Hacker News: bitigchi

Haiku R1 Beta 6

bitigchi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451029

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by bitigchi in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

bitigchi — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:58:36 +0000

Maybe include a "Lite" version that only displays text/links? No to minimal styling would be great!

New comment by bitigchi in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

bitigchi — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:40:10 +0000

Check out Haiku.

CotEditor – plain text editor for macOS

bitigchi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://coteditor.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952917

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Comment about Collabora blog post

bitigchi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-about-collabora-blog-post/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615185

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by bitigchi in "ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)"

bitigchi — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:30:11 +0000

Just enable automatic substitutions from the Edit menu? You can do this on a per-app basis.

Plasma Bigscreen

bitigchi — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://plasma-bigscreen.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260362

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bitigchi in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

bitigchi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:04:16 +0000

Is there a way to browse this thing?

New comment by bitigchi in "30 Years of ReactOS"

bitigchi — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:32:49 +0000

With Haiku I like that I can use the computer without having to resort to dark mode like the other operating systems. The other systems are just too bright, while Haiku interface is warm and on-point.

New comment by bitigchi in "30 Years of ReactOS"

bitigchi — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:12:06 +0000

Haiku has gazillions of modern software and got NVIDIA drivers recently. Things are looking pretty bright for Haiku.

HVIF Store

bitigchi — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:29:45 +0000

Article URL: https://hvif-store.art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420522

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16

bitigchi — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://openoffice.apache.org/blog/announcing-apache-openoffice-4-1-16.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920862

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Cosmoe

bitigchi — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:47:29 +0000

Article URL: https://cosmoe.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322813

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by bitigchi in "macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"

bitigchi — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:21:24 +0000

I am somewhat glad that there is a 3rd party that actively helps finding macOS issues.

Krita 5.2

bitigchi — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:58:08 +0000

Article URL: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-2-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844478

Points: 249

# Comments: 60

New comment by bitigchi in "Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates"

bitigchi — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:02:44 +0000

We are yet to see for how long Apple is going to support their Apple Silicon machines, but this definitely sets a precedent for Apple. It would be really shameful if they go the iPhone route and cut support after 6 years of updates.

On the other hand, Apple is still selling the iMac with a 2020 chipset, so we could say that they look like they are committed to providing updates. I hope they wouldn't just cut off support in 3 years time.

New comment by bitigchi in "Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers"

bitigchi — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:12:04 +0000

Also, number and percent formats are important too. I've seen many 'professional' websites/software, that uses only a standart 100.0% format, where the decimal and the percent are not localised.

Progman

bitigchi — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:18:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jcs/progman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395402

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

bitigchi — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163027

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bitigchi in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

bitigchi — Mon, 01 May 2023 21:59:50 +0000

Next version will have greatly improved text capabilities.