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New comment by perryizgr8 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

perryizgr8 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:19:08 +0000

This is almost exactly how Windows voice control works. It keeps dividing the screen into smaller and smaller boxes labeled with numbers that you can speak to focus into.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:47:06 +0000

Offtopic: I posted a Show HN and it was instantly flagged. I don't know what I did wrong :(

Show HN: Turnstile – a Windows browser picker that suggests routing rules

perryizgr8 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:06:04 +0000

Hi HN,

I built Turnstile because I missed Choosy every time I used my Windows PC.

I use multiple browsers on my Windows machine. Edge for work stuff, Firefox for personal browsing, and Chrome mostly for testing. This is not an unusual setup. But Windows makes you pick one default browser and that’s that.

The problem starts when you click a link somewhere and it opens in the wrong one. Slack link? Should probably go to Edge since I’m signed into work accounts there. A YouTube link from WhatsApp? Firefox, because that’s where my personal Google account is.

I got tired of copying links, switching browsers, and pasting them. So I built Turnstile.

Turnstile registers itself as your default browser. When you click a link anywhere on the system, a small popup appears near your cursor with your installed browsers and profiles. Each one has a number next to it. Press the number and the link opens there. Press Escape and nothing happens.

It can also skip the picker entirely using rules. Rules can match domains, regexes, or the application that opened the link.

This is the part that made it useful for me: Turnstile suggests rules from actual usage. I realized I never really configured routing rules in Choosy because it was still a separate chore. Turnstile watches what you pick locally, and after a few consistent choices it asks something like: “You opened slack.com in Edge 12 out of 13 times. Create a rule?” If you accept, future matching links go there automatically.

A few details:

- WPF / .NET 9 - built with OpenCode and Codex as coding agents - no background service; it only runs when Windows invokes it as the default browser - config and usage data stay in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Turnstile - source-app detection uses Windows process APIs/P/Invoke because Windows does not directly tell the browser who launched the URL

The basic picker and browser-profile support are free. Automation rules and smart suggestions are Pro, with a 30-day trial through the Microsoft Store.

I’d especially like feedback from people who use multiple browsers or profiles every day. What routing rules would you expect? And are there Windows apps where source-app detection fails?

You can read more about it on my blog: https://blog.perryizgr8.com/projects/2026/05/03/turnstile.ht...

The app home page: https://turnstile.perryizgr8.com/

Get it from Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NTGZ68KK1X3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296321

Points: 1

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New comment by perryizgr8 in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

perryizgr8 — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:25:23 +0000

How is OpenAI Voice mode any different than a Whatsapp call? Ignoring the part that there is a GPU on the other side instead of a human. But what is the technical challenge in the voice call portion? It seems like that has been a solved problem for a long time now.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Where the goblins came from"

perryizgr8 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:17:31 +0000

These guys are at the absolute frontier, why can't they rigorously find the exact weights that are causing this problem? That's how software "engineering" should work. Not trying combinations of English words and hoping something works. This is like a brain surgeon talking to his patient hoping he can shock his brain in the right way that fries the tumor inside. Get in there and surgically remove the unwanted matter!

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:16:46 +0000

I do my work on this PC. And even though almost all of it is on WSL, the rest of the OS just works better than any Linux I've tried. And I'm no stranger to Linux. My first was the Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD they used to mail out for free. So I put up with all the abuse :( I have a fully functional Arch Linux on a secondary SSD, but it's just a pain to deal with all the Bluetooth audio quirks, the uncanny valley GUI, incomplete app support, etc. I'll muster enough willpower one day to fully make the arch boot by default.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:04:54 +0000

I've a solid UPS.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:03:48 +0000

I've set it up to run on login. But this screen is special. It blocks everything after login until you accept or remind later it.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:55:24 +0000

This is so extremely annoying when paired with the forced auto restarts. Here is how it works:

1. I walk away from the computer with a bunch of my tabs and programs running. I also have a couple of servers running (docker compose).

2. Microsoft decides my work is worthless and restarts the PC to install updates to fix their own shoddy programming.

3. After 3-4 restarts, it finally drops back into the login screen. So my open apps, tabs, servers are all gone, and will not be running. Basically means I cannot rely on the PC being online if I am outside.

4. And on top of that, even when I enter the password, it will pretend to login, but stops on this spam screen with the anti-pattern "remind me later" button. Every single time. I've told them no for at least 50 times. Oh and this screen blocks every startup program from loading, even though I have signed in. So I have to clear it before docker will load.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget"

perryizgr8 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:20:16 +0000

I think I read somewhere that calculating and limiting cloud usage costs is a really hard problem. But I feel that if Google were motivated to do it, they can do it. It's hard, not impossible. They just don't care to solve this particular problem.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Claude Design"

perryizgr8 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:04:26 +0000

Why doesn't it have an "Export to Figma" button?

New comment by perryizgr8 in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:39:46 +0000

Keyboard shortcuts are truly a mess on mac os. Windows does it much better and with more consistency. That results in third party apps also having sensible shortcuts. Example: Ctrl+G is widely used in code editors for "Goto line". On Windows it makes perfect sense to use because Ctrl+ shortcuts are used for text editing everywhere. But on macos it is out of place, because there Cmd+ is the standard for text editing. But Cmd+G is used for some obscure find feature. So editors fall back to Ctrl+G which is out of place.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

perryizgr8 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:44:24 +0000

Yeah imagine if at boot Windows Vista gives you the UAC "Do you TRUST all the software you are going to run today?" and if you say yes then it just allows any random code to do whatever it wants.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

perryizgr8 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:22:23 +0000

The "trust project" feature has been designed to be so extremely intrusive and annoying that the first thing I do is to completely disable it whenever I install VS Code on a new computer. This "solution" was just done to tick some box and put the blame on the user when a security incident happens. It's pretty similar to Windows Vista where it annoyed you with a disruptive popup so many times during the normal course of actions that most people ended up disabling the whole UAC system. Overall security goes down, and Microsoft has a nice excuse.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:50:58 +0000

> Separately, I think the community is not helped by the philosophy of purposely obfuscating teaching material around Wasm

What does the author mean by this?

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:43:19 +0000

In any bet you need a judge who decides which way the conditions of the bet resolved. The judge is someone trusted by both parties to be impartial and fair. If a lot of people stop trusting polymarket to act fairly and impartially, that will simply mean fewer people participating in the bets.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:34:11 +0000

> the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

insert "always has been" meme

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11"

perryizgr8 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:34:33 +0000

Windows 11 has स्वेद steadily gotten worse. It was better at launch! For me, the phone link feature seems to constantly consume 8-10% CPU regardless of whether my phone is connected or not. Windows malware process is another big offender, making me wonder if an actual virus might have lesser effect on performance. The start menu sometimes hangs if I try to type something in the search box. It just screams incompetent software to me.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:26:58 +0000

> It’s gonna destroy the color, and it’s not the filmmaker’s intent.

I don't care about the "filmmaker's intent", because it is my TV. I will enable whatever settings look best to me.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:58:33 +0000

If you have network infrastructure that supports 400G I'm pretty sure it has solid PTP built in. And as far as I remember from my networking days setting it up is almost as simple as setting up NTP, you just need a single machine with a GPS lock.