Hacker News: Thoreandan

New comment by Thoreandan in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

Thoreandan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:35:56 +0000

This reminds me of the 9/11-era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

...which was shut down in 2003 "after multiple US senators condemned it as an assassination and terrorism market".

New comment by Thoreandan in "DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly"

Thoreandan — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:25:02 +0000

Considering the amount of random hate he’s conjuring up from green HN usernames, he must be doing something right that’s upsetting to some community or another. :-D

New comment by Thoreandan in "A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts"

Thoreandan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:48:01 +0000

Similar technique was used in Daisy Dot II

https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/daisydot2.php

New comment by Thoreandan in "My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)"

Thoreandan — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:10:21 +0000

Reminds me of an excellent paper I just read by a former Google DeepMind Ethics Research Team member

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/114/1/4 - Reinecke, Madeline G., et al. "The double-edged sword of anthropomorphism in llms." Proceedings. Vol. 114. No. 1. MDPI, 2025 Author: https://www.mgreinecke.com/

New comment by Thoreandan in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

Thoreandan — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:57:26 +0000

Does your source .pdf material have FlateDecode'd chunks or did you fully uncompress it?

New comment by Thoreandan in "Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)"

Thoreandan — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:20:19 +0000

Harry says: What are you waiting for?

New comment by Thoreandan in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

Thoreandan — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:42:03 +0000

Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

Thoreandan — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:36:14 +0000

Today I learned: The creator of Chose Your Own Adventure is currently 94 and has a website at https://edwardpackard.com/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(writer)

New comment by Thoreandan in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

Thoreandan — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:15:09 +0000

Huh. Posting a screenshot of the tweet just got my FB account suspended.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)"

Thoreandan — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:22:42 +0000

Bonus: They leak! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-et-quick...

New comment by Thoreandan in "A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon"

Thoreandan — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:44:19 +0000

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre"

Thoreandan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:41:59 +0000

I'm waiting for BoringX or OpenX or, well, any other fork. Search for 'xorg drama'.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Show HN: 90s.dev - game maker that runs on the web"

Thoreandan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:58:31 +0000

Mentioning the licensing up front would be nice.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Getting Older Isn't What You Think"

Thoreandan — Thu, 08 May 2025 04:19:43 +0000

Feels.

Not gonna blow condescending garbage your way. Your feeling is not unique but not in the majority, and it’s exhausting to hear the ‘have’ ppl with no actual ability to relate jabber on.

Hope you can find bits of joy where you can make them.

New comment by Thoreandan in "Careless People"

Thoreandan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:59:10 +0000

It's right there in the URL, along with #ZDGAF

New comment by Thoreandan in "The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet"

Thoreandan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:17:23 +0000

That's a fun coincidence, I just learned about Myrtle last Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-8E-dEbwc

New comment by Thoreandan in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

Thoreandan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:03:10 +0000

I'd always wanted to see a physical copy of the $5,000.00 'Deluxe Distribution' -

https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/16/gnu_bulletin_23....

> The FSF Deluxe Distribution contains the binaries and sources to hundreds of different programs including GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger, the complete MIT X Window System, and the GNU utilities.

> You may choose one of these machines and operating systems: HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, or 800 (4.3 BSD or HP-UX); RS/6000 (AIX); Sony NEWS 68k (4.3 BSD or NewsOS 4); Sun 3, 4, or SPARC (SunOS 4 or Solaris). If your machine or system is not listed, or if a specific program has not been ported to that machine, please call the FSF office at the phone number below or send e-mail to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu.

> The manuals included are one each of the Bison, Calc, Gawk, GNU C Compiler, GNU C Library, GNU Debugger, Flex, GNU Emacs Lisp Reference, Make, Texinfo, and Termcap manuals; six copies of the manual for GNU Emacs; and a packet of reference cards each for GNU Emacs, Calc, the GNU Debugger, Bison, and Flex.

> In addition to the printed and on-line documentation, every Deluxe Distribution includes a CD-ROM (in ISO 9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions) that contains sources of our software.

I wonder how many (if any?) were sold, it'd be an excellent museum piece.

New comment by Thoreandan in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

Thoreandan — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:24:17 +0000

It'd be a privilege to be able to disconnect from the feeds, but trying to rebuild in-person social interactions when you're old and have no family or local friends really sucks. Facebook's become:

* Who died this week

* Spammers liking your posts and asking for friend adds

* Gofundme's for ppl who will now spend the rest of their lives in medical debt

* Interesting articles maybe twice a week or so.

Nobody I know in town is on Mastodon or BSky.

The silence is deafening.

New comment by Thoreandan in "BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report"

Thoreandan — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:14:54 +0000

I guess B1FF@BITNET posts are gonna come from an LLM now.

Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20030830105202/http://www.catb.o...

New comment by Thoreandan in "mIRC 7.81"

Thoreandan — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:06:30 +0000

I registered my copy. I also remember that in the Help->About, if you clicked Khaled Mardam-Bey's nose it would squeak.