Hacker News: ABoredBirb

New comment by ABoredBirb in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

ABoredBirb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:08:25 +0000

Arab militaries, whilst sometimes well equipped, are thoroughly incompetent, possibly by design. They are not a major factor here.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "A top Russian oligarch breaks the silence"

ABoredBirb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:49:58 +0000

Tl;dr: Sanctions on oligarchs bad, they forced us to support russias war, woe is me. I am so so so very brilliant. I support the war effort, yet take no sides and make no moral judgements. Do not put more pressure on russia.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

ABoredBirb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:03:30 +0000

Here you go https://neongrizzly.com/products/copy-of-rainbow-gay-frog-ho...

New comment by ABoredBirb in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

ABoredBirb — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:33:28 +0000

Have you looked at Cowon? These are somewhat premium end players, but they are absolutely great. Their Cowon J3 was legendary, was declared the best mp3 player of all time by some outlets. I'm currently using a Cowon Plenue D2, which is also really good.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform"

ABoredBirb — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:08:04 +0000

As someone that has worked with this for a year (pro edition): expose instances of this to the public at your own risk. This thing is riddled with security issues ranging from trivial to absolutely critical and the team developing this has completely ignored them, despite being repeatedly notified about them. Also, if you start developing on top of this, expect the code and feature quality to rapidly drop once you get past the initial presentation.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ask HN: Is onboard audio still good enough compared to dedicated Sound Cards?"

ABoredBirb — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:37:13 +0000

I have also tried cheaper dedicated sound cards, such as soundblaster z - these don't really differ much from onboard ones and are not worth it.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ask HN: Is onboard audio still good enough compared to dedicated Sound Cards?"

ABoredBirb — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:34:11 +0000

I have an Asus Essence STX II sound card. Paired with decent enough headphones, it is night and day, compared to built in realteks or whatever. It is around 300eur, but this card won't become obsolete (unless it becomes incompatible with some other hw). A very worthwhile investment, if you value music, or even sound in games.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by Steam Deck"

ABoredBirb — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:03:53 +0000

Europe's insane willingness to rely on dictators for our energy needs has brought a large scale war, complete with civilian massacres, tortures and indiscriminate bombings to our doorstep. When will we wake up and realize we border an actual psychopathic enemy?

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools"

ABoredBirb — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 06:14:49 +0000

C4 diagrams using Mermaid markdown. Easy to reason about, easily version-controlled.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)"

ABoredBirb — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:16:26 +0000

My pet theory is that developers exist on a spectrum between "planner" and "prototyper" - one extreme spends a lot of time thinking about a solution before putting it into code - hopefully hitting the goal on first attempt. The other iterates towards it. Both are good to have on the team.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?"

ABoredBirb — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:01:13 +0000

Check out the STALKER modding scene, it appears to be going through a renaissance right now, with lots of standalones being made. And then there is STALKER GAMMA, which gives even modern AAA games a run for their money with its gameplay, features and even visuals.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s"

ABoredBirb — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:15:59 +0000

Check out Cowon products. Big fan since the J3. Sadly they haven't made anything quite as good since, but the Plenue D2, that i have now, is very decent.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?"

ABoredBirb — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:30:25 +0000

I have an Asus STX II dedicated sound card and it is a very substantial improvement over built in sound cards, to the point i'd never consider having a PC without one. Most people have just never tried anything better and thus live under the illusion that the built in sound cards are "good enough", rather than the lowest common denominator.

Lack of marketing, maybe? A myth that you need to fork over thousands for a complicated audiophile setup to get very incremental improvements over the baseline? Probably a combination of these is to blame.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?"

ABoredBirb — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:20:26 +0000

4 days/32hrs, working at current job for over 2 years now. It's not a common arrangement over here, sadly. I just decided that that is how i want to do things and simply asked for it, when looking for jobs, until i got a good offer that accepted this. I did take 20% off from my salary, were i working 40hrs, but still ended up with more than i was making at my previous job. I like it, the weekday/weekend balance seems just right.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent"

ABoredBirb — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:49:31 +0000

Were they also in need of being filmed and put in front of a large audience against their wishes, whilst being portrayed as old and sad?

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Apple is discontinuing the iPod"

ABoredBirb — Wed, 11 May 2022 07:13:19 +0000

Try Cowon products, they are Korean and make excellent DAPs. Currently have a Cowon Plenue D2 in my pocket.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Apple is discontinuing the iPod"

ABoredBirb — Wed, 11 May 2022 07:00:19 +0000

Korean, not Chinese, but I'm a massive fan of Cowon products. The (sadly discontinued) Cowon J3 was legendary, rightfully called the best DAP of all time by many. Currently have a Cowon Plenue D2 in my pocket.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Ukraine reaches breaking point in Russia’s war"

ABoredBirb — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 10:57:44 +0000

ASBMilitary was actively cheering on the Russian invasion, repeating their propaganda word for word.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right"

ABoredBirb — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 19:59:44 +0000

In Europe, however, they mainly back right wing, because it is anti-EU.

New comment by ABoredBirb in "War on free speech: Politicians and commentators label war critics “traitors”"

ABoredBirb — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:34:51 +0000

That has nothing to do with CRT.