Hacker News: Wistar

New comment by Wistar in "50k Boat Names"

Wistar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:36:27 +0000

In the 1980s, a Seattle-area Chinese restaurant owner had a sailboat named Won Ton Sloop. (Or so I was told as I never saw the boat myself)

New comment by Wistar in "Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent"

Wistar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:52:12 +0000

In the past 15 years, I have purchased five Lumix cameras including the new L10 (which I have yet to receive). I like their cameras a lot. The dedication to pursue this battle is another reason I am certain to buy more.

New comment by Wistar in "CSS: The bomb inside your inbox"

Wistar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:53:03 +0000

Yes, it breaks the back button on iPad/Safari

New comment by Wistar in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

Wistar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:03:04 +0000

I have gone down that quote’s rabbit hole before and it looks a lot more apocryphal than Maynard.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

New comment by Wistar in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

Wistar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:57:43 +0000

I once picked up an old copy of Bartlett’s Quotations and found that the prior highlighting owner found it nearly 100% profound.

New comment by Wistar in "Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675"

Wistar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:54:22 +0000

Bogus blog shenanigans aside, Drake Anthony is a treasure.

New comment by Wistar in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

Wistar — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:00:32 +0000

I own four in my office. Daily driven, mostly with photo editing tasks but some Blender, too. Work well for us.

New comment by Wistar in "LG ThinQ Terms of Use"

Wistar — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:16:34 +0000

I have been very lucky with a washer/dryer pair from Samsung that have only needed two minor repairs in 12 years of near-daily use. A heating element for the dryer. A new door seal and, later, a pump for the washer.

My 7 year old LG inverter microwave has been flawless and is the best microwave I have ever used.

My 10 year old pair of LG 4K computer monitors have been great—they still hold a color calibration quite well.

My recently-purchased, and expensive, LG C5 OLED TV has a spectacular picture but is a finicky, ad-ware festooned nightmare. It demands attention to near-daily updates where the updates list contains ads and promotions that I have to scroll through and dismiss to find the actual updates. It is tiring to deal with and especially because the remote control is a ridiculously gimmicky “air remote” where I have to carefully aim it at tiny targets which, even from three feet away, is challenging to do and so unnecessary.

The TV and this story about unauthorized software installations has cured me of interest in new LG offerings.

New comment by Wistar in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

Wistar — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:24:03 +0000

I used to live in Tam Junction, close to Sausalito. I had lived there at least a year before I discovered the Bay Model and was amazed when I visited it. It is huge.

New comment by Wistar in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

Wistar — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:59:46 +0000

The site owner, Ian, says he is seeking an alternative to google ads. Seems the site may be struggling financially.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/support.htm

New comment by Wistar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

Wistar — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:16:12 +0000

♡

New comment by Wistar in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Wistar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:37:28 +0000

The ones that do likely first tried to do the photography themselves.

New comment by Wistar in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Wistar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:36:01 +0000

Well, there’s Nuke.

New comment by Wistar in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

Wistar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:59:27 +0000

acdsee, at least a few years ago when I was using it for large volume jpg commercial work, is fast and often good enough. The trickier stuff went for a spin in Photoshop.

New comment by Wistar in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

Wistar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:56:01 +0000

Photopea is very good. It is what I recommend to friends who just want an immediate solution.

New comment by Wistar in "Helium is hard to replace"

Wistar — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:56:28 +0000

A quick search seems to show that helium is being lost to space. Wikipedia’s article claims the loss of helium to be at a rate of about 50 grams per second.

New comment by Wistar in "Helium is hard to replace"

Wistar — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:41:51 +0000

Waaay back in the early 1980s, I read an Asimov essay, “The Vanishing Element”, about the irreplaceable nature of helium and how badly humankind was wasting it. He pointed out that, once released, it just rises through the atmosphere and lost to space. I guess that chicken is coming home to roost.

New comment by Wistar in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Wistar — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:51:19 +0000

The demographic includes my spouse who likes the taste and texture of both Beyond and Impossible burgers much more than ground beef burgers.

Beyond sausage links are damn good.

New comment by Wistar in "Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily"

Wistar — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:30:01 +0000

Same. At least at this moment. iPad.

New comment by Wistar in "Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]"

Wistar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:21:29 +0000

That’s worth about $5