Hacker News: spectre3d

New comment by spectre3d in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

spectre3d — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:12:37 +0000

Smultron is a good one that I’ve been using for over a decade alongside BBEdit. The developer offers versions for 10.10 Yosemite and newer.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

New comment by spectre3d in "macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore"

spectre3d — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:22:24 +0000

The T2 chip is Apple silicon, and marked the beginning of really locking down the OS running on a Mac (as opposed to iOS, which was always locked down that way, and Intel Macs which of course could run anything).

It was the first mass market SoC hardware test of their new Mac chip design and it seems it was also to prep macOS for the M line. The level of control Apple gave it makes repair and refurbishing very difficult without Apple’s authorization.

T2 Overview PDF https://www.apple.com/jp/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Ove...

New comment by spectre3d in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

spectre3d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:43:43 +0000

> Many apps are missing many keyboard shortcuts that you may be used to

This is true. To see the ones that are available, hold down the command ⌘ key to get a scrollable list of all of the shortcuts for the app you’re currently using, and use Fn-m or globe key-m to see a list of the system shortcuts.

New comment by spectre3d in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

spectre3d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:12:45 +0000

Yes, AdGuard works. That’s what I use, although I appreciate the other recommendations in the sibling comments above.

New comment by spectre3d in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

spectre3d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:11:55 +0000

VNC and other Remote Desktop solutions work, I use an app called Screens to remotely manage my Macs and PC from an iPad with keyboard and mouse.

Or did you mean the other way around? It would be great to have the iPhone mirroring feature on iPads.

New comment by spectre3d in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

spectre3d — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:45:10 +0000

> I believe what you wrote here has ten times more impact in convincing people.

Seconded. It was great to follow along in your post here as you unpacked what was happening. Maybe a spoiler bar under the article like “Into the weeds: A deeper dive for the curious”

I skimmed the article but couldn’t bring myself to sit through that style of writing so I was pleased to find a discussion here.

New comment by spectre3d in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"

spectre3d — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:13:07 +0000

Same here, I was confused and disappointed when I clicked the link and was presented with yet another screen recorder.

New comment by spectre3d in "Making macOS Bearable"

spectre3d — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:52:17 +0000

Hold down the Command key when you have something selected in Spotlight, it will reveal the path.

New comment by spectre3d in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

spectre3d — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:09:12 +0000

Two iPads, an iPod Touch and an iPhone of mine have been made unusable by OS updates. If Apple had made the cutoff just one OS version sooner, then they would still feel snappy to use. They’re not actually bricked, but completely unusable and essentially e-waste.

New comment by spectre3d in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

spectre3d — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:00:22 +0000

Agreed, pulling the phone out of a pocket with my thumb on the home button and having it unlocked and ready to use by the time I look at it is is ideal.

Much better than having to pull it out, hold in in a way that it can see my face, then swipe up, then wait for the stupid animation at the top of the screen to finish and the actual unlock to occur and then finally be able to use the device.

New comment by spectre3d in "iPhone Pocket"

spectre3d — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:00:54 +0000

Except that Apple didn’t make this. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.

New comment by spectre3d in "iPhone Pocket"

spectre3d — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:57:35 +0000

Agree with the frustration at their SSD and RAM upgrade prices, but Apple doesn’t make the iPhone Pocket. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.

New comment by spectre3d in "iPhone Pocket"

spectre3d — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:54:22 +0000

The iPhone Pocket is not made by Apple. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.

New comment by spectre3d in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

spectre3d — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:42:04 +0000

> That’s not… an option for the workflow it’s currently being used in. I’ll hunt for more user-generated scripts to modify on that forum. Thanks for your response.

New comment by spectre3d in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

spectre3d — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:04:22 +0000

Thank you, good to know AHK is able to do part of what Keyboard Maestro can, it just requires more work and troubleshooting for every script/macro.

That example script also doesn’t let you simply drag a marquee selection to choose the image to find, you have to provide a file path to an image that already exists. That’s not

There must be a market for something more user friendly, at least on Windows.

New comment by spectre3d in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

spectre3d — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:07:13 +0000

I wish there was something like Keyboard Maestro for Windows or Linux. It seems like there isn’t. I’d love to be corrected, though!

From what I can tell, AHK can’t do (m)any of the cool things that KM does, like “Click at Found Image”, “Set the Find Pasteboard”, “Prompt for Screen Rectangle”, “Stream Deck Show OK”, “Increase Song Rating by Half a Star”, “OCR Image/Screen”, “Paste from Named Clipboard”, or many other useful actions. Is there any Windows or Linux application that can?

New comment by spectre3d in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

spectre3d — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:55:27 +0000

“Show Borders” is available in Accessibility-> Display & Text Size in iOS 26.1. (Along with Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency)

New comment by spectre3d in "What to do with an old iPad"

spectre3d — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:37:17 +0000

It was a 10W. I ran many system-intensive games and only remember battery drain when using a smaller power brick, but never ran Geekbench on loop to test that.

New comment by spectre3d in "What to do with an old iPad"

spectre3d — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:17:48 +0000

Perhaps with some tablets, but the iPad 2 and first gen shipped with an adapter (20W?) that didn’t allow that to happen, in my experience.

New comment by spectre3d in "New Huawei 96GB GPU"

spectre3d — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:37:37 +0000

Yes, similar to the slower M4 Max option. The Mac Studio with either M4 Max or M3 Ultra uses 8533 MT/s LPDDR5X.

Memory bandwidth for the M4 Max is 410 GB/s with the 32-core GPU or 546 GB/s with the 40-core GPU. It’s 819 GB/s in the M3 Ultra config.