Hacker News: hk1337

New comment by hk1337 in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

hk1337 — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:38:40 +0000

I’m curious what the dimensions of the desk are for him to have space for a computer and reading space

New comment by hk1337 in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

hk1337 — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:44:33 +0000

I think we would see far fewer actions at all for fear of being sued.

New comment by hk1337 in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

hk1337 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:42:48 +0000

While that is true, the real power of git being decentralized is that you have a local repo and a remote repo. Typically, you’ll have a dozen local repositories from developers cloning the project

New comment by hk1337 in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

hk1337 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:30:29 +0000

> The classic "just some bad apples" argument in defense of corruption.

Not really, something definitely should be done to correct it but some people have this notion that throwing out the baby with the bath water is and starting over from scratch is the correct action. If anything that will just create new problems and make the ability to hide misdeeds even easier.

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres"

hk1337 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:24:04 +0000

Interesting idea but what's the use case for this? Why wouldn't I just create a private git server (gitlab, forgejo, etc) just for myself?

New comment by hk1337 in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

hk1337 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:19:23 +0000

Of course it does, it says "Police have used license plate readers..." not "Police officers have used license plate readers..." or indicated that individual officers have abused their authority.

New comment by hk1337 in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

hk1337 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:42:54 +0000

I wouldn't say I am a huge proponent of Flock, especially considering their lack luster security for the individual cameras at least in my area, but the title makes it sound like it's an institutional procedure that the department stalking their romantic interests instead of individual officers that need to be properly reprimanded.

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

hk1337 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:06:35 +0000

First thing curious about is opening this up on a docs/ folder in one of my projects and see how it is with that.

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite"

hk1337 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:03:30 +0000

I love the name!

New comment by hk1337 in "Codex for almost everything"

hk1337 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:57:33 +0000

I’ve done a lot with Claude and OpenAI both, A LOT, but I’m still a little wary at letting it have too much access so I haven’t tried this feature in either of them.

New comment by hk1337 in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

hk1337 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:11:38 +0000

Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook.

Does this have console like Claude and codex?

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I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues.

Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let me use the cli code assist without verifying that I am 18+ but I can use the UI app just fine without the verification.

To verify, seems to require submitting a government issued ID or credit card.

No thanks. This kind of stuff is why I dropped google long ago.

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

hk1337 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:29:21 +0000

I’ve used it to get me to the desktop where the app is open but yeah, generally you’re right. I use spotlight more often for searching the Mac and opening apps or swiping desktops

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

hk1337 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:24:43 +0000

First of all, this looks really nice, I mean REALLY nice. It’s obvious you put a lot of thought and work into making the UX work really well. I probably will not use it, I like macOS as it is and have gotten used to it over the past 10+ years. I am probably not the target user though, seems like it could be good for new users transitioning from Windows.

How does this work with the dock in macOS? I mean you only have so many places you can put the dock, certainly not the top because that’s reserved for the mighty blue Apple.

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

hk1337 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:49:51 +0000

Even so, it’s still higher than the other presidents listed

New comment by hk1337 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

hk1337 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:46:15 +0000

I would have thought a lot of the drug offense pardons by Obama would have been for marijuana but looking at the first few pages, they’re not.

> 118 of 2,791 GRANTS

Only 118 list marijuana in the pardon text

New comment by hk1337 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

hk1337 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:07:38 +0000

The main reason to consider resale value is 1-2 years later you may want to upgrade and selling it to another person typically yields you more money than trading it in with Apple. Doing something like this may decrease how much you could sell it for later.

If you’re not planning on doing that then it’s not really a factor for you.

New comment by hk1337 in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

hk1337 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:40:34 +0000

meh, i like the animation. I normally use it with the trackpad so the swiping back and forth makes it feel more natural if there's animation.

New comment by hk1337 in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

hk1337 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:42:34 +0000

It does but AFAIK it always asks me if I want to allow it unless it has it saved that permission was already given.

New comment by hk1337 in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

hk1337 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:40:43 +0000

I love JetBrains and they’ve gotten better with using devcontainers but they’re still kind of flaky at times. I love using devcontainer too, just wanted to note that.

I found cloning the repo when creating the devcontainer works best in JetBrains for some reason and I hard code the workspace directory so it’s consistent between JetBrains and vscode

New comment by hk1337 in "S3 Files"

hk1337 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:06:23 +0000

This could be useful. We use EFS, I like the benefits but I think it’s overkill for what we need. I’ve been thinking of switching to s3 but not looking forward to completely changing how we upload and download.