Hacker News: Singletail

New comment by Singletail in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

Singletail — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:32:46 +0000

Thrustmaster FCS & WCS MK1 for me. And as much as I'd love to play it again, it will never be the same.

New comment by Singletail in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Singletail — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:20:37 +0000

Advertising packets only go out on startup and pairing, not during normal operation.

New comment by Singletail in "Killed by Apple"

Singletail — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:13:28 +0000

I'm more interested in the technology they've acquired to kill, like buying up every company making assistive technology for the blind and then destroying them to make their facial unlock feature.

New comment by Singletail in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

Singletail — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:14:56 +0000

With that frequency range, I really hope the people using it have radio licenses.

New comment by Singletail in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

Singletail — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:34:08 +0000

I'm old. I can't remember breakfast.

New comment by Singletail in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

Singletail — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:09:28 +0000

As someone who watched the Apollo 11 launch live on TV, this is no less awe-inspiring. This transcends nations, languages, and politics. This is of and by all humanity.

(If anyone managed to get the perfect shot of the spark-filled separation feed, please share. That was... incredible.)

New comment by Singletail in "Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and lets you browse it offline"

Singletail — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:23:08 +0000

Now if someone could find a way to read the scrawled engineer's names etched on the inner part of the vinyl so I could figure out what edition I have in under an hour, I'd be really happy.

New comment by Singletail in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

Singletail — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:27:48 +0000

Ship it with Sequoia and you have a deal.

New comment by Singletail in "Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)?"

Singletail — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:07:39 +0000

Oh, I'm a former phone phreak in my late 50s who's about to start yet another (last?) startup. I come here because the level of discourse and mutual-respect is far-away above the alternatives.

New comment by Singletail in "I Open-Sourced KeyEcho: Fast-Responsive Keyboard Sounds with Every Keystroke"

Singletail — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:03:01 +0000

Are you saying that I can make my MacBook Pro sound like an IBM Selectric II with a negligible performance hit? I will attempt to hide your identity from my wife for as long as possible, but I make no promises.

New comment by Singletail in "Stuffit – 30 Years of File Compression"

Singletail — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:51:46 +0000

I was at Stuy with him -- he was always very nice.

He was also a big Ddial user.

New comment by Singletail in "Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?"

Singletail — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:17:53 +0000

I wear them on my ankle, so I know what time it is when I cross my legs.

New comment by Singletail in "Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died"

Singletail — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:14:04 +0000

He won the Golden Spurtle at the World Porridge Championships in Scotland in 2016, a rare honor. Rest in porridge.