Hacker News: Lorin

New comment by Lorin in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

Lorin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:48:51 +0000

As someone who used to submit issues to Gitlab just to see them stagnate for 6-8 years and then ceremonially get closed after being stuck in management/release bump hell (along with many 'me toos' from both Gitlab premium support staff / 3rd party contributors) I agree with your statement 100%.

New comment by Lorin in "πFS"

Lorin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:11:14 +0000

If we could restore the snapshot from around the year 2000 that'd be great, would like to make some changes.

New comment by Lorin in "Ten Basic Clouds"

Lorin — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:59:58 +0000

Ironically the site is now giving a "The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later." Do I blame the cloud?

New comment by Lorin in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

Lorin — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:12:47 +0000

That's assuming ASML and co would even supply the required tech should that happen.

New comment by Lorin in "Ask.com has closed"

Lorin — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:28:36 +0000

Would have been a great domain with the rise of AI, shocking they didn't adapt the persona.

New comment by Lorin in "Copy Fail"

Lorin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:29:04 +0000

What is the rationale behind naming CVEs and individual domains? Marketing?

New comment by Lorin in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

Lorin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:29:17 +0000

I desperately miss PureDJ online radio, pretty much exclusively streamed EDM DJ sets. Would do anything to see the archive restored in some fashion.

New comment by Lorin in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

Lorin — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:34:15 +0000

If you worked on Lost Vikings I'd like to thank you for the entertainment during my childhood. Given your background did you ever get involved in the demo scene?

New comment by Lorin in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Lorin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:47:41 +0000

As long as this doesn't create yet another cookie popup UX nonsense we've ended up with...

New comment by Lorin in "Show HN: New 3D Mapping website - Create heli orbits and "playable" map tours."

Lorin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:13:58 +0000

Consider a slower default rotation speed, esp. on your front page backdrop as you must be considerate of users with movement based nausea. Further consider generating a looping video for the backdrop on the hope page since it's a non-interactive element and could be optimized.

New comment by Lorin in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

Lorin — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:31:05 +0000

The argument is that it doesn't surface the default written within the jsdoc block comment even when provided by the developer.

New comment by Lorin in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

Lorin — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:55:42 +0000

Not when the TS team refuses to fix long standing issues preventing JSDOC from operating properly in VSC, for example https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16665

New comment by Lorin in "We Need to Die"

Lorin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:22:44 +0000

Anyone else see the irony of someone named Grey being pro immortality?

New comment by Lorin in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

Lorin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:18:05 +0000

StarCraft 2 tournaments broadcasts being watched in public venues pushed esports into the zeitgeist.

New comment by Lorin in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

Lorin — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:30:10 +0000

I'd like to thank everyone moving their hosting away from shared hosts to VPS.

Been on the same shared hosting platform for 15+ years and the hardware's load average dropped to ~16% on a 64-core Epyc /w 512gb RAM. Easily handles half million unique bursts without breaking a sweat.

New comment by Lorin in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

Lorin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:36:51 +0000

I still miss my KeyOne keyboard.

New comment by Lorin in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

Lorin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:59:09 +0000

What is causing the ghosting/delay when moving the glass over text?

New comment by Lorin in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

Lorin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:13:48 +0000

At that point we might as well skip the glasses entirely and have it output directly to the visual/audio cortex (with shut offs, of course)

New comment by Lorin in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

Lorin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:23:45 +0000

Sadly the controls are not mobile friendly and I ended up spinning wildly.

New comment by Lorin in "Frosted glass from games to the web"

Lorin — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:03:06 +0000

Agreed, on mobile I can hardly tell the difference after the second step, if at all.