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…TML/JS artifacts (and they will retire the custom UI soon) it’s great, you can build apps with JS to test UI, who needs Figma… HTML & CSS is the end result anyway so why design in some proprietary intermediate language?…
— throwaway63467, 2026-11-04 · We're training a Figma-fluent editing model · source

…of models to generate design-system aligned interactive prototypes in HTML/Tailwind... there really isn't a purpose for Figma. I use to love it - now I don't touch it. It doesn't really help my process to have not-HTML to work with. Maybe for mobile apps?…
— vcryan, 2026-11-03 · We're Training a Figma-Fluent Editing Model · source

…k directions (i.e. dragging right should rotate the camera to the right instead of dragging the screen like it might in figma)…
— percentcer, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre · source

…ion: India (looking for work from anywhere in the world) Remote: Yes, only remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, HTML, CSS Résumé/CV: https://rakeshk.com/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com I have 15 years' experience…
— akrakesh, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…TypeScript, JavaScript, Astro, Svelte, Vue/Nuxt, Three.js, Electron, Shopify, Python, Docker, Cloudflare, Linux, Figma Résumé/CV: https://malejandro.com/resume Portfolio: https://malejandro.com GitHub: https://github.com/Arecsu Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-al…
— arecsu, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…n NYC. Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3, Python, Three.js, Capacitor, Selenium, Git, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Blender, Adobe Creative Suite Résumé/CV: https://shanelessa.com Email: shane.lessa@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/gldstrrbt Seeking: Creative technologist…
— throwaway743, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ot the approach from Smitner-Studio's tentacle-arm-showcase, a 2D Godot demo. The time I spent modeling them by hand in Blender was 100% worth it. I also made a little Halloween horror movie for it. It's at the top of the page, and the Dock shots in it are the real app. I'd love…
— leonardsouza, 2026-10-30 · Show HN: hyperbin – This Halloween, take out your Trash before monsters move in · source

I love KiCad. My point is that most people would hate KiCad 1.0 just the same as they'd hate Blender 1.0. Critiquing early releases of FOSS is a "throwing stones from glass houses" sort of situation.…
— bigyabai, 2026-10-27 · Everything · source

…it happen at the same time. The animals were created using SDF (signed distance field) sculpting instead of traditional blender models. I wrote the simulation, path finding, and server code myself. Claude Code was very helpful, however, I did personally review and refine all of t…
— kagen, 2026-10-21 · Show HN: A shared 3D Zoo in the browser where everyone sees the same animals · source

…ld that is worth looking at. Let's take open source as an example: No new 3d/2d CAD packages that are more capable than Blender/FreeCad/KiCad, nor Blender/FreeCad all of the sudden became much more capable than they were just few years ago. I also want to point out,that I haven't…
— newprint, 2026-10-19 · I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories · source

…t be ready as a drop-in Photoshop replacement for professionals yet, and I didn't say it was. I said it was better than GIMP 3 (and all other free image editors, for that matter). I've been using pirated Photoshop for random image edits for most of my life, and Photocraft does ex…
— Aozora7, 2026-11-02 · OccupySaaS · source

…HSL color models all broken and useless? Yes, I know their limitations. But of all graphical software I use daily. only GIMP supports LCh, and using it is pretty unintuitive. I see how position-anchor and stuff are coll for complex layouts, but they have poor support on low-power…
— nine_k, 2026-10-30 · Pico CSS is no longer maintained · source

…nes written in C are the most reliable (such as vim, bash, coreutils, terminals, X11¹, ... also larger software such as gimp, blender). Over decades I literally can't experience a single crash! ¹ The exception is the Nouveau driver, but without it X was also perfectly stable for…
— uecker, 2026-10-13 · A Modern Web App in C · source

…ich at least follows a Windows UI convention. Much easier to use than Photoshop; but I have not used it for many years. Gimp: tried it. Rotted out UI, and an absolutely incomprehensible UI convention (if any). I cannot use it and will not take the time to learn it. On Linux, I ve…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…to make something they want, not something we've all been grateful for but bemoaned as a comparise. For example, I love GIMP but holy shit it was a downgrade from Adobe in most ways.GIMP should stay GIMP, though, I wouldn't want my tools being completely overhauled in terms of UI…
— loufe, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…king at flamegraphs. UTV is a fork of openrv which is an older release of the commercial RV. Like many things it uses ffmpeg and also native readers and writers for certain formats. Allowed me to get it to 8k@60fps buttery smooth playback with hardware acceleration. If you a…
— mcoliver, 2026-10-29 · H.264 Is Magic (2016) · source

I use claude with remotion and ffmpeg to create final video.…
— aavisangle, 2026-10-18 · Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product? · source

…for creating the smallest size (10x+ smaller) while still retaining good quality and even supports PNG transparency: ffmpeg -i {input_file} -filter_complex "[0:v]format=pix_fmts=yuva444p,split[color][alpha];[alpha]alphaextract[alpha_chan]" -map "[color]" -map "[alpha_chan]" -c…
— Metricon, 2026-10-16 · JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases · source

…r CDP, while WebdriverIO and Appium handle native apps through WinAppDriver. A small Go agent captures the desktop with FFmpeg and streams it over WebRTC for live viewing and recordings. That separation lets a single test move between a browser and a native Windows app without re…
— jadenlemmon, 2026-10-14 · Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs · source

…t impossible to do both. Tantacrul is my favourite (and, actually, only) example of this. His work with MuseScore, with Audacity, his videos about them, and his takedowns of Sybellius etc. all opened my eyes to the world of designers who do things with hard-nosed analytical think…
— isolatedsystem, 2026-10-22 · No more icons in every menu by default · source

…ent phone with an active phone number. If someone had called this a bug a year ago, I would have been giggling. But the audacity to call this a bug now feels very patronizing. —- Write an HN comment in my own words, lightly corrected. Sound unimpressed but not angry. Do not recom…
— bicepjai, 2026-10-20 · WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator · source

…y screenshots on my work laptop (the only Apple device I use) I took screenshots because I was incredulous of the sheer audacity of the UI shown for updating from MacOS 15.7.7 to 15.7.9 along with, in the words of the update UI, "1 more" update. When I clicked the button to view…
— saghm, 2026-10-05 · Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back · source

…ck them up for free, but where I live I see people barely throwing away their value-line Dell/HP Core 2 Duo towers with audacity to ask for 25+ Euros for their e-waste with the classic "no lowballs, I know what I got" attitude.…
— PorciiVorbesc, 2026-09-23 · How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? · source

…stems individually to remix/recompile them in a DAW, or even the "lazy" method of just importing them to something like audacity so you adjust the EQ, then exporting them once they're cleaned up the best one can-- it's a serious workflow, and it takes a long time. It's not "press…
— chadpkeith, 2026-09-20 · Sony Music, Universal Music Group Sue Suno over Label-Backed Model · source

…ture deficient, and definitely not ready for serious consideration. Yet. To be honest, I do most of my graphics work in Inkscape these days (lots of vector icon design). Brilliant UI, consistent UI conventions. Very usable. But mostly useless for photos.…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…fox, but scrolls at a fixed slow pace while the button is held in LibreOffice (15s per screenful at 6fps in Writer) and Inkscape (3s per screenful, smooth), and that middle-clicking is mostly PageUp/PageDown, but noop in Firefox; and I think those are the only apps I use (maybe e…
— chrismorgan, 2026-09-23 · A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts · source

…oin shop The Achieve Mint (theachievemint.com). It runs VTracer under the hood too. Most of the cleanup you're doing in Inkscape could possibly be pushed to before and after the trace? Skechworks picks the palette before the trace and forces it again after. I quantize to 8 colors…
— adamhowell, 2026-09-21 · Qwen Image 2.1 · source

…ut I’ve been having a lot of fun with mine! I’d recommend Silhouette as they are less closed than Cricut and there’s an Inkscape plugin…
— tomduncalf, 2026-08-29 · Experiments with Plotter Art · source

…screen, keyboard and mouse in and made a game with the same tools I would have used on a PC (QtCreator, Allegro, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, LMMS) and cross-compiled it to Windows and macOS right from the phone using the exact same tools and workflow as usual. I could probably go…
— seba_dos1, 2026-08-06 · I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux · source

…any). I cannot use it and will not take the time to learn it. On Linux, I very occasionally use Gimp, but I loathe it. Krita: So much easier to use than Gimp, excellent for consistent and modern UI conventions, but currently missing important features. ArtCraft: I have not actua…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…ro a month forever. I am finally forcing myself to un-learn the decades of Adobe muscle memory and replace it with gimp/krita. Or maybe I'll vibe up something that does exactly what want and nothing more; bespoke one-off tooling is just so easy to do now.…
— taylorfinley, 2026-10-07 · Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure · source

…e regularly, the exceptions being a few open source applications that are already perfect (and free) like Reaper (DAW), Krita (Image editor), Brave (Browser, but the extensions are mine). If you ask me, it's fantastic and eventually i will run all of my own custom software, maybe…
— spottedmarley, 2026-10-02 · Anyone Can Build an App Now, but Who Is Going to Pay for It? · source

I never did any digital painting in Krita, I use it only for basic image editing and it can do all I wanted to do with Paint.net. Should I care that an app can do more than what I use it for, if it stays out of the way?…
— slazaro, 2026-09-03 · Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux · source

Krita is what I use. Pinta just had a lot of broken UX and it didn't behave the way I expected. Krita is closer to Photoshop, but having extra features is not a problem. I'm pretty sure anything you'd do in paint.net you can do in Krita.…
— slazaro, 2026-09-03 · Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux · source

Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Tailwind CSS, Vue. Résumé/CV: https://lobotuerto.com/cv Email: adriandcs@gmail.com I'm a frontend/backend generalist with 20 years of web development experience. For the pa…
— lobo_tuerto, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…py with either in-person or remote roles Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Python, FastAPI, Flask, REST APIs, Java, SQL/MySQL, Jest, React Testing Library, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Git, Microsoft Azure, LLM API integration…
— sampada976, 2026-10-07 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…n to hybrid in SF Bay Area) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Native, Tailwind CSS, CVA, React Query, Redux, Supabase, GraphQL, REST APIs, Web Vitals & Performance, Jest, Cypress Résumé/CV: https://isawesome.one/ Email: tedlin182@…
— tedlin182, 2026-10-05 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…Iceland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Vue.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Django, Python, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Figma, AWS, Docker, Postgres, Phoenix/Elixir, Golang and more. Résumé/CV: https://gilli.is Email: gilli [at] hn.gilli.is About: I'm a product engi…
— gilli, 2026-10-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…ration methods 25. Support ticketing (in-app) and email support Tech stack: - Frontend: Next.js App Router, Typescript, Tailwind CSS - Backend and MTA: Hono, Node.js, Postfix - Database & Queue: PostgreSQL and Redis (BullMQ) - Infrastructure: Docker on Linux VPS I just opened a…
— Farrynet, 2026-09-20 · Show HN: AliasFleet – Email aliases with an in-app composer and telemetry · source

That is true. I use yt-dlp to download sporadically some YouTube clips and it works fine. However, once I attempted to download a complete YouTube list of clips, with a total size of several tens of GB. Towards the end of the list, after a couple of hours or so, the download was…
— adrian_b, 2026-10-31 · Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) · source

…n of what's available on PyPI, and will have out-of-date versions that may lack security patches (and for projects like yt-dlp, are highly unlikely to work at all). Realistically they aren't applying security backports; there would rarely be a reason not to just use the new versi…
— zahlman, 2026-10-25 · Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more · source

- Use the python Library stem to control the Tor daemon and send sighup commands when necessary - yt dlp has builtin support for tor - write the retry logic using your favourite coding AI - spin up a cheap cloud instance and let it run…
— earthnail, 2026-08-27 · Laion Big Video Dataset · source

As both Nitter and Xcancel are down and I don't know of any alternatives, I use yt-dlp to download the videos now.…
— H4cks0r1337, 2026-08-26 · Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices · source

…eline for this because in my experience the YouTube auto transcripts are quite bad. I download the raw audio track with yt-dlp, give it to qwen asr for raw transcription, then DeepSeek flash for transcription cleanup, formatting, corrections with web search enabled, etc. I use op…
— loveparade, 2026-08-23 · Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT? · source

…only other "creative" artcraft app I've really tried to use is Filmcraft, the Premiere replacement but I'm still using Davinci Resolve Studio as Filmcraft isn't as far along as Photocraft but Davinci Resolve Studio is slow, bloated, can't customize the UI and barely has an API s…
— imaginationra, 2026-10-25 · What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us · source

…de smiling" to instantly filter raw B-roll. - Direct Timeline Integration: Drag found clips straight into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut. I'm a 16-year-old solo dev looking for honest feedback on performance, local indexing stability, and UI flow. Would love to hear…
— Diyon_Dust, 2026-09-25 · RushShift – Offline AI desktop tool to search local B-roll archives by prompt · source

For people like me who have no idea what this is, I looked it up: DaVinci Resolve is a proprietary application for non-linear video editing, color correction, color grading, visual effects, and audio post-production. It is developed by the Australian company Blackmagic Design for…
— ripe, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…5-10% of the features of a piece of software, but across the whole body of users you get close to full coverage. I use DaVinci Resolve for editing GoPro, Canon DSLR, iPhone, and Drone FPV footage. I import clips, use the razor to cut them and rearrange them, occasionally crop an…
— tonyarkles, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…state of software licensing. For those upset with the new agent integration, keep in mind that one of the big knocks on DaVinci Resolve is that it's hard for beginners. Powerful tools like color grading and nodes take years to truly master (and that won't change), but making it e…
— neovive, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

Terrible service. I used to use it back in the days until it starting going down all of the time. Switched to localsend and never looked back.…
— djfobbz, 2026-09-18 · Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup · source

From iPhone into local machine through LocalSend or AirDrop, then your usual favorite backup pipeline.…
— undebuggable, 2026-09-17 · Backups Aren't Simple · source

…ng shut down by the OS for various reasons (inactivity, etc...). So sometimes you would have to restart the app. I use LocalSend and every now and then the connection does not work and I have to restart it on the phone.…
— starik36, 2026-08-29 · Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux · source

…his allows me to drop files onto an iPhone without me having to open an app, that would solve a lot of my issues. I use localsend right now and although I really love it, it still requires me to always keep the app open on the phone.…
— lxe, 2026-08-29 · Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux · source

…so if copy got cancelled/disconnected at 99% you either have to copy again or search for the diff and copy it manually) LocalSend: pretty good cross platform support, but does not work when connecting 2 devices using a LAN cable, and resume support is poorish So I'm building Tens…
— kofta999, 2026-08-09 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) · source

…ML vectors consumed hundreds of gigabytes. I had to move the library folder to a dedicated ZFS HDD (700GB currently). - ImageMagick uses 20GB RAM per Nikon RAW file (this triggered the Linux OOM-killer) - Container crashes filled the OS drive with 2GB _per_ core dump. I added `ul…
— Helmut10001, 2026-09-02 · Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage · source

…you want something that takes advantage of custom hardware, or maybe you can make an assumption about these images that Imagemagick can't, or maybe you really just understand image encoding significantly better than the Imagemagick people. in those cases, we generally don't cons…
— tombert, 2026-07-20 · Perfection is not over-engineering · source

…rcical and needs to be challenged. My bank demands that I perform this ridiculous hoop-jumping. Like others here, I use ImageMagick hocus pocus to defeat them with trivial ease (a couple of times they complained so I tweaked the algo a bit and they were happy). The whole situatio…
— bluebarbet, 2026-06-20 · Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) · source

…ocal script collections of many users. Since I have had AI to knock up Python scripts and workflows incorporating local ImageMagick and FFMPEG, I have devolved a lot of tedious Photoshop work to scripts and routines of some kind. Likewise with text and data manipulation that I mi…
— Hard_Space, 2026-05-18 · Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? · source

…ike that, one keystroke opens them in a new firefox window on top of everything. One can also use something like mpv or imagemagick if firefox feels too "heavy."…
— asdff, 2026-05-15 · Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal · source

…x setup on debian or an older ubuntu LTS: Running up-to-date desktop apps like synology-drive, prusa slicer, keepassxc, kdenlive or even Steam at the same time without any conflicting dependencies and configurations tainting the distribution. And if you do not want to use it any…
— oflebbe, 2026-10-19 · Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023) · source

…a bit of everything: dev work (InteliJ), basic 3D modeling/printing (freeCAD, Blender, Orca), light video editing (OBS, Kdenlive), gaming (wine) ... Could probably go with an Arch based distro, but the Ubuntu/Debian base is useful for the good compatibility.…
— nickserv, 2026-10-05 · The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux · source

…gnificantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing. If you want a step above that and still FLOSS then Kdenlive is a better choice. What makes your original comment useless is that it reads like an American saying, 'I bet our GDP is bigger than Nauru's' - like wh…
— Matl, 2026-08-31 · OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor · source

…programs can dispense with 50% of their complexity by just offering an API for LLMs to execute? By way of example I use Kdenlive 90% less and just use Codex to issue the ffmpeg CLI commands directly when I want to crop/format video on my PC.…
— mentos, 2026-08-24 · Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance · source

…currently recording tutorial videos for an open source project. It's produced fully with Foss software (on Linux, obs, kdenlive) and about an open source project, so I wanted to host it with peertube (though YouTube might be used later on for its network effect, it was easier to…
— raphinou, 2026-07-02 · PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform · source

…but only temporarily and it reenables itself unpredictably. Love that. /s Nothing more butt-clenching than pulling the handbrake or flicking a car into a corner on snow, with TC re-enabling itself mid-slide, so you slide doors-first towards the ditch in 'Jesus take the wheel' mo…
— lan321, 2026-05-04 · Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons · source

…ably go Blu-Ray at least to have higher resolution content... Ripping isn't too bad (I use make-mkv then re-encode with handbrake). I don't really notice going up from 1080p, but really notice going below 1080p content. I also don't mind h.265's blurry handling of degradation o…
— tracker1, 2026-04-09 · Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead · source

HandBrake is the best if you want to ruin all of your DVD encodes. e: downvote if you want but I'm right and you're wrong lmfao For anyone in the peanut gallery who wants a good deinterlacer, try QTGMC. It's originally an Avisynth script, but I use a VapourSynth port: http://avis…
— Lammy, 2026-03-27 · HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation · source

…not wanting to upload personal files to sketchy, ad-ridden conversion sites. Don't want to download a desktop app like Handbrake for quick, trivial tasks. LocalSquash runs ffmpeg.wasm entirely locally in your browser. You drag and drop a file, tweak simple sliders, crop and/or t…
— dfskGT, 2026-03-18 · Show HN: LocalSquash – A local web UI for FFmpeg.wasm · source

…mpare to other software on Mac such as Pages, Xcode, Tower, Transmission, Pixelmator, mp3tag, Table plus, Postico, Paw, Handbrake etc, (the other i use) etc those are a delight to work with and give me the computing experience I was looking for buying a Mac.…
— bromuro, 2026-02-22 · Why is Claude an Electron app? · source

…his "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app…
— jpsimons, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

Version 2 has been fine. FWIW though, I don't use Affinity Photo (but bought it too because I like the company). I'm Pixelmator Pro when it comes to pixels (but love Affinity Designer and Publisher).…
— JKCalhoun, 2025-10-30 · Affinity Studio now free · source

And if you want just a photo editor, not a vector software, I really recommend Pixelmator Pro. I've had it and Affinity Photo for years, but I find myself sticking with Pixelmator more often than not.…
— presbyterian, 2025-10-30 · Affinity Studio now free · source

…as a podcast. It's not that hard to type the correct words and/or a non wobbly font with Paint.NET / Photopea / Gimp / Affinity Photo / Photoshop / <your favorite pixel editor here>. It also shows an usage of AI without supervision which is kind of a red flag. I used to listen t…
— PetitPrince, 2025-10-09 · Talk Python in Production · source

…d could feasibly work offline? Every native app I use is local-first. Eg. Photoshop, Blender, Figma, Xcode, Zed, Kitty, Affinity Photo/Designer, Notes, Music, Calendar, Messenger, Maps, Email, etc.…
— b_e_n_t_o_n, 2025-09-22 · Why haven't local-first apps become popular? · source

ShareX has been around for ever but just updated the UI and now super easy to do capture work with annotations and cam output etc (no studio but it's light weight) btw I use OBS virtual camera its one of my fav features with masking etc for a video avatar vlogger effect https://g…
— jimmySixDOF, 2026-10-24 · OBS Studio 33 · source

…ws 10 and had to change my hotkey. (Much like I'm now annoyed at Windows 11 for hijacking the printscreen key I use for ShareX)…
— efreak, 2026-04-12 · Installing every* Firefox extension · source

…rosoft products. VMwaresing VMWare and WSL foLinux distributionsnux distros. The other things that Linux is missing are ShareX (has flameshot I know), no WhatsApp (PWA might work, but it is a hack). Google Drive that I use to share my KeePass databases (no GDrive on Linux afaik).…
— system2, 2026-01-28 · Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux · source

I've been using the open source ShareX screenshot tool: https://getsharex.com/…
— mkl, 2025-11-15 · Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 · source

…e is top notch and they're not trying to embed ads into the OS. The only things I miss from Windows now are videogames, ShareX, and Everything. But Raycast and iStat Menus, while different, are awesome in their own way.…
— pants2, 2025-10-02 · Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling · source

With the same mindset i've build screenshot tool to replace shottr and paid license to cleanshot x, added missing features that I wanted to have for years (doing bunch of screenshots and videos daily) and i love this tool…
— razyoudude, 2026-08-01 · Software for One · source

…aS apps that don’t actually have a need for recurring charge probably should be paid one time. I don’t use Loom — I use CleanShot X and it was a one-time $30 payment and has a lot of great features I benefit from. I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $30 of my time. But for…
— Shank, 2026-01-22 · Your app subscription is now my weekend project · source

One reason I use Cleanshot is that it can also record screencasts with a floating recording of my face via the webcam. Is there a plan to bring that to Bettershot?…
— geekybiz, 2026-01-20 · Show HN: Bettershot an OSS Alternative of Cleanshot · source

CleanShotX [0] is what I used. Honestly the cloud hosting aspect is overpriced but it does make sharing a picture/video super easy for cases like this. I know macOS has annotation tools built-in for screenshots but CleanShotX's tools are about 1 billion times faster/easier to use…
— joshstrange, 2025-11-05 · An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic · source

I love Cleanshot!…
— shafyy, 2025-01-08 · Automated accessibility testing at Slack · source

…ith the goal of running macOS CLI binaries natively on Linux ARM machines. As of now, we have working prototypes for: - 7-Zip: Passes multi-threaded compression tests on an 8k-file tree. Currently ~5.2x slower than native Linux execution, but I already mapped out a clear optimiza…
— vlad_kalinkin, 2026-08-02 · Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM · source

…ell does this: Forces TLS 1.2 and creates a randomly-named folder in %TEMP%. Downloads a copy of 7z.exe (the legitimate 7-Zip binary) from httXXXps://mstclaudens.beer/api/7z.exe — it brings its own archiver so it doesn't depend on one being installed. Downloads a password-protect…
— stringfood, 2026-06-05 · Good Careers at Bad Companies · source

…few years back too (incl. using the lib directly from Java, massively decreasing log storage, and so on). Why use it w/ 7-zip though. 7-zip archives multiple files/directories and supports encryption. It has the UI too.. On Windows there is NanaZip that's available in the microso…
— xxs, 2026-05-07 · SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format · source

…xploits[1]. Personally I use only zstd with .7z which is 'non-standard' by the official (Russian) release. [0]: https://7-zip.org/7z.html [1]: CVE-2025-0411…
— xxs, 2026-05-07 · SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format · source

I want to opt out though. I use 7 zip all the time and I don't want this menu that can't have 7 zip...…
— mcny, 2025-11-25 · Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) · source

…ified to be synced with the generated Audio. Needed just one prompt though. 3. Recording the Animation. Go Full Screen. OBS Studio Recording the window. Animation runs on autoplay, and hides the player controls. Move mouse to another screen. Record and Reload page to start from 0…
— bhasinanant, 2026-02-24 · [dead] · source

…- game engine - Zed - rust-based code editor - Claude Code - anthropic's ai coding assistant - REAPER - daw of choice - OBS Studio - streaming and recording - Astro - the static site generator that built my site - Cloudflare Pages - site hosting - Ghost - used when a family or fr…
— metasaval, 2025-12-27 · Ask HN: What Is Your 2026 Personal Software Stack? · source

…ne of those tasks that for me I do just quite infrequently and I don't like how in arch, I had to update my system with obs as a dependency always or I had to uninstall it. Ephemerality was a concept that I was looking for before nix since I always like to try out new software/ke…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2025-06-25 · Fun with uv and PEP 723 · source

…e always seen flatpak as a way to install large, potentially crappy desktop applications without polluting your system. OBS studio is a perfect example - it's a great app but it's the only one I use that uses QT, thanks to flatpak I don't even have the QT libraries installed on m…
— WD-42, 2025-05-23 · The Future of Flatpak · source

…r and I might switch back in some days. The biggest advantage to me feels nix-shell which is cross platform I installed obs-studio from nix-shell, built a video, then used another nix-shell for ffmpeg and converted video to mp4 and uploaded it to github. This is my general use ca…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2025-05-17 · You do not need NixOS on the desktop · source

…use ffmpeg to crop and move the viewport slowly over the image, this scrolls at 20 pixels per second for 30s - with the mpv player one could change speed dynamically through keys. ffmpeg -loop 1 -i long_image.png -vf "crop=iw:ih/10:0:t*20" -t 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4 Altern…
— fsiefken, 2025-12-31 · Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite · source

…hings. Now, that's all axiomatic inscribed acoustics, let's get down to less theory: - For video playback control I use mpv.el with some customizations. Turns out mpv player has IPC and can be perfectly controlled from Emacs, I bet Neovim users do that as well. It's nice when tak…
— iLemming, 2025-08-07 · Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs · source

As someone who went MPC-HC + MadVR + ReClock -> mpv years ago (well, I also switched to Gentoo, to be fair). This is completely right. BUT mpv still isn't perfect. The script in https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8463 is really needed to handle some stuff (mainly clandestin…
— BoingBoomTschak, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

…maintainer, I feel that. You also close issues without even trying to understand what they’re about? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177#issuecomment-29... https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177#issuecomment-62... > some random dude coming to my repos expecting I i…
— latexr, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

I love their section on how to embed mpv in other apps [1]. Too bad there's not an XEmbed equivalent for Wayland [2]. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-examples/blob/master/libmp... [2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9654…
— dsp_person, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

…ted directory and marketplace where publishers can sell NuGet packages directly, with full dotnet push/restore support, Stripe payments, and automated access control. In open beta now, onboarding publishers. Would love feedback.…
— martz, 2026-02-09 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · source

…ral language. You can describe what you want (e.g., “Build a dashboard for freelancers with Firebase authentication and Stripe payments”), and Workfusionapp generates working code in React, Next.js, or other frameworks — plus automates workflows and deployments. We’re aiming to m…
— feliciiien, 2025-10-27 · [dead] · source

…uilt features and production-ready integrations. Included: Dual-role auth (buyers/sellers) Google OAuth, email/password Stripe payments + subscriptions + invoices Ratings, reviews, favorites Admin dashboard Cron jobs, SEO (sitemap, robots), newsletter footer Docker deploy (Coolif…
— eliana_jordan, 2025-05-14 · I built a Next.js boilerplate for P2P and B2C marketplaces – Peerquik · source

…te with the basics, for less than a meal out. The idea was to help developers skip the repetitive setup for things like Stripe integration, authentication, and landing pages. It’s meant to save time, especially for those working on quick-launch side projects or MVPs. I know this…
— enamkret, 2024-11-12 · Yet another micro-SaaS boilerplate – This one won't make you go broke · source

…Some graphic design for previous projects This is a scrappy MVP built using a Bubble template / Landing page Webflow / Stripe payments / Claude/ Open AI Key features include: (10-20 seconds per output) - Transforms company market releases into full article outlines and drafts -…
— fowler, 2024-08-26 · Show HN: Journo AI – Automating time consuming tasks for Journalists · source

Me, on the other hand, love ffmpeg, because I notice my ytdlp using it and my vlc player sometimes using it and I have two homemade powrshell scripts using it to convert flac to mp3 and whatever. I don't want to open a program and figure out it's UI for those things. It has a job…
— mylastattempt, 2026-02-06 · Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use · source

…https://sqlitebrowser.org/) - Handbrake for video conversion. (https://handbrake.fr/) - IINA for videos. Prefer it over VLC Player. (https://iina.io/) - The Unarchiver for misc compressed files. (https://theunarchiver.com/) - Wi-Fi Explorer Pro for wi-fi stuff. (https://www.intui…
— runjake, 2024-06-10 · Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · source