Hacker News: cmckn

New comment by cmckn in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

cmckn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:12:28 +0000

Why does it exist?

New comment by cmckn in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

cmckn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:58:04 +0000

Reminds me of bacteria under a microscope.

New comment by cmckn in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

cmckn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:18:18 +0000

I built a tower several years ago and it had CPU temp issues from the start. I RMA’d the cooler, reapplied the thermal paste a couple times, reassembled the whole build, etc. It wasn’t my main machine, but every time I sat down to use it the CPU would run hot and thermal-throttle. It’s an i9 with P/E cores, so I just chalked it up to Linux power management woes. A couple months ago I was on the brink of selling it for parts, but updated the BIOS as a Hail Mary. Totally fixed it.

I guess I did “ have a specific bug that needs fixed”; I just didn’t know it!

New comment by cmckn in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

cmckn — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:51:11 +0000

> Xcode…keeps around SDKs for a bunch of different OS's

Not a new problem, unfortunately. DevCleaner is commonly used to keep it under control: https://github.com/vashpan/xcode-dev-cleaner

New comment by cmckn in "Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record"

cmckn — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:45:45 +0000

Please contact your representative in Olympia and tell them to kill the bill that would exempt this footage from public record requests. It passed the Senate on Feb. 6.

This is the bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=6002&Chamber=...

Find your reps: https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/

Washington State Legislative Hotline: 1-800-562-6000

New comment by cmckn in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

cmckn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:51:22 +0000

To be fair, setting up a new iPhone (without restoring from backup) is a pretty long-winded process these days. You have to make about 50 decisions on various features, tap through numerous info screens, set up Face ID, Apple Pay, voice recognition, etc. etc. It feels like every team at Apple wants something in the onboarding flow.

YouTube Is Down

cmckn — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/?app=desktop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056027

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by cmckn in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

cmckn — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:57:12 +0000

Autocorrect just cuts out for me pretty often, usually when I’m a couple sentences into a longer text entry. This is particularly annoying when using the Claude app or similar. The suggestion bar above the keyboard goes blank and I just stop getting any corrections.

New comment by cmckn in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

cmckn — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:53:01 +0000

Needing to “dock” the key in the center console to start the car is clunky. We’ve had the proximity key thing figured out for like 15 years. It also seems impossible to have the car key on a ring with anything else?

New comment by cmckn in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

cmckn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:55:27 +0000

TLDR: if you still have any Patreon subscriptions through Apple’s in-app-purchase flow (look in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions) cancel them and restart them on patreon.com

New comment by cmckn in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

cmckn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:17:18 +0000

I kind of feel the same way, but I want to try it. I’m pretty sure I have a spare webcam lying around, it could be interesting to have a “trusted” sensor for this app so that I can still keep my main webcam locked down.

New comment by cmckn in "Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup"

cmckn — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:11:15 +0000

I started on my Linux box and despite many apps claiming to support iPods, none would actually work. I ended up getting an old Mac mini running again and I’m using that for now. I’ve never given Rockbox a good look, I should check it out.

New comment by cmckn in "Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup"

cmckn — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:03:36 +0000

Ahh I see. UTM was what I was trying, so I’ll give those a look! Thanks

New comment by cmckn in "Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup"

cmckn — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:28:21 +0000

I tried to set up a macOS VM recently so I could run an old version of iTunes to manage my iPods. I found it nearly impossible to even download an installer for older versions of the OS, and could never get it working. Where can one acquire an IPSW for, say, macOS Mojave? My understanding is this is not the same thing as the “Install macOS.app”?

New comment by cmckn in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

cmckn — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:40:32 +0000

This really made me laugh, thanks.

New comment by cmckn in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

cmckn — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:09:15 +0000

Usually that legalese goes away after ~30 seconds or when you put it in drive, you rarely have to actually hit “OK”. But I haven’t been in a recent Subaru!

New comment by cmckn in "Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]"

cmckn — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:01:00 +0000

The way it stands up is so cursed but I find its face really charming.

New comment by cmckn in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

cmckn — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:56:12 +0000

> I have literally no idea how to get to my home directory

Just add it to the sidebar. Finder > Settings > Sidebar > Locations. Or drag it into Favorites.

> doesn't have a button to navigate to the parent folder

View > Show Path Bar. You can also right click on the directory name at the top of the window and it’ll give you the same options.

New comment by cmckn in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

cmckn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:59:11 +0000

That would only be like $7 in powerball ;)

New comment by cmckn in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

cmckn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:56:42 +0000

A few years ago I wrote a script to compare my numbers against all previous drawings. Still didn’t “win”!