Hacker News: flomo

New comment by flomo in "Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS"

flomo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:27:26 +0000

Yeah, there were a bunch of floppy games which only ran on an original Mac or maybe a Plus. No go with even my Mac SE.

New comment by flomo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

flomo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:28:29 +0000

What a ridiculous statement from an obviously over-privleged phony. You are actually doubling-down on being completely isolated.

Kids face a lot of new problems these days. They also face some old one, like sorting their legos.

New comment by flomo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

flomo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:14:32 +0000

Successfully would be big business, because everyone and everyone and the F1000 uses git. Or at least it could more of a feature than a product, and gets merged into some other VC company, or some Jira feature or etc.

Who really wants cheap lego vacuums? Basement-dwellers who are getting yelled at by their mom? Not a good market.

New comment by flomo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

flomo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:55:41 +0000

> Why is nobody solving actual problems anymore?

Let me just state the obvious. Of all the major problems of society, sorting legos isn't one. If you disagree, try emerging from the cellar.

New comment by flomo in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

flomo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:01:41 +0000

Curious if you mean metal detecting. Either way, sounds like a great location!

New comment by flomo in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

flomo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:34:07 +0000

Looks like it, but isn't this site famous for being a "classic" storefront?

Some CMSs would auto-generate sprites. If you are showing most of them, it's still a positive, I'd assume. And, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

New comment by flomo in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

flomo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:23:41 +0000

OS/2 had a similar bug, and people used that as a server, so I'm sure it bit some people.

New comment by flomo in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

flomo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:26:44 +0000

With the classic OS, all the windows were supposed to work this way. And it seems most apps still do remember their window positions, making it easy to find them. (Expose even keeps the positions consistent when you 'zoom-out'.) Which is why Mac users tend to position their windows rather than relying on alt-tab or the dock or another app-switcher.

(IMO the spacial Finder was designed around floppies and small folders and didn't work so well with hierarchical folder views, so no big loss...)

New comment by flomo in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

flomo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:00:36 +0000

Right, Macs always have had the premise of "spacial window management" (or that's what Siracusa called it), so that's probably how you are 'supposed to' do it.

Full Screen Mode was their answer to maximize, going back many years now (10.7).

New comment by flomo in "Obsolete Sounds"

flomo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:48:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook

New comment by flomo in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

flomo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:33:51 +0000

I recall Quake orignally being super dark, Like you were supposed to be playing this in some basement tomb. But we were 'testing' Pentium Pro workstations in a brightly lit windowed office, so we had to adjust the game's brightness. So I wonder if this was a "make Quake look good for demos" thing.

New comment by flomo in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

flomo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:06:57 +0000

Apologies. This place is filling up with bots and buzzword bingo posters. I thought you were just rifting on whatever unix shit used be popular.

New comment by flomo in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:41:12 +0000

VB could bang on any Win32 C API, so there's no reason to disbelieve this. In the modern sense it's like saying you couldn't write this in Go. Direct question: do you know what you are talking about, or are you just spewing keywords and reddit mime dancing?

New comment by flomo in "Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:53:43 +0000

It's a very interesting project (even if I always avoided Perl and 'officially don't care'). And so it sucks you got a mediocre response because dum slideshow UI issues. Maybe write up a blog post and try again later (just make sure its not too chatgpt-ish).

New comment by flomo in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:35:40 +0000

> The original reason behind the DVD scrambling system "needing" to be cracked was the lack of software DVD players for the Linux operating system.

Also, this is a false history, and more of an ex-post-facto justification.

The original DeCSS was a VisualBasic program written by some W1nd0z h8X0r teenager. Not for any greater cause, just because they could.

New comment by flomo in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:16:29 +0000

Good for you. Good for the guy who sold disks at the flea market too.

DVDs/BRs/etc were always a scam imo, unless it your favorite movie that you will watch repeatedly forever. For most people buying DVDs was just expensive PPV.

As they say, piracy is a service issue.

New comment by flomo in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:54:24 +0000

Keep in mind that Android is super popular everywhere democracy isn't.

I'm just spitballing something which would be completely trivial for any 'techie' (and wouldn't require jumping through 24 hr hoops), while improving the situation for the other 99%. Or Android becomes iOS and some minority of techies use some weirdo linux phone, whatever.

New comment by flomo in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

flomo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:32:10 +0000

Worth noting the industry knew that CSS was a lousy scheme. Originally, Disney and others were boycotting DVD because of it. That lead to DIVX (the disk not the codec).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

Some people were opposed to DIVX's 'phone home' PPV option, but the bigger issue was it seemed like a nasty format war was brewing. Then DIVX flopped quickly. Instead, the MPAA got the US Congress to "patch" CSS by passing a law.

Apple had an advertising campaign that you could "Rip. Mix. Burn." your CDs with a Mac. Obviously nerds could rip DVDs, but nobody ever could productize it like that.

New comment by flomo in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

flomo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:46:56 +0000

If "they" is Google, this is just a really pointless middleman proposal. Android does all the cert stuff.

Also Chrome trusts like 300 CAs. Does that work? Probably not if you live in 200 of those countries.

New comment by flomo in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

flomo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:15:14 +0000

Yeah, I predict that "developer mode" will eventually be a setup option in the trust store, so you'd have reset the phone to get to it.

With billions of Android users, there's only millions of people who need or really want this. So like 1%. My point is stop thinking about your mom's windows box and consider the scale.