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New comment by frou_dh in "TextEdit vs. Pages"

frou_dh — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:55:57 +0000

My pet peeve is that every single time you click any web link in PDFs, you have to confirm via a dialog that you want to visit a link. You used to just be able to click links.

New comment by frou_dh in "Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?"

frou_dh — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:10:16 +0000

On a long enough timescale there will be a generation who have grown up "AI native" (analogous to the older Digital Native concept) so they will probably have different thought and work patterns that are more conducive to day-to-day "imagineering".

New comment by frou_dh in "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80"

frou_dh — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:49:20 +0000

Is the rendering in Cuis really hardware-accelerated? I agree it looks great but think it's all software-rendered using the CPU.

New comment by frou_dh in "I will no longer upload to NEW"

frou_dh — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:05:08 +0000

I dunno, tjpnz might be on to something. Would a nice smooth blue leg stepping towards the camera with super exaggerated perspective really be so bad right about now?

New comment by frou_dh in "I will no longer upload to NEW"

frou_dh — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:29:29 +0000

I think some developers are kinda dense or something, and don't understand that shoving AI content in people's faces is simply rude.

In recent versions of iTerm2 for example, when using the plain old menubar and hovering over some items, panels appear showing awful sloppy AI images. WTF? https://files.catbox.moe/5ivkhw.png - That makes me question everything... Was the developer always tasteless? Or did they get a taste bypass?

New comment by frou_dh in "Pharo 14"

frou_dh — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:38:59 +0000

I imagine that's a deliberate decision of the overall project to try and get people to evaluate it on its merits, rather than associating it with something old and unfashionable.

New comment by frou_dh in "The Future of CSS"

frou_dh — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:30:25 +0000

> It's the part that faces the user. It's what helps the user form their first impression of your product.

Same for the README on a GitHub project. Alas, plenty of those are now just voluminous AI spew.

New comment by frou_dh in "Getting Banned from r/java"

frou_dh — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:05:44 +0000

I am comfortable on Reddit because I understand that it's made up of thousands of sub-communities that vary wildly in how interesting/friendly they are.

I don't understand this desire to ignore that aspect and pompously dismiss Reddit as a whole. It's like dismissing an entire country as worthless because you didn't like the vibe in a couple of the big cities.

New comment by frou_dh in "Weball: Play Katamari on Websites"

frou_dh — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:27:17 +0000

It was playable even on an 8 year old iPhone XS. I cleared up the whole wikipedia page and the framerate never got bad enough to hamper the gameplay.

New comment by frou_dh in "Weball: Play Katamari on Websites"

frou_dh — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:33:31 +0000

That's amazing. I would have no clue how to write that so that it works so well.

Edit: I guess the main enabler is that it gets out of the business of HTML really quickly, by importing a representation of the page into the game engine. The classic bookmarklet version linked below messes with actual page elements using CSS transformations etc.

New comment by frou_dh in "GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS"

frou_dh — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:37:56 +0000

You should submit it to this site too: https://macoswm.com/submit

New comment by frou_dh in "Ask HN: Any way to remove ads in Apple apps?"

frou_dh — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:54:26 +0000

If it's anything like the one to set up Siri/Apple-Wallet, click it as if to start the process, then bail out and it goes away.

New comment by frou_dh in "A Modern Web App in C"

frou_dh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:48:33 +0000

Just the other day I thought it looked like the friggin official Python homepage is using Courier for the code example

New comment by frou_dh in "The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)"

frou_dh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:47:06 +0000

In hindsight, the movement in the early Tomb Raider games was really awkward. It didn't feel very human... it felt like an endless loop of rotating a circular tray then putting your foot on the gas.

New comment by frou_dh in "2D Vehicles"

frou_dh — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:51:20 +0000

Learn from the old master... with a big stinkin' LLM interposed!

New comment by frou_dh in "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"

frou_dh — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:37:10 +0000

Using a home PC without an internet connection in the 90s, I would basically do laps of the entire OS, looking at every app/window/dialog, searching for novel stuff. That's what exploring one of these feels like!

New comment by frou_dh in "Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years"

frou_dh — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:04:44 +0000

I remember downloading ISOs at like 4-8 KB/s from FTPs. It was an achievement to even get one successfully downloaded and ready to burn.

New comment by frou_dh in "A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9"

frou_dh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:59:53 +0000

Let's call the M6 the 'A20P Max'

New comment by frou_dh in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

frou_dh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:54:34 +0000

I'm disappointed that it is not influenced by the username ... "You sound like a skateboard kinda person"

Dash for Windows: Now in Beta

frou_dh — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-for-windows-beta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558169

Points: 3

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