Hacker News: meebee

New comment by meebee in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"

meebee — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:08:02 +0000

Can you cite any stats or studies that show that this is happening in any substantial amounts? This seems to be one of those "it just makes common sense" when the underlying data is ignored or assumed.

New comment by meebee in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

meebee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:33:48 +0000

Exactly! One of the reasons I vibed my own Ulysses/Bear similar app for journaling and notetaking with the essential features I need and no subscription.

New comment by meebee in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

meebee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:30:56 +0000

Most all of the apps sync with iCloud so it syncs across all of my devices.

However the MediaWatch app syncs between me and my wife which iCloud does not support (as a sidenote, this is one of the hallucination traps that both Claude and ChatGPT led me down -- both said it was possible, and after a few weeks and many, many hours, I learned the major constraints. I was not wanting any of my apps on the Appstore, so that blew that option). Anyway, I ended up making a small simple SQLite database using python on my Pi and use that for my sync needs. The devices only sync while at home, which was not a problem for me. Also I'm not exposing the database to external security issues.

New comment by meebee in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

meebee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:47:03 +0000

  So excited to be getting to my backlog of apps that I've wanted but couldn't take the time to develop on my own.  I'm 66 and have been in the software field in various capacities (but programming mostly as a hobby).  Here's a partial list of apps I've completed in the last few months:

- Media Watch app to keep a list of movies and shows my wife and I want to watch

- Grocery List with some tracking of frequent purchases

- Health Log for medical history, doc appointments and past visits

- Habits Tracker with trends I’m interested

- Daily Wisdom Reader instead of having multiple ebooks to keep track of where I'm at

- A task manager similar to the old LifeBalance app

- A Home Inventory app so that I can track what I have, warranty, and maintenance

- An ios watch app to see when I'm asleep so that it can turn off my music or audiobook

- An ios watch chess tactics trainer app

- some games

Many of these are similar to paid offerings, but those didn't check off all the features I really wanted, so I vibe-coded my own. They all do what I want, the way I want it to.

Chinese VisionPro Clone

meebee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://vivonewsroom.in/press-release/vivo-unveils-first-mixed-reality-headset-and-new-imaging-strategy-at-30th-anniversary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990263

Points: 2

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New comment by meebee in "iMac G4(K)"

meebee — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:41:54 +0000

This is exactly the type of project I would love to do to my 2017 27" iMac Retina 5k. It's getting a bit slow, so I would love to salvage the beautiful screen and drive it with a new mini. But alas I can't find any similar kits like the Juicy Crumb Docklite.

New comment by meebee in "The Death of Liberal Arts"

meebee — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:38:09 +0000

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The Death of Liberal Arts

meebee — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-suicide-of-the-liberal-arts-higher-education-students-teachers-educators-degree-america-learning-11669994410

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977133

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by meebee in "Double Commander"

meebee — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:35:13 +0000

It does feel like a native Mac app and is quick and responsive. Is there a way to modify the key hotkeys to be like Total Commander? At this point I don't want to have to learn another set of keystrokes. I briefly looked at it and hit space to select a few files, and it opened them, and then I hit Cmd+D to get a quick directory and instead duplicated the file. So it seems that a key mapping from us old commander users must have been done by someone.

New comment by meebee in "Double Commander"

meebee — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:29:37 +0000

Well said and that about covers it for me. Once you learn the commands, there is very little thinking needed to traverse the file structure, picking/moving/modifying files, synching and comparing, all at blazing speed. It is the first app I add to any OS I'm working with.

New comment by meebee in "Double Commander"

meebee — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:16:26 +0000

I use DC on Mac and TC on Win. One of the problems with Mac DC is that the key reassignment don't use the standard Mac Control, Option, Command keys. They do map to the Win equivalents of Ctrl, Alt, Win keys but not always. And trying to override the Mac's almost hard key assignment of the F1-F12 keys is problematic.

New comment by meebee in "WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)"

meebee — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:29:13 +0000

Anyone ever see WP source code, or maybe an open source clone project? Many aspects of WP (mostly the reveal codes) is still useful (much like markdown), that I'm surprised that an up to date open source app isn't available.

New comment by meebee in "Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux"

meebee — Sat, 21 May 2022 18:24:41 +0000

That would be a worthwhile project.

Lessons Inside Hacking Fraud Factory

meebee — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2021/international-tech-support-scam-exposed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892530

Points: 1

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New comment by meebee in "How do you handle your Aging in IT?"

meebee — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:51:42 +0000

Isn't hard to get a job at a university if you don't have a PhD or are a candidate (at least in US)?

Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist

meebee — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-news/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25354752

Points: 4

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New comment by meebee in "WordPerfect for DOS Updated"

meebee — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:28:59 +0000

While MS Word does have Reveal Formatting, it is really not a good replacement for Reveal Codes. It's a clunky way to see isolated formating for a short portion of text. For example, how to search for all places in the text for a font change, or margin change, or section format change. It's difficult to also show where certain formatting starts or stops. Under WP, you can instantly scan the entire document looking for those changes. Not so with MS Word. That being said, RF is better to compare 2 sections of text to immediately show their differences.