Hacker News: bartvk

New comment by bartvk in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

bartvk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:12:50 +0000

Yeah, I remember this story too. Crazy, it most definitely feels like the organization missed an opportunity.

New comment by bartvk in "Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved"

bartvk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:58:20 +0000

What do you mean by "turning into almolecular atoms"?

New comment by bartvk in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

bartvk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:23:35 +0000

Yes but look, they set up meetings so they're listening to customers, like all good founders /s

New comment by bartvk in "macOS needs its grid back"

bartvk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:25:19 +0000

I try to always install with Homebrew. Because then you can uninstall with the --zap option, for example:

  $ brew uninstall --zap aerospace

Usually it blows away everything associated with the app, including cached files, configuration in ~/Library and ~/.config, etc. Very useful. It'll leave a non-functional login item which isn't active and can't be active.

New comment by bartvk in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

bartvk — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:13:47 +0000

There's manipulation going on, but if you fight that, why do you feel that prediction markets should be illegal?

New comment by bartvk in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

bartvk — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:42:25 +0000

It's not expensive either, just $46 (EUR. 41). Weirdly enough, they only sell/ship to the five biggest EU countries.

New comment by bartvk in "Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha"

bartvk — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:44:45 +0000

Can I share my Visual Studio Code pet peeve? I tried to set the font of the editor, so I opened the preferences and instead of simply picking a font, there's a textfield for the "font family". I want to set it to Anka/Coder Narrow. I have no idea what I should fill in the textfield, and I feel it's a regression.

Anyway, it's amazing how JetBrains just keeps pumping out IDEs. My students like it. When I suggested Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code for coding C#, they ignored me and installed JetBrains Rider.

New comment by bartvk in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

bartvk — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:43:42 +0000

Yeah but this monitor also switches its internal USB hub to USB-C. Is that really standard behavior?

New comment by bartvk in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

bartvk — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:37:31 +0000

He is very critical of Elon Musk, but I never caught him writing something false.

New comment by bartvk in "California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants"

bartvk — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:19:08 +0000

What if you drive electric?

New comment by bartvk in "The AI zombification of universities"

bartvk — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:58:23 +0000

This is already being done. I teach computer science at bachelor-level and all exams are in-person. We talk through the code.

New comment by bartvk in "delta time"

bartvk — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:58:05 +0000

My grandmother is over a hundred years old. You may have a lot of years to live yet.

New comment by bartvk in "Time Out, the native macOS break reminder, reached version 3"

bartvk — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:17:29 +0000

I'm a happy user of the macOS app Time Out. I tried a couple of these break reminders to keep my wrists and hands healthy. However after some time, they end up being unmaintained. Time Out is one of the apps that has been maintained for many years and recently got the major version number bumped to 3, with support for macOS Tahoe.

Time Out, the native macOS break reminder, reached version 3

bartvk — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:17:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dejal.com/timeout/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125466

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bartvk in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

bartvk — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:30:17 +0000

First I thought to myself, "my daughter does this and it looks so cute". And only as a second thought, that your comment just proved itself.

New comment by bartvk in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

bartvk — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:36:13 +0000

Exactly this. Whenever macOS updates, I avoid any and all posts here, on Reddit, on wherever because it's just full of complaints and threats to leave macOS.

In the meantime, I update, note the minor (to me) changes and go about my work.

New comment by bartvk in "I want to live like Costco people"

bartvk — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:09:00 +0000

You're equals in that regard, but try riding a motorcycle one day. I live in a country where lanesplitting is legal. There's nothing quite like getting passed by an extremely expensive car, and then at the traffic lights, cut in front of it.

New comment by bartvk in "What I learned making an app for my family"

bartvk — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:38:58 +0000

Agreed, you will get screwed some day if you aren't able to make simple calculations by heart.

New comment by bartvk in "OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family"

bartvk — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:15:25 +0000

My ex isn't good with numbers but nevertheless she has a master in education. She has helped many, many children with learning deficiencies. For lots of people, the math is a significant barrier.

New comment by bartvk in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

bartvk — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:44:04 +0000

Of course they are. Lots of websites are pushing it, including while using dark patterns. You need to sometimes explicitly cancel an onboarding flow to avoid Passkeys.