Hacker News: glonq

New comment by glonq in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

glonq — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:53:49 +0000

This.

In my 40s I asked my doc what I should get screened for and when. He said to wait until 50. Now I wait here on death row with stage 4 colorectal cancer.

New comment by glonq in "Gimp Source Code"

glonq — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:04:08 +0000

Somebody posted 'Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)' recently so I think this post is some kind of smartass response to that.

New comment by glonq in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

glonq — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:48:40 +0000

DAE remember in 2010 when Steve Jobs said that Facetime would be an open industry standard?

New comment by glonq in "Ultima VII Revisited"

glonq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:21:07 +0000

I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.

New comment by glonq in "Ultima VII Revisited"

glonq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:19:00 +0000

A YT'er named 'Spoony' also made a thorough, entertaining retrospective of the Ultimas, and even caps it off with an interview with Lord British!

New comment by glonq in "Ultima VII Revisited"

glonq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:16:59 +0000

I loved U7 and 7.5, but those were the last ones I played because the series somewhat went off the rails after that. Pity.

New comment by glonq in "Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel After Atari Purchase (1985)"

glonq — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:18:52 +0000

Smart businessman, but not the best reputation as a boss or for creating a pleasant work environment, even by the standards of the day.

New comment by glonq in ".NET 10"

glonq — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:15:39 +0000

Yeah I've been using non-.Net languages this week, and lamenting how much they suck in regards to smooth version management

New comment by glonq in "Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change"

glonq — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:50:28 +0000

I'm thinking that Valve's new SteamBox will help this tremendously.

New comment by glonq in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

glonq — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:27:10 +0000

Exactly. Now that the facade of being a country with integrity and equality is thoroughly shattered, good luck getting public support for shutting down a website that lets people read news for free. Shit's on fire yo; we got bigger problems than that.

New comment by glonq in "I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86"

glonq — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:47:03 +0000

It becomes The Windows of Theseus.

New comment by glonq in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

glonq — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:43:18 +0000

Yes like the Ottawa Treaty banning Land Mines, in which 166 inconsiderate countries failed to consider the needs of big-time land-mine manufacturers like the US.

New comment by glonq in "A brief history of random numbers (2018)"

glonq — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:59:50 +0000

From the title, I expected to see a list of recently-generated random numbers.

I got a 27 yesterday.

New comment by glonq in "Dropping Trust in US Media"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:57:44 +0000

Is anybody who identifies strongly with a political party is interested in hearing fair or balanced news? I had presumed that they just want to hear confirmation, and are likely to stray far beyond their favorite echo chambers.

New comment by glonq in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:38:56 +0000

"Israel accused the IPC of lowering the second threshold of acutely malnourished children for a famine declaration, which the IPC has denied."

Damn, Israel is really arguing about how much child starvation they are allowed to inflict before it becomes egregious?

That might be another one of those "are we the baddies?" moments right there.

New comment by glonq in "Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:25:32 +0000

Yeah, I do see where you're coming from. But just like with traditional media, Wikipedia as a "knowledge commons" maybe requires a slight left bias to guard against entrenched power and to raise awareness of marginalized perspectives.

As long as that's done in a way that protects knowledge integrity and relies on reliable sources and ethical review, I think I'm okay with that.

Also keep in mind that the age range of Wikipedia contributors skews much younger than the US population so yeah for boomers and the boomer-minded it's often gonna seem too progressive.

New comment by glonq in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:11:10 +0000

Only if you stop taking Tylenol, maybe /s

New comment by glonq in "Show HN: The Unite real time operating system"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:08:30 +0000

Back when I did embedded development full-time I always lusted after QNX, but the costs and royalties were higher than what our low-volume product could justify. Or maybe we were just cheapskates.

New comment by glonq in "Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night"

glonq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:32:26 +0000

As a PC enthusiast, I can't remember a time when PC upgrades were less necessary than nowadays.

For the average user and even semi-enthusiast, 5+yo hardware with Win10 works just fine. I just upgraded last year, but it was probably the longest stretch I've gone between new PC's and even then it was as much FOMO as it was necessity.

New comment by glonq in "I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher"

glonq — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:56:31 +0000

I've been buying/using/loving Nova for years. Gonna be tough to ditch it.