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New comment by ghssds in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

ghssds — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:13:48 +0000

You could do a bit better with a 4x5 font for every characters except M, W, m, and w which would be 5x5 but use the pixels normaly used to separate them from the next character, so every caracters still use the same width.

New comment by ghssds in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

ghssds — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:28:33 +0000

> (No real spoilers in my comment):

> Proceed to spoil the whole game

New comment by ghssds in "SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)"

ghssds — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:24:52 +0000

The first OS supporting Win32 API isn't Windows 95.

Win32s for Windows 3.1x: 1993

Windows NT 3.1: 1993

Windows NT 3.5: 1994

Windows NT 3.51: 1995 (may)

Windows 95: 1995 (july)

New comment by ghssds in "What came after the 486?"

ghssds — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:37:47 +0000

"poor"

New comment by ghssds in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

ghssds — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:48:30 +0000

On paper, there is no Canadian PM. The Constitution reads: "The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen." The existence of a Prime Minister and the fact executive powers are delegated to them are customary.

A Trump-like actor in Canada would do far less damage than in USA. There is no position they could held that would give them the power to do lot of damage. The Queen (nowaday King) has no power. If they tried to use it's constitutional powers as written they would be laughed out. The Governor General, who may act on behalf of the Queen would be laughed out too if they tried to take any decision. The Prime Minister seems all powerful but they are one motion from the House of Common from being overthrown. When one's become POTUS, they are basically POTUS until the end of their term. The exception is impeachment which is a very complicated process that never worked. In Canada, the House of Common can simply vote the Prime Minister out. The Prime Minister is very powerful, I agree, but only as long as they behave.

New comment by ghssds in "Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)"

ghssds — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:56:22 +0000

I tried to look at the charts for Canada. The result may be representative for English Canada but Canada is really two markets. There is English Canada and French Canada, and both listen to very different music, with different charts. Belgium and Switzerland are probably the same.

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

ghssds — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:58:50 +0000

Most child of every generation don't care about those things. Most of the few that cared about the C64 just used it to play game. You are in the minority who got interested in the C64 and the minority within that minority who also was interested with BASIC. It's good you tried with your kids but the odds were against you.

Meanwhile, some other kid in your area probably got scolded for installing F-Droid. Oh well...

New comment by ghssds in "First Website (1992)"

ghssds — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:04:44 +0000

I really like how different and the same the html tags are.

New comment by ghssds in "Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good"

ghssds — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:06:48 +0000

Only on Chrome-based browsers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Com...

New comment by ghssds in "The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)"

ghssds — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:16:50 +0000

> not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.

Aren't Asimov's Multivac stories basicaly this? Humans build a powerful computer with a conversational interface helping them doing all kind of science and stuff, then before they know they become Multivac's pets.

New comment by ghssds in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

ghssds — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:52:07 +0000

> 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == The Right to 3D Print and Bear Arms

I'm surprised this is not a 4th Amendment issue.

New comment by ghssds in "The only moat left is money?"

ghssds — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:10:56 +0000

What's wrong with screenshots? Those X widgets are cancer.

New comment by ghssds in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

ghssds — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:15:59 +0000

That's really cool you visited in 1990, three years before the first graphical web browser, a website with image about a game released in 1994.

New comment by ghssds in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

ghssds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:54:56 +0000

According to who?

New comment by ghssds in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

ghssds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:53:14 +0000

I think fighting authoritarianism with authoritarian measures is counter-productive.

New comment by ghssds in "Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental s"

ghssds — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:00:29 +0000

Teens may actually learn something, discover they can afford their own vps with their pocket money. What a nightmare. Better keep them in the gardens big corps made for them.

New comment by ghssds in "Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?"

ghssds — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:45:20 +0000

Try Glider on F-Droid.

New comment by ghssds in "A website to destroy all websites"

ghssds — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:14:34 +0000

Don't get me started on how delicious Subway was 30 years ago compared to the pale version we have now.

New comment by ghssds in "You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser"

ghssds — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:14:24 +0000

Burundi, since 2018.

New comment by ghssds in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

ghssds — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:57:31 +0000

How many limit themselves to a few apps owned by the GAFAM?