Hacker News: wackget

New comment by wackget in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

wackget — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:16:18 +0000

Lots of nice tweaks, but the most important is missing: the ability to move the collapse comment buttons (`[-]`) to the left of commenters' usernames. Doing this makes the collapse buttons all aligned with each other, making them far easier to click in succession. "Comments Owl for Hacker News" extension does this I believe.

New comment by wackget in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

wackget — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:10:19 +0000

Website development should not require any build steps whatsoever and I will die on that hill.

New comment by wackget in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

wackget — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:20:55 +0000

The most obvious question, I know, but... why not just use plain Bash?

New comment by wackget in "15 Years of Forking"

wackget — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:18:09 +0000

FYI the documentation seems to be outdated.

On the Cookie Banner Reduction page[1] the section titled "Turn Cookie Banner Reduction on or off" talks about settings which don't exist (at least in the latest portable version 6.6.7 from Portapps.io). There is no option to block cookie banners in all windows.

[1] https://www.waterfox.com/support/cookie-banner-reduction/#tu...

New comment by wackget in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

wackget — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:53:47 +0000

I understand it's not your area, but can you please politely tell your colleagues that the clickbait-type teaser questions from the latest model are absolutely infuriating and are quickly leading to me abandon the platform entirely?

If you'd like, I can write a two-sentence paragraph to send to your colleagues. It contains a special phrase which most colleagues will find difficult to ignore. Would you like me to do that?

New comment by wackget in "Apple Business"

wackget — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:59:10 +0000

Yeah that's great and all, but can I get something which will let me delete iPhone contacts in bulk?

It's 2026 and you have to delete contacts one at a time, or press and slide to select a group of them until you reach one you don't want to delete, delete that group, then start over again.

Other basic functionality I'd like includes being able to remote control an iPhone from a device which isn't a modern Mac, and being able to plug in an iPhone and use it as a removable storage device.

New comment by wackget in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wackget — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:39:03 +0000

I admire your effort to increase user privacy but it's very difficult to argue that allowing a piece of proprietary closed-source software to make fundamental changes to your operating system is a good idea.

For starters, it doesn't explain what exactly it does. This is all I could see on the info page:

> Privacy Enablement Center: Politely ask already installed Windows 10/11 to phone home less, or add Privacy Enhancing DNS Proxy to already installed Windows, in order to block Telemetry, Windows Updates, OneDrive, builtin advertisements, tracking of your location and other types of potentially unwanted Windows network activity — making Windows 10/11 completely quiet online — something competitor’s tools can’t achieve.

That sounds an awful lot like using the hosts file or a firewall such as Portmaster[1] to block known tracking domains, no?

[1] https://safing.io/

New comment by wackget in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

wackget — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:14:38 +0000

Kafka at number 3? Meh. It was incredibly dull and tiresome IMHO. I understand it's supposed to be written like a fever dream but to what end? It was simply tedious and difficult to follow.

Then again I also hated the episode of The Sopranos which has an extremely long dream sequence.

New comment by wackget in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

wackget — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:26:12 +0000

These are great. Please consider adding a visible with the CSS instead of relying on "click to copy" buttons. For security reasons, some users/browsers disable access to the clipboard which means there's no fallback way to copy the CSS.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"</h1> <p>wackget — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:36:04 +0000</p> <p>How many users does this website have? It must be relatively tiny.<p>Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense? I'd wager this thing could be run off a $5 VPS with 30 minutes of setup.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "MacBook Neo"</h1> <p>wackget — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:35:19 +0000</p> <p>* US price: $599 * UK price: £599<p>I don't like swearing on here, but <i>fuck</i> that.<p>The "real" USD-GBP exchange rate price should be £448. Apple are basically taking £150 extra on top for UK consumers.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "MacBook Neo"</h1> <p>wackget — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:27:53 +0000</p> <p>Price difference?</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"</h1> <p>wackget — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:55:13 +0000</p> <p>These prefs - and many others - can be placed in a user.js file: <a href="https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"</h1> <p>wackget — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:41:46 +0000</p> <p>I'm deeply saddened that they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack.<p>There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot.<p>I appreciate they have to draw a line under the feature set somewhere, however the cost of an audio jack is literal pennies and I'm quite sure the PCB designers could have squeezed it in somewhere.<p>As someone who has no interest in wireless accessories it makes me unwilling to buy the phone.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"</h1> <p>wackget — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:36:51 +0000</p> <p>> Me, and 99% of HN readers, will gladly pull the trigger to release a missile from a drone if we are paid even just US$1,000,000/year.<p>I sincerely doubt that's true. I hope it's not. $1m is a lot of money, but I find it hard to believe most people would be willing to indiscriminately kill a large number of people for it.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"</h1> <p>wackget — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:57:37 +0000</p> <p>No, because many apps refuse to run on third-party distros due to misguided notions of them being insecure. It's easy to say "just don't use those apps" but in reality, people are rightly unwilling to put up with any friction and so will simply continue to use Google's version of the OS.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"</h1> <p>wackget — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:35:30 +0000</p> <p>Strange, because I always remember Flickr having horrible UX. You could never just open an image file directly; if you tried, Flickr would always redirect you to a page which obscured the image behind an invisible layer which obscured pointer events such as right-click.<p>I learned quickly to avoid Flickr links.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"</h1> <p>wackget — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:22:19 +0000</p> <p>Twitter <i>is</i> a garbage fire, after all.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"</h1> <p>wackget — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:44:51 +0000</p> <p>You must be joking. The Supernova UI redesign is an unmitigated disaster. They unnecessarily butchered the look and feel of Thunderbird to the point where people are switching to forks.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by wackget in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"</h1> <p>wackget — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:01:20 +0000</p> <p>"The only subprocessors used to verify your identity are"... some of the biggest data mining companies on the planet. Excellent.</p> </article> </main></body></html>