Hacker News: nicebill8

New comment by nicebill8 in "Neovim 0.12.0"

nicebill8 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:27:25 +0000

Possibly never: https://0ver.org/

New comment by nicebill8 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

nicebill8 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:50:32 +0000

Man, I tabbed away from this and when I came back I got very briefly excited...

Reminds me of an older day where not every headline was about AI.

New comment by nicebill8 in "GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt"

nicebill8 — Sat, 13 May 2023 06:29:32 +0000

I don’t trust the accuracy of this prompt at all given the many examples of prior hallucinations. The typo in the first couple of lines doesn’t help either.

X-Plane 12 Early Access

nicebill8 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:39:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/buy-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32825732

Points: 113

# Comments: 93

New comment by nicebill8 in "Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura"

nicebill8 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:22:25 +0000

Still got my pin from WWDC18, lovely little thing.

Swift now uses GitHub Issues

nicebill8 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apple/swift/issues

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31151383

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nicebill8 in "You can't download this image"

nicebill8 — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 11:06:45 +0000

Drag and drop to Desktop on macOS works too.

New comment by nicebill8 in "Error 404 (Not Found)"

nicebill8 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:52:51 +0000

GCP - my Cloud Run containers are giving 500's

New comment by nicebill8 in "Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?"

nicebill8 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:46:46 +0000

As a programmer, I've got a love for code but I have to accept that this is going to be the future for 90% of consumer-facing apps. The most common abstractions for the most common use-cases are already built and they're going to stay that way in my opinion. Once the "hard thinking" work is done building these abstractions, it's just a matter of connecting the dots to bring a product to market in . While there's been no-code tools for a long time (Yahoo pipes being my earliest memory) there's no doubt they're improving every day.

I think in a few years (decades?), "developer" and "programmer" will mean something very different that they do today.

Swift 5.5 has serious stack corruption bugs

nicebill8 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:11:20 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-5-5-has-serious-stack-corruption-bugs/52344

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28681411

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by nicebill8 in "About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1"

nicebill8 — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:20:38 +0000

If this is really critical, it would not be unprecedented if we were to see another iOS 12.x.x release.

New comment by nicebill8 in "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"

nicebill8 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:41:27 +0000

I won't be using Replit any more; I'd like to use this instead though. I'm not supporting OSS suppression of any kind, especially for something so basic, fundamental and useful.

New comment by nicebill8 in "Google outage – resolved"

nicebill8 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:15:20 +0000

I’d guess Search is pretty well segregated from basically everything else because of how valuable it is - I’m logged into Google on Search and it works fine (unlike everything else)

New comment by nicebill8 in "Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?"

nicebill8 — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 20:39:16 +0000

Jon Gjengset has the best Rust channel for intermediate/advanced learners hands down. Also a co-author/creator of “Missing Semester” fame. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

New comment by nicebill8 in "Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store"

nicebill8 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:23:41 +0000

A more stable, frequently updated platform with decent hardware offerings and the fastest chips on the market does not amount to inferior phones.

New comment by nicebill8 in "Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad"

nicebill8 — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:52:36 +0000

> All Mac portables with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed.

vs.

> On the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers with the T2 chip, and on the 15-inch MacBook Pro portables from 2019 or later, this disconnect is implemented in hardware alone.

Do these statements not contradict each other for the 15" 2018 MacBook Pro, for example, which includes a T2 chip? This would also contradict earlier documentation provided on the T2 chip by Apple themselves [1].

From [1]:

> All Mac portables with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures that the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed. This disconnect is implemented in hardware alone, and therefore prevents any software, even with root or kernel privileges in macOS, and even the software on the T2 chip, from engaging the microphone when the lid is closed.

[1] https://www.apple.com/euro/mac/shared/docs/Apple_T2_Security... (October 2018, page 13)

New comment by nicebill8 in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

nicebill8 — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:27:14 +0000

I'm currently on a post-university gap year and making a couple of iOS apps, having been doing so for the past few years.

The first app [1] is pretty niche but a technically interesting challenge nonetheless; it's a fast auto-checkout bot to be used on Supreme [2]. There's other apps just like it but they all seemed to cost upwards of $50, so mine's available for around $10.

[1] https://autocart.page

[2] https://supremenewyork.com

New comment by nicebill8 in "Show HN: Turbo Boost Disable for macOS"

nicebill8 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:06:10 +0000

I hope something like this comes soon. Until then, I'll keep my Turbo Boost disabled!

New comment by nicebill8 in "Show HN: Turbo Boost Disable for macOS"

nicebill8 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:15:55 +0000

The main problem is really the heat/battery life—my laptop has a 6-core processor inside it with seriously inadequate cooling performance (with it being so thin). I guess the lifespan argument is technically be true but isn't the main reason I disable TB.

The 20% is worth it for me because the computer seems to be fast enough anyway.

New comment by nicebill8 in "Show HN: Turbo Boost Disable for macOS"

nicebill8 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:03:22 +0000

There's likely a way to get root without having to read the password each time, this is just what I managed to hack together. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions I would be happy to fix this ASAP!