Hacker News: ecliptik

New comment by ecliptik in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

ecliptik — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:03:11 +0000

Not all of California, but San Diego has Measure A[1] on the upcoming primary to tax non-primary homes.

1. https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/20/2026-primary-e...

New comment by ecliptik in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

ecliptik — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:46 +0000

The Verge has an on-going series Where's the Trump Phone? [1] with updates every week. They even managed to get an interview with one of the execs a few months back.

1. https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843498/trump-phone

New comment by ecliptik in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

ecliptik — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:27:33 +0000

My favorite Nullsoft software that came out the end of this era was WASTE [1].

Peer-to-peer (back when P2P was all the rage), encrypted, decentralized private networks.

Group of friends and I used it post-college as a way to share files and chat, and was much better than AIM or other instant messaging at the time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

The Arpanet Reconstruction Project

ecliptik — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957702

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

ecliptik — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:10:13 +0000

This update broke my workflow! I use Netatalk [1] with AFP to share files between my Macintosh 512ke and MacBook via AppleTalk.

Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to re-enable AFP [2].

1. https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk

2. https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by ecliptik in "The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard"

ecliptik — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:26 +0000

One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World.

As one of collections intros said, Ballard is science fiction, but Inner Space, not Outer Space.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_...

The Pandaverse

ecliptik — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/the-pandaverse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798881

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Netfind (1991)

ecliptik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:56:13 +0000

Article URL: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/NetFind/Overview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759510

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Tiny Programmer:writes code, takes breaks to hang out on a BBS, and clocks out"

ecliptik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:17:45 +0000

Absolutely fantastic. As someone who just spent the last month vibe coding System 6 apps and reading through Apple HIG docs I love the look of the IDE.

Exploring the Power of the Internet Gopher (1993)

ecliptik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/uiucnet69293univ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723073

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Limiting Not Just Screen Time, but Screen Space

ecliptik — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/limiting-not-just-screen-time-but-screen-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

ecliptik — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:09:28 +0000

If you're running forgejo you can setup mirrors [1].

Mine syncs a few repos to github to make them public, and planning to add Codeberg in as well ala POSSE [2].

1. https://forgejo.org/docs/next/user/repo-mirror/

2. https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

ecliptik — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://gardinerbryant.com/psp-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496819

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

How the Midwest Became the Place to Move

ecliptik — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:57:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/03/midwest-migration-sun-belt/686468/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489635

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by ecliptik in "Ghostling"

ecliptik — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:08:37 +0000

Fluxbox has tabs and is a stacking window manager.

- https://fluxbox.org/features/

Do you understand this billboard? If not, that's the whole point

ecliptik — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5746115/billboards-san-francisco-tech-ai-advertising-marketing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425850

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

OpenAI's First-Mover Disadvantage

ecliptik — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:46:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/openai-economy-competition-anthropic/686420/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425757

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

ecliptik — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:58:23 +0000

I miss this too, and sort of get it on airplanes where I almost never use my seat back screen and end up watching someone else's instead (yes there's no sound).

I chalk it up to overwhelming choices. Sometimes I just want to watch something but don't want to go through dozens of options and having decision anxiety.

Bonus is sometimes I discover something I never thought I would have liked.

WASTE: A peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol

ecliptik — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:45:41 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361087

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ecliptik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:47:28 +0000

Started vibe coding a more modern Telnet client for 68k Macintosh systems running System 6 last week, and within a couple of days have a fully working terminal emulator with VT100, VT220, xterm, glyph/emoji support, and dark/light mode.

- https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn

It's mainly for me to use but is entirely functional an real hardware.