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Dae’s blog
Personal blog · d43.me/bloghardwareprogramming
Dae’s blog is a personal blog at d43.me about hardware and programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post on the causes of mouse cursor lag in Mac OS X, in threads about whether later OS X releases fixed it and about a third-party mouse fix.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I don't suppose anyone can comment on whether Mountain Lion has done anything for the mouse lag issue[1]? I can't upgrade yet because I disabled HFS+ journaling and nothing seems to be able to re-enable it (the installer requires journaling to be enabled). [1] http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...
Comment linking /blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mouse-annoyances/
on “Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X”Submitted The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances as a story · 199 points
HN discussionThat certainly helps, but it's not quite enough: http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous... I suppose when I said "mouse acceleration" I really meant "mouse lag".
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on “goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager”Submitted OS X pointer lag measured with a high-speed camera as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love OSX, but objectively speaking, "The lag of a Mac OS X cursor is at least twice bigger than Windows’ cursor and yes, a human eye can surely notice that." http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...
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on “UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android”Submitted OSX mouse latency problem, and how to fix it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile we're on the OSX tips, somebody finally fixed the horrible mouse lag, and it's a god send: http://smoothmouse.com/ More info: http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...
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on “OS X - Adjust the volume in 1/4 increments”For those unaware: http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous... It pissed me for years!
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on a deleted thread