Hacker News: sorahn

New comment by sorahn in "Libghostty 1.0"

sorahn — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:56:56 +0000

You can configure iterm2 to do whatever you want in new tabs or panes. This feature has been available for over a decade.

I have it reuse the same directory in a new pane. And my home directory in a new tab.

New comment by sorahn in "We're training a Figma-fluent editing model"

sorahn — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:30:12 +0000

Is there one of these online somewhere that you could link to? I’d love to take a look.

New comment by sorahn in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

sorahn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:23:20 +0000

I just finished watching that video, and thought to myself "I'm sure someone else with Chat GPT tokens to burn has already done that"

And then I come to hackernews and well, not quite, but I'm sure that one will be done shortly too.

New comment by sorahn in "OpenAI Agents API"

sorahn — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:33:40 +0000

Check which model you're using, Astra is the new default, but also the most expensive

New comment by sorahn in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

sorahn — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:58:49 +0000

Cool so my USB wireless car play dongle still has some life left in it. Good to know.

New comment by sorahn in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

sorahn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:42:12 +0000

We still have to provide a way for people that don’t have (smart) phones, but I would absolutely implement asking the phone instead of a 3rd party when available.

We don’t gain anything from asking a 3rd party. In fact it costs money per request.

New comment by sorahn in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

sorahn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:16:47 +0000

It is, but it’s difficult. I am down visiting New Zealand and 3 times I have flown domestically here and there no ID check. I buy a ticket online, check in online, and scan a barcode at the gate. Is New Zealand an exception, or do a lot of countries not require an ID for domestic flights, and the US is the exception?

New comment by sorahn in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

sorahn — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:53:05 +0000

If you're experienced with or like the way CSS works, and you didn't like Tailwind, then you were probably using it correctly.

New comment by sorahn in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

sorahn — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:27:55 +0000

I don't think this is specifically a react problem. The problem is that people don't want to learn what modern CSS can do, or write it themselves (see Tailwind), and most new frameworks make it easy to just sidestep that with div soup.

Some of us _like_ CSS, and try to use as much of it when possible, but I feel like we are few and far between. I use react to manage the state of my app, but that doesn't mean I have to make a 27 div component to style an input.

The big problem is trying to convince the rest of the team that they should learn and use CSS.

New comment by sorahn in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

sorahn — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:28:32 +0000

I gave up on the swipe for the same reason, but if you double tap the triple dot menu it hits the 'all tabs' thing.

New comment by sorahn in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

sorahn — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:54:31 +0000

I couldn't quite go for the 60%, but I have friends with the UHK60 and I really liked it as a keyboard.

I popped for the 80 as soon as the shipping times caught up to real time. It's a fantastic keyboard. I haven't gotten any of the clusters for it yet, but I'm very happy with my purchase.

New comment by sorahn in "Twitch's New UI Is Awful"

sorahn — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:23:16 +0000

I cannot express just how much I _dont_ want twitch to just start playing some random fucking stream when I open it.

Whose brain dead idea was this?

New comment by sorahn in "Elon Musk to Ban Apple Devices If OpenAI Is Integrated into OS"

sorahn — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:13:03 +0000

Too bad that is impossible to do without a twitter/x account.

Oh well. Nothing of value was lost.

New comment by sorahn in "QWERTY keyboards show the English dominance of tech"

sorahn — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 05:04:39 +0000

At least 2 or 3 major versions of macOS. Search for “modifier keys” in system preferences.

New comment by sorahn in "Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange"

sorahn — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:19:10 +0000

No. The entire point of these is to funnel the traffic onto and off the highway with out crossing any oncoming traffic, and to reduce the total number of traffic crossings overall.

Here’s a YouTube video that does a much better job of highlighting these benefits. https://youtu.be/A0sM6xVAY-A?si=qrk2ZFFYPA2-6rAS

New comment by sorahn in "iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload"

sorahn — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:47:34 +0000

Raycast and Alfred have both added AI features recently.

New comment by sorahn in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

sorahn — Mon, 20 May 2024 20:48:17 +0000

macOS has an accessibility feature where you can hold ctrl (or something) and use the scroll wheel to zoom the entire screen in.

Not quite the same, but works really well for not breaking any layouts because it just scales the entire display out of the viewable area.

New comment by sorahn in "Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?"

sorahn — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:00:11 +0000

My outcome was the shutdown of Apollo, rather than the blackout. I no longer read Reddit on my phone. (Except for a link or two clicked from something else, but even then I go to `old.reddit` instead to read the comments). That was really where I wasted the most time on it.

It’s kind of a relief. I think I was too “lazy” to stop on my own because Apollo was so comfortable to use.

New comment by sorahn in "YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers"

sorahn — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:31:04 +0000

I have premium, and I use Firefox/uBO and haven’t noticed anything.

New comment by sorahn in "ESLint: Flat Config Rollout Plan"

sorahn — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:05:07 +0000

There is an “eslint-recommended” rule set. (And a matching one for typescript-eslint).

I recommend those as they seem to be the least intrusive while giving a lot of sane defaults.