Hacker News: acheron

New comment by acheron in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

acheron — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:51:34 +0000

Seriously. 2009 is several years after everyone was already saying “web 2.0”! That is nowhere near the “old web”.

New comment by acheron in "OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux"

acheron — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:52:49 +0000

I have it open in a browser tab, and I have the codex cli. What are the features/advantages this has over the old way?

New comment by acheron in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

acheron — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:12:55 +0000

Flagged as a dupe. This was already posted earlier today.

New comment by acheron in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

acheron — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:00:56 +0000

We at Hacker News do not have a sense of humor that we’re aware of.

New comment by acheron in "German Peasants' War"

acheron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:12:48 +0000

Yeah, and it looks like the OP is just using it to post religious flamebait comments. If I wanted Reddit I’d be over there.

The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted (2014)

acheron — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:09:27 +0000

Article URL: https://mashable.com/archive/aim-history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022888

Points: 4

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New comment by acheron in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

acheron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:35:18 +0000

As far as "third party service shouldn't be necessary", is it that different from getting the TV Guide in the 80s or 90s to find out when a show was going to be on TV?

New comment by acheron in "The Voice of Google"

acheron — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:20:06 +0000

Indeed. And “We don’t care, we don’t have to” is a good summary of Google as well.

New comment by acheron in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

acheron — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:25:09 +0000

It’s not actually a rule that every HN thread has to start out with negative bullshit. You can just think it’s cool they found a new tomb!

New comment by acheron in "Heresy (2022]"

acheron — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:28:27 +0000

Don’t feed the trolls.

New comment by acheron in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

acheron — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:58:35 +0000

I’d prefer to pay up front to buy the product, the way everything was sold up until around 2012, and not have a “subscription” scam.

New comment by acheron in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

acheron — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:27:41 +0000

Unfortunately the EU has written USB-C into law, so there will never be a USB-D. I guess we should be glad they didn’t do this 30 years ago, or we’d still be using PS/2 connectors.

New comment by acheron in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

acheron — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:35:58 +0000

There were lots of very in-depth UI studies in the 90s, which were implemented in the second half of the 90s and early 00s. Then someone let “designers” in the door and it was all thrown out.

New comment by acheron in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

acheron — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:49:46 +0000

Launder Google’s reputation, I assume.

New comment by acheron in "Just Pay the Subscription"

acheron — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:35:36 +0000

One great genre of HN comment is where people insist subscriptions are the only way a software business can work, as if commercial software sprung into existence fully formed in 2012.

New comment by acheron in "How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty"

acheron — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:05:45 +0000

This is what HN is now, sadly.

New comment by acheron in "FreeBSD ate my RAM"

acheron — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:50:05 +0000

Netcraft confirms it.

New comment by acheron in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

acheron — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:02:05 +0000

Yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

New comment by acheron in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

acheron — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:03:22 +0000

The article is about a marketing data breach, not passwords.

New comment by acheron in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

acheron — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:26:19 +0000

It’s always great when years of medical and scientific studies are instantly debunked by HN’s top JavaScript developers. One wonders why we even bother having research universities.