Hacker News: achairapart

New comment by achairapart in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

achairapart — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:55:28 +0000

I remember when this story (first?) came up on hn, there's a long thread here[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101053

New comment by achairapart in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

achairapart — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:43:39 +0000

I do most of my work remotely on a little Raspberry Pi 4 server attached to my home ISP: https://fatcity.it/

But I'm planning to do a big jump: Soon I will switch to a 2012 Mac Mini as my primary linux server!

New comment by achairapart in "BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs"

achairapart — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:01:12 +0000

Thanks! Installing right now!

New comment by achairapart in "BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs"

achairapart — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:07:04 +0000

Interesting! Looking forward for a macOS build.

New comment by achairapart in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

achairapart — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:26:04 +0000

Nothing new. I'm sure something similar was said about Google before...

https://encourageandteach.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

New comment by achairapart in "Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser"

achairapart — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:06:12 +0000

Exited to dos, found Bubble Bobble in GAMES directory and started to play. And that's mostly what I used to do as a kid at the times of Windows 3.11!

New comment by achairapart in "Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)"

achairapart — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:52:27 +0000

Without Linux, just for writing: https://valentine.getfreewrite.com/

PC Floppy Copy Protection: An Interview with Robert McQuaid

achairapart — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:57:09 +0000

Article URL: https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-interview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854227

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by achairapart in "STFU"

achairapart — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:18:50 +0000

When iPhones still had the headphone port, a friend of mine soldered a IR led on top of a minijack, something like this:

https://www.rtfms.com/wp-content/rtfms-com/LED-pinout.png

Then, with some special app, or even just playing some audiofiles — I don't remember — he'd do the same thing as the device above.

Graphite, Free online vector editor and procedural design tool

achairapart — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://graphite.art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606019

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by achairapart in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

achairapart — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:53:55 +0000

Correct, as in Betteridge's law of headlines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by achairapart in "SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection"

achairapart — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:30:15 +0000

I think all the listed software is available for download in the website still-active BBS: scenelist.org:23 (I only tried the web interface briefly).

New comment by achairapart in "SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection"

achairapart — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:23:42 +0000

The NFO Search section is pure gold. I'm glad someone preserved all this.

SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

achairapart — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://scenelist.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510625

Points: 123

# Comments: 54

New comment by achairapart in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

achairapart — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:14:32 +0000

Also: “Everything’s computer!”

New comment by achairapart in "I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)"

achairapart — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:02:02 +0000

Input < Product Value < Output.

This is the equation. When you quote on the input - that's the time you need to do the job, you multiply your rate for the weeks/days/hours, plus maybe some other expenses. This is the so-called "Hours and materials".

When you quote on the output, you take in consideration the overall value/gains you client will make by your work. This is called "value-based" pricing.

This equation is unbreakable, if your input is grater than the client output (ROI), something is very wrong, or completely illegal.

Some says value-based pricing is the holy grail for pricing anything, but if you're smart enough, you already understood that, based on circumstances, sometimes it makes more sense to quote on the input, other times on the output. Just do the math.

This may be a classic example of "value-based" pricing. It doesn't matter how long you take to make a static HTML page (input), the client overall project budget is probably over $100K (as stated by op), it's totally ok for them to invest ~20% of it to make sure it delivers on time and by specs.

New comment by achairapart in "Exe.dev"

achairapart — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:05:38 +0000

I also don't understand this: Everyone with the right domain can ssh-in the vm?

Edit: Answered below, thank you.

Exe.dev

achairapart — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:42:46 +0000

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev

https://exe.dev/docs/how-exedev-works

https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609

Points: 457

# Comments: 297

New comment by achairapart in "Drawing with zero-width characters"

achairapart — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:47:55 +0000

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New comment by achairapart in "Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)"

achairapart — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:49:23 +0000

As I remember, the blue ones where the most ordinary (and boring), at least for 3½-inch size. For 5¼-inch, they were mostly black, but I remember some of them in colors too (especially orange or yellow ones, they were beautiful).

E.g: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2AA9BC4/ajaxnetphoto-2019-worthing...