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willcateon Why does native UI still matter?

For what it's worth, Electron now claims support for native OS widgets.

willcateon Show HN: Jimmy Kimmel Monologue Generator

Has errored out many times in a row, just when the jokes are about to appear. Mac Mini M4, MacOS 26, Brave Browser

willcateon Music-Map – Find Similar Music

Impressive!

willcateon The United States Is Southern Now

TIA to whoever uploads this to Wayback Machine

willcateon Ask HN: How can I make 0,1M dollars?

Work smarter, not harder.

willcateon Ask HN: What is safe emergency fund amount to have in our bank account?

6x your monthly expenses, also get a small safe or fireproof box & keep some cash in it, if you don't do that already.

willcateon Miami's Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant

Link does not seem to match

willcateon Ask HN: Simple open source to remove the bright background on a web page?

To endarken any page while you're browsing, just execute this javascript in a bookmark:

javascript: (() => { document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()";document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' })();

willcateon Ask HN: Is Twitter Down?

No but today I had to turn "Shields Off" on Brave browser to get it to load -- first time I've ever needed to do that

willcateon My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author

No questions but I appreciate you posting this. Congrats on your success.

willcateon I Created an Ad‑Free Yt‑Dlp Powered Video and Audio Downloader for 100s of Sites

Very nice. A few years ago I wrapped yt-dlp in a tiny Mac app that downloads whatever URL is on the clipboard. The only graphical option I included was to change the output filename.

willcateon The point of no return:Only days left to stop a totalitarian state in the US

John Q, I presume?

willcateon I bought a laptop. How much is this configuration worth in USD?

I'm er, uh... not familiar with that brand.

willcateon The Epidemic of Managing Without Soul

Thanks. In a previous career I watched the soul get sucked out of the radio business because of management attitudes just like that. It never recovered.

willcateon I built the world's best JSON editor by myself

This is really good.

willcateon Insane Go High Level White Label

DNS error.

willcateon Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

My lovely wife, to whom I've been married for decades.

Otherwise, money

willcateon Bluesky Is Turning into a Strong X Alternative

Well they certainly have experienced a public relations bonanza over the past week. However:

BlueSky: 13 Million users

X.com: 500 Million users

willcateon Mmmmnbcbfvcvvc

You fell asleep on yr keyboard again

willcateon I Fight for the User (2023)

With apologies to Mr. Atwood, I don't think that post has aged well.

willcateon Ask HN: How often do you read Hacker News?

Daily. Browser bookmark button.

willcateon Ask HN: In the Apple event, why did the speakers use similar hand movements?

It's just the way public speakers have been taught to speak here in the 21st century.

willcateon X (Twitter) Outages

+3 min. -- not down here

willcateon My parents are Flat-Earthers (2019)

(2019)

willcateon New Wi-Fi Takeover Attack–All Windows Users Warned to Update Now

file under "stories you never read about Linux"

willcateon Shfl: A random sampler of album recommendations

Nice.

willcateon Debunking Davos [video]

bad link

willcateon In the USA is it now illegal for vendors to email statements as PDF attachments?

No.

willcateon The dark side of OneTaste, the orgasmic meditation company (2018)

Is this place still in business? "OM is not sex" ... what a scam.

willcateon Tell HN: Stripe stole $92k of our funds

If I was in your shoes and those things happened, I would make it known to all the tech blogs and 'zines. Even if Stripe doesn't care about you, they do care about bad publicity.