Hacker News: hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hughlillyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:22:40 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "No more icons in every menu by default"]]>Have you tried ⌘-Shift-? and typing the menu option you want to select?

]]>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:30:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189997hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189997https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189997<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"]]>> I've seen no evidence that Amazon or others are buying $10k books to scan into their corpus.

Have you seen evidence that they’re buying only readily available books that are plentiful on the market?

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:57:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394746hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394746https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394746<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "Less human AI agents, please"]]>* fewer.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:02:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845903hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845903https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845903<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser"]]>Tried Arc on my 2015 MBP last week and the fan immediately went full-throttle. The app was unusable.

]]>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:02:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415676hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415676<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer"]]>Out of interest, what language was the project written in, and what kinds of testing tools did you use?

]]>Fri, 20 May 2022 05:13:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443611hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443611<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "Cities with Nice Weather"]]>Yeah I had no idea what he was using til I read your comment. I thought it was Python but it didn't look enough like Python…

]]>Fri, 13 May 2022 04:39:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363393hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363393https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363393<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "macOS Monterey"]]>I didn’t know this was a feature. No matter how many modifier keys I press with the File menu open, “Find” never changes to “Find by name”. (Searching the menu options through the Help menu does find the function, though.) Wonder why? (Edit: Never mind, BetterTouchTool was blocking it somehow!)

]]>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:00:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005516hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005516<![CDATA[New comment by hughlilly in "macOS Monterey"]]>Ooh! Now all I need is a replacement for Better Touch Tool.* Anyone know of anything?

* which I use almost exclusively as open/close new tabs in Safari and Finder with the top right and left corners of the trackpad respectively; plus three-finger-swipe left/right gestures to move between tabs

]]>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:35:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005189hughlillyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005189https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005189