15:[[47972511,{"by":"sleepingNomad","descendants":168,"id":47972511,"kids":[47973621,47975572,47973270,47974209,47972900,47973692,47972948,47973218,47974846,47973123,47979637,47972933,47981329,47972995,47973289,47984002,47973107,47972979,47973029,47995995,47973342,47980826,47989845,48006142,47983860,47973403,47981355,47973242,47973773,47978458,47973548,47974586,47980939,47973020,47981823,48136334,48007070,47984153,47973052,47987606,47976031,47973282],"score":566,"text":"USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer.

WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc.

Built in Swift/SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking.

GitHub: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable","time":1777625025,"title":"Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable"}],[43199085,{"by":"anigbrowl","descendants":47,"id":43199085,"kids":[43240248,43239742,43240553,43240221,43240426,43239727,43240568,43240066,43240267,43240606,43200383,43239788,43240918,43240792,43239769,43239680,43240909],"score":97,"time":1740694257,"title":"Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair","type":"story","url":"https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15604493"}],[36958442,{"by":"erlich","descendants":15,"id":36958442,"kids":[36958628,36958743,36958741,36968156,36958735,36958718,36958634,36961369,36958919,36958652,36958952],"score":27,"text":"I was just thinking the other day how everything Meta has put out on the frontend, I felt compelled to use it because of the hype. But I've ended up being frustrated by almost all of it.

It really feels like Meta has led us on a shitty frontend path for the past 5+ years that we need to leave behind.

- Flow

- Jest

- Metro

- React

- React Native

- GraphQL

- Flux/Redux

Everything they do is just so overly complicated, and so many layers of abstraction rolled up in a messy ball of mud.

Letting such a large company lead the frontend space is a bad idea, because if they make a bad architectural decision they have to just keep rolling with it because they roll it out so widely internally, and improvements are very slow because of the business impact.

Simplicity in my book comes down to how comprehensible is your stack trace. A few lines of code calling into a giant magical function is not simple.","time":1690907944,"title":"Tell HN: Unpopular opinion: All Meta's open source front end stuff sucks","type":"story"}]]

1.	WhatCable 1.0 – USB-C cable inspector for macOS, now with a TUI(whatcable.uk) 4 points by sleepingNomad 19 days ago \| 0 comments
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