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New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

felixding — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:34:11 +0000

I’ve been helping teams automating their routine work using https://aquablue.app , an AI employees app I built.

For example, syncing orders from e-commerce sites to their internal spreadsheets, generating invoices with custom workflow etc

New comment by felixding in "macOS needs its grid back"

felixding — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:49:47 +0000

Slightly off-topic: the old Aqua UI looks so much better. Not only it was much easier to see what's a control and what's text, but it also looked visually nicer (subjective, I know).

CHM Live – Steve Jobs in Exile: NeXT and the Making of a Comeback [video]

felixding — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:19:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnNdb2wa_NE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345465

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by felixding in "Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9"

felixding — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:31:56 +0000

Exactly. I don't know why some people'd change the branding.

New comment by felixding in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

felixding — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:41:27 +0000

Exactly. Very clever name!

New comment by felixding in "A new book on Steve Jobs at NeXT"

felixding — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:57:50 +0000

In case you don't know yet, there is a project that tries to bring the NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

New comment by felixding in "Claude for Small Business"

felixding — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:17:33 +0000

Wow, this is very close to an app I’m building. My take is that the key part is not just generating the workflow, but making it reviewable and deterministic enough that businesses can actually trust it.

New comment by felixding in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

felixding — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:45:33 +0000

Absolutely!

I wish projects like nextspace could get more love.

New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

felixding — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:37:54 +0000

https://aquablue.app - Business software without developers

https://kintoun.ai - Document translator that preserves formatting and layouts

https://ricatutor.com - AI language tutor for YouTube

New comment by felixding in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

felixding — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:58:23 +0000

Maybe I’m nitpicking but there is no such thing as “macOS Tiger”. It’s called Mac OS X at the time so it’s Mac OS X Tiger.

New comment by felixding in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

felixding — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:09:47 +0000

"Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

I wonder if there would be interest in an Asahi Remix spin focused on a more Mac-like out-of-the-box experience: cmd as the main modifier key, Mac-like keyboard shortcuts, theming, gestures, etc.

Of course, you can tweak any distro however you want, but I think a curated default experience is a different thing.

New comment by felixding in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

felixding — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:56:05 +0000

Nah, that was solved decades ago. We had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks, even with replaceable batteries.

New comment by felixding in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

felixding — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:42:12 +0000

Please bring back the 3.5mm headphone jack!

Removing it is one of the most annoying things ever in a phone. Yes, Bluetooth is getting better, but the jack always works perfectly. Why can't we have both?

New comment by felixding in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

felixding — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:42:10 +0000

I live in Tokyo. Today's quake felt pretty strong (maybe because I was on the 14th floor) and lasted a while. Haven't felt one this big in months.

New comment by felixding in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

felixding — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:16:30 +0000

This is great. Can Google also stop scroll hijacking?

New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

felixding — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:34:52 +0000

https://aquablue.app - Simple, Reliable AI Automation

https://kintoun.ai - Translate Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with layout and formatting intact.

https://ricatutor.com - Your AI Language Tutor for YouTube

VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

felixding — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:17:06 +0000

Article URL: https://v-os.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512816

Points: 366

# Comments: 226

MacinAI Local: Building a Model-Agnostic LLM Inference Engine for Mac OS 9

felixding — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://oldapplestuff.com/blog/MacinAI-Local/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454765

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Agent-town – A pixel-art AI agent online collaboration platform

felixding — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/geezerrrr/agent-town

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293523

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by felixding in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

felixding — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:50:27 +0000

I can’t recommend another excellent free ebook enough: Zen of Palm.

It accurately describes the key differences between designing for desktop and mobile, which explains why PalmOS was so much easier to use than the various Windows-based mobile formats from Microsoft at the time. I even wrote a whole blog series about this book two decades ago (https://dingyu.me/blog/zen-of-palm-1).

I switched from a Dell Pocket PC to a Treo 650, and it was such a revelation. IMHO, this little phone is still one of the best in terms of simplicity, even today.