Hacker News: harha

New comment by harha in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

harha — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:30:46 +0000

Search feels like it used to be much better in finding a balance between showing app vs files vs web - feels really broken somehow and I wonder if there’s any setting I can change.

New comment by harha in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

harha — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:56:03 +0000

Nah I think the brain shuts down once you’re not in the driver seat. Wouldn’t see someone care enough to throw something at others from a taxi or a bus either.

New comment by harha in "Asahi Linux on M3"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:56:05 +0000

On your post: I really don’t get why a widely used/available and pretty standard (as in there aren’t 5000 weird variations - more or less one per device of 4-5 devices per year, mostly the same controllers for most things) group of hardware doesn’t get more love from the Linux community. It’s the perfect case for showing the superiority of the open source model and the devices are amazing for their age.

Without any bloat it could show that they also perform reasonably well and it also solves the gaming problem on Mac.

I’ve also updated a few patches but it seems to be a pain to submit these.

New comment by harha in "Asahi Linux on M3"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:48:03 +0000

ChatGPT just found a solution to the sleep problem - but it only works if I deactivate wake on wlan, which would defy the purpose of enabling suspend for me (I use it as my remote development box, want to be able to ssh into it and don’t have any cables in that room).

Will update once I’ve solved this.

New comment by harha in "Asahi Linux on M3"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:14:05 +0000

Anything built on Electron can be super slow- had issues with snap packages of VS Code and Slack being super slow because CPU would render.

New comment by harha in "Asahi Linux on M3"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:12:43 +0000

Same problem with iMac - got 5k mostly working and a patch for audio using my favorite coding assistant, but that final bit remains tricky. Will post to GitHub if I can solve it.

New comment by harha in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:07:14 +0000

Yeah CEC is a bit tricky sometimes. How about auto-off from the TV itself and then a timer for a HA controlled outlet to turn off power after that using automation (i.e., when the streaming device is off for a x minutes)

New comment by harha in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

harha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:14:16 +0000

If you're streaming via AppleTV, why do you need to give the TV itself access to the network?

New comment by harha in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

harha — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:08:21 +0000

No one in their right mind would use Edge, unless the employer's IT forces them to - and in that case they've given up on the tools the employer gives them already and wouldn't care enough to hate.

New comment by harha in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

harha — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:59:58 +0000

Better not grow then!

New comment by harha in "Claude Opus 4.7"

harha — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:15:38 +0000

Add to that that notion mcp works for the chat but not code. now my workflow has docs I comment with others in notion, while the actual work and source of truth is in GitHub.

Need to fall back to codex to keep things in sync, but that's a great opportunity to also make sure I can compare how things run - and it catches a lot of issues with Claude Code and is great at fixing small/medium issues.

New comment by harha in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

harha — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:27:43 +0000

Steer clear from co-worker 1..

New comment by harha in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

harha — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:14:53 +0000

One interesting observation I had between ChatGPT and Claude before I was familiar with openclaw came when I asked if about the difference between ChatGPT and Claude for coding and if I can get to a setup that can use both. At that time I had both subscriptions, felt it was better to build with Claude but was frequently reaching limits.

ChatGPT found it was a great idea and that I can use Claude for planning and gave me instructions on how to best hand off the building part. Claude told me it’s a horrible idea.

Claude also burns much more liberally through tokens, eg reading through entire irrelevant docs.

Openclaw is great for resolving this since I much more control which work goes where and also gives a much better user experience without all the back and forth to understand what context it has (my use case is to build things from my phone while I’m in senseless meetings in my day job).

Fully agree on the alternatives. In the end Claude’s experience is worse, while it still makes bad decisions if you let it. Better to get a good workflow on a less capable model.

New comment by harha in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

harha — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:46:54 +0000

I got a Mac mini and was very positively surprised that it still ran the older version. I can use the size setting I'm comfortable with in the display menu. When I use Tahoe, I need to make the setting smaller to have a reasonable amount of apps open, but then it's uncomfortable to read.

New comment by harha in "Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms"

harha — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:51:41 +0000

This could at least be done after release, but I don’t think any incentives are there, while collecting the data is incredibly difficult

New comment by harha in "The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled"

harha — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:26:11 +0000

Bit of a tangent: Not sure if it's because I grew up with other games, but somehow the aesthetics of modern games just seems off to me. That being said, I didn't manage to get back into SimCity gameplay.

New comment by harha in "Addiction Markets"

harha — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:34:16 +0000

I think it’s worth considering the alternate scenario of banning it and it happening illegally, which arguably is a worse outcome.

This adds to the burden of finding what to ban, which may be different depending on who you ask.

New comment by harha in "Addiction Markets"

harha — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:15:22 +0000

Sounds like a win to me, you can leave more for productive activity to grow and attract more, there less incentive for illegal gambling, and no one is forced to do it.

If there’s a massive burden with addicts, you can still impose that the gambling industry pays more to offset.

New comment by harha in "Introducing architecture variants"

harha — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:09:54 +0000

Would it make a difference if you compile the whole system vs. just the programs you want optimized?

As in, are there any common libraries or parts of the system that typically slow things down, or was this more targeting a time when hardware was more limited so improving all would have made things feel faster in general.

New comment by harha in "Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud"

harha — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:38:12 +0000

I mean, has Microsoft? Last two places I've worked at are in the Office ecosystem and it's incredibly bad. I need to reconcile documents all the time like it's 2005, sharing takes 15 clicks (which is why it's a massive pain to get Sharepoint AI ready, since everyone just shares with all rather than specifying with who to specifically).