Hacker News: Milner08

New comment by Milner08 in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

Milner08 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:53:49 +0000

What are you talking about? The video is free on YouTube. Patreon is just another way of supporting the channel beyond the usual ad-sense, sponsors, etc.

No one is expecting them to make a fortune over night, but it at least shows there is space for new people. This video was actually push into my feed by youtube which is rare for new creators. So they clearly are doing pretty well in the grand scheme of things.

New comment by Milner08 in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

Milner08 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:25:33 +0000

Quite unrelated to the main topic, but shouldn't it be Croydon, London? I have never heard anyone called it London Croydon before. Generally addresses/places go from most specific to least and given Croydon is an area of London it should go first.

New comment by Milner08 in "Show HN: Relay – The open-source Claude Cowork for OpenClaw"

Milner08 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:56:00 +0000

I agree, but its tricky as many people seem to not read it and I have seen AI documentation that is so verbose and dense that its almost as useless as not having it. Its a fine line but so long as the AI documentation is reviewed and reasonable then I see no issue.

New comment by Milner08 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

Milner08 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:45:12 +0000

It maybe a surprise to you, but many people actually enjoy 'music' and don't find it to be just noise.

New comment by Milner08 in "Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters"

Milner08 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:53:58 +0000

You could say that about almost anything. There are plenty of people who dont use VSCode so it seems wise to make it a separate app.

New comment by Milner08 in "The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?"

Milner08 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:57:56 +0000

Great if you are an English speaker. Do we then translate that to every language we need to support? Do we scale the UI to work for the different length words?

I dont think that is any better at all. If anything I think its solidly worse.

New comment by Milner08 in "The magic of through running"

Milner08 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:39:51 +0000

Also not really true. There are trains all over the world that draw power from over head lines and from 3rd and 4th rail systems.

New comment by Milner08 in "Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament"

Milner08 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:43:35 +0000

Getting it in paint form wasn't the issue. But the issue with that is many of the originals have changed colour over the year, so getting a match is hard. Plus the plastic is brittle so if you want to replace things you need to print it and its easier if you dont need to then paint it.

New comment by Milner08 in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

Milner08 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:39:25 +0000

Im dyslexic and I tend to use the pointer to follow what I am reading to help me. The cat was annoying as hell. I just had to hide the element in the DOM before i could read more than a few lines. Infuriating design choice to make it follow the pointer.

New comment by Milner08 in "Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease"

Milner08 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:17:59 +0000

If thats really such an issue, you can just get the browser to translate them for you?

New comment by Milner08 in "PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights"

Milner08 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:20:17 +0000

Did you really not read this as a joke? It seemed obvious that it was one to me.

New comment by Milner08 in "DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)"

Milner08 — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:45:49 +0000

There is a plastic part in the middle to hold the pins which would need a mold. But you are correct that the outside would probably be formed with a die

New comment by Milner08 in "'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed"

Milner08 — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:43:08 +0000

Is a Monocycle something different to a Unicycle?

New comment by Milner08 in "'Britain's Pompeii' reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time"

Milner08 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:53:02 +0000

I assumed it fell into the bog and so it was basically impossible to get to?

New comment by Milner08 in "I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train"

Milner08 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:08:23 +0000

British trains are mostly a profit making enterprise for other European nations, rather than an actual public transport network for the people who need it.

(Their are exceptions to this and not all train companies are linked to other countries state owned railways, but many are. They get cheap travel and we get scammed)

New comment by Milner08 in "Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed"

Milner08 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:11:07 +0000

You are wrong. Musk is CEO, Chair and CTO according to Wikipedia.

New comment by Milner08 in "Old London Bridge"

Milner08 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:55:56 +0000

They did it this year (or the end of last year maybe) as well :)

New comment by Milner08 in "Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again"

Milner08 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:22:21 +0000

I am really not sure how much of the general population would agree with you. Having a slim laptop that I can drop in my bag and not take up the world of space is great.

New comment by Milner08 in "Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon"

Milner08 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:23:59 +0000

Same. I would love to see it get static types.

New comment by Milner08 in "Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux"

Milner08 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:26:11 +0000

Matte ends up with lower contrast because it defuses light and washes things out, especially in bright light. I think LTT did a video a while ago showing that it was actually worse in bright light than a glossy screen.