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Re:Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:27PM (#50342283)
Soooo we don't like Bluesky now? Ok.
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:50AM (#50324040)
Why do you think they care what anyone wants.

They are in the dark UX pattern world, squeezing views per second, selling ads. That's all.

The "we give our users something valuable and they will give us profit in return" approach is over since a long time.

Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:00AM (#50255881)
I also think that websites should be printable, and years ago I've made an effort to make my website printable. I've lost my motivation to maintain the website, but printint still works.
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:49AM (#50101388)
"Not sure how to use it"? What do you mean? Where's the complication? What are you having problems with?
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:47AM (#50101372)
Why this is attractive? Honest question, I'd like to know but I can't figure out why. (Yes, I would be a horrible salesman)

Why someone spends time on making this, and why someone would want to spend time using this?

Much more advanced software is available for free for all platforms. Why not just go and install LibreOffice?

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:41AM (#50100940)
It works, but the CPU utilisation is huge even if it's idle, and after it allocated 40 gb of RAM on my laptop once, I've stopped using it.
Re:Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++ on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:27AM (#50083216)
Anyone brave enough to write a webapp in C++?
Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:01AM (#50071006)
This. GetRight also integrated with browsers, so clicking a link went straight to GetRight.

Or FileZilla. Or Flashget.

We had this in the 2000's.

And we lost it!

Piercing is one big perforation.

Tatoo is a process of continuous small perforations sometimes for many hours.

Re:Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:54AM (#50052315)
You assume you will be able to stop using them.

If they will be popular, and made inconvenient, you could be forced to use them. Like 2FA in corporate environments; it's forced and you can't do anything else than to put a code every time you login somewhere.

Re:Tattoos You Can Turn on and Off on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:46AM (#50052242)
Thank you doctor Gray.
Lol. Allow to violently perforate your skin with a set of sharp needles to permanently inject a pigment that can be hidden.

Just wear a baby skin sticker!

Re:Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:25AM (#50052090)
TOTP are stored on the server without any salts. You get TOTP key, you can generate TOTP codes.

So TOTP only targets the situation that user account is compromised. It doesn't help you if the server gets compromised.

Maybe if you could spend some time defining the "feels right" aspect, this would go away.

I often find myself in situations where someone wants to break the UI I like, because they're used to something else.

It seems that most of the time, "feels right" just means "it works like I'm used to in other software". So: GMail, Outlook, whatever. Which is sad.

I wonder how would you react to "TheBat!" or Pegasus Mail?

Re:Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:36AM (#49888699)
> Ok, but first I have to tell you about Dick Pick. Literally his name. Richard A. Pick. Went by Dick.

How Americans keep straight face in such situations?

Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:05AM (#49826473)
Because vscode needs to run language servers on the target machine as well.
Re:Amiga Unix, Again on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:32AM (#49784649)
He's primarily an entertainer, doesn't mean he's a clown.

I think there are worse clowns in corpos without careers on YouTube.

Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:17AM (#49708436)
You know, you could also just read about each step to learn more. I mean if you feel you're following a baking recipe, you can just... read about it more. And then have LFS as a simple way to experiment if you want to change anything or not. Also, technically you don't need to have a bootloader installed on your main hard drive if you already have it on another disk.

I mean, eh... last time I checked, this was Hacker news. Yesterday, there was an Ask HN topic on how to enable dark mode on HN. Is this the new hacker culture? Complaining that the resources merely point in some direction instead of specifying details?

TL;DR - use in-memory cache instead of expensive database lookups on every iteration
I guess I'm too poor to even know the price
Re:bzip3 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:51AM (#49608535)
Yes, that's why I was wondering about any relations.

But later I've read that there was some kind of Anime called Iczelion (or it was the hero name, whatever). Author also is interested in anime, I guess that's the reason for nickname similarity. Mystery solved.

Re:bzip3 on Monday September 07, 2026 @11:40AM (#49599625)
Any relation to Iczelion from the masm32 tutorial?
Re:IBM Bob on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:48AM (#49564632)
Oh, so we are yet again in the 'Bob' phase?

Maybe this time it'll work.

My friend got a ban by using Pi agent with Antigravity.

They un-banned him later, but that was enough to stay away. There are much better services than Antigravity out there.

Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:29AM (#49546576)
Thanks. I was looking for a way to reduce my startup times because I was envious of Neovim. It doesn't work for me out of the box (I'm on macOS now), but it seems that there is a lot to steal from. ;)
Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:00AM (#49534529)
I would love to see your config!
Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:05AM (#49534149)
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

It only means that >90% of text editors use the wrong UI toolkit for the job. We already had faster editors on the Amiga 500 (CygnusEd) than we have now. The fact that we don't have them now is that we regressed. We had it, and we lost it. It's an entirely different matter from not knowing how to do it!

Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:18AM (#49532865)
By "LSP support" I didn't mean "editor should call this API over HTTP and interpret whatever LSP server responds". It's a lot more than that, and LSP support in editors if often times broken.

It's like saying that editor can have full AI support because it can send HTTP requests to an MCP server. But MCP server isn't the end of the problem, it's just a gateway to problems, just like LSP.

For example, jdtls is often times broken, clangd sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Language servers for ruby are a pain to set up. Some time ago LSP for Dart/Flutter worked under vscode, but not in Vim, because Vim had different assumptions how files should be reported to the LSP. Sometimes is the fault of the server itself, but sometimes the editor isn't fully compatible with some particular LSP server's quirks. It's a mess.

Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:52AM (#49531867)
Text editing is a solved problem.

It's not about the style of cursor, or if rope is used or not. We already have answers to that.

It's about remote editing, LSP support.

Re:Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:40AM (#49518032)
> Alas, the complexity of its meta-object compiler (MOC)

Do these people use the same template when writing about GUIs? I mean what's complicated about MOC? In CMake it's even transparent and the user doesn't even see it. I swear, the same argument is coming back year after year. "MOC" is complicated, but the compiler itself and ld isn't?

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