Hacker News: inickt

New comment by inickt in "Zed 1.0"

inickt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:22:17 +0000

I think Mitchell outlined his vision for libghostty pretty well here: https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

Alacritty is already pretty performant (relative to a lot of the other terminal emulators), but my read is Ghostty has been going hard over performance/standards/protocols (like Kitty).

New comment by inickt in "Zed 1.0"

inickt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:14:16 +0000

He gave me a quick response, should have checked back before posting here

New comment by inickt in "Zed 1.0"

inickt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:51 +0000

I'd love to see the Alacritty terminal backend swapped out with libghostty (or more likely libghostty-rs). The work Mitchell is doing with Ghostty and the approach Zed has taken seem super aligned.

And Mitchell definitely seems to want to make Alacritty an easy target for conversion, he was just talking about being open to help support Warp with it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005

New comment by inickt in "Retiring Test-Ipv6.com"

inickt — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:17:23 +0000

Anyone have a good replacement if a different organization is not able to take over? This has always been my favorite IPv6 test site, and really appreciate the author maintaining it for so long.

New comment by inickt in "Entering text in the terminal is complicated"

inickt — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:13:54 +0000

Likely an unpopular take, but I switched to the "Natural text editing" preset in iTerm2 to get editing shortcuts that match the traditional macOS ones. It has the advantage of just remapping to the normal control sequences inside terminal apps, so you basically get this functionality everywhere without needed to change it in multiple places/worry about readline support/etc. It isn't perfect (I have rarely needed to enter sequences manually that then are remapped), but I find I have used way more command editing since its part of my muscle memory.

https://pliszko.com/blog/post/2021-10-31-natural-text-editin...

New comment by inickt in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

inickt — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:16:15 +0000

You can already AirPlay from an iOS device to a Mac– doing this on a plane is a bit trickier because of the networking setup though. I think I have managed to successfully do it once by either 1. doing some sort of tethering/creating a local wifi network on my Mac 2. connecting both devices to the in flight wifi

I use AirPlay to my Mac (and external monitors) even at home since I can watch the 4K feed from apps, which isn't available for some services if you use the web browser (cough HBO cough),

New comment by inickt in "Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models"

inickt — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:40:29 +0000

Which Apple has put some pretty large effort in the last few years to improve in iOS

New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

inickt — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/swiftlang-github/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40639137

Points: 154

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Apple started cheating me out of App Store bundle purchases

inickt — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320871

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by inickt in "Skip: Transpile SwiftUI iOS Apps into Android Kotlin Compose Apps"

inickt — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:45:40 +0000

Came across this on GitHub (https://github.com/skiptools/skip), thought it was interesting.

The docs go into a bit more detail of how this works: https://skip.tools/docs/

Seems notable that the transpiler is free during the tech preview, but pricing will be announced later. While the generated Kotlin code is probably not 1:1 with what a human would write, at least it seems you aren't completely locked in to it if you decide to leave.

Interesting idea– definitely a lot of surface area to cover and I am curious to see how it does. I personally love native app development, but wonder how big the downsides are once you start getting into detailed UX designs/architecture patterns...

Maybe using this for UI only and using Kotlin Native would be a better middle ground, but with Compose Multiplatform for iOS in development that might be an overall safer bet for native shared codebases.

Skip: Transpile SwiftUI iOS Apps into Android Kotlin Compose Apps

inickt — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://skip.tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38019840

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by inickt in "Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max"

inickt — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:21:41 +0000

The Pros do use USB3? Or are you talking about the regular 15? I still agree with you, but unfortunately the vast majority of regular iPhone users aren’t transferring large files over a cable and won’t care.

New comment by inickt in "Leaving Haskell behind"

inickt — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:18:01 +0000

I have really enjoyed Scala for the same reasons. Has some escape hatches if needed, and a large ecosystem.

sbt drives me insane though, and is probably my least favorite part of the development experience.

New comment by inickt in "Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria"

inickt — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:07:59 +0000

A friend sent me the YouTube video, which is a fantastic watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY.

Minecraft computers have been done for a while now, but seeing a full RISC-V computer running programs is really impressive, and frankly just seems really cool. The programs are written in Rust, and then compiled to run in game. Plus, the author needed to write their own mod to make the Terraria wiring efficient enough to support the computer: https://github.com/misprit7/WireHead

Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria

inickt — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/misprit7/computerraria

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501742

Points: 289

# Comments: 41

What I have been working on: Modal

inickt — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://erikbern.com/2022/12/07/what-ive-been-working-on-modal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916134

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by inickt in "Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS"

inickt — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:56:10 +0000

Guilherme’s stuff is great. pam-watchid is a reimplementation of Apple’s pam_touchid, but uses the other authentication flag which I patch in to the original binary.

New comment by inickt in "Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS"

inickt — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:01:36 +0000

Does watch unlock now work natively with pam_tid? I know as of at least a few months ago it would only work if you could use touch ID, i.e. when the laptop was open. If it was docked, it would fall back to password auth.

I wrote a patcher that changed this behavior, it patched pam_tid directly on your system and just updates the API Apple calls to allow unlocking with watch-only when touch ID is unavailable:

https://github.com/inickt/pam_wtid

Was a fun reverse engineering experience and wrote up some more info in the README.

New comment by inickt in "Show HN: Patching Apple's Touch ID PAM module to add sudo watch authentication"

inickt — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:34:26 +0000

This was my first time doing any sort of binary reverse engineering, I would love any feedback if there were methods I could improve on! I skipped some of my exploratory issues earlier on when using Ghidra and the free version of Hopper, but still think the README outlines the important parts!

Show HN: Patching Apple's Touch ID PAM module to add sudo watch authentication

inickt — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/inickt/pam_wtid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809393

Points: 3

# Comments: 1