Hacker News: llimos

New comment by llimos in "Count Binface"

llimos — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:09:43 +0000

There's a long tradition in the UK of comedy candidates, notably the Monster Raving Loony Party.

There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance.

New comment by llimos in "Why don't lighthouses look like this anymore? [video]"

llimos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:36:25 +0000

Beautiful video. It's very easy to see the parallels to our industry going through the AI revolution.

Why don't lighthouses look like this anymore? [video]

llimos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0L5xznsKE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762023

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by llimos in "Rare look inside the secret Lego Museum"

llimos — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:42:35 +0000

Why is it bad that one of the key components of plastic is fossil fuel? Isn't locking it up in plastic preferable to burning it?

If they are referring to the energy cost of manufacturing it, that's got nothing to do with the raw material being fossil fuels.

Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL (2014)

llimos — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:11:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995711

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by llimos in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

llimos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:02:02 +0000

Yep, down from here too (in Israel).

Services too, not just the portal.

New comment by llimos in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

llimos — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:23:53 +0000

Big difference between a private company mandating app use, and a government

New comment by llimos in "Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?"

llimos — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:20:53 +0000

Even skechers.com doesn't use it any more [1]

[1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom

New comment by llimos in "The Best Line Length"

llimos — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:43:44 +0000

It would seem that the optimal solution to both maintain readability and not waste screen space would be to start counting the characters from after the indentation. Since indentation is stepped, you won't (often) be jumping massive horizontal distances.

Mike Lynch's estate faces bankruptcy over £700M fraud ruling in favour of HP

llimos — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:26:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/22/mike-lynchs-estate-bankrupted-by-700m-fraud-ruling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44645565

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

'Tactless': Brewing Resentments over Bank of Mum and Dad

llimos — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:28:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buying-selling/resentment-brewing-friendship-groups-bank-of-mum-dad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511274

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by llimos in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

llimos — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:08:05 +0000

- A Story About ‘Magic' http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

New comment by llimos in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

llimos — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:42:34 +0000

or "Docking Not Supported"

New comment by llimos in "A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life"

llimos — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:24:45 +0000

HP laptops don't last 3 years these days. You're lucky to get past 1.

They haven't made anything good for years now.

New comment by llimos in "Canyon.mid"

llimos — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:02:01 +0000

Heard it in my head as soon as I saw the title on HN

New comment by llimos in "Root for your friends"

llimos — Sun, 25 May 2025 12:08:33 +0000

Interesting that there's no word in English for this. There is one in Yiddish: fargin

New comment by llimos in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

llimos — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:11:55 +0000

You'll enjoy this review: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10049454/Dont-make-fun-o...

Edit: Indeed you were quoting it :)

New comment by llimos in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

llimos — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:46:29 +0000

Deleting Chrome on Android is difficult but you can go one better than disabling it.

  adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome

It can still be put back, but you need a computer to do it

New comment by llimos in "Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel"

llimos — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:54:53 +0000

with interest?! Oy vey, not very Jewish at all!

New comment by llimos in "Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf]"

llimos — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:51:51 +0000

So THAT'S how you exit it!

I never did figure it out.