Hacker News: boobsbr

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".

New comment by boobsbr in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

boobsbr — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:26:51 +0000

It looks like MS Office, what's so bad about it?

New comment by boobsbr in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

boobsbr — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:21:29 +0000

I'm impressed.

New comment by boobsbr in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

boobsbr — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:05:18 +0000

Apparently Brussels is depressing enough in winter for the AI to only remove pedestrians, everything else is the same.

New comment by boobsbr in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

boobsbr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:07:08 +0000

In my experience, no manager can fix a toxic, dysfunctional team.

That team is doomed and the best course of action is to disband it and let the worst people go.

New comment by boobsbr in "HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip"

boobsbr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:54:00 +0000

> For a kiosk, I want everything the user is touching to be effectively disposable.

Or built like a tank that is easy to powerwash.

New comment by boobsbr in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

boobsbr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:26:09 +0000

Met ossenwit.

New comment by boobsbr in "System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language"

boobsbr — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:38:51 +0000

How is it a giveaway? I'd like to learn how to spot these things.

New comment by boobsbr in "Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind"

boobsbr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:19:26 +0000

Holy moly.

New comment by boobsbr in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

boobsbr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:20:28 +0000

Maybe these?

https://patorjk.com/blog/2025/11/02/what-happens-if-you-blur...

https://patorjk.com/blog/2025/03/10/making-a-follow-up-to-su...

https://relativisticobserver.blogspot.com/2012/02/keeping-it...