Hacker News: hard_times

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

hard_times — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:04:06 +0000

Oh? How very kind of the author to allow me to.

New comment by hard_times in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

hard_times — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:58:40 +0000

This needs to be higher

New comment by hard_times in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

hard_times — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:53 +0000

Is this a trick question? Of course. However Apple imposed artificial limitations, like disabling JIT.

New comment by hard_times in "A decade of Docker containers"

hard_times — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:03:05 +0000

So is it 5 minutes or 30 seconds then? And yes, you're missing out.

Docker images come in layers, which may or may not change depending on your release, and may or may not be shared across services.

New comment by hard_times in "Never Bet Against x86"

hard_times — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:17:35 +0000

Not mentioned in the article, but the latest generation Xbox and PlayStation run completely custom firmware with their own proprietary boot chains, and locked-down hardware. So much for the "uniform" x86-64 "ecosystem". I'm sure there are more examples.

New comment by hard_times in "Never Bet Against x86"

hard_times — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:12:57 +0000

...which is an extension of x86, the same way AArch64 is an extension of ARM.

New comment by hard_times in "Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser"

hard_times — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:26:14 +0000

I wonder if this is the future of "I need to run my legacy Windows enterprise app on modern hardware"?

I suppose we're also not limited to WinNT look and feel, and can render dialogs, buttons, windows with any CSS framework?

Although, as the cost of building software is tumbling down, it will make more sense to re-build from scratch, targeting whatever runtime or platform you need.

New comment by hard_times in "I swear the UFO is coming any minute"

hard_times — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:53:04 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Doesn't look organic at all. Guess it's the quality of Hacker News these days: blog spam.

New comment by hard_times in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

hard_times — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:50:38 +0000

I don't think people realize how crazy this all is (and might become)

New comment by hard_times in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

hard_times — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:51:24 +0000

You can't really be that naive, can you

New comment by hard_times in "Self-Reproducing Programs [video]"

hard_times — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:06:35 +0000

Amazing Youtuber. Subscribed.

New comment by hard_times in "Please just try HTMX"

hard_times — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:32:17 +0000

Not HTMX but Alpine.js has been a complete revelation to me. What clicked for me was that you're enhancing server-rendered HTML, not replacing it. Need a dropdown menu? Add x-data="{ open: false }" and you're done. Want to show/hide elements? x-show does exactly what you expect etc.

No bundler required, no compilation step.

Show HN: Web admin interface for Cassandra built with Openresty and Alpine.js

hard_times — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/IBM/cassandra-admin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642350

Points: 1

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New comment by hard_times in "New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours"

hard_times — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:01:58 +0000

Aren't you a ray of sunshine...

New comment by hard_times in "Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC"

hard_times — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:02:29 +0000

is there no vendor offering HDMI-in or Display Port-in?

New comment by hard_times in "Windows XP Professional"

hard_times — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:51:15 +0000

We get these cheap recreations semi-regularly on here. Why does stuff like this keep being spammed on here, besides the nostalgia factor?

New comment by hard_times in "Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3"

hard_times — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:20:26 +0000

Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product?

New comment by hard_times in "Claude Pro Max hallucinated a $270 Notion feature that doesn't exist"

hard_times — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:34:20 +0000

What genre of comedy is this?

New comment by hard_times in "Building Linux kernel on macOS natively"

hard_times — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:27:02 +0000

Excuse me, it took the auther 30-40 seconds (0m33.260s) to build the Linux kernel on an M2 with 32GB RAM? Surely that's a typo?

New comment by hard_times in "Jacob's Phone Simulator"

hard_times — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:31:39 +0000

Why is this not flagged as spam?