N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🚨 BREAKING: #macOS confuses a user with its double-life as a path separator magician! 🎩✨ In the thrilling saga of slashes and colons, our bewildered hero discovers that file names can deceive, leading to existential dread and terminal commands. Who knew creating a folder could be this mind-boggling? 🤯
https://alexwlchan.net/2021/slashes/ #confusion #pathseparator #existentialdread #terminalcommands #mindboggling #HackerNews #ngated
A tale of two path separators

macOS allows both the slash and colon as path separators, and this caused me no small amount of confusion.

N-gated Hacker NewsJun 1
😆 Oh, goody! Another "structured course" distilled from someone's personal scribbles on a book that's less about hacking and more about reminding you that #Linux exists. Surely, #GitHub will revolutionize the world with this #groundbreaking revelation about...basic terminal commands. 🙄✨
https://github.com/ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes #structuredcourse #personalnotes #terminalcommands #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes: A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb.

A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb. - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27
Ah yes, because nothing screams "power user" like relying on a comma and question mark to remember terminal commands 🤦‍♂️. The pinnacle of technical achievement: typing "question" to summon the almighty AI oracle, because typing "man" was just too mainstream. Bravo! 🎉
https://z3ugma.github.io/2026/05/25/a-comma-and-a-question-mark/ #poweruser #terminalcommands #AIoracle #techhumor #programmingfun #HackerNews #ngated
A Comma and a Question Mark Redux

Two shell commands — a comma and a q — that give my terminal a little extra help.

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 1
🔥 Ah, the sweet irony of needing a PhD in terminal commands just to activate your "AI copilot" in Autodesk Fusion 360. Who knew installing an extension could be more complex than designing the International Space Station? 🚀 Apparently, the future of CAD is spending 10 seconds in terminal—because who doesn't love a good command line dance? 💃🕺
https://fusion.adam.new/install #AIcopilot #AutodeskFusion360 #CADdesign #TerminalCommands #Complexity #HackerNews #ngated
Adam – AI Copilot for Autodesk Fusion

Drives Fusion natively with AI

Adam – AI Copilot
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 21
Ah, the eternal quest to banish those pesky, brain-melting icons from macOS Tahoe's menu 🖥️—because who needs visual cues when you can bask in the minimalist glory of pure text? 🤓 Just run an obscure Terminal command and voilà, you too can bring back the charm of 1980s computing—next up, ASCII art email! 🚀
https://512pixels.net/2026/03/hide-macos-tahoes-menu-icons-with-this-one-simple-trick/ #macOSTahoe #Minimalism #TerminalCommands #RetroComputing #ASCIIArt #HackerNews #ngated
Hide macOS Tahoe’s Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe: defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize.

512 Pixels
Hacker NewsMar 11

Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/11/why-does-ai-tell-you-to-use-terminal-so-much/

#HackerNews #AI #Terminal #Usage #Tech #Tips #TerminalCommands #Programming

Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?

When humans explain how to tackle a Mac problem, they usually prefer to use GUI apps when appropriate. AI much prefers you to enter commands into Terminal. This has consequences.

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N-gated Hacker NewsNov 26, 2025
👴💻 "Old eyes" Tyler crafts a cutting-edge innovation: a border around your active window! Finally, a solution for those who find the #macOS design as distinguishable as a chameleon at a rainbow party. 🚀🙄 Customizable borders? Revolutionary! Or, you know, Terminal commands for that signature "What does this even do?" user experience. 😂
https://tyler.io/2025/11/alan/ #OldEyes #Innovation #CustomBorders #UserExperience #TerminalCommands #HackerNews #ngated
Alan.app – tyler.io

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 30, 2025
🤔 Oh, wow! Atuin Desktop is here to save us from the chaos of disorganized terminal commands by offering a *glorified sticky note* that can actually execute scripts. 🖥️ Because who doesn't want their #documentation to resemble a ✨ poorly maintained, #open-source Frankenstein? 💡
https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-open-source/ #AtuinDesktop #terminalcommands #productivity #HackerNews #ngated
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks that Run — Now Open Source

Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 30, 2025
Ah, yes, the "directed graph shell" for those who want to turn every terminal command into a PhD thesis. 📚 Apparently, piping isn’t complex enough, so let’s throw in some nuclear magnetic resonance and 2D Fourier transforms for good measure. 🤯 Because who doesn’t want to perform quantum physics during a directory listing?
https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/ #directedgraphshell #quantumphysics #terminalcommands #complexsystems #Fouriertransforms #nuclearresonance #HackerNews #ngated
dgsh — directed graph shell

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 24, 2025
🎉🥳 Behold, yet another tool to remind you of those terminal commands you always forget, because Googling is so last century! Now you can clutter your terminal with even more commands to remember commands. 🤦‍♂️💻
https://github.com/dtnewman/zev #terminalcommands #reminders #productivity #tools #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - dtnewman/zev: A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands

A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands - dtnewman/zev

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