Hacker News: julianz

New comment by julianz in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

julianz — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:08:55 +0000

There's a great display wall of Byte mag at the Computer Museum of America in Atlanta, they've got original cover artworks and possibly every issue. Loved it. Also more Crays than you've ever seen in one place.

New comment by julianz in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

julianz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:14:17 +0000

60? Not even 40.

New comment by julianz in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

julianz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:41:35 +0000

Flying Goose is good, my favourite is Ox brand. It's very punchy, heavy on the garlic.

New comment by julianz in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

julianz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:15:54 +0000

My grandfather was one of the originators of the technology that became CPAP. He did not get rich from it.

New comment by julianz in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

julianz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:50:27 +0000

They removed WENCH from the list of upcoming solutions fairly quickly, but forgot to add it back to the list of available words so you couldn't use it as a guess for a little while. It made it back to the list eventually.

New comment by julianz in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

julianz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:40:25 +0000

Two days isn't long term though.

New comment by julianz in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

julianz — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:58:56 +0000

I used Nova paid for years, but moved back to the stock Samsung launcher when Nova started having issues with widgets not refreshing (Outlook calendar view was the worst, it would work for a day or two and then just get stuck). I guess I should try something else now.

New comment by julianz in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

julianz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:33:59 +0000

Not so much when you consume it along with the fibre which is typically also included in the fruit.

New comment by julianz in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

julianz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:50:44 +0000

The Start menu is not an Electron app. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

New comment by julianz in "Advent of Code 2025"

julianz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:08:34 +0000

Yep, the years I've made it the furthest have been around the 11-12 day mark. The inevitably life and kids and work get in the way and that's it for another year. Changing to a 12 day format is unlikely to affect me at all :)

New comment by julianz in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

julianz — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:36:21 +0000

I don't see this behaviour at all, and I live in Teams on Windows, web and Android. It has improved over time.

New comment by julianz in "Affinity Studio now free"

julianz — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:58:14 +0000

I paid for V1, it had incompatibilities with graphics drivers that mean it stopped working properly shortly after V2 came out and is now useless. Any hardware assisted graphics operation corrupts the image. Who knows if V2 will suffer something similar?

New comment by julianz in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

julianz — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:25:05 +0000

300ms of latency to click a checkbox is a horrible experience, though.

New comment by julianz in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

julianz — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:04:52 +0000

The RSS feed has an attribute that suggests Hugo.

New comment by julianz in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

julianz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:22:48 +0000

This does seem like a very US-centric problem. None of the recipes I was brought up on base their quantities on third party packaging, and generally don't use premixed ingredients. It's very strange.

New comment by julianz in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

julianz — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:46:40 +0000

Yep, now that TP-Link have fixed the weird Deco bug where you couldn't forward more than one (non contiguous) port to the same internal machine I'm very happy with them, the wifi coverage is ridiculously good.

New comment by julianz in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

julianz — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:39:28 +0000

The F1TV site didn't work on Firefox earlier this year but send to be fixed now, other than that I haven't had any issues.

New comment by julianz in "It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Rides Surpassed"

julianz — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:12:50 +0000

My colleagues took one a week ago and are both Android users from New Zealand, so I don't think that's true?

New comment by julianz in "Owls in Towels"

julianz — Tue, 27 May 2025 01:15:44 +0000

They could perch on the dowels once dry...

New comment by julianz in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

julianz — Fri, 23 May 2025 03:51:28 +0000

This works great! Nice one.