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Rakhesh Sasidharan
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Rakhesh Sasidharan's personal blog at rakhesh.com covers systems and programming. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Using hidutil to map macOS keyboard keys”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rakhesh Sasidharan's posts as practical how-to notes on macOS keyboard remapping with hidutil and Hammerspoon, SecureInput troubleshooting, Linux WireGuard routing, and Windows terminal tools.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Using hidutil to map macOS keyboard keys3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
What Hacker News says?
You may get away with ConEmu then: https://rakhesh.com/windows/whee-cmder-can-do-split-panes/
Comment linking /windows/whee-cmder-can-do-split-panes/
on “Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10”Submitted Notes on Cryptography Ciphers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt should be possible, but it will take some lines. Maybe helpful: https://github.com/hetima/hammerspoon-foundation_remapping/t... https://github.com/RobotCharlie/key-remapping-hammerspoon/bl... https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/discussions/3246 About macOS in general if you use hidutil https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app/ https://rakhesh.com/mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-...
Comment linking /mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-keys/
on “NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching”Submitted Using hidutil to map macOS keyboard keys as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAh nevermind, I see this when I run `espanso start`: "WARNING: An application is currently using SecureInput and might prevent espanso from working correctly." For anyone else who ends up here with the same problem: this blog post was helpful as it suggested that locking & unlocking my system might remove the lock on secureinput created by loginwindow: https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/
Comment linking /mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/
on “Show HN: Espanso: detect a typed keyword and replace it while you're typing”Submitted Using Hammerspoon to Switch Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYeah it does. You can create a config file that persists the mapping on reboots (described in depth here https://rakhesh.com/mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-... )
Comment linking /mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-keys/
on “Apple MacBook Air 15-Inch M3 Review”Submitted Mullvad and TailScale Coexisting (Or “Hello Nftables ”) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionooooh that's smart. I used the knowledge gained here to look at tailscale and now understand better what it does. Great success ;) Also found an interesting article here https://rakhesh.com/linux-bsd/tailscale-wireguard-co-existin...
Comment linking /linux-bsd/tailscale-wireguard-co-existing-or-i-love-policy-based-routing/
on “Understanding modern Linux routing (and wg-quick)”
