don't know if that's how that row of buttons is called) so I use spacebar and shift+spacebar as pgdown and pgup when I am reading

New comment by asimovDev in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

asimovDev — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:56:46 +0000

Bought an e-scooter from Wilfa (under the E-way subbrand). Been reversing it slowly. End goal is to have an Apple Watch only app with stats and maybe some fun gimmicks like using wrist rotation and gestures for switching gears and such.

So far I first sniffed the BT logs from my iPhone but couldn't figure out how authorization works. Recently decided to decompile the android version and with some LLM help I made some progress. Been too busy to test it out but once I crack the authorization I can get started with writing my own Watch app

New comment by asimovDev in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

asimovDev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:23:35 +0000

I hope OP is still reading comments. I noticed that the project was written in Xcode (the repo even has the xcodeproj folder) but in some screenshots I see CLion. Did you switch at some point or were you using both throughout the development simultaneously?

Amazing writeup, love this types of blog posts and hope the hawaii trip was enjoyable

New comment by asimovDev in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

asimovDev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:11:33 +0000

because of the mix of boredom, very shoddy internet that drops constantly and ANC earbuds removing distractions, I often find myself getting in the zone while riding the train back home from the office. As the kids say, I lock in

New comment by asimovDev in "Lunar Flyby"

asimovDev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:08:03 +0000

thanks for clearing this up. a bit sad as someone who started out as a Drupal dev. It was hellish as a junior but the overall ecosystem is so expandable and the community is great. At least the Tesla website is still Drupal heh

New comment by asimovDev in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

asimovDev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:36:42 +0000

if anyone else suddenly started wondering, PC magazines still exist in physical form. There are even still Linux magazines that come with installer CDs for distros. And all kinds of other magazines as well, like for Mac computers, for photo editors, for Raspberry Pi etc.

New comment by asimovDev in "Lunar Flyby"

asimovDev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:58:09 +0000

I am curious to see how being namedropped by NASA affects the sales of these cameras. It's probably not as much as I am imagining but still not an insignificant number. Probably less than Nutella that accidentally flew off the shelf live on stream straight across the shot

New comment by asimovDev in "Lunar Flyby"

asimovDev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:52:08 +0000

If you stare at the picture, there's an illusion of the shadow growing and enveloping the moon further. At least for me. Quite neat. Might be something about the eyes focusing on the dark part of the photo?

New comment by asimovDev in "Lunar Flyby"

asimovDev — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:46:50 +0000

Gorgeous, awe-inspiring photos.

Tangentially, did the NASA website move to WordPress? I thought it was Drupal, the Drupal official website even had a case study about nasa.gov. I see wp-content links on the site and there is no Drupal behaviors in JavaScript and I didn't notice any of the usual drupal classes in the source

New comment by asimovDev in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

asimovDev — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:54:16 +0000

Eddie Dalton hologram concert at Coachella

New comment by asimovDev in "Ask HN: What is the best software IDE to program with a local LLM and GPU?"

asimovDev — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:15:38 +0000

I think VS Code supports running a local model in Copilot but I am not sure if you still need to pay the subscription if you are going to use it with a local model. But I definitely remember using copilot with devstral than the latter came out a year or so ago

New comment by asimovDev in "We're Pausing Asimov Press"

asimovDev — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:38:14 +0000

Maybe I am living under the rock but I never seen a .press TLD before

New comment by asimovDev in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

asimovDev — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:24:20 +0000

in most apps you can just press the spacebar (pgdown) and shift+spacebar (pgup). Home is cmd+up and End is cmd+down

New comment by asimovDev in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

asimovDev — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:41:08 +0000

yeah that makes sense. thanks for replying!

New comment by asimovDev in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

asimovDev — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:35:18 +0000

do / did you have to always work in the office or do you get to work from home by taking a test rig with you ? always been curious about this

New comment by asimovDev in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

asimovDev — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:33:29 +0000

lowest is probably an apple trade in if available, but i can't imagine how bad of a price hit it will be.