Hacker News: forlorn

New comment by forlorn in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

forlorn — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:51:13 +0000

I tried similar travelling tasks but also added transportation and complex transfers (train, bus, walk, next train...). Worked meh and still a difficult thing to do for a llm.

New comment by forlorn in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

forlorn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:37:24 +0000

They want apps so they could fingerprint your device, spy on you and get a lot more information than a web app.

New comment by forlorn in "Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client"

forlorn — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:33:47 +0000

Why does any?

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...