News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

ideasphere

Just scroll normally!
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:14AM (#50324520)
Just scroll normally!
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:24PM (#50215563)
I had never actually realised that until now! Thank you
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:01PM (#50215275)
This is great but surely the point of choosing Kevin Bacon in the first place was because he is surprisingly well-connected. If someone said ‘6 degrees of Samuel L Jackson’ most of us would not be surprised at how well-connected he is.
I used autocomplete but i thought that was cheating so i handwrote all my programs on napkins, scanned them in and used tesseract to digitise it, but that felt like cheating so I manually traced my scans in mspaint and then wrote my own ocr to convert them, but that felt like cheating so…
Re:My Friend Bob Cringely on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:20PM (#50172844)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio

Video version, not blocked (for me at least)

This is the illustrator: https://linktr.ee/owenyeconiel

It’s cool they hired an actual person but if I was so happy with their work to write-up a whole article about it, I’d be crediting them in a much more prominent way!

Re:Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game on Saturday August 15, 2026 @06:11PM (#49314767)
I think you forgot to generate the gameplay. The opponent just walks up and never hit me.
There’s a guy in Wellington making a photocopied weekly gig guide which will do more for the local music scene than this attempt at making a profitable social media. I guarantee it.

http://www.theimage04.com

Re:Dithered QR Codes on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:50PM (#49227981)
Is that Lena with Sean Connery’s face??
Re:The coolest use for the Vision Pro on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:29AM (#49107005)
Blender has a wasd controller walk mode. Shortcut is shift + backtick
Re:Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:58PM (#48638262)
Cyberdecks are nice for photos and build blog posts, but does anyone actually regularly use them?
Re: on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:23PM (#48199008)
Please excuse the translated link but only in Swedish as far as I could find.
Re:Ask HN: Weird Archive.today Behavior? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:39AM (#46628492)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922875

“Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today”

“Ooh look, a girl on the sc list. Let’s rape her”
Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:37PM (#46471381)
2026 will certainly be the year of the 'I'm switching to Linux' thinkpieces
The iPod Sock was 2004. Fashion has always loved the 20 Year Cycle!
Re:macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons on Monday August 25, 2025 @11:47PM (#45022059)
Who else remembers the term ‘mystery meat navigation’?
“This is not a very important machine, and I could have just reimaged the MicroSD card and be done with it, but I was curious if I could recover from the error.”
Re:Lessons I learned working at an art gallery on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:12AM (#42304650)
How many deep insights can you really gain on an entire industry by working in it for 2 years? And starting off in a separate industry which just happens to be located within the other?
Re:How to give a senior leader feedback (without getting fired) on Saturday November 23, 2024 @07:30PM (#42225037)
I agree that bluntness is often mishandled, but the sort of language in this article just reads as wildly disingenuous. Obfuscating your actual point (and visceral, human feelings/opinions/experience!) to hopefully confuse your subject into compliance. Makes me think of that brain-dead article a few years back about how you should dodge offering support in close personal relationships. “I don’t have capacity,” “I’m not paid to perform emotional labour” etc. Sad! Promote humanity!
I don’t disagree with everything he’s saying but it’s odd seeing the responses this is getting when it sounds extremely rehearsed.
I think it’s fair to comment on the audio. Great interview but I found it really difficult to follow along due to the sound quality. To the host with the big Shure mic in the middle of their shot: point it at your mouth!
It’s funny how frequently people try to reinvent the wheel re: how this site is laid out. It’s the best part about it!
Re:Sanitarium on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:42PM (#41333710)
I have the exact same memory! Demo from a cover disc and all
Re:Ball: A ball that lives in your dock on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:10AM (#40796302)
https://www.serenescreen.com/v2/

Jim Sachs’ Serene Screen is still going strong. I have it running on Apple Silicon, no problems.

Re:The Short, Happy Reign of CD-ROM on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:13PM (#40754814)
I’m also the friend who brings up Cinemania once a month for no reason. Not literally the same one but I used to love it. Now, I just sit peering between ads at 2-3 lines of Fast Company articles while trying to work out how to close the autoplay video ad…
Re:Bollards: Why and What on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:53PM (#40271006)
Struggled to get past the author using ‘Peddle’ instead of ‘Pedal’ multiple times

Older »