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Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used

open_ — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:45:09 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063523

Points: 115

# Comments: 14

New comment by open_ in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

open_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:33:34 +0000

That would be perfect, I might chase down this path again. It's been a while since I've tried to directly mount the iphone as a drive on linux.

New comment by open_ in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

open_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:32:53 +0000

That looks like it might do the trick. I feel like this should be something possible only using first party apps but I'll take it! Thanks.

New comment by open_ in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

open_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:36:35 +0000

My current process for offloading photos off the iPhone is to copy them in subsequent batches of '0-9999' from the 'Image Capture' app.

This is because I usually have far more than 10K photos and apple starts renaming the files after 9999 as 00001(1) for the rest. This is pretty undesirable.

Is there a way for me to export unmodified raw/jpeg/live/videos off the iphone to an external drive without a macbook with a large enough ssd, and wanting to use icloud as an intermediate bottleneck?

New comment by open_ in "AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing"

open_ — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:41:26 +0000

A pretty reductionist and a poor take.

"Standing on the shoulders of giants, it is clear that the giants failed to reach the heights we have reached."

New comment by open_ in "Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price"

open_ — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:40:43 +0000

Oh wow, it's you! Thank you so much for writing what is probably my top 3 software of all time (over a long period).

New comment by open_ in "The model is the product"

open_ — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:56:46 +0000

That makes for poor communication by increasing the friction to read someone's thoughts.

As an author, you should care about reducing friction and decreasing the cost to the reader.

RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

open_ — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://frame.work/blog/risc-v-mainboard-for-framework-laptop-13-is-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935414

Points: 49

# Comments: 4

New comment by open_ in "Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF"

open_ — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:01:43 +0000

Ironically, at least for me, your comment applies far more to your comment than the grandparent's.

New comment by open_ in "Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?"

open_ — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:02:57 +0000

Your comment makes me want to re-read the hitchhiker's guide.

New comment by open_ in "Why is Chile so long?"

open_ — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:38:40 +0000

Apart from a few other factors, the biggest one that stands out is not stringing you along in a click-baity way, instead just asking a question and giving a direct answer right after the question and in simple direct words.

No dark patterns to make you spend a longer time on the webpage for ad metrics.

New comment by open_ in "Ask HN: What is the most challenging programming course you have taken?"

open_ — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:32:02 +0000

> AMIE?

I think they mean 'Mon Ami'

New comment by open_ in "The Programmer's Brain (2021)"

open_ — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:59:13 +0000

This is quite a valuable comment that I agree with 100% and from what I understand, a highly unpopular opinion. I hope more people see this.

New comment by open_ in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

open_ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:34:39 +0000

Or they could launch some much lower hanging fruit and wait for stock price to appreciate by that much or more. A car company, no matter how small, is very, very hard.

New comment by open_ in "Airtable acquires Airplane"

open_ — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:56:51 +0000

This is why open source and/or self-hosting tools are important.