alt.hn

8/2/2026 at 8:33:01 PM

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

 https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12

by arcaege

8/2/2026 at 11:22:28 PM

That's really fun and cool! :) I was hoping the sound would also be sped up/down (or change of pitch perhaps would work better) as you moved the hinge faster/slower, so you could do that really slow "tack-tack-tack" sound like when you move a really heavy door on a worn hinge really slow

by embedding-shape

8/3/2026 at 2:00:22 PM

I wonder if the sound could be fully synthesized instead of the current 2.9s recording. That's not an easy task, but perhaps the result would sound more realistic.

by plingbang

8/3/2026 at 2:28:44 AM

> pitch depends on position of hinge > volume depends on how fast you adjust it

Yeah, I had the same thought - in all the creaky doors I've seen, pitch and speed go together.

by fwipsy

8/3/2026 at 8:04:30 AM

Yes I did test that too! It seemed to sound a little nicer this way though, more cartoonish

by arcaege

8/3/2026 at 6:08:54 AM

On mac you can (could?) use the ambient light sensor to achieve something similar, proof of concept here (osx < 10.5 haha): https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/then/squeeky-laptop

Demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJwDs6KRXA&ra=m

iirc there is also a imu in some macbooks to detect a fall and park the hdd heads before the crash? Anyway, always happy to see toys like this!

by thenthenthen

8/3/2026 at 8:15:32 AM

Newer MacBooks have IMUs as well for the movement dots feature (used to help with screen sickness in vehicles)

by LoganDark

8/3/2026 at 5:47:42 AM

Awesome. This reminds me of the fun apps we had when the MacBook and iPhone got released.

by artisinal

8/3/2026 at 7:10:58 PM

It reminds me of how, back in school, we used to replace the sound that played when Windows shut down with fart sounds.

by janrakete

8/2/2026 at 9:45:51 PM

It finally feels premium. This is really funny

by 1bpp

8/3/2026 at 2:20:01 AM

from the readme:

> the filtering is optimised for framework 12's hinge stiffness.

never in a million years would I expect to have to optimize software for a given hinge stiffness, this made me chuckle just reading it

also:

> why

> funny

I like that :)

by jedbrooke

8/3/2026 at 5:13:33 AM

Very cool. Could make it be higher pitch & louder when closed faster :)

by cadamsdotcom

8/3/2026 at 3:03:07 AM

I'm reminded of the hacks for old ThinkPads that read the accelerometer used to detect drops and park the disk heads; by slapping the machine on either side, you could switch to the next or previous desktop.

by bitwize

8/2/2026 at 11:58:59 PM

The Whoopie Laptop

by DonHopkins

8/3/2026 at 1:20:23 AM

Are you running MacOS on your Framework?

by eikenberry

8/3/2026 at 6:49:20 AM

It looks like Fedora. Did you visit the wrong link?

by catgirlinspace

8/3/2026 at 8:42:05 AM

Yep, it's Fedora on KDE

by arcaege