Hacker News: mrkpdl

New comment by mrkpdl in "Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc"

mrkpdl — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:21:25 +0000

Apple seems to feel that way, but they’re wrong.

New comment by mrkpdl in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

mrkpdl — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:52:04 +0000

You are saying the the dock on Mac OS has been ‘completely useless for the past 20 years’? I mean I can think of at least three uses… And certainly more if I bothered to actually count?

New comment by mrkpdl in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

mrkpdl — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:24:09 +0000

I would like the ability to see which specific folders I have granted access to on an app by app basis. And edit. It’s not clear to me how you revoke an app’s individual folder access after you have granted it.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

mrkpdl — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:00:34 +0000

Awesome, I hope they start to build a spatial concert library from this, as well as stream to their more popular devices.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"

mrkpdl — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:31:51 +0000

As a long time apple fan, Copland and what may have been occupies far more of my mind than is reasonable. But I never thought I’d actually get a chance to touch it. This is awesome to see.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

mrkpdl — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:26:41 +0000

Wild that it didn’t already do this

New comment by mrkpdl in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

mrkpdl — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:39:27 +0000

On the other hand, it feels great to no longer have a box of old cables...

New comment by mrkpdl in "Australia to opt out of social media algorithms, Albanese confirms"

mrkpdl — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:36:08 +0000

Better article without paywall:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/austr...

Australia to opt out of social media algorithms, Albanese confirms

mrkpdl — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-opt-out-of-social-media-algorithms-albanese-confirms-20260908-p60vf4.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605574

Points: 16

# Comments: 9

New comment by mrkpdl in "Early 2000s were peak of humanity"

mrkpdl — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:40:51 +0000

I think I agree with the premise of this. I miss when there were limits on our time with the web each day. I miss not being expected to be up to speed. I really miss magazines. Etc. Windows XP/Panther felt capable enough.

If we could go back I think turn by turn navigation would be the hardest thing to give up.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

mrkpdl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:42:54 +0000

I think their point is that it’s amazing.

New comment by mrkpdl in "RSI Simulator"

mrkpdl — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:25:05 +0000

Hmm that acronym is already taken...

New comment by mrkpdl in "Recycle – Floppydisks"

mrkpdl — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:23:45 +0000

Yes! But beware the one computer in the second row that wrecks your disk, learned one by one, the hard way.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

mrkpdl — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:18:24 +0000

Gorgeous! Keep going

New comment by mrkpdl in "NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year"

mrkpdl — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:08:17 +0000

Based on what documentation?

New comment by mrkpdl in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

mrkpdl — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:08:03 +0000

For me panther (10.3) was more than adequate as a daily driver for the time. Fantastic OS.

New comment by mrkpdl in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

mrkpdl — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:22:48 +0000

Another underlying reason snow leopard is so fondly remembered is it was the final purely Mac version of Mac OS X. Starting with lion the focus shifted to bringing iOS-like features and design to Mac OS X. And it has never been Mac first since.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Cursor Bridge – Run Unlimited Claude Code on Your Cursor Subscription"

mrkpdl — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:43:12 +0000

I think I’m missing something here, can someone share how this differs from the Claude usage that’s already included in the cursor subscription?

Edit: never mind I think it’s so you can use the Claude CLI but with your cursor allowances…

I was tripped up by ‘Claude’ being the name of several different but related things.

New comment by mrkpdl in "98.css"

mrkpdl — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:12:07 +0000

and don't forget Windows 93! https://www.windows93.net

New comment by mrkpdl in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

mrkpdl — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:43:56 +0000

This is wonderful. 30 seconds into trying the site and I’ve already found a couple of interesting books to read. The search I typed is ‘Stuff being made, how it was made, how history shaped its form’.