Hacker News: johnflan

New comment by johnflan in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

johnflan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:48:21 +0000

> a really well-crafted ios Native App with extensive attention to detail Which seems to becoming a rare thing

New comment by johnflan in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

johnflan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:09:48 +0000

damn right

New comment by johnflan in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

johnflan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:12:47 +0000

The CPU didn’t but the chonker of a fan in the PSU sure made up for it

New comment by johnflan in "Pebble Round 2"

johnflan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:07:21 +0000

Thats the primary reason I'm interested in it.

New comment by johnflan in "Vectrex Mini"

johnflan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:10:09 +0000

A modern version of a device with one unique feature... missing that unique feature

New comment by johnflan in "Reversing a Fingerprint Reader Protocol (2021)"

johnflan — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:04:27 +0000

I didn't follow the byte ordering of the image format at the end. Anyone have an explanation?

New comment by johnflan in "A technical history of Acorn Computers"

johnflan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:15:54 +0000

I started with an Acorn a3020, those machines were just amazing. I got my first PC shortly after running Windows for workgroups 3.11 jeez it felt like a step backwards. If Acorn started in the Silicon Valley, we'd probably be using them today.

New comment by johnflan in "Bring Back Shortwave"

johnflan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:20:54 +0000

How do they finance those radio stations?

New comment by johnflan in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

johnflan — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:27:54 +0000

>Video and pictures will soon have no evidentiary value.

Thats a very interesting point

New comment by johnflan in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

johnflan — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:53:39 +0000

It’s fun

New comment by johnflan in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

johnflan — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:52:06 +0000

A custom built Debian machine with four HDDs in a ZFS volume backed up using restic

New comment by johnflan in "The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)"

johnflan — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:34:49 +0000

I’d love to know more about its design too

New comment by johnflan in "Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut"

johnflan — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:11:29 +0000

It was very common in Ireland too, hunting for conkers was always fun. However I don't think it is common at all now

New comment by johnflan in "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison"

johnflan — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:30:40 +0000

Certainly would have helped in the era of embedding AI into the operating system.

New comment by johnflan in "Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust"

johnflan — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:09:03 +0000

Same, its become invaluable for me.

+ I really enjoy this era of self-hosted tools.

New comment by johnflan in "The Delusion of the Polygraph"

johnflan — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:10:26 +0000

I don’t get how “field sobriety testing” in the sense of observing someone perform some coordinated actions is still a thing. In Ireland if stopped by a member of the police (Gardai) and they have suspicion they can require you to provide a breath or saliva sample. If you pass you are free to go, if you fail or refuse you are escorted to a police station and provide a blood sample or urine sample (I think this depends on if suspected of alcohol or drug offences) refusal to provide the sample is an offence

New comment by johnflan in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

johnflan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:43:20 +0000

I’m not sure that would fly in Europe. And I personally don’t want to hand over my id to use a ticket

New comment by johnflan in "Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]"

johnflan — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:40:42 +0000

You gotta wonder how the technician explained away the four leftover bolts after

New comment by johnflan in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

johnflan — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:27:51 +0000

ED209?

New comment by johnflan in "The History of Windows 2.0"

johnflan — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:35:07 +0000

The Acorn was a marvel of its day (to me at least)