Hacker News: jaffa2

New comment by jaffa2 in "Blurry iPhone Text Picture Problem: Is There an Easy Solution I'm Missing?"

jaffa2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:26:03 +0000

It just looks not focused to me. Dude needs to check which lens hes using and check if he has macro mode enabled. Hes using a 17 pro max shouldnt have any problem. The iphone air doesnt do focusing close so taking pics likenthat needs distance

New comment by jaffa2 in "How to locate almost any photo [video]"

jaffa2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000

How to locate (almost) any photo using some data sets and free tools online

How to locate almost any photo [video]

jaffa2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXqkSQsMUs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755663

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jaffa2 in "Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome"

jaffa2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:25:37 +0000

So is this like phpmyadmin but runs locally and talks to postgres not mysql/maria?

New comment by jaffa2 in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

jaffa2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:19:55 +0000

I guess tico fruit is just an asshole. Being sued is usually bad. If you can sue your competitor even better.

New comment by jaffa2 in "GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems"

jaffa2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:10:31 +0000

I gave up after about a 1/4 It didnt seem to be going anywhere. Is it a shaggy dog story? I didn’t read the punchline.

New comment by jaffa2 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

jaffa2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:44 +0000

Isn’t it just their AI llm thing?

New comment by jaffa2 in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

jaffa2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:56:23 +0000

Better to proclaim on the internet that you are special and ADD than just doing the work. I mean, who even are you if you dont have an ‘ism of some sort these days? (Almost always self diagnosed)

New comment by jaffa2 in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

jaffa2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:15:16 +0000

Is the poster sure or have they checked that the gains and perceived higher level of focus are not just because of the Change? Rather than the actual change? Maybe in a few months a bigger monitor will suddenly work better not because its bigger but because its a change?

Personally i love a big monitor, i use 32” screens (but only 1 at a time) on my Mac, pc and gaming pc. But in reality i do most ‘real work’ on my 16” mbp. And i drop the res to make everything bigger snd nice to read on the laptop.

New comment by jaffa2 in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

jaffa2 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:30:56 +0000

“USING AI TO GENERATE DIAGRAMS

Click the AI button in the toolbar to copy the Grafly format reference. Paste it into any LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini…) along with a description of the diagram you want. Copy the JSON the LLM returns. Click the Import JSON button () in the toolbar and paste it in. ”

Super user friendly as well! I don’t even understand the instructions on how to use it.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

jaffa2 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:49:28 +0000

I didnt even notice.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Revolut wins UK banking licence after five-year tussle"

jaffa2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:20:47 +0000

The only way to interact with the account is via a specific variant of an android app ?

New comment by jaffa2 in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

jaffa2 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:33:41 +0000

Next try CMD+H to hide instead of minimising, like in Windows Land.

New comment by jaffa2 in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

jaffa2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:40:27 +0000

The ribbon doesnt work for because the options change and visibility is decided by how big my windows is.

New comment by jaffa2 in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

jaffa2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:38:41 +0000

Good point. Its a mess. Come on apple get someone to fix this

New comment by jaffa2 in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

jaffa2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:37:33 +0000

You can disable it but yes macs will periodically wake up to get emails and notifications even while they are ‘sleeping’

New comment by jaffa2 in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

jaffa2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:36:18 +0000

> For me, the butterfly keyboard was Apple's mostest worstest user interface design decision.

I really liked the butterfly kb. It was responsive, and you could hit the key cap anywhere and it would register.*

Subsequent mac book keyboards imo are all terrible and suffer from the terrible issue of sponge-ness that means i can literally press a key cap in a slightly off centre location and it Does Not Register. Its like the key movement is separate from the actuation. I have way more mis key and missing letter using later post butterfly kbs than i ever did. The worst part is this is ‘normal’ and not a fault. You just have to press harder and in the centre.

* except when it was in for work i had 3x top case replaced on my old mbp

New comment by jaffa2 in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

jaffa2 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:10:15 +0000

from the article : > This might seem silly. The user interface of URLs? Who types in or edits URLs by hand? But keyboards are still the most efficient entry device.

Can someone let Apple know this ? Safari URL bar is a disaster. If I edit a URL say to remove a part and hit enter 9/10 times it searches the internet.

It seems to forget that it's a url it's displaying despite it cutting the front off, even after telling it to use long urls in address bar. It's so annyoing I actually use another browser since I often need to paste in or modify urls for the work I do. Safari sucks hard. Any solutions to disabling 'search' in the address bar ? I want it to be a URL bar only, and anythign typed in it should be resolved and not searched.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks"

jaffa2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:05:33 +0000

I think it’s natural to think of this in terms of frequencies so the kiki shape has a higher visual frequency. As does the word have a higher audio frequencies within in than bouba so that is naturally associated with the lower frequency undulating line of that shape.

New comment by jaffa2 in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

jaffa2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:04:31 +0000

same here in safari. first strike ok, second froze for a few sec. I did like the sort of 'obstruction' effect of the rain on the house for example. obvioulsy a limitation of the char based render, but it adds a pleasing kind of obscuring effect.