Hacker News: 800xl

New comment by 800xl in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

800xl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:54:31 +0000

No idea, but at least Microsoft has some semblance of support where you can talk to a person.

New comment by 800xl in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

800xl — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:19:25 +0000

I (reluctantly) gave up on the Mac several years ago. Being on a PC might initially seem clunky and unrefined but it is actually very freeing to be able to choose my manufacturer, the OS, components, have tons of ports available, compatibility with older hardware (especially low res monitors). Standards and modularity are a beautiful thing.

New comment by 800xl in "How I Experience the Web Today"

800xl — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:55:54 +0000

Whenever I want to experience the web as it used to be I’ll run a search on wiby.me or browse neocities.org

New comment by 800xl in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

800xl — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:06:16 +0000

Check out neocities.org

New comment by 800xl in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

800xl — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:36:52 +0000

Weird. I figured at the time it was due to COVID related supply chain issues, but I just checked and they still don't stock them locally.

New comment by 800xl in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

800xl — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:09:00 +0000

I paid a little more and waited a couple weeks to receive a Delta single handle faucet for my kitchen back in 2020, rather than just buying what was available on the shelf at Lowe's. Model: #400LF-WF. The reviews at the time said it was basically the same faucet made back in the 60s. I'm glad I did - it has been an excellent faucet.

New comment by 800xl in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

800xl — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:15:57 +0000

I agree with your overall point but I'm starting to regularly see older M series MacBooks on sale for around 600 or 700 dollars brand new. Maybe they are using the strategy of selling older hardware for less like they did with the iPhone SE.

New comment by 800xl in "Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work?"

800xl — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:26:36 +0000

Ah not sure the driving himself part was the best idea but I’m glad to hear the LLM helped and your dad is ok!

New comment by 800xl in "Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling"

800xl — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 02:28:54 +0000

The job market is scary. I can afford a better house right now but am scared shitless I won’t be able to keep my income up. So we stay in our small old house for now, maybe forever.

New comment by 800xl in "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued"

800xl — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 02:53:56 +0000

I thought they were just a web portal and email service. It is amazing they still offered ISP services this long.

They had some pretty unscrupulous business practices back in the day with their free trial CD mailers. My cousin worked in their call center ages ago and would sometimes convince even people who didn't have a computer to pay for the service.

New comment by 800xl in "How to Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe"

800xl — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 04:59:19 +0000

MacOS is unusable to me now. I had to switch back to Windows. There is something about the iOS aesthetic on MacOS that looks like they just smeared Vaseline all over everything and this new glass design doesn't help.

New comment by 800xl in "The History and Legacy of Visual Basic"

800xl — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:52:04 +0000

I don't know much about Gambas but it seems it is Linux only whereas Xojo is cross platform.

New comment by 800xl in "The History and Legacy of Visual Basic"

800xl — Sun, 11 May 2025 06:26:36 +0000

Have you checked out Xojo? It is a VB6-like language with a similar development UI. There are desktop and web versions.

https://documentation.xojo.com/getting_started/tutorials/des...

New comment by 800xl in "Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad"

800xl — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:47:29 +0000

Have you checked out RISC OS already?

New comment by 800xl in "Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete"

800xl — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:12:02 +0000

Xojo Web aims to do exactly what you describe.

https://xojo.com/products/web.php

I haven't really used it - I'm just a hobbyist coder who enjoys the VB6 style development of the desktop version of Xojo.

New comment by 800xl in "What happens to your online accounts when you die?"

800xl — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:01:15 +0000

My mother recently passed away after a long battle with dementia. Apparently when she would forget an account existed or she could not log in she would create another account. She had multiple email addresses and Facebook profiles that I know of.

I’ve been able to get Facebook to close a couple of her profiles but for the rest they keep asking for the same documentation over and over again (death certificate and funeral booklet) but will not take any action.

New comment by 800xl in "Is stuff online worth saving?"

800xl — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:56:37 +0000

Thank you for this! I pressed Ctrl+Shift+S in Firefox just to see if it would work and it has the same functionality.

New comment by 800xl in "Elon Musk PAC will pay registered voters in swing states to sign a petition"

800xl — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:59:47 +0000

Trump would be the 47th president.

New comment by 800xl in "Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator"

800xl — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:56:40 +0000

I liked CityDesk so much I wrote a clone of it in Xojo (then Realbasic) about 15 years ago. It has wysiwyg, templates, uses sqlite instead of a MS Access DB. Sometimes I think about making it public but don’t know if anyone would be interested these days.

New comment by 800xl in "Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?"

800xl — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:31:04 +0000

I have a similar goal (1 laptop) but with a concession to have one monitor, probably with a built in USB C hub, as a docking station just for ergonomics sake.

Eventually it might be possible to only have a mobile phone that docks to a monitor and runs a full desktop os, like Samsung DEX.