Teckla
The labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity
Pong Wars on the Commodore 64
I Made a Keyboard Nobody Asked For
Hex editor should color-code bytes
Re:People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Ac...
on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:15AM (#47555329)
The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people.
I don't think traditional desktop operating systems are best for most people. I believe a Chromebook, or an iPad with a keyboard, is best.
Re:Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:36PM (#47445657)
It's all part of the war on general computing. This dystopian nightmare is coming to desktop operating systems too. See the age verification stuff that's all of a sudden being pushed hard by countries all over the world.
As someone that was going to switch from iPhone to Android/Pixel later this year, at least now I know not to bother anymore, as the locking down of Android won't stop here.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:41PM (#47103423)
When I created an account on LinkedIn, a long time ago, I used the web. When it asked if I wanted to invite other people from my list of contacts, I clicked yes. I thought it would let me manually enter some contacts, or at worst, give me a list to choose from, with some kind of permissions prompt. Somehow, it accessed my entire Gmail contact list, and invited them all. My goodness, that was terrifying (I didn't even know it was possible) and embarrassing. Companies are not to be trusted, ever. Especially now, as they've proven for decades they have zero moral compass, and no qualms about abusing people for profit.
Re:Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson'...
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:43PM (#46938323)
The music was so loud from my monitor's speakers that I nearly jumped out of my skin and rushed to close it, and my volume isn't even turned up much!
Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:18AM (#46542776)
My experience is the opposite: Bose hardware and sound quality seems excellent to me.
This may be subjective. Bose might sound good to some people's ears and less good to other people's ears.
Re:The Hamburger-Menu Icon Today: Is It Recognizable?
on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:05PM (#44312478)
I wish I was sufficiently dexterous to use your razor thin scrollbars. :(
Re:Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color...
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:49PM (#43836524)
ZZ will save the file (if there are changes) and quit. Try it as an alternative to :wq.
Re:HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:53AM (#43389205)
But because they had an existing body of code that was not class based, it would be more of a re-write (C#) versus a refactor (Go).
I don't understand this reasoning at all, and I'm hoping you can shed some light on it.
As far as I know, C# supports static methods. Thus, using OO in C# would not have been required, would it?
I feel like I'm missing something here.
Software Disenchantment
A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications
Re:Dungeons and Dragons Rolls the Dice with New Rules About Identity
on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:08PM (#42554083)
Speaking as both a D&D DM and player, the "sub-optimal game play" makes the campaign more fun, more diverse, and offers more thoroughly enjoyable role-playing and problem solving opportunities. It doesn't make it less fun.
Not to mention that D&D rules aren't carved in stone. I've never encountered a DM or D&D group that wouldn't allow players the leeway to create a barbarian gnome or half-orc wizard with their desired stats, if that was important to them.
The changes WoTC made are bad, and make everything less fun and more generic. Their intentions were good, but what they've done really isn't helpful or good at all.
Re:Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)
on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:35PM (#41413163)
Our contribution to the small web: https://kagi.com/smallweb
After opening this web page, I pressed down arrow a few times to scroll the page. At first, I didn't understand why it only scrolled a few pixels.
It looks like there's a scrollable area within a scrollable area. The outermost scrollable area only scrolls a few pixels.
This is a badly designed web page.
Re:Booting Linux Off of Google Drive
on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:42AM (#40856067)
Thanks to Crostini, Chromebooks are also excellent local computing devices.
Re:Windows: Insecure by Design
on Friday June 28, 2024 @05:51PM (#40825654)
After over 30 years using Windows, I finally gave up on it last year. It was a difficult choice, but clearly, it's just going to keep getting worse.
These days most people should be using Chromebooks and iPads, which are far and away more secure.
Re:Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:36AM (#40821747)
The solution to these issues isn't to simply not have those features, but to make it possible to toggle those features on/off.
Re:Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:28AM (#40821644)
Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery.
The company I work for has the same chat retention policy, but despite that, even being able to go back just 90 days has proven very useful!
Re:Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:26AM (#40821616)
The last time I looked at The Lounge, the installation and configuration seemed pretty involved, not to mention ongoing maintenance.
Has this improved recently?
Re:As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @09:58PM (#40772152)
All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale.
No, they're not.
Re:The unbearable sorrow of Apple Weather
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:38PM (#40771824)
Most of Apple's Weather app works OK for me, except the precipitation map/animation takes ages to load, if it loads at all (it's about 50/50).
I usually hop over to AccuWeather instead, which doesn't seem to have this issue.
Re:Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:14PM (#40435888)
At $WORK we use Mozilla Rhino for some JavaScript processing.
We tested the normal loop vs. the clever loop. Performance-wise, the normal loop blew the doors off the clever loop.
Re:Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:46PM (#40281408)
How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term?
Far more aggressive progressive taxation.
Re:Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:22AM (#39884540)
Depending on how the machine is being used, the Pi could be cheaper through lower electricity costs, right?
Re:ADHD Productivity Fundamentals
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:09PM (#39830941)
This may not work for everyone, but it works for me:
Use good old paper and pen to keep track of stuff (where reasonable).
For me, it had a strong positive psychological impact.
Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
on Thursday February 15, 2024 @09:43PM (#39392501)
Most likely telemetry in iOS itself. iOS knows when users pin web pages to the home screen, and iOS knows each time a user taps on and opens those pinned web pages.