Hacker News: TheAmazingRace

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:23:56 +0000

Apples to apples? More like Windows to Windows. LOL

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:20:50 +0000

Wouldn't the DX2 be 66 MHz? Or did you intentionally run it at 33 MHz?

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:09:42 +0000

It didn't help that the earliest P5 Pentiums ran on a 5V rail. Newer revisions starting with the P54 core used 3.3V and helped with keeping the chips cool.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:33:49 +0000

Well and the earliest versions of Windows 95 used FAT16 (specifically VFAT for support for LFNs or long file names). So enjoy those ridiculous cluster sizes if your hard disk even approached a gig or so.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:28 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Presto was very lightweight and, to my knowledge, exceptionally standards compliant as well.

I think the last version of the Presto engine did have a source code leak, but naturally it's not a great idea to work on it unless you want to catch a lawsuit.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:42:34 +0000

I get the love for Macbook trackpads, but Lenovo really nailed it with the ThinkPad trackpoint and glass trackpad combo, especially on more recent models.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "The MacBook Neo"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:15:04 +0000

I know Lenovo has their issues, but out of all the non-Apple laptop companies, they are by far the best out there. And to their credit, they do try to listen to customer feedback.

Also, AFAIK, Lenovo still has their ThinkPad designs developed by a design think-tank lab in Japan that they own (and IBM still has a bit of influence here as well) so I know Lenovo still gives somewhat of a damn in trying to develop a solid laptop.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:52:36 +0000

Dapper Drake? Man that takes me WAY back.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:14:39 +0000

This is incredibly helpful! Thanks!

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:30:16 +0000

Thank you! I didn't see this when I was first looking into it.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:36:22 +0000

Hi tabbott. Thanks kindly for offering to answer questions. :)

I signed up on your site just a bit ago, but I'm a bit concerned with the paid upgrade. Unlike Discord, I need to pay per user, which I find onerous and would get out of control fast for the group I run with around 100 members. Is there any plans for a flat fee model? I'm even happy to pay twice what I pay for Discord Nitro, but yeah, $8/mo per user is too expensive.

If it helps at all, it's for a retro computing community group, and not for profit.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:14:03 +0000

This is honestly news to me. I had no idea.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:59:59 +0000

Honestly, OnlyOffice works extremely well for my purposes, and I install it on all my friends' PCs. It looks a lot like MS Office and is quite compatible with a variety of documents I've tried, in my experience.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:02:58 +0000

It's funny to me how a hacked Nintendo 3DS ended up being the best way to play Virtual Boy titles, many decades later, thanks to the Red Viper emulator.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "illumos"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:03:29 +0000

It's crazy that we are over 15 years removed from when illumos officially started as a project, shortly after Oracle took over Sun and killed off OpenSolaris.

I was on the group call that made the announcement in 2010 and I'm impressed that illumos is still going strong.

Fun fact, it is the only open-source OS that is proper UNIX (SVR4), not Unix-like, like the BSDs or Linux.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:03:34 +0000

Or the Atari ST! I have one at home with 1 MB of RAM in it and it still flies. Boots up in less than a few seconds, which is faster than any of my modern PCs.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "[dead]"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:17:48 +0000

Although I didn't care for his recent politics, his comics were a staple in my household for many years. Hope his family is at peace.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

TheAmazingRace — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:35:18 +0000

Honestly, for me, the loss of resource forks in the transition from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X was a real sore spot for me. Sure, a UNIX-based OS like OS X was going to facilitate a different paradigm for file handling by default, but Apple really should have found a way to keep resource forks as a thing. I loved how intuitive file handling was in Classic Mac OS. No pesky three letter file extensions driving program associations and the like.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:01:29 +0000

Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall were a dynamic duo. Really appreciated the awareness they gave to the general public about computing and the wave of the future.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:20:01 +0000

Too many people have a vested interest in keeping Bitcoin going for as long as possible, sadly. It's going to take a massive black swan of some kind to shake their faith.

Heck, they can embed CSAM into the Bitcoin blockchain and that won't stop anyone from using it, because above all else, line must go up.