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New comment by bni in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

bni — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:28:17 +0000

This is one of my favorite things with the Mac. I feel it is very intuitive me moving the app to Applications, then just move it to trash if it sucks and it is completely gone.

setup.exe .pkg installers make me feel dirty because I hav enough control over how it will fuck up my system or not.

New comment by bni in "French musician Kavinsky found dead"

bni — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:34:40 +0000

I like this interview with him from 2008 https://foolsgoldrecs.com/2008/09/17/fools-gold-qa-vol2-kavi...

New comment by bni in "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight"

bni — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:20:05 +0000

Article is good but with one puzzling flaw. They mention protein is one of the culprits, but nothing about why or how.

New comment by bni in "Reconstructing Andy Warhol's Debbie Harry Portrait (1985)"

bni — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:16:12 +0000

I worked on this a few years ago but progress stalled.

Maybe with the tools that exist now (AI) this could be completed quickly. Would be an interesting challenge.

Reconstructing Andy Warhol's Debbie Harry Portrait (1985)

bni — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:16:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bni/awdh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020381

Points: 2

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New comment by bni in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

bni — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:48:41 +0000

What about AWS, Azure, cloud computing?

New comment by bni in "Linux on the Atari Jaguar"

bni — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:06:06 +0000

I think this is very impressive. I remember from eons ago people were running Linux on Amiga, but then it was the later models with 68040 processors with more RAM.

As far as I remember no one ran it on a 68000 with 2 megabytes of RAM.

Could Linux today run on an Amiga 500 with RAM expansion, in this same way?

New comment by bni in "Resetting Xbox"

bni — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:20:43 +0000

Go back in history, why did Microsoft create xbox at all?

It was Bill Gates fear of being overtaken by some "living room PC" or set top box that never materialized. It was an industry wild goose chase basically, with echos of past efforts (remember Philips CD-i ?)

Is this a concern Microsoft has today? xbox was a money sink from the beginning.

The sad part is they bought a bunch of very good game studios.

New comment by bni in "1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis"

bni — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:11:48 +0000

Another idea would be to make emojis that could be used as Amiga Workbench 1.3 icons. The Blue, white, orange and black kind.

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