Hacker News: excalibur

New comment by excalibur in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

excalibur — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:32:01 +0000

> The desktop UI was perfected around the time of Windows 95 and has gotten worse with every iteration since then.

Well that can't be entirely true, the desktop experience on Windows 10 improved on Windows 8 by leaps and bounds.

New comment by excalibur in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

excalibur — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:47:56 +0000

Today's news being....

New comment by excalibur in "The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk"

excalibur — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:31:54 +0000

They could have at least designed the final set before announcing it.

New comment by excalibur in "The Real Kevin Bacon"

excalibur — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:34:59 +0000

Fascinating content, engaging visuals, painfully difficult navigation.

B+

New comment by excalibur in "Open Source as We Know It Is Dead"

excalibur — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:38:02 +0000

This doesn't sound like a barrier to bots

New comment by excalibur in "Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks"

excalibur — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:10:46 +0000

How? Corporate interests have fully captured the government and are systematically destroying all avenues by which they could ever be removed from power.

New comment by excalibur in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

excalibur — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:04:07 +0000

> “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” Trump posted on September 14. “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”

> “The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood,” Trump also posted, “are Revolutionaries, but Revolutionaries for a Bad and Evil Cause.”

Pot calling the kettle black, as always.

New comment by excalibur in "There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027"

excalibur — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:39:43 +0000

Will the pre-installed GrapheneOS phones still show up as "rooted" to things like Microsoft Authenticator?

New comment by excalibur in "Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds"

excalibur — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:03:54 +0000

I expected an article full of basic medical jargon: cerebrum, cerebellum, cortex, synapse, etc. Instead it's talking about "forebrain" and "hindbrain". This sounds remarkably unscientific.

New comment by excalibur in "AirPods 5"

excalibur — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:22:41 +0000

Young Johnny Appleseed

New comment by excalibur in "I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s"

excalibur — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:16:22 +0000

> Assuming you’re somehow running Netscape 4.51 with a clock set before E-Certify roots expired on 2003-10-16, you can use these private keys to issue certificates. This describes zero people on the planet… except for this VM I set up.

The planet has a lot of people.

New comment by excalibur in "Tim Curry has died"

excalibur — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:55:59 +0000

I'm not familiar with her at all, but if it means this round is over I'll take it.

New comment by excalibur in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

excalibur — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:24:28 +0000

> What if armed thugs are sent in and the choice is send the message or die?

Arm yourselves. Not just one person, arm your entire staff. IMO the most appealing option in this situation is to shoot the thugs in the face. (Ha ha, you're in the UK, I know.)

New comment by excalibur in "[dead]"

excalibur — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:06:00 +0000

This is an official government website. Your tax dollars are paying for this.

New comment by excalibur in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

excalibur — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:44:13 +0000

Viva La Resistance!

New comment by excalibur in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

excalibur — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:28:37 +0000

Stop trying to steal The Matrix. It was released in 1999, that's OUR movie. You get the sequels.

New comment by excalibur in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

excalibur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:49:52 +0000

Imagine hosting a meetup in Chicago and getting raided by ICE

New comment by excalibur in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

excalibur — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:10:40 +0000

My impression was that it had happened several days to a few weeks prior. Enough time for the house through ordinary daily activity to largely exhaust its water reserves. Of course most of today's actual houses don't keep that much on hand, but it sounds like this one had a sizable store at one point.

New comment by excalibur in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

excalibur — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:33:28 +0000

All in favor of skipping the "rise" for this one

New comment by excalibur in "Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet"

excalibur — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:22:52 +0000

Our kids can't change a tire.