Hacker News: luckman212

New comment by luckman212 in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

luckman212 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:49:59 +0000

The peak that never stops peaking, apparently

New comment by luckman212 in "Floodtide: Keep your Mac up to date (MacUpdater replacement)"

luckman212 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:40:48 +0000

I was a MacUpdater user and fan, and was sad when they announced it was being sunset. Have tried a few of the other "updater" apps, e.g. Latest, Updatest. Those didn't have nearly as wide coverage as MU and so for the last year or so I've been doing a bit of a dance bouncing between 2-3 different updater apps and some hand-rolled scripts to keep my Macs software current.

When Floodtide appeared, I signed on as a beta tester and tested it for a few weeks- it's now replaced all of those others. It's got a nice UI, and supports a lot of sources: Sparkle appcasts, Homebrew casks, GitHub releases, Electron feeds and its own signed catalog. Pretty customizable, can live in the menubar or work on-demand as a dock-only app (my preferred mode). You can also set up exclusions, choose beta/release channels, set the app to auto-update everything (if you want). Also has a nice automatic backup/rollback feature for safety in case an update goes sideways.

No affiliation- just wanted to put it out there to help support the dev who has been very friendly and responsive.

Floodtide: Keep your Mac up to date (MacUpdater replacement)

luckman212 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://bhopstudio.com/floodtide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613742

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by luckman212 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

luckman212 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:59:14 +0000

> better adapt quickly

maybe they can grow larger brains and an extra hand so they can hold 3 calculators at once?

New comment by luckman212 in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

luckman212 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:25:12 +0000

Don't forget about those common areas too! I've seen many cases where hallways, elevators, and stairwells were included in the square footage numbers.

New comment by luckman212 in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

luckman212 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:22:47 +0000

Thanks, and you can go ahead and ban all the regular advertising too while you're at it.

New comment by luckman212 in "New ChatGPT desktop app combines Chat, Work, and Codex"

luckman212 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:29:13 +0000

The "old" ChatGPT app is now called ChatGPT "Classic", and new features may be available only in the new app.

So the separate "Codex" app is being sunset. I'm not thrilled about this, since the new monolithic app is monstrous at close to 2GB, and takes longer to launch, and I can't easily see my chat history.

New ChatGPT desktop app combines Chat, Work, and Codex

luckman212 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001276-moving-to-the-new-chatgpt-desktop-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853808

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by luckman212 in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

luckman212 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:32:06 +0000

Fair, but what about names that are specific enough to give an attacker a clue to a potential attack surface, like "authelia.example.com" - now they know you've likely got an Authelia setup, and can start digging for exploitable CVEs etc. I'm in the process of removing all my individual certs and replacing with a wildcard cert served by Traefik. Is that a bad idea?

New comment by luckman212 in "Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)"

luckman212 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:27:02 +0000

I was also a fan of Hex, but development has stalled. I tried FluidVoice (found it buggy) and Handy (had problems with hotkey) before eventually landing on TypeWhisper[0].

It works very well, and has a few more bells and whistles without feeling bloated.

[0] https://www.typewhisper.com

New comment by luckman212 in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

luckman212 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:44:02 +0000

For the last 6 decades or so, a computer was a machine assumed to operate with high levels of precision and deterministic outputs. Such precision enabled spacecraft like Voyager 1 & 2 to travel billions of miles from Earth, staying on course, semi-operational and sending telemetry- 50 years after launch.

Now we have machines that, when asked to produce a paperclip, may instead produce a butter knife, or a banana, or maybe just a "try again later".

These modern "tools" are quite a different animal. They're more akin to roulette wheels that generate massive amounts of heat and CO2.

New comment by luckman212 in "Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Agreement with CoreWeave"

luckman212 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:50:59 +0000

Nothing compared to the 250% rise in HDD prices over the past year...

New comment by luckman212 in "You can power on a Mac remotely"

luckman212 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:32:25 +0000

Oh man that's nice. When I was in high school slugging along with a Mac LC, I dreamt of having the amazing Quadra 700 with its superior speed and graphics. Crazy that the price was $5,700 ($14K in 2026) and you just picked it out of the trash.

New comment by luckman212 in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

luckman212 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:18:26 +0000

> I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right

you would? has any trillion dollar corporation ever?

New comment by luckman212 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

luckman212 — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:43:57 +0000

This will surely end well

New comment by luckman212 in "How we run iSCSI over the internet"

luckman212 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:41:56 +0000

I wish there was built in iSCSI initiator support on macOS. All of the halfway decent third-party ones either broke many OS versions ago (GlobalSAN) or cost a small fortune ($250 for Atto Xtend)

New comment by luckman212 in "Issue links now open in a popup"

luckman212 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:18:38 +0000

If anyone knows someone at GitHub and can tap them on the shoulder, please ask them to revert this terrible change.

Issue links now open in a popup

luckman212 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910546

Points: 242

# Comments: 134

New comment by luckman212 in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

luckman212 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:25:38 +0000

"They" is 1 guy (George Nachman) who has tirelessly maintained this app in his spare time for 15 years. This is an arms race that's simply impossible for solo devs or even small teams to win. It's going to have a real chilling effect. I've seen a few popular open source projects take themselves private recently (eg cal.com) due to this.

New comment by luckman212 in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

luckman212 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:38:09 +0000

Would be great to see a fresh macOS App Store release. The current one (3+ years old) has a few sharp edges.