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Sindre Sorhus
Personal blog · sindresorhus.comprogrammingweb
Sindre Sorhus's personal blog at sindresorhus.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 61 different Hacker News readers have linked it 101 times, most often “Dato: Better menu bar clock with calendar and time zones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Full-Time Open-Sourcerer & App Maker
Most-linked posts?
- Dato: Better menu bar clock with calendar and time zones8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19
- Aiko AI-powered audio transcription6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-03-09
- Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-10-30
- Discover Bower components4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-11
- Empathy in Open Source4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-23
- Run Stable Diffusion natively on your Mac4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-28
- Paste as Plain Text by Default3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-12
- Show HN: Cut and Paste Files in Finder3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-30
- One Thing – Put a single task or goal in your menu bar3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-28
- Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-10
What Hacker News says?
some nice OKLCH resources: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cone-color-picker-identifier/i... https://sindresorhus.com/system-color-picker https://evilmartians.com/opensource/oklch-color-picker https://oklch.eerolehtinen.fi/ https://github.com/eero-lehtinen/oklch-color-picker
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on “What are OKLCH colors?”Submitted Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac as a story · 27 points
HN discussionFor people on macOS, the free app Aiko on the App Store makes it easy to use Whisper, if you want a GUI: https://sindresorhus.com/aiko
Comment linking /aiko
on “Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops”Submitted Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI use Supercharge for this. Creates a new text file with ⌥+N. Lots of other handy tweaks as well. https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge
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on “macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)”Submitted Website Is Now Made in Swift as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's an app from Sindre Sorhus that adds CMD+X functionality to Finder. https://sindresorhus.com/command-x
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on “macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)”Submitted Banned from Medium – Own your content as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI currently use Aiko’s free iOS app which does offline transcription using OpenAI’s Whisper model. It has been working pretty well for me so far. It can export in formats like SRT, TXT, CSV, JSON and text with timestamps too. https://sindresorhus.com/aiko
Comment linking /aiko
on “OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews”Submitted This Website Is Now Made in Swift as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeople like Sindre Sorhus ( https://sindresorhus.com ) are, but I'd say survivorship bias comes into play here, he's more of an exception than a rule.
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on “GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)”Submitted Show HN: Drag to AirDrop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJust tested and this works great on macOS with Plash [1] by Sindre Sorhus. I couldn't find too many URL parameters to control it, but the FAQ does mention an ?obs parameter to hide the interface by default and ?weather=... to choose the weather. This URL in Plash works as described: https://loficities.com/tokyo/?obs&weather=leaves I was also able to omit ?obs and use the website interface controls to configure it vi…
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on “Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi”Submitted Xeyes-style eyes-following-the-mouse app for macOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYea it’s annoying more often than it’s useful. As always, there’s a macOS app for that: https://sindresorhus.com/pure-paste
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on “Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?”Submitted Goodbye, Node.js Buffer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think Dato can do this: https://sindresorhus.com/dato
Comment linking /dato
on “Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer”Submitted One Task as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGithub sponsor feels like they could push their efforts a little further - by using some "logic" when github users open an issue or PR on an OSS project. I am always in awe of people like Sindre Sorhus [1]. They make a living off open-source - but obviously these are outliars in the vast world of open-source. This is just an example but, just looking at the number of $1000/month supporters you can live pretty comfor…
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on “Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team”Submitted Empathy in Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWeird question, but it seems similar to me; do you know how it compares to Dato? https://sindresorhus.com/dato
Comment linking /dato
on “Notion Calendar”Submitted Ow: Function Argument Validation for Humans as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> With iOS 17.4 in the EU, you can no longer make a web app (PWA) that uses a full screen window with no browser ui controls. Are you sure? Go to https://sindresorhus.com/screenfull/ , tap "Request", and you should see a full-screen website. Any [website|webapp|PWA] can do this with Safari. (Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CTWFPol ) Third-party browsers using their own browser engines can do whatever they like. > Ho…
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on “PWAs wont replace native iOS apps”Submitted Show HN: Essential extra actions for the Shortcuts app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPersonally, I do but I believe a solo entrepreneur will have to work harder. Check out https://sindresorhus.com for instance. He makes simple and beautiful apps.
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on “Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?”Submitted Show HN: Open Mailto Links in Gmail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai#why-does-the-app-require...
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on “Show HN: Run Stable Diffusion Directly on iPhone”Submitted Show HN: Menu Bar World Clocks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAmazing AI by Sindre Sorhus uses Apples port of Stable Diffusion to the neural engine. https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai
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on “Apple: Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon”Submitted The Micro-Benchmark Fallacy as a story · 2 points
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