Hacker News: hrvstr

New comment by hrvstr in "Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app"

hrvstr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:12:25 +0000

Actually not 100% correct. AFAIK there are two patches around: an "online" variant that requires a clean host file but has access to more features and the "offline" variant that uses the host file to block traffic like you described.

New comment by hrvstr in "Glanceway – Collect RSS and custom plugin data in your macOS menu bar"

hrvstr — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:22:20 +0000

I redeemed JLM634N7HHE7. Looking forward to giving it a spin. Thanks!

New comment by hrvstr in "Show HN: RSSPub – A self-hosted Rust app to turn RSS feeds into a daily ePub"

hrvstr — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:08:42 +0000

Really nice project! I was looking for something like this just a couple of days ago.

> designed to run on free/hobby server tiers.(Koyeb/Render etc)

Can you elaborate on this part? Koyeb doesn't seem to have a free tier. I got the docker container running on Render but all configuration is gone after a restart.

New comment by hrvstr in "Show HN: Vibe coded iOS workout app with Apple Watch support"

hrvstr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:47:43 +0000

Hey I was looking for something like this and would give it a spin and a review :)

New comment by hrvstr in "Homebrew 5.0.0"

hrvstr — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:58:13 +0000

I was planning to keep using my Intel Mac for a few more years, so this is a bit disappointing. The note about “macOS Intel x86_64 will move to Tier 3, dropping CI support, and no additional bottles will be built” sounds like Homebrew is basically ending active support soon. Does anyone know what the timescale is for deprecating macOS Intel entirely? It feels like devs are moving on from Intel Macs even faster than Apple itself. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what “Tier 3” actually means here, but if no bottles are built anymore, that’s going to make installs a lot less convenient.

Found a link, and tier 3 sounds brutal. Time to look for alternatives... :(

https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers

New comment by hrvstr in "Show HN: vscode-gitui – Open GitUI inside VSCode"

hrvstr — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:16:49 +0000

What is the benefit of using this compared to the integrated git panel?

New comment by hrvstr in "Keep Using Your Intel Mac in 2025?"

hrvstr — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:31:23 +0000

Still rocking a Skylake Hackintosh from 2016 that can handle any type of work that I need (motion design, audio production, web dev etc.).

New comment by hrvstr in "Aerospace: An I3 Like Tiling Window Manager for macOS"

hrvstr — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:35:07 +0000

I've been meaning to give this WM a try, but never got around to it. Has anybody switched from yabai? I've been using it since the chunkwm days so it became second nature to me on macOS. It would be interesting to see how both of them compare and what the benefits and drawbacks are.

New comment by hrvstr in "A Dark Mode PDF Reader Competing with Adobe"

hrvstr — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:05:56 +0000

I think some of the UI elements are not placed intuitively. The close file button should be on the top right side and the button to collapse the sidebar should be inside the sidebar (top left) and not next to it (when the sidebar is displayed of course).

New comment by hrvstr in "Rift – A Window Manager for macOS"

hrvstr — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:55:35 +0000

Nice one, how does it compare to yabai? Does it handle tabs in Finder well?

New comment by hrvstr in "uBlock Origin Lite for Safari Being Canceled"

hrvstr — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:46:13 +0000

> Some people are reading more than there is to my statement above. This is a development discussion within dev team, "cancelling a build" is not "cancelling support for a platform".

New comment by hrvstr in "Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles"

hrvstr — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:51:56 +0000

Interesting. The UI looks way better than Lutris and Heroic Launcher. Anyone tried all three of them and went with Bottles? I first tried Lutris and then switched to Heroic, but I am not too keen about Electron apps, although Heroic works quite well.

New comment by hrvstr in "Ask HN: How do you bypass paywalls on Safari?"

hrvstr — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:21:40 +0000

I am using this extension. I disabled the toolbar icon and run it from the right click context menu.

https://octalwise.com/acidity

New comment by hrvstr in "Show HN: Automatic local Git snapshots while you code (macOS)"

hrvstr — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:05:04 +0000

I tried to download but got:

404: Page Not Found Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.

New comment by hrvstr in "iOS 26 Supports iPhone 11 and Newer"

hrvstr — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:00:43 +0000

Really? I am using an 11 Pro as well and barely notice any lag if at all any. I am skeptical how well it will run iOS 26 too, though.

New comment by hrvstr in "Valla: A modern ePub reader for macOS"

hrvstr — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:35:40 +0000

Looks really promising. Any thoughts on how the pricing will work?

New comment by hrvstr in "Ask HN: Favorite Linux distro for an Intel based Mac?"

hrvstr — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:35:54 +0000

I like to use Fedora with Gnome on mine.

New comment by hrvstr in "Recommend any clipboard app for Mac"

hrvstr — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:26:11 +0000

Raycast

New comment by hrvstr in "Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems"

hrvstr — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:18:28 +0000

Hmm, may I ask what version you are running now? I am on Sonoma too and don't see any updates. The apple support page lists macOS Sonoma 14.7.1 as the most recent version released on 28 Oct 2024. https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100

New comment by hrvstr in "Twitter for Mac appears to be dead as App Store listing disappears"

hrvstr — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:28:58 +0000

Sad day :( Search was broken for a long time anyway so I had to stop using it.