Hacker News: aforty

New comment by aforty in "Layoffs at Block"

aforty — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:01:32 +0000

Because it will go out today anyway on the investor call or later via leak so might as well get ahead of it.

New comment by aforty in "Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)"

aforty — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:19:58 +0000

Ah damn this brings back memories… shout out if you were on #windows98, #windows2000 or #windowsxp on EFnet circa 97-01.

New comment by aforty in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

aforty — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:24:56 +0000

Has OP tried emailing Tim Cook directly and pleading his case?

New comment by aforty in "Multiple Digital Ocean services down"

aforty — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:20:00 +0000

Cloudflare outage.

New comment by aforty in "Steam Machine"

aforty — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:04:18 +0000

Half-Life 3 when?

New comment by aforty in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

aforty — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:53:16 +0000

Really cool.

Only bug I noticed was that the command line output doesn’t scroll. This was on my iPhone with the keyboard up as I was typing commands and press return.

New comment by aforty in "CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux"

aforty — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:04:27 +0000

Nice but does it really have to look like the Windows version? Can’t we imagine and have better things?

New comment by aforty in "Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down"

aforty — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:24:29 +0000

It matters because it’s the main reason why the US is able to borrow money so cheaply and why the US doesn’t get a junk bond rating.

New comment by aforty in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

aforty — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:47:20 +0000

I loved Windows 2000 so much. I was a beta tester back then and they sent me a copy in the end. Was very cool for me as a broke high school student.

New comment by aforty in "Orbit by Mozilla"

aforty — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:24:16 +0000

All this costs money though and the eventual question is if you aren’t paying for it then who is?

New comment by aforty in "D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems"

aforty — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:19:35 +0000

Something that supports OpenWRT.

New comment by aforty in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

aforty — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:45:47 +0000

We have this at our company too. I guess it’s useful but doesn’t really have a whole lot of time.

New comment by aforty in "Founder Mode"

aforty — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:46:59 +0000

I guess what this blog post is about is that it only works if you have the ability to instinctively tell who those people are. Steve did and I know a few other people personally who do but I sure as hell don’t.

New comment by aforty in "Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts"

aforty — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:45:50 +0000

So that means they fixed SMB folder shares with Microsoft accounts, right?

New comment by aforty in "California could ban Clear, which lets travelers skip TSA lines"

aforty — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:40:33 +0000

Global Entry is only when you come into the country and have to go through immigration. It does nothing for when you have to board a plane.

New comment by aforty in "Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?"

aforty — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:17:25 +0000

There is general wisdom about bash pipelines here that I think most people will miss simply because of the title. Interesting though, my mental model of bash piping was wrong too.

New comment by aforty in "New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life"

aforty — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:22:59 +0000

Well I think the problem is with how to interpret that word. The potential is there because these exoplanets are in the habitable zone near their respective stars. That’s the headline and the story: these planets could be habitable and neither the title or article make any claims that they could indeed have any life on them.

New comment by aforty in "New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life"

aforty — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:48:31 +0000

What exactly is unclear about the title?

“New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life”

The word “potentially” setup my expectations perfectly.

New comment by aforty in "Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order"

aforty — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:49:06 +0000

I remember people mocking it as the iPhone MaxiPad.

New comment by aforty in "Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%"

aforty — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:11:26 +0000

Orinoco was my first experience with WiFi back in my college days. I remember it being incredibly bad, with buggy drivers, and an overall horrendous experience. That was with Windows of course.