Hacker News: forlorn

New comment by forlorn in "GitHub Is Down"

forlorn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:15:39 +0000

Ah, here we go again. A weekly (daily?) github is down thread

New comment by forlorn in "Freelang – a Libc-free, direct sys/kernel call language with weird concurrency"

forlorn — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:04:42 +0000

  op describe {name, role} (
    print "user: " + name + " (" + role + ")";
  )

Strange choice of brackets usage

Tell HN: Reddit Seems to Be Down

forlorn — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:49:43 +0000

redditstatus says 'All Systems Operational' but every page returns HTTP Code 500

upd: yep, they confirmed it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665154

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by forlorn in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

forlorn — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:48:16 +0000

Thank you. Each time I see an app that does the smallest change possible (and it's a MacOS-only thing by the way) I think to myself: Does it have to be an APP?

Not a script, not a configuration, but an actual app that occupies space and RAM and does just that? How had somebody come to this weird idea that everything is an APP?

Show HN: GEDKeeper – Personal Genealogical Database

forlorn — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Serg-Norseman/GEDKeeper

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44897069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by forlorn in "Known Bad Email Clients"

forlorn — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:44:36 +0000

Thunderbird has reportedly added experimental Exchange support in 140. Though I haven't figured out how to enable and test it :)

Firefox 129.0

forlorn — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170552

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by forlorn in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

forlorn — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:36:21 +0000

Uniting time zones in Kazakhstan today looks like more of a headache, at least to me.

DLL Hell

forlorn — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 05:25:45 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841227

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by forlorn in "Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?"

forlorn — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:58:28 +0000

https://lobste.rs/

New comment by forlorn in "AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users"

forlorn — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:33:10 +0000

The sites could track your mouse position and compare it to the position of the element activated now (clicked).

Authorities Arrested ‘Leaders’ of Prolific Piracy Release Group EVO

forlorn — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:22:39 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/authorities-arrested-leaders-of-prolific-piracy-release-group-evo-230315/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by forlorn in "CDE 2.5.1"

forlorn — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:09:54 +0000

Coincidentally CDE dropped its support in this very release.

New comment by forlorn in "Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)"

forlorn — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:13:23 +0000

> Now, one resort for them would be to use Airbnb’s web application on the web browsers of their phones, which doesn’t make much sense.

I never understood why one needs 20 separate apps (100 Mb each) instead of just using a single standard pre-installed web browser. Mobile UI everywhere is fine and functionality is the same.

New comment by forlorn in "Deluge BitTorrent Client"

forlorn — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:37:37 +0000

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

New comment by forlorn in "Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com"

forlorn — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:08:46 +0000

I have 'Use new Reddit as my default experience' under Preferences unchecked. My reddit appearance is the old one, everything works fine.

New comment by forlorn in "Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)"

forlorn — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:57:10 +0000

Good old S3 ProSavage VGA, sweet memories...

New comment by forlorn in "If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine"

forlorn — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:07:38 +0000

I don't think there is much one can do on their own. Even our relatives can't help because most countries closed their borders and aerospace and tech firms are not inclined to hire Russians right now. I for one could not get any kind of ways to evacuate.

New comment by forlorn in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

forlorn — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:41:22 +0000

People really fear war and economic sanctions, everyone around me are watching live currency exchange quotes and stock markets. Noboby around me supports the invasion or even understands why it's happening. It's like an abbyss between the head of the state and the people. Can't say for everyone of course.

New comment by forlorn in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

forlorn — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:30:17 +0000

These are laughable numbers, trust me. It's the opposite in reality.