Hacker News: whatsthatabout

New comment by whatsthatabout in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

whatsthatabout — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:06:12 +0000

So what's the best alternative now? Openrouter + cline or something else?

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic PiP on tab switch (v2)"

whatsthatabout — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:18:18 +0000

I posted the first version of AutoPiP here in November 2024. Since then I've kept chipping away at it, and v2 is finally ready.

The premise: I wanted truly automatic PiP for multitasking — switch a tab, video keeps playing in a floating window, no clicking required. Safari is the only browser that allows triggering PiP without a user gesture, which is what makes this possible at all.

v2 adds:

- Global on/off toggle in the toolbar (no need to uninstall to pause it)

- Configurable keyboard shortcut (default ⌥P) to manually trigger PiP

- Blacklist / Whitelist mode to control which sites it activates on

Works on YouTube (including PiP on scroll), Netflix, Twitch, Disney+, MAX, Paramount+, Jellyfin and most generic HTML5 players.

GitHub: https://github.com/vordenken/AutoPiP

Free, GPL-3.0, no telemetry.

Happy to answer questions about the Safari extension API quirks I ran into.

Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic PiP on tab switch (v2)

whatsthatabout — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vordenken/AutoPiP

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217624

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Safari extension for blocking YouTube AI translations

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:23:54 +0000

I made a fork of the original yt-ant-translate which is only available for Chrome and Firefox.

It should have the same features as the original: - Untranslate audio track - Untranslate description - Untranslate channel branding - Untranslate notification titles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037657

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by whatsthatabout in "ChatGPT can be used as default Safari search engine with new extension"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:44:07 +0000

I don't know why it's different for you and me then. I tested Qwant once again and saw not one call to duckduckgo (my default search engine) - now I'm over 100 searches while analysing with proxyman without one leak. The kagi extension on the other hand leaked all my first 3 searches. Something must be different.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "ChatGPT can be used as default Safari search engine with new extension"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:46:31 +0000

I quickly downloaded the kagi extension for testing and there I can see the leaking - the Qwant extension still does not leak. Maybe you could also test the Qwant extension?

New comment by whatsthatabout in "ChatGPT can be used as default Safari search engine with new extension"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:20:07 +0000

I don't know your setup but in my opinion something like proxyman / mitmproxy or even Wireshark would be the better way to analyse this. I tested quite often and never saw the leak with Qwant.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine with New Extension"

whatsthatabout — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:42:16 +0000

Interesting, something must have changed then - the qwant search extension definitely does not leak the search to the default search engine - I checked myself with Proxyman.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine with New Extension"

whatsthatabout — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:16:19 +0000

Depends on how the extension works probably. Had the issue with some extension but the Qwant extension for example doesn't leak - you can check yourself when capturing the http(s) traffic with something like proxyman.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions"

whatsthatabout — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:16:17 +0000

Cool idea, wanted to try it out but it's not available in my country. Any reason for this? :)

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

whatsthatabout — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:21:09 +0000

BambuConnect is not part of BambuStudio - That's intentional, so BambuLab does not need to share/open-source it.

The current implementation (the Bambu network plugin thingy) isn't a part of it either, it's downloaded by the client when BambuStudio is opened.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]"

whatsthatabout — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:10:15 +0000

Seeing Wuppertal on the start-page of hackernews wasn't something on my bingo card lol

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode"

whatsthatabout — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:58:36 +0000

Hi, I added a part to the GitHub repo explaining this, basically its this:

- The extension requires permission to "Access all websites" solely to detect video players and enable Picture-in-Picture functionality across different websites

- No data is collected, stored, or shared with third parties

- All functionality operates locally on your device

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:41:59 +0000

I read a lot online and of course LLMs can probably help you there. I would suggest if it's nothing macOS/safari specific you want to build, start using chrome and develop the extension for it first. If you want to add safari to the list of supported browser later, you can easily adapt the code (as long as safari supports the apis for it).

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:39:53 +0000

Thats true, but in the end the web extension itself can work with all browsers (if the apis are implemented of course). AutoPiP for example would work without any modifications in chrome/firefox but they implement their own PiP api so it doesn't activate the macOS native one...

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:37:15 +0000

Hey man, yeah I actually saw that! Before this I used another safari extension for it but I thought I could automate it - born was AutoPiP!

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode"

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:37:36 +0000

As stated in the readme, this is my first coding project using Swift and Xcode. As a beginner, I welcome any help, suggestions, or contributions to improve the code and functionality!

Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode

whatsthatabout — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:36:00 +0000

AutoPiP is a Safari extension that automatically enables Picture-in-Picture mode when switching tabs and disables it when returning to the video tab. No clicks needed - just seamless multitasking while watching videos.

Key features: • Automatic PiP activation when switching tabs • Smart detection for active videos only • Seamless disable on tab return • Zero configuration needed

GitHub: https://github.com/vordenken/AutoPiP

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254870

Points: 46

# Comments: 15

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Cloudflare DNS is down (1.1.1.1)"

whatsthatabout — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:01:21 +0000

btw „primary“ and „secondary“ dns resolver is not working the way it sounds at first. It’s more like a loadbalancer instead of fail-over.

New comment by whatsthatabout in "Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose"

whatsthatabout — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:20:56 +0000

Wanted to try an android phone for some time again anyways, thanks apple :)