Hacker News: boobsbr

New comment by boobsbr in "macOS Golden Gate icon comparison"

boobsbr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:01:38 +0000

I feel like I need to wear glasses to look at the Tahoe icons. They seem blurry or smudged, out of focus.

New comment by boobsbr in "Should every baby's DNA be sequenced?"

boobsbr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:04:13 +0000

Gattaca was a warning, not an instruction manual.

New comment by boobsbr in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

boobsbr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:05:04 +0000

Had experience with programmers not knowing VCS in general.

New comment by boobsbr in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

boobsbr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:50:11 +0000

I'm more of a Lotus guy.

New comment by boobsbr in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

boobsbr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:34:24 +0000

1337 h4xx0rz used hastalavista for warez.

New comment by boobsbr in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

boobsbr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:52:24 +0000

Demo from 12 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2H7lKbtLk

New comment by boobsbr in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

boobsbr — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:35:02 +0000

I have a 2015 Air running El Capitain, never updated itself.

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

boobsbr — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:13:43 +0000

98 SE or XP SP2.

New comment by boobsbr in "Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals"

boobsbr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:14:18 +0000

Neat.

New comment by boobsbr in "Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)"

boobsbr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:18:46 +0000

Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.

New comment by boobsbr in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

boobsbr — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:56:08 +0000

Please, don't remove bottles and casks that are blocked by Gatekeeper. :˜(

New comment by boobsbr in "Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts"

boobsbr — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:44:54 +0000

What a dystopia we live in.

New comment by boobsbr in "Firefox Nova – our first look at the browser's big redesign"

boobsbr — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:12:24 +0000

Looks like a child's toy with all the very large rounded corners.

I like to save vertical space for content, this looks like it's wasting it with useless padding and borders.

New comment by boobsbr in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

boobsbr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:46:51 +0000

It's Struts 1.0 running on J2EE 1.5 hosted on WebSphere which does the talking to COBOL.

COBOL serializes everything to strings in a flat file.

We're currently planning on migrating the flat files to a Sybase DB.

New comment by boobsbr in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

boobsbr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:34:42 +0000

Not an int32, but a BigDecimal.

New comment by boobsbr in "Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go"

boobsbr — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:26:27 +0000

Goty McGotface

New comment by boobsbr in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

boobsbr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:11:53 +0000

I tried helping with that once, but after looking at a few images, I really felt like throwing up.

I'm not built for this.

New comment by boobsbr in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

boobsbr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:23:48 +0000

memmaker and qemm

New comment by boobsbr in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

boobsbr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:29:33 +0000

I hate models trying to be funny, and being very verbose.

New comment by boobsbr in "We mourn our craft"

boobsbr — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:25:14 +0000

I never thought or felt myself as or my work as someone or something that "will automate your job away".