Hacker News: f055

New comment by f055 in "My phone replaced a brass plug"

f055 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:55:32 +0000

This read is amazing and the development work is very impressive, great job and congrats! That said, my 20-30yo self would end at that. However, my 40yo+ self has a piece of wisdom here: the brass plugs are there for a reason: they slow things down. Technocracy (screens, apps, automation) is not good for our mental health. Human minds need small, calm, slow, manual processes. Like plugging the brass plugs.

New comment by f055 in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

f055 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:18:36 +0000

This is genius! Now I hope to run all my childhood games on a modern Ubuntu.

New comment by f055 in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

f055 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:12:53 +0000

As a kid behind the Iron Curtain I had a radio & cassette tape player with a single large speaker built-in. The cassette player had a record button that when pressed together with play used the speaker and I could actually record my voice, and play it back, from the tape. After enough re-recording on a single tape the fade of the old recordings broke through the new ones creating a truly amazing sound experience. Too bad I lost the tapes and the device.

New comment by f055 in "“This is not the computer for you”"

f055 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:59:57 +0000

You learn the most from failure and the least from success. Likewise, you grow the most from pushing through the limits and the least from living in abundance. You can do pretty much anything on a full spec Mac Studio, but so can anyone else with a lot of money. But if you push through the limit of a MacBook Neo, you just did something no one else was able to do. And that is awesome.

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: Never Ending Novel"

f055 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:59:10 +0000

Ah haha not instantly but daily, but that’s a good idea to expand :)

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: Never Ending Novel"

f055 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:38:19 +0000

Wait till tomorrow noon utc :) it’s just a week old.

Show HN: Never Ending Novel

f055 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://nen.f055.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112207

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by f055 in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

f055 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:19:31 +0000

Bullwhip effect on this will be funny. At least, we are in for some cheap ram in like… a dozen months or so.

New comment by f055 in "What Killed Perl?"

f055 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:57:38 +0000

What is dead may never die. Perl will live on in the few mostly weird places doing things other languages can only dream of. And that’s fine. Perl doesn’t need to win the race or update itself. It is good enough as it is. It’s the magic wand in the world full of electronics. Sure you can light the room with an electric PHP/Python lightbulb script. But Perl can summon a levitating glowing orb out of thin air with a single line of code.

New comment by f055 in "Ask HN: Why aren't most non-programmers interested in vibe coding?"

f055 — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:36:33 +0000

You need to describe to AI what you want quite precisely. Non-expert people can't describe basic things, let alone complex projects.

"That time I engineered my way into Oxford"

f055 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:57:42 +0000

Article URL: https://f055.net/thattimei/that-time-i-engineered-my-way-into-oxford/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781196

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by f055 in "I Recreated Photoshop in C++"

f055 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:08:37 +0000

Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

New comment by f055 in "I Recreated Photoshop in C++"

f055 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:08:29 +0000

Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++

f055 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://f055.net/technology/that-time-i/that-time-i-recreated-photoshop-in-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

Points: 303

# Comments: 144

New comment by f055 in "Who Wants to Buy a Missile? Social Marketing in the Military Industrial Complex"

f055 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:45:46 +0000

Well... Good point, but it seems I'm the lucky 10K today :) I wasn't around WWII to see the military equipment ads in the newspapers. And even though I've read a lot of newspapers in Poland (basically since the 90s) I don't recall seeing an explicit military equipment advertisement in popular daily and weekly newspapers, except for one case when Poland was debating the purchase of multi-purpose fighter jets, and there were I think F-16 ads – but these were printed inside the in-flight magazines of LOT Polish Airlines, so not really accessible to the wider public. On a side note, air travel advertisement seems to be a MIC's favourite choice, as I vividly remember huge Raytheon billboards at the Warsaw airport baggage claim during the NATO summit ;)

Who Wants to Buy a Missile? Social Marketing in the Military Industrial Complex

f055 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://marekfoss.org/research/who-wants-to-buy-a-missile-social-marketing-in-the-military-industrial-complex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328680

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Slack updates retention policy for free workspaces

f055 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:24:18 +0000

Article URL: https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/29414264463635-Updates-to-message-and-file-history-on-free-workspaces?nojsmode=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40788323

Points: 49

# Comments: 71

New comment by f055 in "Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android, Wear OS apps go unannounced"

f055 — Sun, 05 May 2024 08:15:11 +0000

Google Fit is being replaced by Goolge Fitbit, but as usual with Google what is really happening is Google is one by one replacing the sections of the original Fitbit app with the Google Fit interface. The first thing that got replaced is the Fitbit Sleep tracking, and believe me when I say what Google did is an abomination in terms of UI/UX design. The previous Fitbit sleep tracking screen was near perfection of readability and clarity. The new one is Google's usual form-over-function design language where the most important metric (weekly-view sleep score) is hidden and requires many taps to access.

iDOS 3 Waiting for Review

f055 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:42:22 +0000

Article URL: https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187307

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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f055 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://marekfoss.org/2023/11/27/42/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473689

Points: 3

# Comments: 0