Hacker News: haeberli

New comment by haeberli in "The biggest heat pumps"

haeberli — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:21:06 +0000

archive.is paywall bypass link: https://archive.is/nQP9A

New comment by haeberli in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

haeberli — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:06:09 +0000

Link to page that links to the report, as of now: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA26MA024.aspx

New comment by haeberli in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

haeberli — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:58:53 +0000

New pdf link is broken, as far as I can tell.

New comment by haeberli in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

haeberli — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:56:43 +0000

New pdf link broken as well, as far as I can tell

New comment by haeberli in "Telegraph Talk and Talkers (1902)"

haeberli — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:20:11 +0000

-a ) check out Leo Marks' "Between Silk and Cyanide", which touches on a telegrapher's signature 'fist' - they were distinguishing between different (German) senders of coded messages over the air.

-b) this is still relevant today for (especially amateur radio) morse code operators

New comment by haeberli in "Lynn Conway has died"

haeberli — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:57:36 +0000

I worked for / with Lynn at Xerox PARC from 1980 - 1982. She will be missed.

New comment by haeberli in "Forbe's 20th Best Bank Feb 2023: SVB Financial Group"

haeberli — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 01:36:49 +0000

SVB no longer populates in Forbes on-line search ... as far as I can tell

New comment by haeberli in "Inmos and the Transputer (1998)"

haeberli — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:25:13 +0000

There was an Apple Mac (sub-) team visit to Inmos in the UK, hosted by Ian Barron, sometime circa 1982 - 1983. Bob Belleville, the Mac team's director of engineering, led the trip. I remember Ian had a Jaguar with twin fuel tanks, but told the story of how he forgot to refill the first one when it was empty, so sometime he totally ran out of fuel. JG (John Giannandrea), later of Netscape, was at Inmos around then. (He was at Apple last time I checked.)

New comment by haeberli in "Tell HN: On macOS, `man-preview` opens man pages in Preview"

haeberli — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:46:07 +0000

Which MacOS version? Monterey 12.6.1 doesn't want to play ...

New comment by haeberli in "Ask HN: Getting HOA to upgrade Ethernet wiring"

haeberli — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:45:58 +0000

Nit: should read: "100 megaBITS"(/second)

New comment by haeberli in "Sequoia, Y Combinator, AZ16 Under Scrutiny in Congress over ‘Tech Bro’ Culture"

haeberli — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:23:13 +0000

It's A16Z, actually, ...

New comment by haeberli in "Ask HN: I'm in a position to move to anywhere in the USA, where should I go?"

haeberli — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:00:05 +0000

Someone else posted here on HN in the last year or so; she lived in the Pacific NW and had built a database-based - web site that lets one enter constraints and find hints that help answer your question. Alas, I can't find the link at the moment.

New comment by haeberli in "David Boggs has died"

haeberli — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:11:54 +0000

I was lucky enough to know him. Brilliant, hard-working, soft-spoken.

New comment by haeberli in "‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity, Practically No Way to Stop Them"

haeberli — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:22:38 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/-zero-cli...

New comment by haeberli in "‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity, Practically No Way to Stop Them"

haeberli — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:21:07 +0000

link looks broken (goes to main msn page)

New comment by haeberli in "Ask HN: What are some of the best well-written books on computer science?"

haeberli — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:51:50 +0000

N. Wirth: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

New comment by haeberli in "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice increased incompetence?"

haeberli — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:19:44 +0000

I have been calling this "Haeberli's corollary" to the Third Law of Thermodynamics - "globally, competence is not conserved" - it's leaking out of the universe, somehow...

New comment by haeberli in "Larry Tesler Has Died"

haeberli — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:59:09 +0000

I was (distantly) there, and I recall Wirth being there and visiting.

New comment by haeberli in "Larry Tesler Has Died"

haeberli — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:41:08 +0000

Eric Schmidt was, as I recall (which was when I was there), at PARC proper, doing his PhD thesis research and writing his thesis. But as Larry Tesler's interaction showed, there were fluid interactions between at least some people at PARC and the XBS and Xerox Star teams.

New comment by haeberli in "Larry Tesler Has Died"

haeberli — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:37:45 +0000

Dylan was indeed created by a group at ATG Cambridge run by Ike Nassi