Hacker News: Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ContaxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:35:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Digg is gone again"]]>I've always thought than on Reddit (or Digg, or Lemmy or others) common words, brands, names... should be broad "topics" or categories that nobody can claim (first come, first served). You should be able to add a sub/community under a topic, but just like everyone else, and then users interested in said topic could add and exclude different subs to taste.

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:36:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379681Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379681<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>> my Sony g shock

What is a "Sony g shock" if you don't mind? I know Casio's G-Shock and Sony's Sports series... did you mix them by chance as I suppose or is there a Sony range I'm not aware of?

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:28:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379596Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379596<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Shut Up: Comment Blocker"]]>Same. I have 4 browsers, 2 of them loaded to the teeth and the other 2 untouched since installation, one of them the one that I use for "mandatory" stuff or that you really need it to work, like banking or gov sites.

]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:33:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996244Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996244<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"]]>Love this. I once (2017 I think) made a card game based around MS-DOS with elements of Crazy Eights which I called Crazy DOS (shortened C:DOS) but got zero attention so I moved on. I might try this one, I love this kind of stuff.

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:55:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698254Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698254https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698254<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"]]>But you don't have to charge this one! (because you can't) :D

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:52:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215553Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215553<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"]]>UT2003 was the first online multiplayer game I ever played, and I played it a lot, mostly at the office with coworkers; we then moved to UT2004. So, so many fond memories of both. Glad is back.

]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:10:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148507Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148507<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"]]>Not that it'll happen, or at least I haven't heard of it, but I'd love for MiniDiscs to also make a comeback (not that they ever were that popular), and see new releases in that format. It's my favorite one, a nice blend of CDs and compact cassettes (no worries about scratches thanks to the protective shell, even when you carelessly throw the discs in your pockets).

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:20:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547306Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547306https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547306<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Pong Wars: A battle between day and night, good and bad"]]>Thanks, TIL.

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:03:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463158Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463158<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Pong Wars: A battle between day and night, good and bad"]]>Sorry for the tangential, but as a non-native English speaker, and still learning... this really caught my attention: "grows smaller". It looks like a kind of contradiction. Is it common to use that instead of, say, "shrink"?

]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:38:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454453Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454453<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"]]>Among others (e.g.: "trans fatty acid"), in this particular case either "today's featured article" or "the f**ing article". I guess the latter.

]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:23:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726716Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726716<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise"]]>This along blows my mind: I picture this bin bang and everything expanding from that point and... that everything is now a sphere. In my mind. But it isn't? Yes, I know next to nothing but love thinking about all of this.

]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:24:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535422Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535422https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535422<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "The <select> element can now be customized with CSS"]]>> This looks like what web developers have been waiting literally decades for.

Count me in. Most times it didn't matter to me but there were some cases when I wanted or needed them to have a specific style matching other elements and, yes, I could only do it -to the best I knew- with JS.

Let's see if it becomes widely supported.

]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:12:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535287Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535287https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535287<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences"]]>Ah, I was imagining something way more complex and wilder, with electronics and LEDs and what not :D But that's cool too, if simpler, nice way to track stuff. Thanks for explaining! ;)

]]>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:55:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510761Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510761https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510761<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences"]]>I'm specifically intrigued by that loading bar with magnetic blocks.

]]>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:20:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498314Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498314<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025"]]>Nor mine. I mostly sub to small niche topics and there's hardly anything political. Large subs on the other hand...

]]>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:58:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084069Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084069https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084069<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"]]>I've watched Requiem for a Dream a couple times and you got me curious about the commentary, so I'll try to get a copy. Thanks for the unexpected tip.

]]>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:17:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386469Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386469<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?"]]>Younger. As someone who never could afford a computer as a kid or teen, and not much people around me had one either, while I felt really really attracted to them and to tech in general there was nothing I could do abut it. Other than dreaming about getting one some day.

So now that I can have a few of them, every time I get one I feel like a kid.

Not that I buy them by the dozens or I'm becoming a collector, that's something I can't do nor want to do, but getting something new (old, but new to me) once a year or every couple allows me to discover all that I missed. Since I'm not "re"discovering it, it's all new to me in a sense.

]]>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:49:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359233Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359233https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359233<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "The correct amount of ads is zero"]]>It'd be nice if, at the very least, they were asked to be upfront and put a "sponsored" disclaimer on titles so we could make an informed choice.

]]>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:26:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352158Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352158<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More"]]>I don't know what it takes at the scale of something like Wikipedia, but at my own scale, a single/self-employed developer, yes, hosting costs are a small part, but then I have to eat, a place to live, replace hardware, pay bills and taxes and much much more, things none of my sites could exist without.

Hosting is nothing without coders and maintainers, regardless of if the main content is contributed free, and decent coders and maintainers, software and hardware engineers, aren't cheap and don't count as hosting costs.

]]>Wed, 22 May 2024 11:39:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439758Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439758https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439758<![CDATA[New comment by Contax in "How to prevent Lyme disease this summer"]]>Why is it that every time I read something like this my whole body feels itchy? Or when I read about lice I feel an urge to scratch my head? Like, is there a term for this? Some article?

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 07:47:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40178136Contaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40178136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40178136