Hacker News: __del__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__del__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:14:17 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands"]]>im[ns]ho, people want desperately to believe that only state funded actors can possess that kind of power.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:13:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240469__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240469<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"]]>the administration which declares ad-hoc emergencies is behaving as predicted

]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:52:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186956__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186956<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Flameshot"]]>i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:21:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822248__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822248<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Why do RSS readers look like email clients?"]]>yes, i mutter to the screen "why not just give us your prompt and let us think about it?"

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:58:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810273__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810273https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810273<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"]]>we'll be working on that very strongly in the next period of time

]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:12:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763418__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763418<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"]]>if it worked on a pentium iii, it should work on a phone with webgl. who's going to port it?

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:38:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597616__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597616https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597616<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)"]]>should be quite a bit faster than that now. 1-2ms would be normal

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:55:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579306__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579306https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579306<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"]]>i often think about all the music ruined by self obsessed dorks singing soulless middle school poetry, and it's the main application of AI i'm quite excited for

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:53:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429363__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429363https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429363<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"]]>an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm back to reading each one to discern the difference.

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:30:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202233__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202233https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202233<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "The consumption of AI-generated content at scale"]]>i'll never give up the em dash. and i will continue to evangelize the en dash from now–forever (hint hint, ranges should use en dashes instead of hyphens).

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:14:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202138__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202138https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202138<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"]]>this has been my casual finding as well. why would i want all that conversational crap in the context window?

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:05:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201780__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201780<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"]]>i had ONE cassette unwind. my less careful friend was always winding them with a pencil. the culprit? button mashing between fast-forward and play.

]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:29:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201558__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201558https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201558<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

]]>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:24:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176332__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176332https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176332<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"]]>clarity is good. i believe that was a reference to the futility of posting "i do not consent" messages on social media.

]]>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:24:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171621__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171621https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171621<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"]]>sometimes we make silly errors for years or decades and no one spots them. if you've been saying you hate java bloat/frameworks/whatever and meaning you hate javascript bloat/frameworks/whatever, people would probably agree with both. no one would be the wiser.

]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156119__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156119https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156119<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long"]]>for those who think brainfuck is too pedestrian, have a browse through the esolang wiki:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list

]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:54:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141417__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141417<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200"]]>i'm also curious. i used that thing until last year.

]]>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:55:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104686__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104686<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"]]>"My Documents" comes to mind. it seemed somehow infantilizing. yes, yes i know whose documents they are.

]]>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:15:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104438__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104438<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"]]>that's an interesting pursuit. we've got the code, or at least we've got the stubs calling windows dlls.

]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:16:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956995__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956995https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956995<![CDATA[New comment by __del__ in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"]]>i did this in the 90s for some kewl showoff programs generating something or other. i assumed there would be a modern graphics framework and API now. still just intercepting that paint event eh?

]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:14:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956954__del__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956954