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New comment by guessbest in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

guessbest — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:28:48 +0000

> They want higher salaries, damned' be what it does to competitiveness.

You're advocating against people seeking higher salaries because that hurts competitiveness? That is competitive behavior in a nutshell.

New comment by guessbest in "Grok outage"

guessbest — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:43 +0000

Internet comments

New comment by guessbest in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

guessbest — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:48:11 +0000

Why are you so hostile to populist policies in America?

New comment by guessbest in "Stop Making TUIs"

guessbest — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:37:43 +0000

Could you be thinking of libyui, but it was QT and ncurses based. I think it came from SuSE with YaST.

https://github.com/libyui/libyui

https://yast.opensuse.org/

New comment by guessbest in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

guessbest — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:22:44 +0000

> fight back against my government, please

I don't understand what you mean by this? Fight back against what? Protective tariffs?

New comment by guessbest in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

guessbest — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:25:48 +0000

Is YC News an American website? It seems like all the comments are advising against American interests with regards to tariffs.

New comment by guessbest in "I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store"

guessbest — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:05:24 +0000

If he's making over $1 million annual, Apple’s App Store commission is 30%, but the App Store Small Business Program sets the commission to 15%.

New comment by guessbest in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

guessbest — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:28:56 +0000

This is funny because they aren't approving anything right now

Developers are wondering if they are the only ones on their forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/app-store-distribu...

New comment by guessbest in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

guessbest — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:56:48 +0000

Thirty years old. Hard to believe

New comment by guessbest in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

guessbest — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:01:55 +0000

I don't know why people hold on to all this extra software and features when with the tools its easier than ever to strip that out and refactor the end product in to a much more compact deliverable. Maybe once upon a time it was useful to keep legacy parts of the software solution around, but it can be recreated with fresh eyes if needed given the power of the new LLM models. My philosophy is if its not needed, it needs to be removed.

New comment by guessbest in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

guessbest — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:15:10 +0000

It is so much easier to add internationalization to a touchscreen over physical buttons

New comment by guessbest in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

guessbest — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:24:55 +0000

I just do iOS development and my opinion is this: Start with XCode then use an LLM to design and develop it out from there its great. The newer models work great with project files where they used to struggle. Using the Visual Code development tools alongside XCode, claude skills and 3rd party libraries and frameworks with SwiftUI and Swift 5/6 is really convincing me I should make apps full time again. Coding apps has become my dream job.

https://github.com/LeoMobileDeveloper/ios-developer-tools

https://github.com/AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill

New comment by guessbest in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

guessbest — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:05:58 +0000

That's a lot of money just for network topography, but may someone let them in and it has a whole map of an otherwise hidden or inaccessible network.

New comment by guessbest in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

guessbest — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:35:16 +0000

Do you have a link to the note app? Just curious what could make it unique, not criticizing anyone.

New comment by guessbest in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

guessbest — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:30:07 +0000

But who will buy it? No knocks against building old projects, but the market will be flooded with extremely speciality projects. I miss when every app had a spec on the box. I think we need something like that for usage. A new modeling language or something.

New comment by guessbest in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

guessbest — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:16:17 +0000

Feels like from the before times.

New comment by guessbest in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"

guessbest — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:13:50 +0000

Thanks for showing this. What would you say the differences between the classic version of oleo and your neoleo version?

New comment by guessbest in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

guessbest — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:15:54 +0000

I'm guessing willingly Maduro surrendered as he took the cash offer from Dec 1, 2025 while publicly rejecting it. After all, he left with his wife.

> “You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son “only if he agreed to resign right away”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/trump-maduro-u...

New comment by guessbest in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

guessbest — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:52:46 +0000

It was Firebird. Thanks for correcting me.

New comment by guessbest in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

guessbest — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:57:16 +0000

Maybe it hit trademark issues, but the reason I remember from slashdot was that phoenix was already a semi-popular open source project in the debian repository, so firefox had to be named from phoenix to mozilla-phoenix. But firefox at the time still named phoenix just ran so much better on windows than linux, it was funny.