Hacker News: cyberpunk2066https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cyberpunk2066Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 27 May 2026 03:15:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by cyberpunk2066 in "Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures"]]>> won’t even contemplate building something similar to protect NYC

Perhaps not as ambitious as a barrier spanning the entrance to NY Harbor (comparable to Venice's system), NYC did build extensive storm surge barriers along the East River:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/escr/about/resiliency-and-flood-pro...

https://www.nyc.gov/site/ddc/about/press-releases/2021/pr-10...

]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:06:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815885cyberpunk2066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815885https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815885<![CDATA[New comment by cyberpunk2066 in "Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad"]]>The fact that the OP built an entire hobby OS complete enough to have windowing and font rendering, and got it booting off his vintage notebook, is extremely impressive, and much more so than the ChatGPT frontends and Chrome reskins that HN usually enthusiastically updoots.

]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:39:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809466cyberpunk2066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809466https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809466<![CDATA[New comment by cyberpunk2066 in "Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad"]]>Easily one of the most impressive passion projects I've seen here in a long time. Out of curiosity, why did you opt to write your own C compiler?

]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:14:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808371cyberpunk2066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808371https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808371<![CDATA[New comment by cyberpunk2066 in "Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says"]]>He was only 21. Besides being brainwashed by anti-Americanism, it was probably also something of a delayed adolescent rebellion against his CIA family.

]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:04:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806652cyberpunk2066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806652https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806652<![CDATA[New comment by cyberpunk2066 in "Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says"]]>> I hate fascism. I love my homeland.” He also posted the flags of Russia and Palestine.

> According to the investigative website iStories, Gloss is one of more than 1,500 foreigners who have signed contracts with the Russian military since February 2022

Hates fascism, but fights for Russia?

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