Hacker News: ayaros

New comment by ayaros in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

ayaros — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:27:04 +0000

Truly the most horrifying post on HN I've seen in quite a while

New comment by ayaros in "What happened to GEM?"

ayaros — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:46:02 +0000

There's now a version of GEM you can run on a Lisa. But 68KMLA is down so I have no easy way to link to the relevant thread. :(

New comment by ayaros in "It's Their Mona Lisa"

ayaros — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:11:17 +0000

What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?

New comment by ayaros in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

ayaros — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:00:46 +0000

Florida did something good for once?

New comment by ayaros in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

ayaros — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:58:54 +0000

If the Supreme Court justices uphold this, I'm sending the ones who vote yes emails, each with an EULA dictating that by opening and reading the email they agree to send me 100% of their salaries in perpetuity, as well as an initial, single lump sum payment consisting of all their assets thrown into a trust in my own name. If they push back on it, well they shouldn't be so upset about something they agreed to in the first place.

New comment by ayaros in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

ayaros — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:14:17 +0000

So now dogs are going to take my job? What's next? Snails? Rabbits? Wild salmon?

New comment by ayaros in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

ayaros — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:14:31 +0000

If meta wants to cut out the middleman and let businesses pay directly for ai generated ads, I doubt they have any incentive to fix this.

New comment by ayaros in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

ayaros — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:09:19 +0000

Hey, working at a shoe factory is serious business. You have to be a real bootlicker to get ahead in a place like that.

New comment by ayaros in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ayaros — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:35:19 +0000

Mine's https://yaros.ae

I need to get back to working on my blog and projects. I took a short hiatus.

New comment by ayaros in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

ayaros — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:19:25 +0000

What drives me crazy is Apple redesigned their weather app not so long after acquiring dark sky. I was anticipating a polished, updated version of Dark Sky's UI. Instead we have the current design, which is quite frankly terrible.

New comment by ayaros in "AI will kill all the lawyers"

ayaros — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:19:13 +0000

"The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers."

-Doc Brown

A few thoughts on the idea that domains should be everyone's "internet handles"

ayaros — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:15:11 +0000

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/domains-as-internet-handles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228239

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by ayaros in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

ayaros — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:03:47 +0000

Everything is now re-consolidated under different media companies now. Instead of Ted Turner we have Larry Ellison, and Netflix, and Disney.

So I think the biggest question is, what form of entertainment will eventually supplant streaming services? Whatever it is (or will be) will almost certainly be disregarded by most people.

New comment by ayaros in "Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web"

ayaros — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:38:53 +0000

Not in all situations. I'm pretty sure I can't do it when the SVG file is applied as a background image.

New comment by ayaros in "Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web"

ayaros — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:41:24 +0000

I've used embedded SVG images in CSS encoded as base64, and I'm not ashamed. In general, I really wish I could apply page styles and CSS3 variables to the internal CSS of SVG files. I'm sure there's a good reason why this context isn't shared, but it would be cool and useful to dynamically change the style of SVG files.

If I'm hand coding a page or writing a stylesheet, it's convenient to be able to embed things. Often, I'll embed a style tag until it grows large enough to be worthy of its own file. The same goes for scripts; it's useful to have the option if you're quickly prototyping something.

New comment by ayaros in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

ayaros — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:09:23 +0000

Why is this so horrible. Put more resources in the hands of the average person. They will get pumped right back into the economy. If people have money to spend, they can buy more things, including goods and services from gigantic tax-dodging mega-corporations.

Gigantic mega-corporations do enjoy increased growth and higher sales, don't they? Or am I mistaken?

New comment by ayaros in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

ayaros — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:00:10 +0000

I'm a younger millennial. I'm always seeing homeless people in my city and it's an issue that I think about on a daily basis. Couldn't we have spent the money on homeless shelters and food and other things? So many people are in poverty, they can't afford basic necessities. The world is shitty.

Yes, I know it's all capital from VC firms and investment firms and other private sources, but it's still capital. It should be spent on meeting people's basic human needs, not GPU power.

Yeah, the world is shitty, and resources aren't allocated ideally. Must it be so?

New comment by ayaros in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

ayaros — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:56:39 +0000

When did that happen? Do you have a link to the exact CD image you used?

New comment by ayaros in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

ayaros — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:54:27 +0000

I have an iMac G4 1.25 GHz. Originally, it was a 1GHz, but I swapped out the motherboard for a later model. For a while I've been wondering if I would had been better off with an earlier motherboard capable of booting OS 9 natively. Compared with using OS X's classic mode, this would omit the overhead of running a whole other OS and leave me with more resources to run OS 9 apps and games. I don't get a whole lot of use out of the earlier OS X software that I have on there...

Maybe in the future I won't have to make that choice! I'd much rather dual boot OS 9 off a different partition, but that hasn't been supported on the 1-1.25GHz models (Thanks Steve...) and no one has gotten it working properly. Maybe now it will be possible! A man can dream...

New comment by ayaros in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

ayaros — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:17:51 +0000

I'm sure they'll have no issues raising the funds. If they run into trouble, they can always ask ChatGPT for advice.