Hacker News: angled

New comment by angled in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

angled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:29:50 +0000

This was the era of !hurl, after all …

New comment by angled in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

angled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:47:27 +0000

I still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.

New comment by angled in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

angled — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:45:09 +0000

Ah! But is your bicycle registered and do you have insurance.

(I agree with the trains. I love the trains.)

New comment by angled in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

angled — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:27 +0000

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Anarchist_Cook...

We work in the dark

we do what we can

we give what we have.

Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.

The rest is the madness of art.

New comment by angled in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

angled — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:00:05 +0000

Bush and his son in one gulf, Bobby and his in another. Crisis after crisis.

New comment by angled in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

angled — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:51:54 +0000

We had a lot more TUIs and transparent terms / libs with transparency. Things like Xchat, etc.

New comment by angled in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

angled — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:15:27 +0000

I read the books as a young teenager in highschool before watching the TV show. I loved the books!

Actually, I realised I lie, I did occasionally watch a few of them in primary school. I remembered being absolutely terrified of Polymorph.

New comment by angled in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

angled — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:08:18 +0000

But what of the culture? For years now the art and music has felt like poor cousins to what is in the west, similar to what we see generated by AI now, and consumed be people doomscrolling on WeChat moments while they wait for their didi to deliver their food from the shop down the street.

Every time I visit SZ now it feels like the scooters are misrouted neurons firing in any which direction, with no respect for pedestrians, parking, or the rest of the city.

New comment by angled in "xAI joins SpaceX"

angled — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:33:21 +0000

But … but what if we had solar-powered AI SREs to fix the solar-powered AI satellites… /in space/?

New comment by angled in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

angled — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:50:03 +0000

The completed original line up was

S 3 X Y

The C didn’t fit that, nor would a 2. Unless he’s aiming for a lineup of products that has you seeing someone next Tuesday.

New comment by angled in "“Fluid gears” invention offers promise for improving mechanical devices"

angled — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:02 +0000

Or slushboxes …

New comment by angled in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

angled — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:48:06 +0000

Well, if you must…

New comment by angled in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

angled — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:27:35 +0000

The awe induced when standing in front of a brand new, kitted out x95 frame with all its drawers full and that special shade of IBM blue on everything is definitely something. Pull out the HMC and just think about how many decades of R&D and experience and tears went into the entire system.

New comment by angled in "This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm"

angled — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:23:04 +0000

foo@baz!quux, those were the days.

New comment by angled in "Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights"

angled — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:50:54 +0000

Market makers always win…

Peak giving-Matt—the-headspins would be if JS stepped and made the crawler market for India.

New comment by angled in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

angled — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:44:13 +0000

I’ve arrived at something similar:

* brainstorm all the ideas, get Claude to write docs + code for all them, and then throw away the code

* ask it to develop architecture and design principles based on the contents of those docs

* get it to write a concise config spec doc that incorporates all the features, respects the architecture and design as appropriate

* iterate over that for a while until I get it into a state I like

* ask it to write an implementation plan for the config spec

* babysit it as I ask it to implement phase by phase of the implementation plan while adhering to the config spec

It’s a bit slower to than what I’d hoped originally, but it’s a lot better in terms of end result and gives me more opportunity to verify tests, tweak implementation, briefly segue or explore enhancements, etc.

New comment by angled in "Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils"

angled — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:03:30 +0000

Bring back blosxom: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blosxom

New comment by angled in "StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers"

angled — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:13:21 +0000

A great comment, but your brief mention of fetchmail brought back a flood of memories of .fetchmailrc’s and watching dots on screen as I downloaded my mail from POP3 servers over all sorts of horrible baud rate modems, before I sensibly switched to sending and retrieving my email via UUCP.

New comment by angled in "Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU"

angled — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 08:45:04 +0000

Then tokenise the mined crypto. The tokens can be represented by coffee beans. The beans are now magically valuable!

Digitally enhanced coffee as fungible tokens. “Decaf” for short. What could go wrong?

New comment by angled in "Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu"

angled — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:40:33 +0000

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