Hacker News: chb

New comment by chb in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

chb — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:49 +0000

So was Trump being inclusive or exclusive when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

New comment by chb in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

chb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:34:55 +0000

Is it possible that the supply of used GPUs available to home builders will somehow increase as the result of this?

New comment by chb in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

chb — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:21:12 +0000

How does dot.bs make money? The about page and FAQ don’t explain what they’re monetizing.

New comment by chb in "Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be"

chb — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:22:58 +0000

A gross mischaracterization of the author's point (the word "type" doesn't even appear in the article). The author focuses on the cost of interpreted languages, which he describes as "memory hungry" and computationally expensive.

Radio Communication via Meteor Trails

chb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512536

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chb in "Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)"

chb — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:28:15 +0000

There are many young, economically disenfranchised Americans that see the military as a way out of poverty. The military understands this and positions recruitment centers in poorer neighborhoods.

New comment by chb in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

chb — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:57:02 +0000

I'm in the same position and understand your complaints about the lack of uniformity across applications in Linux DEs. But I use the Linux desktop as a daily driver because I absolutely despise the lack of customization in macOS, especially as it relates to "virtual workspaces" or "virtual desktops." In Linux, I can have multiple different desktops, each named intuitively, and each with its own set of applications. In macOS, I can't even _name_ the virtual desktops. What's more absurd is the "logic" around when an application has focus when it's minimized, and how its window behaves when you Cmd-Tab to it. Utterly exasperating that Apple, a company who has long prided itself on HCI, falls so far short of the mark in intuitive interface behavior.

New comment by chb in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

chb — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:46:30 +0000

Did you buy this from system76, or did you just install Pop!_OS on hardware you already owned?

New comment by chb in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

chb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:07:38 +0000

Ha! I've been using tmux for years and I didn't realize one could do this.

New comment by chb in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

chb — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:40:50 +0000

Yeah, he'd spit it out because it tastes like corn-fed, feed-lot crap.

New comment by chb in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

chb — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:41:51 +0000

"No one gets fired for buying IBM!"

New comment by chb in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

chb — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:32:59 +0000

Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH.

Edit: then account for the fact that this rare breed of content uploader doesn't use an FTP client... there's absolutely no reason to have FTP client code in a browser. It's an attack surface that is utterly unnecessary.

Building SqURL: A Human's and an AI's Perspective

chb — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://ronforrester.substack.com/p/building-squrl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902189

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chb in "Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs"

chb — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:26:44 +0000

Would love to see Spaceward Ho! (Delta Tao Software, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho!) in this list.

New comment by chb in "Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server"

chb — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:59:09 +0000

Of possible interest: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html

New comment by chb in "U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor"

chb — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:37:00 +0000

An astute and accurate observation. However, there is no numeric target set in the mandate you allude to: "The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. In 1977, Congress amended the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to provide greater clarity about the goals of monetary policy. The amended FRA directs the Board of Governors and the FOMC to conduct monetary policy “so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.” [https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/files/the-fed-exp...]

New comment by chb in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

chb — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:07:57 +0000

This. People should either be banned from filming at the private site, or be required to agree to some form of consent seeking.

New comment by chb in "Cinco 2.5"

chb — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:34:10 +0000

The "Cinco Midi Organizer" is a work steeped in creative genius; it is the ultimate comedic paean to late eighties techno-culture. Thank you for honoring Cinco.

New comment by chb in "Why are smokestacks so tall?"

chb — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 05:46:01 +0000

That’s not a bonus.

New comment by chb in "New Software Developer Generation Is Cooked. OpenAI Keys Exposed"

chb — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:10:41 +0000

Utter clickbait. Taking this one mistake as an indication that a "generation" is writing bad code. One more reason to not have an X account.