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Sam Henri Gold
Personal blog · samhenri.gold/blogdesignprogramming
Sam Henri Gold's personal blog at samhenri.gold covers design and programming. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “"This Is Not the Computer for You"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link samhenri.gold for the lid angle sensor project, which turns a MacBook into a squeaky door, and for the essay "This Is Not the Computer for You". Posts cover MacBook hardware and software.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- "This Is Not the Computer for You"3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
- Live, Laugh, Localhost2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-28
What Hacker News says?
This gold deserves repost. Moreover, the real reason for this software having been created is that the creator is looking for job > A lot of free time. I'm open to full-time work in NYC or remote. I'm a designer/design-engineer. https://samhenri.gold
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on “MacBook Lid Angle Sensor”Submitted Light Touch is a full-fat iPhone and iPod touch emulator for the Mac as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis isn't a novelty it will crush the low end of the PC market. No one cares if the next iteration will be better with 12GB of ram. The workloads that people say that 8GB can't handle will be ones that the actual users will either wait or tolerate. I've been noticing that people who review the Macbook Neo basically don't get the point [1] and just the headline of this article matters that VMs work and thats a big w…
Comment linking /blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
on “Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine”Submitted Cursed Apple Iceberg Chart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI believe this was originally explored by Sam Henri Gold, at least that's the first time I saw it a while ago :) Links: https://samhenri.gold/labs/20250906-lid-angle-sensor/ https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Comment linking /labs/20250906-lid-angle-sensor/
on “Show HN: Crack – Turn your MacBook into a squeaky door”Submitted Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAuthor here, it’s all me. I ran it through Claude before publishing to spot check me on grammar/typos and it caught a few syntax things, but this is just my writing style. Here’s a satire piece I wrote in the summer of 2021. Tonally very different but you can pick up on my voice between it and my essay yesterday: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20210803-localhost/
Comment linking /blog/20210803-localhost/
on “"This Is Not the Computer for You"”Submitted "This Is Not the Computer for You" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "This Is Not the Computer for You" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I QA iOS Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live, Laugh, Localhost as a story · 1 points
HN discussion