Hacker News: donglebix

New comment by donglebix in "My phone replaced a brass plug"

donglebix — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:36:23 +0000

This ... Is beautiful

New comment by donglebix in "BYD Sealion 7 surpass Tesla Model Y to be Australia's best-selling electric car"

donglebix — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:14:34 +0000

I remember seeing a red one parked daily somewhere on campus at Georgia Tech back in 96.

New comment by donglebix in ""Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows"

donglebix — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:02:19 +0000

I agree with all of the comments above...

New comment by donglebix in "Electronic project kits: hands on with a vintage 160-in-1 (2016)"

donglebix — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:33:40 +0000

Wow what a flashback, I'm pretty sure my dad had this exact model in the 80s. I'm remembering most of the components in the picture, amazing. Thank you HN

New comment by donglebix in "The Bonds We Make"

donglebix — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:46:27 +0000

Thanks so much for this...

New comment by donglebix in "Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?"

donglebix — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:49:24 +0000

Same... Got mine in 95 i think, Rock solid.

New comment by donglebix in "SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story"

donglebix — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:45:05 +0000

This is the last story I read to my dad that really made him smile, laugh and cry almost all at once... He had dementia and passed away a few months later after a life in civil aviation.

New comment by donglebix in "The Pylon Appreciation Society"

donglebix — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:35:37 +0000

I worked with Flash, the founder of this site, back in 2000 at Globix. Sad to hear she's no longer with us and random to hear about it on HN. Lovely person. RIP

New comment by donglebix in "Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?"

donglebix — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:52:04 +0000

We've tried keeping our hundreds of docs organised to no avail but what has worked for us for some time now is to describe that document as well as possible in the title :

Eg: Ju brazilian Birth cert translation + original 2019.pdf

Then we just have Everything running in the back ground and search for whatever we need using that as it indexes all your files in real time and is very lightweight.

Everything is lighting quick when it comes to filtering a list of file names so we usually find what we need in a couple of seconds... Super easy to pull up too as they offer a global short cut key. Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E in our case...

https://www.voidtools.com/en-au/support/everything/

New comment by donglebix in "What Coke Contains"

donglebix — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:31:56 +0000

Indeed... we're going camping near there in a few weeks!

New comment by donglebix in "Netflix Seeks Its Own Star Wars, Harry Potter-Esque Movie Franchise"

donglebix — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:42:29 +0000

Anyone here think that the 80s book series from the UK called "Tim and the Hidden People" would make a good movie series?

New comment by donglebix in "Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs"

donglebix — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:32:00 +0000

Found this sort of relevant PDF which makes interesting reading - https://www.esrb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/asc/esrb.asc190617_9_cane...

New comment by donglebix in "The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops"

donglebix — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:19:55 +0000

Great recent Freakonomics podcast on Trader Joe's...