Hacker News: bonyt

New comment by bonyt in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

bonyt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:55:05 +0000

For YouTube, I've used it in Safari on iOS for a while with UnTrap for YouTube that lets you disable short[1]. On desktop, a uBlock origin filter works[2].

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/untrap-for-youtube/id163743805...

[2]: https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

New comment by bonyt in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:18:22 +0000

Sure - of course! Hope it can be helpful.

New comment by bonyt in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:34:09 +0000

I replaced the keyboard MacBook Air M1 keyboard with a $20 model from Amazon and it's been going strong for a full year. I had spilled ginger ale on the original.

The board is riveted in, but there are enough screws to hold the replacement in place. Removing the board is a shockingly violent process, but it worked for me.

Keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQBVMM3X (price has gone up).

Video of rivets breaking: https://i.tonybox.net/9f2083b218d5.mp4 (you can see I missed a screw and slightly cut my hand here too).

New comment by bonyt in "Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:34:18 +0000

The article linked in the first paragraph is almost more interesting to me[1]. Some of these places, like the subway, have air frequently circulated that can filter aerosols but leave CO2; this limitation makes me somewhat doubt its usefulness as a proxy for disease transmission risk.

Apart from disease transmission, since I've gotten a CO2 monitor in my apartment I've noticed that running the gas stove or oven for even a little while will make a huge spike in CO2.

[1] https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2026/02/so-you-want-to-monitor-...

New comment by bonyt in "Typing and Keyboards"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:26:00 +0000

I'm a fan of scissor switch keyboards, which I think makes me a bit odd - I got used to them from laptops and now I have an MX Keys Mini that I really like. I like the short travel and the tactile nature of them - I tried a slim mechanical (Nuphy Air75) but it still slowed me down considerably and was uncomfortable. I touch type but not home-row, so maybe my chaotic typing style doesn't work on heavier keys.

New comment by bonyt in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

bonyt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:19:47 +0000

Can't even get 4K on most streaming services on macOS now... It's not just Linux anymore.

Netflix lets you in Safari[1]; Disney+ limits you to 1080p[2]; and Hulu limits you to 720p[3].

[1]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764 ("Mac computer with an Apple processor or Apple T2 Security chip").

[2]: https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-video-quality ("Please note 4K streaming is not available on computer browsers").

[3]: https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-video-quality ("Hulu.com streams in quality up to 720p").

What's My ΔE(OK) JND?

bonyt — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336213

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bonyt in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

bonyt — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:26:45 +0000

Neat, it's staggering that there hasn't been a good non-subscription option for a simple utility like this for iOS. I've used Termius for a while, but it pushes a subscription and AI features pretty hard.

I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS.

[1] https://secretive.dev/

New comment by bonyt in "List animals until failure"

bonyt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:08:18 +0000

I just made a variant of this that uses the browser speech recognition API. It's simplified, with none of the flair of the original, but should be fun to play in person. It's fun to shout animal names at computer with friends.

https://t.moveything.com/animalscream/

(works best on desktop chrome. it's too slow on safari in my testing.)

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5

bonyt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:12:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312892

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by bonyt in "The appropriate amount of effort is zero"

bonyt — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:14:04 +0000

"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be."

- Office Space (1999)

New comment by bonyt in "DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation"

bonyt — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:31:44 +0000

Hey, working at the DNALC was my first job when I was in high school. I made a port of their iOS 3D brain app for Android, based on pre-rendered images (which was the style at the time - 2009-ish). It looks like it has since been taken down, which makes sense - I targeted my G1 at the time for acceptable performance, and Android broke things as it moved on. I also helped out on some web apps at the time. Great experience.

https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/products/3d-brain-app.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307055457/https://play.goog...

New comment by bonyt in "Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths"

bonyt — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:33:48 +0000

I think your license has a typo that inverts the meaning:

> This license does now allow for the fonts to be embedded in software apps or e-books.

New comment by bonyt in "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"

bonyt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:51:48 +0000

Does each container network of the 256 really need its own /64? Is there some constraint that doesn't let them work on a /72?

Recording audio using a high speed video camera, hot dog, and an AM radio tower

bonyt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:39:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMF3Plt-mCY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850161

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bonyt in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

bonyt — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:56:34 +0000

Looks like openDesk uses Collabora Online, which is itself based on libreoffice online - web based libreoffice.

https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#document-management ("Collabora Online powers openDesk with a robust office suite designed for efficient teamwork and secure document editing.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online ("Collabora Online (often abbreviated as COOL) is an open-source online office suite developed by Collabora, based on LibreOffice Online, the web-based edition of the LibreOffice office suite.")

New comment by bonyt in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

bonyt — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:11:11 +0000

uv is fast enough that you can put things like this in your profile:

   alias ytd="uv tool upgrade yt-dlp && yt-dlp"

Which is pretty cool.

New comment by bonyt in "Pong Wars: A battle between day and night, good and bad"

bonyt — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:20:51 +0000

This is fun!

Mine got stuck in a cycle for a bit, but broke the cycle just after I stopped screen recording: https://i.moveything.com/c1d941787599.mp4

New comment by bonyt in "Investigating a Forged PDF"

bonyt — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:05:15 +0000

The PDF format supports this, at least Adobe Reader can validate a signed PDF if it's signed in a certain way[1]. I know DocuSign does this - and Reader even has a little button to view the signed version (embedded in the PDF, I think)[2]. [1]: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/e-sign-documents/man... [2]: Example in Adobe Reader: https://i.moveything.com/1cf1e4ea5619 (redacted partly by me)

New comment by bonyt in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

bonyt — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:00:39 +0000

I've found taking two screenshots and adding them as separate layers works well, and then setting one as Difference, and then tweaking the opacity.

Here it is in Pixelmator Pro: https://i.moveything.com/299930fb6174.mp4