Hacker News: noname120

New comment by noname120 in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

noname120 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:12:55 +0000

Is it thanks to ML needs or is it unrelated?

New comment by noname120 in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

noname120 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:18:51 +0000

I receive a bunch of transactional emails with an unsubscribe button at the bottom. Unsubscribing of course does nothing to stop the transactional emails but the last thing I want is them to go to spams.

New comment by noname120 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

noname120 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:17:55 +0000

You can refresh them. SideStore[1] does that automatically out of the box (no computer needed) but there are Shortcuts to do that too.

[1] https://docs.sidestore.io/docs/faq#what-is-sidestore

New comment by noname120 in "My Homelab Setup"

noname120 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:38:12 +0000

Mac Mini M1 running Asahi Linux is half of that: 65-70 kWh/year

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:13:42 +0000

Yes, but a limitation nonetheless.

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:01:44 +0000

It feels like they did everything they could so that the cheap MacBook with an iPhone CPU would not be lighter than the 1.5x more expensive MacBook with Apple Silicon

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:53:05 +0000

Not same form factor + MacBooks don’t have cellular

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:47:08 +0000

For some reason Alfred is also a *lot* slower on Tahoe. I can often wait a whole second after pressing the shortcut before the bar appears whereas on Sequoia it was instant.

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:39:03 +0000

My experience with the Apple Watch is that Touch ID is faster to unlock my Mac. The “unlocking with Apple Watch…” thing takes too much time and by the time it would have completed my finger already reached the Touch ID and unlocked it.

New comment by noname120 in "MacBook Neo"

noname120 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:06:14 +0000

Will it be true macOS or will they use this excuse of using an “iPhone chip” to lock down everything like they do on iPads/iPhones?

New comment by noname120 in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

noname120 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:28:20 +0000

Do you use GPT-5.3-Codex Extra High or another model?

New comment by noname120 in "I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye"

noname120 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:16:00 +0000

This other article from the same author is more interesting: https://paultendo.github.io/posts/unicode-confusables-nfkc-c...

New comment by noname120 in "Layoffs at Block"

noname120 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:33:27 +0000

X is the exact opposite of in “maintenance mode” by any counts

New comment by noname120 in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

noname120 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:36:24 +0000

I think you are right, I’m not sure that they actually use it for stuff that doesn’t require Rosetta (arm64 stuff)

New comment by noname120 in "LLM=True"

noname120 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:38:31 +0000

Probably the main one, people mostly complain about context window management rather than token usage

New comment by noname120 in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

noname120 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:51:54 +0000

Not true, OrbStack uses Virtualization.framework: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36189550

New comment by noname120 in "Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool"

noname120 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:27:33 +0000

It’s not only great to fix issues and backport at scale, it’s also very useful to do patches that work universally across kernels no matter how badly modified the sources are.

One example is that there are patches for Android kernels to allow rooting the phone with maximum discretion in order to bypass integrity checks. Unfortunately manufacturers modify Linux sources so sloppily that diffs never apply cleanly and you have to endlessly fix hunk rejects.

I created Coccinelle patches that can universally apply to any Linux kernel between 3.18 and 5.15. It has been tested over 100+ Linux kernel sources from Android phone manufacturers and works flawlessly! https://github.com/devnoname120/kernelsu-coccinelle

The learning curve is steep (documentation is thin so you have to look at the code), but the rewards are well worth it. I compiled a list of conferences, slides, and examples to get started if anyone is interested: https://github.com/devnoname120/kernelsu-coccinelle#how-to-l...

New comment by noname120 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

noname120 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:10:25 +0000

I don’t know a single bank in Europe that provides this option

Edit: Perplexity says this:

> cards cannot block DCC offers because the merchant terminal identifies your card’s country of origin from the card number and offers DCC accordingly. Always manually decline at payment to let the card handle conversion at better rates

New comment by noname120 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

noname120 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:34:04 +0000

For the first one (and all other screen-related bugs) you can use BetterDisplay to fix it: https://betterdisplay.pro/

New comment by noname120 in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

noname120 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:27:13 +0000

Yeah but this command sucks because AFAIK then it doesn’t even verify notarized apps anymore (for example if the certificate is invalid, if it was revoked, etc.)