Hacker News: byte_0

Does anyone know if something happened to stallman.org?

byte_0 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:19:08 +0000

I have attempted to access it many times today and it seems to be down, at least from where I live, in Central America. Given his health state and his activism, I am curious if something happened that I am not aware of.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545206

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by byte_0 in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

byte_0 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:50:30 +0000

Thanks for the article. However, the article mentions that they might involve precipitation.

New comment by byte_0 in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

byte_0 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:21:54 +0000

I watched this movie and missed that this was mentioned. Funnily, I am from and live in Nicaragua and find it funny that we have no such land formation. I am assuming that is the point you are trying to make.

New comment by byte_0 in "This blog is written in en-GB"

byte_0 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:38:44 +0000

As a speaker of English as a second language and being educated using American English, I find British English richer in a cultural and expressive manner. It also conveys more properness.

New comment by byte_0 in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

byte_0 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:05:28 +0000

I boot my computer every time I will use it and shut it down when I am done. No matter whether on Linux, Windows, or Mac. It's a mindset thing: I will sit at the computer, do what I have to do and then shut it down. Just sharing my way of using it.

New comment by byte_0 in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

byte_0 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:24:55 +0000

mine.my.own.my.precious.self

New comment by byte_0 in "Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil"

byte_0 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:18:46 +0000

Wake up, Neo...

How CPUs run functions? [video]

byte_0 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyALikxAlU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760145

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by byte_0 in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

byte_0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:49:52 +0000

This is exactly the type of criteria that WhatsApp search struggles with. It basically assumes the user does not know how to type.

New comment by byte_0 in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

byte_0 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:12:36 +0000

From a completely technical standpoint, is systemd really better than SysVInit? I ask this question in good faith. I have used both and had no problems with either, although for personal preference, I am more traditional and favor SysVInit.

New comment by byte_0 in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

byte_0 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:06:47 +0000

Not sure how much it could help, but is there a possibility you connect the SSD to another machine with the same architecture, run Windows install in it, then once Windows is installed and running, shut down, move the SSD back to the Snapdragon kit and attempt to boot? Just an idea...

New comment by byte_0 in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

byte_0 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:17:56 +0000

I thought I had read you had 1048576 of karma and thought: what a coincidence: 1 megabyte worth of karma.

BTW, this comment is supposed to be joke-ish.

New comment by byte_0 in "Linux is good now"

byte_0 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:32:08 +0000

I had a similar issue, but I ended up installing Debian and running Windows 10 as a virtual machine with VirtualBox. The webcam can be accessed as if were installed on the guest OS and haven't had a problem with Zoom or Teams. Just sharing in case it helps.

New comment by byte_0 in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

byte_0 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:03:11 +0000

Exactly. This is the best example of what Windows 11 is. I have the feeling that Microsoft is trying to bring change at the same time that it cannot, and has to come up with workarounds like this one. This would explain the Settings panel like someone mentioned in this thread. Another thing that I dislike (with all due respect to developers of React) is this migration to React and Reactish behavior of Windows. We have been fine with Win32 after so many years. Why change that, other than wanting to stay "relevant" or "modern"? Just my opinion.

New comment by byte_0 in "Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming"

byte_0 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:20:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I have always found Japanese focus into the smallest detail as something worth of the greatest admiration. And I am always trying to learn from those ways to apply it into my life.

New comment by byte_0 in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

byte_0 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:42:38 +0000

Very nice game. Barely made it to getting to the office and receiving orders from a manager. I could completely relate to the "hot desk" experience, that's something that would irritate me. I do not claim to be in the spectrum, nor have any diagnosis to claim or reject it. Again, congratulations for the game and the feeling.

New comment by byte_0 in "Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad"

byte_0 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:33:59 +0000

Just adding this comment to say congratulations and how impressed I am by your project! I've been an OS Dev fan since my teens and it feels great to see this achievement come to life. I am a little curious to know how the graphics subsystem is initialized. I wish you the best of success.

New comment by byte_0 in "A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write"

byte_0 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:29:36 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought.

New comment by byte_0 in "All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)"

byte_0 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:56:28 +0000

I completely agree with you. Let's add to the fact that volume, being three-dimensional, is being represented on two dimensions (graphics on a computer screen), which might cause some loss of perspective, fundamental for comparison. Perhaps a better way to represent it would have been the volume of inhabitable land (as you suggest) vs the volume of available water but extrapolated to two dimensions?

New comment by byte_0 in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

byte_0 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:42:53 +0000

I am not sure if I like the font or not, but I do like the corpus of text used to demonstrate the character rendering. At first glance, I thought it was Quenya or Sindarin, but I am not too sure.