Hacker News: felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=felixdingHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:12:18 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]>This is great. Can Google also stop scroll hijacking?

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:16:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764072felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764072<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]>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

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:34:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745635felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745635https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745635<![CDATA[VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS]]>Article URL: https://v-os.dev

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

Points: 366

# Comments: 226

]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:17:06 +0000https://v-os.devfelixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512816<![CDATA[MacinAI Local: Building a Model-Agnostic LLM Inference Engine for Mac OS 9]]>Article URL: https://oldapplestuff.com/blog/MacinAI-Local/

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

Points: 3

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]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:09:13 +0000https://oldapplestuff.com/blog/MacinAI-Local/felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454765<![CDATA[Agent-town – A pixel-art AI agent online collaboration platform]]>Article URL: https://github.com/geezerrrr/agent-town

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

Points: 3

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]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:53:31 +0000https://github.com/geezerrrr/agent-townfelixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293523https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293523<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"]]>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.

]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:50:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174745felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174745https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174745<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)"]]>Very cool project!

When I was still working at a large corporation, I built an internal "social" radio station using Icecast2. I'd broadcast my favorite music like Pink Floyd and Radiohead to my coworkers via a simple Rails web app, and we'd chat about music, work, and everything in between on the same web app. That was a long time ago, and I no longer have that environment (a big company with lots of similar-minded young people), but live-streaming music with friends will always be a soft spot in my heart.

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:57:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073764felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073764<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"]]>The UI looks so good. Why can’t we have good looking things anymore?

I spent hours each month looking for a way to bring back Aqua on Mac or Linux through theming or alternative DE but nothing comes close to the real thing.

If one day I have enough money I’ll just start work on a new DE to faithfully recreate Aqua. One can dream.

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:02:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067622felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067622https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067622<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]>Typo: "after transition" -> "after translation"

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:15:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942458felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942458https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942458<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]>Two things for my document translator https://kintoun.ai :

1. Trying to improve the translation quality by giving LLM more context.

2. Fixing the issue where PowerPoint slides layout may become a bit messy after transition because of different text density between western and CJK languages.

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:00:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939493felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939493<![CDATA[Advertisements for Creator Studio, every single time you go to create a new doc]]>Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1qphsoh/microslop_now_available_in_apple_pages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805900

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:46:33 +0000https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1qphsoh/microslop_now_available_in_apple_pages/felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805900<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"]]>As a Chinese person, I smile every time I see this argument. Government-mandated censorship that violates freedom of speech is fundamentally different from content policies set by a private company exercising its own freedom of speech.

]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:08:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776897felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776897<![CDATA[Fixes That Made My Website Faster and More Accessible]]>Article URL: https://dingyu.me/blog/7-fixes-that-made-my-website-faster-and-more-accessible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713407

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:56:31 +0000https://dingyu.me/blog/7-fixes-that-made-my-website-faster-and-more-accessiblefelixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713407https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713407<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Selling SaaS in Japan"]]>I've been working in Japan as a product manager/engineer for a few years. The market is indeed quite different from other parts of the world. It's hard to build trust and get sales in Japan, but once you do, your customers tend to stick with you for a very long time (sometimes decades or even longer - not in IT of course). Simply localizing your app is far from enough. You'll need a sales team, preferably composed of Japanese people, based in Japan. And you'll need to be patient.

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:15:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688499felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688499<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Selling SaaS in Japan"]]>Translation alone is simply not enough. You'll need local presence, Japanese sales people, and patience (a lot of them).

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:04:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688425felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688425<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Apple Creator Studio"]]>The icons...so this is what the future looks like under Steve Lemay?!

]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:51:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610869felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610869https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610869<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC"]]>100% this.

Let's hope projects like https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace succeed.

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:00:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498283felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498283<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"]]>Neat. I also used to make a simple "bookshelf" web page each year for the books I read, but mine were fully static HTML and nowhere near as fancy as this.

Side note: I once wrote about recreating Delicious Library: https://dingyu.me/blog/recreating-delicious-library-in-2025

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:01:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420841felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420841<![CDATA[Apple's terrible UI design is not the fault of just one fall guy]]>Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420333

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:11:10 +0000https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420333https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420333<![CDATA[New comment by felixding in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"]]>If only Apple could bring Scott Forstall back.

Oh one can dream...

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:41:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417540felixdinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417540