Hacker News: torarnv

New comment by torarnv in "macOS Container Machines"

torarnv — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:11:10 +0000

Those are awesome features! The one missing for me is bridge networking. Any idea why orbstack doesn’t have that?

https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/342

New comment by torarnv in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

torarnv — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:18:49 +0000

I’m using https://github.com/torarnv/claude-remote-shell for this, which runs Claude’s Bash tool on a remote machine but leaves Claude running locally otherwise.

I’ve found it to be a good balance for letting Claude loose in a VM running the commands it wants while having all my local MCPs and tools still available.

New comment by torarnv in "Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup"

torarnv — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:45:11 +0000

> Lume automates the macOS Setup Assistant via VNC and OCR, creating ready-to-use VMs without manual clicking. Tart relies on Packer plugins for automation.

This feels disingenuous. Tart has unattended setup support as well, and it's based on the same VNC + OCR technique as Lume. In fact Tart had it first, and your approach seems to be heavily inspired by it. In addition the boot command instructions you're using came from https://github.com/cirruslabs/macos-image-templates/

The only material difference is whether it's built-in or integrated via Packer.

New comment by torarnv in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

torarnv — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:06:22 +0000

Excellent, thanks!

New comment by torarnv in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

torarnv — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:06:10 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for posting, I've been looking for exactly this kind of project that takes end to end pristine restoration seriously.

The FAQ states you back up the originals as plain images files in YYYY/MM/DD format, which is great for integration with other tools. What about metadata? Is it in a format that lends to integration with other tools, say if you stop developing/supporting your app for some reason?

New comment by torarnv in "Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly"

torarnv — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:07:42 +0000

Qt for macOS maintainer here.

We've tweaked our styles to take the new design metrics into account, and fixed or worked around issues where we've seen them. We don't integrate with NSGlassEffectView and friends yet. If you find any issues in recently released version of Qt 6.10, 6.8 or 6.5, please report them upstream, thanks!

New comment by torarnv in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

torarnv — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:52:00 +0000

In my case, both.

New comment by torarnv in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

torarnv — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:48:18 +0000

I've flown twice with my new AirPods Pro 3, and both times I had this exact experience; high pitched and loud feedback. They were properly cleaned, and had a "good seal" according to the settings wizard.

Glad to see I'm not the only one at least, and hopefully this will be possible to fix as a software update, rather than having to replace the AirPods.

New comment by torarnv in "Meow.camera"

torarnv — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:43:53 +0000

This seems like a good initiative, but makes me wonder, isn't there a risk these cats will end up overeating when endless Internet-people click the feed-button?

New comment by torarnv in "Plugin System"

torarnv — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:41:54 +0000

Another vote for Infuse. In my experience Infuse 8 handles HDR and color management correctly (1:1 with Safari or QuickTime), while IINA does not (too dark).

New comment by torarnv in "I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer"

torarnv — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:23:19 +0000

Awesome!! Are you planning to open source this? I’ve been working on something similar and would love to join forces!

New comment by torarnv in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

torarnv — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:27:31 +0000

Could you describe the tweak you did, and possibly the general setup you have with zed working with LM Studio? Do you use a custom system prompt? What context size do you use? Temperature? Thanks!

New comment by torarnv in "Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio"

torarnv — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:50:53 +0000

Does anyone have suggestions for tools similar to this/Screen Studio that works as a webcam on macOS? I'd like to share 2-3 windows, with those fancy backgrounds, and a camera overlay, in a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio, without needing to change the resolution of my ultra wide monitor or move/close all other windows etc.

New comment by torarnv in "Parallel ./configure"

torarnv — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:37:30 +0000

Agreed! The CMake Xcode generator is extremely slow because not only is it running the configure tests sequentially, but it generates a new Xcode project for each of them.

New comment by torarnv in "Parallel ./configure"

torarnv — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:34:21 +0000

CMake also does sequential configuration AFAIK. Is there any work to improve on that somewhere?

New comment by torarnv in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

torarnv — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:17:50 +0000

Amazing summary of the mental model of the interdiff review style, and the problems with GitHub's approach to code review. Thank you!

One thing you don't touch upon (yet) is that the diff soup may lead people to prefer the squash merge strategy, to get rid of the "noise" of the fixup commits, which throws away the "good" initial 3 atomic commits as well.

With interdiff review style you're left with the initial 3 commits, and the choice of whether to land them individually or squash them is based entirely on the commits themselves and how atomic they really are.

New comment by torarnv in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

torarnv — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:11:40 +0000

As far as I know, splitting the series into individual PRs only works if you have commit rights to the repository, so you can base one PR on a different branch (in the main repository) than main.

As an outside contributor, with a fork of the repository, your three PRs will incrementally contain change A, A+B, and A+B+C, making the review of the last two PRs harder, because you need to review diffs for code you're already reviewed in another PR.

New comment by torarnv in "Visual Analysis of Binary Files"

torarnv — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:22:50 +0000

I remember seeing a similar layout used for an article or blog post about reverse engineering a binary format. I’ve tried finding it later, but couldn’t. Anyone know of such a tool that lets you describe the various headers, fields, etc of a binary format with a similar visualization?

Window Embedding in Qt Quick

torarnv — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qt.io/blog/window-embedding-in-qt-quick

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39202015

Points: 3

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New comment by torarnv in "On-Crash Backtraces in Swift"

torarnv — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:43:53 +0000

$ clang++ foo.cpp -o foo -framework Foundation

-lswift_Backtracing also works, but dunno if that's "public API"

$ codesign --force --sign - --entitlements entitlements.plist foo

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Backtracing.rs...

$ SWIFT_BACKTRACE="enable=yes" ./foo

Very cool!