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New comment by chris_st in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

chris_st — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:32:57 +0000

I think of focus-follows-mouse as a different thing. FFM raises the window under the mouse, but doesn’t move the text insertion point (at least on X and Windows, the only two places I can remember using it). But the Apollo’s window manager was different - moving the mouse moved the insertion point along with it.

New comment by chris_st in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

chris_st — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:29:27 +0000

> the fact there are two pointers on the screen -- one for the mouse and one for the keyboard -- if you slide the mouse pointer to a specific point and press a keyboard key, the new key will not appear where the arrow is, it will appear where the text cursor is.

I remember using an (early?) Apollo computer that worked that way... I was warned by the person showing me, and a bit later he accidentally bumped the mouse while I was typing! Letters all over...

I believe this was in the era before X windows took off for unix boxes. I miss SunTools - it was nice and simple.

New comment by chris_st in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

chris_st — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:36:07 +0000

I had personal subscriptions to WebStorm and GoLand and cancelled them not long after getting Windsurf. Just don't need the IDE abilities like I used to... Still use 'go to definition' but that's pretty much it.

New comment by chris_st in "Strutt's Powered Wheelchair Is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons)"

chris_st — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:45:04 +0000

As a resident of an independent living facility, I live among a lot of people who use various makes and models of powered chairs. And a great many who have the joystick dislike it immensely, and would prefer to have the handlebars-style navigation. But it's kind of the only way to have the "chair" style, nothing in front of you design. Some of the more scooter-style have rotating chairs, so you can park parallel to a table and turn, but that depends on lower limb mobility, so no easy solutions here.

The "climb a 13° slope, clear a 2-inch curb and cross a 4.7-inch gap" is quite impressive.

New comment by chris_st in "Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"

chris_st — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:13:24 +0000

You might want to look at Simon Willison's showboat [0] tool, which generates walkthroughs of code to explain changes.

[0]: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

New comment by chris_st in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

chris_st — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:25:29 +0000

Cool, thanks!

New comment by chris_st in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

chris_st — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:48:26 +0000

Just curious, why the 'sudo tee {file} > /dev/null'?

New comment by chris_st in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

chris_st — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:25:58 +0000

A few that I looked at are annotated, "It is linearly stable (largest Floquet multiplier 1.000), so a small nudge only makes it wobble." Doesn't define "small nudge", alas...

New comment by chris_st in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

chris_st — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:40:38 +0000

I use it, and have been happy with it for the most part. Like sibling, I use it for GPT-5.6-Sol and Opus work, and use their free models (GLM 5.2 for the past few months, trying SWE-2 now).

New comment by chris_st in "My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures"

chris_st — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:30:58 +0000

Wow, so beautiful (and I say this as a tea drinker :-)

New comment by chris_st in "Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark"

chris_st — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:18:03 +0000

You'll find that those goalposts are very movable.

New comment by chris_st in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"

chris_st — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:44:57 +0000

I'll check that out - I loved his "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography". Excellent introduction to cryptography.

New comment by chris_st in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

chris_st — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:58:16 +0000

I really liked her "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast, sorry it ended.

New comment by chris_st in "SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence"

chris_st — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:28:44 +0000

FWIW, Cognition has all the Sonnet/Opus/Fable models, and all the GPT ones, as well as GLM, Kimi, and Gemini.

The Agent Operating System

chris_st — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:23:45 +0000

Article URL: https://librefang.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835475

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chris_st in "FrontierCode"

chris_st — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:59:00 +0000

What "non-house" harnesses have you found to work best?

New comment by chris_st in "Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video]"

chris_st — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:59:01 +0000

Interesting to see (roughly!) what percent of each car is engine.

New comment by chris_st in "Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS"

chris_st — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:36:57 +0000

I have this setup, roughly, with UTM rather than orbstack. I think I have it set up safely, curious how you see it has the wrong permissions?

New comment by chris_st in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

chris_st — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:45:40 +0000

Another way I'm "going slower" is to have the AI implement individual sub-steps of the current task, and review each one. It's slower than having it yolo out the whole thing, but it's much smaller incremental bits to review, so my brain doesn't glaze over in a huge review, like I had if I had it do the whole task.

I'm following an Ideas -> PRD -> Issues -> Tasks methodology, where each task has a bunch of sub-tasks. I have it just do one (or a few, I'm having it do Red/Green/Refactor as separate sub-steps, so I review the Red case, and then once that's good, do the Green and Refactor steps, and review those).

New comment by chris_st in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

chris_st — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:27:59 +0000

Yup, just like people!