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An Interview with ModRetro CEO: Future of Gaming and Consumer Electronics

VimEscapeArtist — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://taekim.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-modretro-ceo-torin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932952

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

VimEscapeArtist — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:27:05 +0000

I like GitHub and I'm not going to ditch anything, but I have to admit it's currently one of the few MS products that still holds up. Curious what it'll look like in a few years. Just in case, I've already reserved my username on Codeberg :)

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Cloudflare Drop"

VimEscapeArtist — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:16:14 +0000

Cloudflare gives me mixed feelings. The services are good and well priced. What bothers me is that they've become infrastructure nobody opted into - you don't have an account, you just pass through their network on the way to a large share of what you visit. They terminate TLS, so it's plaintext on their side.

ClassicQ – A QuakeWorld client for the 30th anniversary of Quake

VimEscapeArtist — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/classicq/classicq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539780

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Anthropic support does not exist"

VimEscapeArtist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:53:32 +0000

You got me. Canceling would hurt me more than them, and that math is the whole problem.

Anthropic support does not exist

VimEscapeArtist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:07:12 +0000

Article URL: https://mg0x7be.github.io/anthropic-support-does-not-exist.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478436

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

VimEscapeArtist — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Oh wow, the first AI-generated Linux! Will it suck monkey balls just as much as Windows 11?

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "The worst job interview I ever had"

VimEscapeArtist — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:27:53 +0000

I've only had one terrible interview as the candidate, but there's one I conducted myself that weighs on my conscience. It was my first job in IT, and I was still a student back then with no real experience to speak of. A young guy came in to our company who was clearly very stressed, and I kept asking him hard questions - probably not to actually assess his competence, but to prove that I was the one who knew my stuff. That was 20 years ago and I don't remember the details anymore, I only remember that he was stressed and I just treated him cruelly with those questions. It wasn't anything offensive, I just keep recalling that moment and I regret it. Today, if I were conducting any interviews, I would make a real effort to make the person feel comfortable, even if they don't know everything or are a weak candidate.

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "We should get rid of average CPU utilization"

VimEscapeArtist — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:14:06 +0000

Let’s measure temperature :)

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

VimEscapeArtist — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:44:49 +0000

Wait until he discovers PowerShell ;D

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

VimEscapeArtist — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:28:55 +0000

F# is arguably one of the biggest wasted opportunities in programming languaguages history

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "The Programming Language for Agents"

VimEscapeArtist — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:24:13 +0000

I vote F#

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan"

VimEscapeArtist — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:42:47 +0000

I use 2 computers without a KVM. My keyboard, mouse, and soundbar all support Bluetooth. All wired to the PC by default. When I switch to the Mac, I just flip each device to Bluetooth mode.

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

VimEscapeArtist — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:42:19 +0000

Anyone remember “Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues”? ;)

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

VimEscapeArtist — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:22:00 +0000

These AI images are an absolute plague these days. I’m glad more people think they’re genuinely awful. To me they’re absolutely disgusting. I think I’d honestly prefer Macromedia Flash ads over this.

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

VimEscapeArtist — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:14:04 +0000

You might want to mention the comedy series Microsoft used to run on MSDN. I think it was called “The .NET Show” or “VBTV”. It featured characters like the “VB Rapper” and “Head in a Box” (Ari and Chris). It was genuinely funny and they made at least a few episodes. I loved Microsoft back in those days. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any trace of it online now. This was really long ago - around 2002, I believe.

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

VimEscapeArtist — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:57:04 +0000

I live in Poland. This headline is misleading. Poland didn't build a top-20 economy. Western Europe and the US built their economy in Poland, because the labor is educated and cheap.

There are almost no globally competitive Polish companies. The "growth" is branch offices of German and American corporations taking advantage of engineers who'll work for 40% of Berlin rates. Remove the foreign-owned sector and you're looking at a mid-tier economy running on EU structural funds.

It's a great place to live, genuinely. But calling this "Poland's economy" is like calling a McDonald's franchise "your restaurant"

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

VimEscapeArtist — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:28:55 +0000

The comments here are fascinating. A generation of men who've never been in a physical confrontation in their lives are absolutely certain that physical consequences don't work. How would you know?

A boy who bullies needs to learn that the world hits back. You can teach that with a cane at 13 or let him find out at 25 when he mouths off to the wrong person. One of these comes with a controlled environment and a school nurse on standby.

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

VimEscapeArtist — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:58:44 +0000

OK but just use Zed anyway

New comment by VimEscapeArtist in "Artemis II Photo Timeline"

VimEscapeArtist — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:05:23 +0000

$244,094,488.19 per picture?