Hacker News: codepoet80

New comment by codepoet80 in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

codepoet80 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:14:48 +0000

webOS is still around -- sorta! https://www.webosarchive.org

New comment by codepoet80 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

codepoet80 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:12:12 +0000

Nicely done. Hold this line — there’s got to be one somewhere.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

codepoet80 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:06:55 +0000

CESMII | Software Developer | Remote US Only | Full-time

CESMII is the United State's Manufacturing USA Institute focus on "Smart Manufacturing." Administered by UCLA, we help manufacturers connect their data sources, make sense of that data, and try to help them adopt modern software development practices. OT (Operational Technology) skills are a benefit, this role is primarily creating resources for, and supporting, a growing developer community.

Please apply here, do not contact me directly: https://jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/9562

New comment by codepoet80 in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

codepoet80 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:45:24 +0000

Have they fixed the touchy trackpad issues? Super impressive work, and I want to want this, but...

New comment by codepoet80 in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

codepoet80 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:58:07 +0000

I just setup pushover to send a message to my phone for this exact reason! Trying out your server next!

New comment by codepoet80 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

codepoet80 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:09:29 +0000

ANY ability to answer simple questions without telling me to open Safari and read a webpage for myself...?

New comment by codepoet80 in "Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time"

codepoet80 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:44:42 +0000

Love it, installed and set it to run at Login. Can I follow you on any social media that isn't Xitter?

New comment by codepoet80 in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

codepoet80 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:23:33 +0000

exFAT?

New comment by codepoet80 in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

codepoet80 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:41:08 +0000

Set my teenage son up to dual boot his gaming rig with SteamOS this Christmas. He hasn't rebooted to Windows since...

New comment by codepoet80 in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

codepoet80 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:21:51 +0000

I mean, its still in the spec. Go for it!

New comment by codepoet80 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

codepoet80 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:44:02 +0000

I don't think you've used it. I used it intensely and mostly autonomously (with clear instructions, including how to measure good output) almost non-stop over the holidays. Its a new abstraction for programming -- it doesn't replace software developers, it gives them a more natural way to describe what they want.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

codepoet80 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:07:07 +0000

I really wanted this to work, and it WAS remarkably good, but palm rejection on the (ginormous) Apple trackpad didn't work at all, rendering the whole thing unusable if you ever typed anything. That was a month ago, this article is a year old. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't think this problem has been solved.

New comment by codepoet80 in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

codepoet80 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:26:00 +0000

I hope you researched Linux driver support for that model first. I share the dissatisfaction with the direction of Windows -- but their driver library is unparalleled. Linux CAN run great on lots of machines, but it has nowhere near the hardware support.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

codepoet80 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:04:18 +0000

I had to go the other way. The Apple TV controls the LG. It wakes it, controls the volume and turns it off when it sleeps.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

codepoet80 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:20:22 +0000

Yup, my AppleTV is the only device that gets CEC right. Even my LG TV and LG soundbar get confused. And don’t get me started on the PS4 Pro’s garbage implementation. I’m sad that Logitech killed Harmony because CEC was supposed to make universal remotes obsolete — they’re still the only way my full home theater can function without juggling a dozen remotes.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Google Antigravity"

codepoet80 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:18:19 +0000

On my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...

New comment by codepoet80 in "[dead]"

codepoet80 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:28:04 +0000

I still remember fondly when we paid for two, and only two streaming services. Netflix for movies and older TV shows, Hulu for current TV (usually only a day behind cable). It felt good -- using two definitions of that word. It felt good-as-in-right that I didn't have to pirate content anymore, because two reasonably priced services were worth the money, and it felt good-as-in-satisfying because everything we cared to watch was at our finger tips (we've never cared about sports.)

I know Disney is not solely to blame for the state of affairs, but all the services seem to be racing headlong back toward the cable model: subscribing to bundles of crap I don't want, just to watch a couple of things I do want.

They say piracy is not a pricing issue, its a user experience issue. I'd say we have both issues, and that if it hasn't already, piracy will win this particular race -- yet again.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

codepoet80 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:08:19 +0000

Agreed. Containers are the reason I use Firefox -- they are a much better fit than profiles. But I've not been able to successfully communicate that to Chrome users. Its like their mental model is stuck, and they can't grasp the differences.

New comment by codepoet80 in "Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen"

codepoet80 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:50:30 +0000

Reminds me of the SuperClock days: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/superclock-404

New comment by codepoet80 in "Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986)"

codepoet80 — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:34:22 +0000

I read his book during my early years of software development, as a big fan of the (early) Mac and with a real passion to build better user experiences in industrial software. I often wonder what Jef would think of the iPhone (or even the current Mac), if he were still with us. I suspect he'd be deeply disappointed.