<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: naikrovek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=naikrovek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:47:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=naikrovek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah that is what I was going to do until I discovered the two VM limit.  I was building a MacOS GitHub Actions farm, or rather, looking into it.  I had written most of the code but my inertia screeched to a halt when I discovered the two VM limit for MacOS VMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:20:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735392</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They still EXIST though.  And I saw one the other day on the Refurbished store.  They’re definitely still around.<p>Even a 256GB model would run a load of 16GB VMs</p>
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<p>They are likely scared of people who would run MacOS virtual desktop farms, without also buying an appropriate number of Apple machines.<p>That’s what I would be worried about if my primary source of income was hardware sales.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:01:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734408</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MIT or Apache2 or FreeBSD licenses would be preferable in my case, but GPLv2 or even AGPLv3 (if you have to) would work.<p>If you’re taking requests…</p>
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<p>This is awesome because I flippin love tart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733623</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, the UI leader behind Liquid Glass is no longer with the company, replaced by a long time Apple employee known for his eye for detail.<p>I do t think Liquid Glass is going to go away soon, Apple doesn’t seem to reverse itself ever, but I do expect Liquid Glass to become better over time.  We’ll see what WWDC brings on that front I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717400</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool.<p>Why did you post this?  Genuinely asking.  I’m autistic and I don’t understand why people do things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697573</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Random != unexpected</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697310</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697310</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Windows” alone is not trademarked.  “Windows 11” is trademarked.  “Windows Server” is trademarked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:58:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668993</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Apple” isn’t trademarked.  “MacBook” is trademarked.  “Mac” is trademarked.  “iTunes” is trademarked.  “Apple iPad” is probably trademarked.<p>“Apple” alone is not trademarked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668984</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because like all other modern Macs, the GPU in my Mac uses the same API as the GPU in your Mac.<p>Also, on a Mac with 32GB of RAM, 24GB of that (75%) is available to the GPU, and that makes the models run much faster.  On my 64GB MacBook Pro, 48GB is available to the GPU.  Have you priced an nvidia GPU with 48GB of RAM?  It’s simply cheaper to do this on Macs.<p>Macs are just better for getting started with this kind of thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:14:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668642</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not sure why you think this conversation is about the proportional variant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630472</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>show me any that have claimed that they were for entertainment purposes only.  sql server has never had that in its EULA.  The GPL does not say that the software is for entertainment purposes only.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:01:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591934</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Input is a proportional font.<p>it is also a monospaced font</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591698</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's not ruined <i>yet</i>.  it can recover, but it will require an immediate 180 degree turn on all changes they've made since acquisition.<p>microsoft, you suck at aquisitions.<p>stop shoehorning copilot into everything.  holy hell, stop it.  just stop.  please.  no customers ask for this.  none.  zero open source developers ask for anything like this, ever.  stop it.  stop.  holy moly, stop.  i mean it.  but you won't stop because you don't understand why we don't want it, because you suck at acquisitions.<p>stop usurping github culture and replacing it with microsoft culture.  you know what happens when microsoft culture arrives: all of the things that people love about your company vaporize almost immediately.  you dorks don't understand this, though, because you suck at acquisitions, so this'll never change.<p>stop letting people with MBAs make decisions.  this is the big one.  people with MBAs know enough to be catastrophically dangerous, and they don't know enough to know if what they're doing will drive people away.  MBAs lose all respect for customers and only see things in terms of value.  MBAs do not see customers as valuable, they only see product as value.  MBAs are insane.  Fire the fucking MBAs and get some older engineers who do not have MBAs to assemble teams to help them pick product direction and product features.  This is obvious to everyone except you dummies because you dummies suck at acquisitions.<p>you CAN keep the "GitHub" brand, and the clout, but you must stop doing everything you started doing since you acquired them.  and I do mean that.  you must let GitHub culture return.  GitHub will die a slow, painful death if you do not.  It will live on a bit longer as the git host of choice for some enterprises, but it will not last very long in that form. This is obvious to everyone except you because you suck at acquisitions.<p>you look at your shiny new pet and you grab it and you dash its head against the concrete wall until you see its eyes poking out and then you cry because it's dead, not understanding that it was you who killed it.  you only wanted to make it better!  but you didn't make it better, did you?  you killed it.  as you always do.<p>you strip everything that customers love out of these companies and you crush everything that the employees love about the companies with extreme efficiency because you don't fucking respect these things.  you don't even know that you SHOULD respect these things, because knowing that requires that the MBAs be taken away from the acquisitions steering wheel and be permanently banned from the company.  you are filled with cancerous MBA decision making and those MBAs will never admit it to you, because they are the engine behind these acquisitions you fucking suck at.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591380</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why would you spell it like that if you don't want me to pronounce it chéri/sherry?<p>Because that's a way to spell it without changing the pronounciation in the US.  Also, in the extremely unlikely event that it becomes very popular, in the US you can't trademark a dictionary word, it must be something unique.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:53:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585467</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It won’t unless you ask it to.  It will review your PRs and it will create PRs if you don’t turn those things off, I believe, but it won’t edit or modify any PR.<p>My employer pushes copilot quite hard and I’ve never seen copilot do anything without me telling it to act in some way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:33:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579991</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you don’t want copilot to work on your PRs, don’t ask it to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578210</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We don’t like ads, my man.  There are too many MBAs in that company now.  MBA holders lose contact with reality about halfway through that degree.  Do not listen to them.  They will destroy any product they touch if given enough time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:25:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577881</link><dc:creator>naikrovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naikrovek in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well we can’t recall the voters, so there is no point in addressing them.  They are a problem because in the US there used to be an FCC rule that said “if you call yourself a news program, you must tell the truth,” and that was overridden by the Supreme Court during Reagan’s term.</p>
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