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New comment by bananaflag in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

bananaflag — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:41:35 +0000

John Dvorak has tons of short sighted articles.

I wanted to link his columns "Microsoft Dot Nyet" and "New Architecture Needed" from circa 2000-2001 but it turns out they have been memory-holed. They should be somewhere in the wayback machine.

EDIT: At least one of them has not been deleted, just his name has been removed

https://www.pcmag.com/archive/new-architecture-needed-32570

New comment by bananaflag in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

bananaflag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:25:01 +0000

> Almost everything you can do on your own is a "solved problem".

Not everything. Take cooking, one of the most basic hobbies. It's easy to come up with recipes that you enjoy that you cannot order anywhere.

Or the comment here about designing your own clothes, same idea.

New comment by bananaflag in "Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth"

bananaflag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:37:33 +0000

I notice the map is the one from the movies (it shows the Orocarni a bit too close, but it's nice they appear on the map).

Maybe when describing historical events you should also put the year (it is given only for some of them).

Anyway, very nice work! I think it's appropriate especially for casual fans (especially movie fans) to delve (sorry) deeper into the lore.

New comment by bananaflag in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

bananaflag — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:14:12 +0000

This barely mentions Windows Forms, which is the cleanest and fastest way to code Windows GUI apps.

A few years ago, I wanted to prototype something quick and I wrote it in Windows Forms over C# (all code, no visual editor).

New comment by bananaflag in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

bananaflag — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:53:30 +0000

They did that with the Apollo 17 LEM lift-off

https://www.redsharknews.com/technology-computing/item/2742-...

New comment by bananaflag in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

bananaflag — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:40:04 +0000

Can't you just... not do this?

I never passed any AI writing as my own. I would feel utterly awful. Also, I love tweaking words until they sound perfect.

The number of people who just nonchalantly admit that AI writes their messages is honestly scaring me.

New comment by bananaflag in "Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction"

bananaflag — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:10:20 +0000

Indeed, I became aware of various conspiracy theories and woo through books and newspapers in the 90s

New comment by bananaflag in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

bananaflag — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:17:37 +0000

On the other hand, it is possible to run out of a metal when all of it is either somewhere in some device or scattered among landfills (i.e. not concentrated in a place like a mine).

New comment by bananaflag in "Designing AI for Disruptive Science"

bananaflag — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:15:20 +0000

I find it funny how people are so concerned that AI cannot innovate, that AI coding agents only give the most bland solutions to any problem etc. when the next step in OpenAI's 5 stages to AGI is literally called "Innovators".

New comment by bananaflag in "[dead]"

bananaflag — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:00:12 +0000

This reminds me of how 20 years ago I was learning to code and someone told me "but people today don't do stuff with text. now they do stuff with GRAPHICS!"

New comment by bananaflag in "Chuck Norris has died"

bananaflag — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:55:56 +0000

(Not the parent poster) I found out about them in 2008-2009, and they were quite popular online and offline.

Aristotle Reasoning Agent

bananaflag — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://aristotle.harmonic.fun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432724

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bananaflag in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

bananaflag — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:43:02 +0000

On the other hand, costs are getting lower with time.

Sort of how now I have an unlimited 5G data plan for like 10 dollars, and in 2011 I didn't even have Internet on my phone. This is happening also with AI.

New comment by bananaflag in "Have a fucking website"

bananaflag — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:40:06 +0000

In case anyone is wondering, the picture is from this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-First-Discovery-Book-Books/d...

New comment by bananaflag in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

bananaflag — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:56:49 +0000

Trade, wars, stuff like that. Foreign affairs, not domestic affairs.

New comment by bananaflag in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

bananaflag — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:54:35 +0000

Nitpick: it's less-than, not less-then.

New comment by bananaflag in "Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS"

bananaflag — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:58:27 +0000

Very good!

This is something that existed in the past and I used successfully, but services like this tend to disappear

New comment by bananaflag in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

bananaflag — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:49:15 +0000

> Always has been, and if you paid attention in CS class, you know the limits of those things.

I don't remember ever learning a theorem stating that computers cannot surpass humans.

New comment by bananaflag in "OpenClaw Did Not Just Go Viral in China, It Solved a Structural Problem"

bananaflag — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:56:55 +0000

Unfortunately, substack paywalls cannot be bypassed

New comment by bananaflag in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

bananaflag — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:53:02 +0000

See the Scott Alexander review:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-gervais-pri...