Hacker News: htor

New comment by htor in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

htor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:32:27 +0000

I think what we are all really questioning about is: how many times can it be rewritten in Rust?

New comment by htor in "100k Stars"

htor — Sun, 12 May 2024 15:39:02 +0000

Didn’t manage to close the cookie banner before the intro started playing on top of it on my mobile screen. Great “experiment”, Google.

New comment by htor in "Deno 1.36"

htor — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:55:44 +0000

deno is refreshing, but i don't like the fact that it is married with typescript and has built-in support for this and that library. should've been framework agnostic from the start and not marketed as this batteries-included thing.

also, this creates more fragmentation in the node/web community which i don't really see the need for. being compatible with node/npm just carries with it the warts and problems instead of getting rid of them.

New comment by htor in "Internet addiction and the habit of book reading"

htor — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:10:56 +0000

TL;DR

New comment by htor in "Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web"

htor — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:37:33 +0000

will this get rid of the dreaded cookie popup dialog?

or is that GDPR nonsense still going to make those persist?

New comment by htor in "Vim Creep (2011)"

htor — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:43:49 +0000

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New comment by htor in "Graphics for JVM"

htor — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:57:31 +0000

ah, the old web vs java discussion. "why does the browser not come with all the components i want built-in, having the exact look n feel that my OS has?". "i have to actually write code to get a popup?". "markup language? style sheets?? bollocks!". "surely, java is more mature and will enable me to make better apps, in less time". "it's running on a JVM, didn't you know?". "so it's more performant".

ok. js css html won the web platform. and they have an increasing piece of native. oops! this is not a random trend, but for a good reason.

java for GUIs is not going to be popular again. it's already been tested and it failed the test.

the old timer java mindset still wants the web but it does not want to learn web.

working with the web is not a "hack", nor is the DOM only suitable for representing "documents". you left in 1995 and failed to catch up with modern standards. it's a flexible system, but does not come with all the batteries. but to counterweigh that it has a massive ecosystem, a package manager with plenty of off the shelf parts, if you want them. performancewise, the browser engines are getting faster and faster every day, optimised for rendering. v8 is hugely successful natively. the DOM is very suitable as a generic GUI model to work with. back in 1995 it was not.

wake up Java devs. your arguments are getting increasingly flaky..

New comment by htor in "Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim"

htor — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:47:38 +0000

nice try

New comment by htor in "Italian Ruby"

htor — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:02:59 +0000

localization problem? i believe that is an invented problem. why would anyone write code in his/her native language?

New comment by htor in "ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper"

htor — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:09:49 +0000

oh my god HN is like reading ads. what shite front page news....

New comment by htor in "America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy"

htor — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:22:10 +0000

but, there is no harm in getting an extra b12 dose for meat consumers as well! plant-based milks are not meant only for plant-eaters (to put it simply) they are of course meant for everyone

New comment by htor in "Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments"

htor — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:56:10 +0000

yes, i forgot to add "anthropogenic" to climate change. ie – this climate change is the direct result of human activity

New comment by htor in "Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments"

htor — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:25:56 +0000

grow human organs inside rats and? how does that work? i don't understand. meanwhile we are entering the sixt mass extinction event caused by a massive climate change. what good is this technology when you have failing crops, extreme weather, no electricity and mass immigration at your doorstep?

New comment by htor in "Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker"

htor — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:42:28 +0000

apparently we are currently on version 3 of the web?

New comment by htor in "I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)"

htor — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:29:48 +0000

you bastard!!!

New comment by htor in "Types Are Moving to the Right"

htor — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 21:46:32 +0000

this article has little or no substance

New comment by htor in "Linux Desktop Setup"

htor — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:49:00 +0000

this is a terminal, not a desktop. and it's really great at being that.

New comment by htor in "MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced"

htor — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:55:18 +0000

when is the article from?

New comment by htor in "A tale of 132 e's"

htor — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:58:06 +0000

aww, thought this was going to be a story about 132 molly adventures! maybe not the right forum..

New comment by htor in "‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students"

htor — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:45:51 +0000

there are so many ethical things you can use your brain on. first of all, you can start by not investing your talent/intelligence on advertisement. everybody knows ads are bad and they make making people suffer in many ways. we know so well that facebook, google et.al have no good intentions for the planet and are harvesting massive profits. ultra capitalist, maybe? we have many choices as humans, we can choose to organize, work for honest people and take a big shit on evil companies destroying our environment!