Hacker News: acheron

New comment by acheron in "Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)"

acheron — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:50:10 +0000

Probably thinking of “moslo”.

New comment by acheron in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

acheron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:34:28 +0000

I read the HN title and literally thought to myself “‘disk utility’? What, like PartitionMagic?”

Then this was the top comment.

Thanks for PartitionMagic; what a great program.

New comment by acheron in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

acheron — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:16:31 +0000

This is a Chrome thing. It’s a safe bet that if you use Google products you don’t care about privacy anyway. “Google product collects info about you: news at 11.”

New comment by acheron in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

acheron — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:51:15 +0000

Weren’t Samsung phones doing something like this? If you tried to take a picture with the moon in it, it would just generate an image of the moon?

New comment by acheron in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

acheron — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:15:35 +0000

> ChromeOS

“Boy, I hate operating systems from evil gigantic corporations that constantly spy on us. I know the solution, let’s use a Google product!”

New comment by acheron in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

acheron — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:12:59 +0000

Evergreen

https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesn...

New comment by acheron in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

acheron — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:59:46 +0000

Time for them to pivot to their strength: ZZT

New comment by acheron in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

acheron — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:48:58 +0000

The writer chose to write for PC Gamer and sign their name publicly to an article on the site. You don’t get to just say “oh, wasn’t my decision, tee hee” when it’s your name on the article.

New comment by acheron in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

acheron — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:36:24 +0000

A search isn’t going to lead them to a “reputable source”, it’s going to lead them to ad filled SEO garbage, because it’s not 2004 anymore and thousands of Google employees have been working for two decades to ruin the Internet.

I’ll take LLMs any day over what search and the rest of the Internet has turned into.

New comment by acheron in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

acheron — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:42:47 +0000

It works in essentially every other profession. Programming isn’t that special.

New comment by acheron in "Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS"

acheron — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:31:29 +0000

My dad was at one of the others of the Big Eight at the time, and yeah I remember he was always slinging 1-2-3 spreadsheets.

He stuck with 1-2-3 for many years after Excel had taken the crown, but eventually gave in.

New comment by acheron in "Rendezvous with Rama"

acheron — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:21:02 +0000

Re: 2001

> Clarke wrote the movie screenplay with Kubrick

I don’t think this is true? I thought the two of them sat together and worked out the plot, and then Kubrick went off and wrote the screenplay and Clarke went off and wrote the novel. So neither is really “based on” the other.

Anyway though, Rama is great, yes. I’m skeptical of the idea of a movie adaptation but Denis Villeneuve is probably the right one to try to pull it off.

New comment by acheron in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

acheron — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:07:44 +0000

No, the law is that states can decide to not implement DST at all, but they can’t decide to have it permanently.

At one point a couple New England states were looking at this, but for that reason it would have been implemented by moving to a different time zone: year round AST rather than year round EDT. (Which are both UTC-4.) That said, I think states need federal permission to move time zones, too.

New comment by acheron in "It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard"

acheron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:18:34 +0000

/s is incredibly dumb as well. “Hey look everyone, I made a joke! Aren’t I clever?”

New comment by acheron in "It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard"

acheron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:17:41 +0000

I disabled the emoji keyboard the first time it showed up and have never had it on since.

New comment by acheron in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

acheron — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:56:46 +0000

“Will we ever end the MySpace monopoly?”

> MySpace is well on the way to becoming what economists call a "natural monopoly". Users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves it is not worth their changing sites, especially since every new user that MySpace attracts adds to its value as a network of interacting people.

> "In social networking, there is a huge advantage to have scale. You can find almost anyone on MySpace and the more time that has been invested in the site, the more locked in people are".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business....

New comment by acheron in "Statement of Sen. Warner on Military Action in Iran"

acheron — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:44:26 +0000

Congress hasn’t actually cared about this in 70 years. That ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe a hundred times, been decommissioned, rebuilt, and then has sailed again.

New comment by acheron in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

acheron — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:48:20 +0000

Their “talent and expertise” is mostly in selling ads.

New comment by acheron in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

acheron — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:45:32 +0000

It works on mobile iOS too. Either the hold down - or just typing -- and letting it autocorrect will work.

New comment by acheron in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

acheron — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:06:59 +0000

What drew people to Chrome is that Google leveraged their search monopoly to push it, and paid other software to sneak it into installers.