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Re:Googleworkspace/CLI on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:17PM (#47257498)
I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."
Re:Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:44AM (#39778427)
> Japanese do not need grandiose motivational frameworks to keep going, but rely more on the little rituals in their daily routines.
Re:United Arab Emirates is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:56PM (#39769977)
Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be there?
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:51AM (#39745360)
Correct.
Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:50AM (#39745350)
My last ghost-town MUD died a few years ago :'(

http://lostunicorn.org/

Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:21AM (#39744078)
Wow, I'm surprised at the banking account from 1998. That happened rather quickly given that the web wasn't really on anyone's radar until 95/96 or so.
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:03AM (#39743852)
A practical definition of "creativity" is "can create interesting things." It's pretty clear that machines have become more "creative" in that sense over the last few years.
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:02AM (#39743831)
The "I did this cool thing" posts get way more upvotes than the "let's be startuppy" posts. I don't think the "hacker" population is as rare as you're suggesting.

Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

Posted by throwaway_08932 on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:37AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I logged into GameFAQs the other day, and noticed I'd created my account in 1999.After some poking around my password manager, the only other account I could find still "in use" was an eBay account that I also created in 1999.I felt a small sense of wonder at having still-functional accounts that are 25 years old.What are your oldest accounts? What do they still do for you?

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Re:How to colorize Game Boy games โ€“ Backgrounds on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:49AM (#39691189)
I only just found out the other day that if you are playing a non-colorized GB cart on a Game Boy Color, holding down a direction on the dpad when the Nintendo logo appears will let you change the palette!
Re:ViHN: Vim for Hacker News on Monday February 26, 2024 @01:00PM (#39514615)
> When GNOME Shell happened, I was forced to go looking for a new window manager. I ended up installing Ratpoison.

Wow, I used Ratpoison around 20 years ago. SunOS labs in school used some window manager I couldn't stand (don't remember which) and I saw a classmate with basically no window chrome on their display, and was intrigued.

They helped me compile it (no small feat given our resource constraints) and off I went, until my hand started to cramp a year later from hitting ctrl-t so much. I switched to ion for awhile, and then ended up scavenging a linux box to do assignments from home.

I'm happy to see some folks still holding firm on the "no-pointer" front.

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