Hacker News: edelhans

New comment by edelhans in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

edelhans — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:04:30 +0000

Linux is pretty bad at handling out of memory. In my old thinkpad T14 with Mint everything came to a halt when webpack gobbled up my 16GB of ram. Couldnt even move the cursor, stuff just got stuck hard

New comment by edelhans in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

edelhans — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:36:11 +0000

Considering that I need a good dozen utility apps to override absolutely bonkers macOS design descicions there is no way around that.

New comment by edelhans in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

edelhans — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:45:35 +0000

I keep jearing this but after years of using MacOS Is still hate the windowing behavior. There is already a way for windowless apps to run - its in the top right corner of my menu bar. Why not use this if you _really_ need windowless apps to run in the background? Also dont get me started on window switching...

New comment by edelhans in "VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV"

edelhans — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:21:11 +0000

Exactly what you think - pops out a cup holder

New comment by edelhans in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

edelhans — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:57:06 +0000

They just announced the end of their fleet editor

New comment by edelhans in "Backing up Spotify"

edelhans — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:27:50 +0000

But you only need to record your song once and get money forever. Nobody pays me per function invocation in production, that would be very nice

New comment by edelhans in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

edelhans — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:57:15 +0000

You can also install uBlock Origin on Edge for Android btw.

New comment by edelhans in "Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH"

edelhans — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:28:21 +0000

Edge for Android also has (limited) extension support. It only supports a subset of extensions, but I am using uBlock Origin (full version, although _lite_ is also available), Sponsorblock and Dark Reader for example.

New comment by edelhans in "Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8"

edelhans — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:11:52 +0000

I just unlocked the bootloader on my Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 today (which was a nightmare to do btw.). Why did I unlock it? The device has nice hardware, but is stuck with Android 13 and does not get any security updates either, so flashing a custom ROM is my only chance of having an up-to-date device.

Next step will be to try PostmarketOS and see how that goes

New comment by edelhans in "Material 3 Expressive"

edelhans — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:19:41 +0000

The cursor being captured when hovering buttons is the worst UI I've seen in a very long time

New comment by edelhans in "What is HDR, anyway?"

edelhans — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:39:37 +0000

I honestly do not know if I have any screen that supports HDR. At least I've never noticed any improved image quality when viewing HDR video content and compare the image on my M3 Macbook Pro screen vs. an old external IPS monitor. Maybe my eyes are just broken?

New comment by edelhans in "Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer"

edelhans — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:57:13 +0000

Yeah but even if your app is the new Uber for dogs the goal should still be to let users accomplish their task as fast as possible and not some app engagement metric.

New comment by edelhans in "Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges"

edelhans — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:23:15 +0000

Its not always that easy. I specifically bought a Zenfone 9 due to its small size and unlockable bootloader. Guess what - Asus removed the bootloader unlock tool after I purchased the device. Can't trust anyone these days

New comment by edelhans in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

edelhans — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:18:09 +0000

The big difference for me is that there is no way to quickly jump between multiple windows of the same application. I often have multiple different projects open in vscode and would love a way to switch between them without having to right-click and selecting one from the list. All I want is something like the windows taskbar with auto-grouping disabled.

New comment by edelhans in "Pi-hole v6"

edelhans — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:27:34 +0000

I just use an old macbook air with a bluetooth keyboard that also has a touchpad. The thing is in sleep mode when not needed, so it wakes up fast and does not need a lot of energy. With that setup I can access whatever media I want, have a solid adblocker and a browser with a real keyboard.

New comment by edelhans in "Show HN: World's most performant web table (multicore, DOM-based)"

edelhans — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:33:01 +0000

For comparison - I'm getting solid 120fps with Brave on Android.

New comment by edelhans in "The Google Fit APIs will no longer be available after June 30, 2025"

edelhans — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:11:47 +0000

Did you already check Garmin watches? They have great battery life and allow local data access via their FIT SDK [1].

[1] https://developer.garmin.com/fit/overview/

New comment by edelhans in "Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey"

edelhans — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:25:54 +0000

You could also go down the DIY route and build one yourself. I did just that and am really happy with the outcome. Check out https://ben.akrin.com/plottybot for a great design and instructions

New comment by edelhans in "Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease"

edelhans — Wed, 17 May 2023 06:24:17 +0000

You can do just that on Steam with family sharing: https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

New comment by edelhans in "An MP4 file first draft"

edelhans — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:11:12 +0000

You could also try the Bitmovin MP4 Inspector chrome extension: https://github.com/bitmovin/MP4Inspector