Hacker News: kwanbix

New comment by kwanbix in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

kwanbix — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:37:07 +0000

That is nothing, less than 10%.

Ther are countries that get it at 100% or even 200% more.

New comment by kwanbix in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

kwanbix — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:46:12 +0000

100% my sentiment.

New comment by kwanbix in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

kwanbix — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:33:33 +0000

I was a Lotus Notes developer for more than 10 years. The speed at which you could develop useful software was mind-blowing. I started with Notes 4.5, IIRC, and ended my time around Notes 8.

The first few years were a little heavy on RAM usage, so people thought it was slow. To give you some context, this was back when 16 MB (megabytes, not gigabytes) of RAM was a thing. But as RAM increased, Notes was no longer a problem.

For example, Lotus Notes 8, which I still have on my personal PC, uses about 11 MB just after starting. Then it adds roughly 10 MB for each "app" you open. Today, Outlook alone uses around 170 MB just after starting.

It was incredibly powerful. And migrating a Domino server was incredibly easy. Basically, you just copied the DATA folder. I remember doing this when we migrated from Windows 2000/2003 to AIX.

In the same way, the Notes client was basically a portable app. You could just copy the NOTES and DATA folder, edit notes.ini, and have it running.

So sad to see it go.

New comment by kwanbix in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

kwanbix — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:41:32 +0000

In my home city, I started to see banners all made with AI.

From my kids schools to banners for food places.

New comment by kwanbix in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

kwanbix — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:07:17 +0000

Works fine for me in Firefox with uBlock.

New comment by kwanbix in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

kwanbix — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:34:30 +0000

My previous phone was an OPPO Find X3 Pro phone. Incredible phone. I only changed it because it has no zoom on the cameras. But I used it for 5 years.

New comment by kwanbix in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"

kwanbix — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:48:45 +0000

I don't get it, why can't they just change the region in the settings?

I was able to on my LG. Nice TV, worst firmware ever. It had an issue with Wifi. It basically will not connect once or so a week. You needed to change, you guess it, the region. So I will keep changing from Germany to Spain to Ireland to Germany to Etc. I sent pictures, videos, emails, links to youtube videos to LG support, they wouldn't care, they would just deny it. In the end I bought a Fire TV Max and that was it. But what a horrible support experience LG never again.

New comment by kwanbix in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

kwanbix — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:11:32 +0000

Similarly for me. My dad bought a fully expanded TI-99/4A from a friend who was selling it to buy a C64. On the TI, I learned LOGO and then BASIC, and played Parsec, BurgerTime, and others. Cartridges were super expensive in my home country.

A few years later, we traveled to New York and bought an IBM PC XT with a 20 MB (yes, MB!) hard drive, 640 KB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a CGA monitor. At the time, IBM had already announced the IBM PC AT with a 286 CPU, and Compaq was already selling clones.

New comment by kwanbix in "Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept"

kwanbix — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:56:37 +0000

Where is the B from? (S)venska (A)eroplan (A)ktiebolaget and the B? from (b)olaget?

New comment by kwanbix in "PageRank explained"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:22:21 +0000

thanks! I imagined it will be something like that. Maybe Google used yahoo index back then as seed?

New comment by kwanbix in "PageRank explained"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:32:10 +0000

What I always wonder is, how does google knows how to go to abc.com, xyz.com, mypage.com, etc. so it can crawl them?

New comment by kwanbix in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:50:18 +0000

Seing how many adults have gambling addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, food addiction, and social media addiction, I will say, not so much?

New comment by kwanbix in "Nebula Sans"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:50:00 +0000

Which they license for 30 per year?

EDIT: Now I realize the 30 per year is for a video service.

New comment by kwanbix in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:48:59 +0000

Two hours is one hour too long if you ask me.

This should be implemented also for adults.

And non-avoidable.

New comment by kwanbix in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

kwanbix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:46:24 +0000

Only to children? What about adults? Yes, I know we are supposed to be more responsible, but this things are made to be addicted and you don't realize until it is too late.

New comment by kwanbix in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

kwanbix — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:42:25 +0000

Yeah, if I could install Linux without any hacks I will get one.

Even if I prefer the body of a X1 Carbon ThinkPad, its keyboard and trackpoint.

New comment by kwanbix in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

kwanbix — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:05:14 +0000

I am not the smarter, but I believe that I am smart enough. My problem is that my mind overthinks all the possible scenarios that could happen. For example, now with AI, what happens if the AI replaces all jobs, are we going to all live happy lives doing nothing? or are we going to be all super poor with the top 1% living in closed cities?

New comment by kwanbix in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

kwanbix — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:35:44 +0000

Is it me only who thinks OpenROUTER is a terrible name? I was thinking of a Network Router.

New comment by kwanbix in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

kwanbix — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:32:45 +0000

I have small hands (for a man) and I have no problems with one-hand use of my OPPO Find X9.

New comment by kwanbix in "Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance"

kwanbix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:58:39 +0000

Well, seems that AI vibecoding is working it's magic!