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Unified clipboard tool for macOS that intelligently handles both text and file copying

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2025-07-16 · latest 2026-02-04

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  1. …open source was something I'd focus on when I retired. Instead I'm doing it now. I built Clippy ( https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy ) from scratch, a much better bcopy, that fixes a real gap in pbcopy, and it hit 200 stars and Homebrew…
    comment by nberkman · 2026-02-04 · in How vibe coding is killing open source
  2. …clippy -r # copy most recent download pasty # copy file in Finder, then paste actual file here https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy / brew install clippy
    comment by nberkman · 2025-10-22 · in Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
  3. …from the terminal.) If you're on macOS and use Claude or other MCP-compatible agents: https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy brew install neilberkman/clippy/clippy
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    Show HN: Draggy – menu bar companion to clippy (better pbcopy)
    story by nberkman · 2025-07-18 · 0 comments
  5. Added a library: https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy?tab=readme-ov-file#usi...
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    Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly
    story by nberkman · 2025-07-16 · 14 comments