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New comment by guestbest in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

guestbest — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:12:42 +0000

I’ve been using Perl 5 with minimal 3rd party libraries. I just feel like it will be supported for a long time, and the language parser and runtime are especially small

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

guestbest — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:09:26 +0000

Modems were slow and a monthly cost that tied up people’s phone lines. This was another way to get people online. It wasn’t a given thing that we think of nowadays.

New comment by guestbest in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"

guestbest — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:21:15 +0000

Why is it a floating window and not a frame? Great work, btw

New comment by guestbest in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

guestbest — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:54:32 +0000

You don’t think the country is mismanaged?

New comment by guestbest in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

guestbest — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:26 +0000

Strange reading an article like this covered in ads

New comment by guestbest in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

guestbest — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:05:48 +0000

One would have to assume that this was by design.

New comment by guestbest in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

guestbest — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:58:48 +0000

In every AI prediction there is an obvious underestimating of the actual difficulties faced by workers and planners so the tool to automate those intelligent tasks always way underperform what a person is capable of with the notable exception of merging the automation with human tasks as an augment. And that is a totally ‘nother topic. But thanks for the investment money.

New comment by guestbest in "Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port"

guestbest — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:49:04 +0000

Must be serendipity as I’ve been working on a TUI drama nd drop designer like a terminal Visual Basic 4. I’ve tried Visual Basic for dos and it was as streamlined as the windows version

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

guestbest — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:33:54 +0000

Thanks for the extensive write up

New comment by guestbest in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

guestbest — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:29:12 +0000

Hilariously, the MacBook neo has the same taskbar issues since it was what Microsoft copied. No one is getting replaced so I’ll guess they’ll just add some customizations to make it more Mac-like to win users back.

New comment by guestbest in "Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?"

guestbest — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:25:06 +0000

It seems like a lot is being left out. What is considered sufficiently wealthy and why are they going off grid?

New comment by guestbest in "MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China"

guestbest — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:28:23 +0000

I decided to switch after notepad++ got hacked.

New comment by guestbest in "Apple Creator Studio"

guestbest — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:56:30 +0000

It sounds like internally it’s a checklist item they have to mention everywhere.

New comment by guestbest in "C Is Best (2025)"

guestbest — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:56:24 +0000

Strange how people never say this with swift and objc

New comment by guestbest in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

guestbest — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:06:43 +0000

I’m actually glad because it seems like we are finally leaving behind the flat design that started in iOS 7, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure it would be good to go full skeuomorphic but at least a button looks more like a button again

New comment by guestbest in "Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines"

guestbest — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:39:15 +0000

Thanks for posting this here. I star’d the project. Getting a portable computer with a minimal flexible and previously well supported operating system was one of my goals for the esp32 as well. I’ll be watching for more.

New comment by guestbest in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

guestbest — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:42:26 +0000

Merry Christmas to All

New comment by guestbest in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

guestbest — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:10:50 +0000

This was a good one, but icewm was one better. FVWM2 went on to FVWM3, and FVWM95 was encouraged by power users and developers to stop being used in favor of FVWM3

https://ice-wm.org/

New comment by guestbest in "A brief history of Times New Roman"

guestbest — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:15:05 +0000

It does seem like it is trying to force a trend without giving one solid reason.

New comment by guestbest in "iOS 26.2 Release Notes"

guestbest — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:40:46 +0000

They don’t do the shutdown anymore if it’s any consolation, but they do slow down approvals.