Hacker News: qxxx

New comment by qxxx in "Small programming tricks"

qxxx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:07:08 +0000

yes! zoxide is also probably my most used tool. I did not map it to cd yet, but I use the z command to jump into directories indexed by zoxide.

New comment by qxxx in "Decompiler Explorer"

qxxx — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:27:37 +0000

really cool! I was finally able to decompile the keygenerator for one of my software. I lost the sources but I still have the keygen. It was a VB6 keygen. With AI and some of the decompiled code I was able to convert the algorithm to python. No more need to have windows to run a keygen.

New comment by qxxx in "OpenLogi"

qxxx — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:15:30 +0000

> Everything Options+ does, without the account.

does not support Logitech Flow.

I am using it all the time. Will it come one day?

New comment by qxxx in "Immich 3.0"

qxxx — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:47:09 +0000

yes. https://docs.immich.app/features/editing/ And it is very aware of exif. It also has AI features to analyze the photos (or videos) and you can for example search for "cat" and it will find all photos with cats.

New comment by qxxx in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

qxxx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:25:46 +0000

at my workplace some of the devs are using github copilot (their own private account). Boss said that our company already has copilot and everyone can use it instead of private accounts.. it is enabled in our microsoft account. Of course, this is not what the devs need. Now I understand why this is so confusing, because there are many copilot products.

New comment by qxxx in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

qxxx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:24:12 +0000

so, seniors will review now the AI slop code.. I am also doing this task and reviewing this kind of code takes time as the code is often overengineered. Code works but will have potential bugs. I am not able to find every bug or implication quickly. But I am also using ai to review the ai slop lol, because why now. After that I am also quickly reviewing by myself.

New comment by qxxx in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

qxxx — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:19:46 +0000

Just tried it out. Works fine. Love it! I tried it with a wordpress site. It is showing hundreds of sql queries in one request (thats probably why that wordpress site is so slow lol)

What I would love to see here is:

- some kind of sorting: eg. by excecution time or order. So I can see the slowest queries.

- search/filter feature.

- faster scrolling with pgup/pgdown keys.

- maybe how often the same query was executed. I could check the code and maybe optimize the queries.

New comment by qxxx in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

qxxx — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:01:01 +0000

and then the effects wear of. You just feel "normal" or the same as before. I used to take ssri meds too. It was nice in the beginning. Stopping was a nightmare, I needed to taper down foe like half a year..

New comment by qxxx in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

qxxx — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:53:43 +0000

I don't know what you have, it works on my machine. Just tried it. I can grab the rounded corner (+- few px inside/outside). I can't grab the corner like shown in the gif. I am on Tahoe 26.2 (25C56)

New comment by qxxx in "Dealing with abandonware (2024)"

qxxx — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:02:12 +0000

reminds me of my own software I created and was selling online 20 years ago. I lost the source code but people still wanted to buy it. So I sold it for few years (shareware). I had a serial key generator for windows but it was annoying to do this manually.. I wanted to extract the key generation algo so it can be generated automatically after payment. I also tried many disassembly tools like ghidra, but without luck. I decided to stop selling / supporting the software. Nowadays, I still get the occasional mail from people asking where they can buy it, or of there are some updates.

New comment by qxxx in "Radio Garden"

qxxx — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:38:16 +0000

I am in Germany, I hear German ads there.

New comment by qxxx in "GPT-4o"

qxxx — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:04:55 +0000

the design is very human

New comment by qxxx in "Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder"

qxxx — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:27:44 +0000

I tried nix (for spinning up dev environments). It is very slow compared to docker.

New comment by qxxx in "Spotlight: Sentry for Development"

qxxx — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:25:58 +0000

I also have no idea what it does. "Sentry for development", so it works like sentry but the errors are streamed to localhost??

New comment by qxxx in "Shazam for singing"

qxxx — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:21:53 +0000

Good job! I am still searching for a good solution which can identify songs by singing or humming the melody. There are sites (eg. soundhound) but these are not working all the time.. I think soundhound is working withoud machine learning. With the power of AI today, we could create something which works better. Like Shazam for music.

New comment by qxxx in "Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently"

qxxx — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:23:20 +0000

in my current role at my current company, the opposite is the case. Daily sometimes hour long meetings talking about features and some crap and less time for the actual work. I hate it. Because I love to code, but I am constantly distracted. Everyone wants something from me... some people ask if I have time, some simply call, even if I am in another meeting already.

New comment by qxxx in "Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands"

qxxx — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:30:05 +0000

I have been using lazygit for years. Love this tool. It is fast, doesn't need much ram, I don't have to leave my terminal (I also use byobu / tmux for tabs). I also use lazydocker from the same developer.

New comment by qxxx in "Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat"

qxxx — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:03:12 +0000

don't know what chatbase.co is but it seems to not be free. OpenChat is (?)

New comment by qxxx in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

qxxx — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:15:46 +0000

personally I don't use the magic mouse or the touch pad (only if I work remotely and i have the macbook with me) but the magic mouse is terrible compared to normal mouse. I use a gaming mouse with a ton of macro keys. These keys do various things, most important keys are keys for switching desktops.

New comment by qxxx in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

qxxx — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:10:58 +0000

yeah... I have the same problem. I click on the icon in dock and nothing happens. For example, Microsoft Teams.. I need this to open it and contact someone asap, but nothing happens. I need to search for the teams window on all the desktops. Or right click it and select the window, usually this works. But still frustrating. I have been using Mac for 6 months (before Windows and Linux) and Mac OS is sometimes frustrating when trying to do the most simple stuff like bringing a closed app back to front.