Hacker News: bni

New comment by bni in "What Is a Dickover?"

bni — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:11:38 +0000

If you zoom websites to be able to read them, like I do.

Then these are especially frustrating because I have to zoom out to find the close button. Its a chase every time, and sometimes I give up.

How are these allowed to exist when there are the EU Web Accessibility Directive ?

New comment by bni in "Ferrari Luce"

bni — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:29:05 +0000

The Porsche 914 of 2026

New comment by bni in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

bni — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:57:28 +0000

Yes all the time. Healthy conversations are shut down immediately with the "AI research" slop-wall.

Meetings are 55 minutes of speculating about what AI will be able to do in a few years. Then if you are lucky the last 5 minutes can be used to discuss a real issue.

New comment by bni in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

bni — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:21:12 +0000

As a European I don't understand why this company exists at all.

New comment by bni in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

bni — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:04:02 +0000

Thank you precisely what I was looking for on the Windows side

New comment by bni in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

bni — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:20:44 +0000

This is great, I have a monitor with built in KVM (CORSAIR XENEON 27QHD240 OLED)

m1ddc works fine on my Mac, but why isn't there a single multiplatform cli tool that can be ran on Mac/Linux/Windows?

I need a Windows one for this to be useful for me.

New comment by bni in "Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port"

bni — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:58:45 +0000

A critical part that is somewhat lost when running this in a terminal is how the mouse behaved on a real text mode screen. It was a yellow block that you moved with the mouse not a mouse pointer.

Anyone tested to run this on a high resolution Linux text mode with GPM?

New comment by bni in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

bni — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:29:43 +0000

Remember, only big tech is allowed to pirate

New comment by bni in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

bni — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:35:37 +0000

> LN2 had something in a bathroom?

Toilet flush chains. You entered two different park restrooms (both marked F) and combined them to a nunchuks.

New comment by bni in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

bni — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:37:55 +0000

With games we just need some really good slop filters on the storefronts. I mean this has been the case already for some time even before AI

New comment by bni in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

bni — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:57:24 +0000

yes it is

New comment by bni in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

bni — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:31:45 +0000

If you want to play Half-Life today I highly recommend Xash3D FWGS (yes its a super awkward name)

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

Easy to use Mac build here: https://www.macsourceports.com/game/halflife

New comment by bni in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

bni — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:37:52 +0000

Does this mandate allow me to use a. 3rd party Teams, Google Chat and Slack client?

I suspect the answer is no, but why?

New comment by bni in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

bni — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:23:20 +0000

If it's architecture you need to time travel back to the time and the circumstances, requirements and priorities around that time. Good luck.

When it comes to code, run the unit tests.

New comment by bni in "The lost art of XML"

bni — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:17:42 +0000

Developers (even web developers!) were familiar with XML for many years before JSON was invented.

Also "worse is better". Many developer still prefer to use something that is similar to notepad.exe, instead of actual tools that understand the formats on a deeper level.

New comment by bni in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

bni — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:53:47 +0000

Only Big Tech is allowed to pirate

New comment by bni in "jQuery 4"

bni — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:16:35 +0000

Prototype

New comment by bni in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

bni — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:01:26 +0000

People have been predicting this for 30 years.

None of the problems in Windows are related to the kernel.

In Fact Windows NT and its display server and compositor, most APIs are fine. In some cases superior to Linux.

Its just that they ship several giant UI turds on top of it, and candy crush copilot apps preinstalled.

New comment by bni in "macOS 26's Cut Corners"

bni — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:36:56 +0000

I have not upgraded yet because I think it's very ugly.

Im ok with the glass part but the very rounded corners ugly and unprofessional.

New comment by bni in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

bni — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:00:58 +0000

Not looking forward to having this junk clogging up my city.