Hacker News: lnx01

New comment by lnx01 in "When did Google get so weird?"

lnx01 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:23:54 +0000

Adjust your browser's search engine setting for Google and set it to append "&udm=14" to the URL, that'll force it to bring up the "Web" tab without annoying useless "helpful" other stuff.

New comment by lnx01 in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

lnx01 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:24:10 +0000

The post comment here is 100% packed with LLMisms, so yes.

New comment by lnx01 in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

lnx01 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:20:51 +0000

It's incredibly jarring, and subtly nonsensical...

New comment by lnx01 in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

lnx01 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:15:39 +0000

It certainly is not.

New comment by lnx01 in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

lnx01 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:19:53 +0000

bulletproof/bulletproof/bulletproof .... Gemini LLM

New comment by lnx01 in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

lnx01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:38:29 +0000

I doubt it, SLS and Artemis predate 'For all mankind' by many years.

New comment by lnx01 in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

lnx01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:21:52 +0000

In the context of an online marketplace "Unlocked" means "Not carrier locked". This has _nothing_ to do with the bootloader.

New comment by lnx01 in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

lnx01 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:52:09 +0000

*Asterisk

New comment by lnx01 in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

lnx01 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:09:08 +0000

Running X11 on Ubuntu 22.04 - I have a 2650x1600 main at 150% scale and a 1920x1980 secondary at 100% scale. Essentially they're the same virtual size side-by-side. This _only_ works on my nVidia GPU...

New comment by lnx01 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lnx01 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:17:46 +0000

The "enriewu" thing wasn't a misspelling of "en route", it was someone's name who had arrived in Miami with Jean-Luc and Peggy. It's probably a misspelling of Henry pronounced in French.

New comment by lnx01 in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

lnx01 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:02:53 +0000

LLMs are so good at telling me about things I know little to nothing about, but when when I ask about things I have expert knowledge on they consistently fail, hallucinate, and confidently lie...

New comment by lnx01 in "Charles Proxy"

lnx01 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:59:22 +0000

MacOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux

New comment by lnx01 in "Making Google Sans Flex"

lnx01 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:16:44 +0000

It should not be possible for a webpage to change my mouse cursor.

New comment by lnx01 in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

lnx01 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:50:16 +0000

25 years ago my 3.5mm jack headphones would buzz whenever I moved the mouse... Bzzzzzzzzz,tk, tk, tk ,tk, bzzzzzzz, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk....

New comment by lnx01 in "Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon"

lnx01 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:23:44 +0000

The vast majority of carbon in trees is pulled from the atmosphere during growth. A dead tree is still made of organic molecules, which have carbon in them. So trees are not "Carbon Neutral", they're "Carbon Negative" until the wood is burned, or it decomposes enough to become crude oil and then, well...

New comment by lnx01 in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

lnx01 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:00:29 +0000

The most fun I've ever had in a museum was at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. The exhibits are interactive, educational, fun... mostly for kids...

I was 33 years old... I'd love to go back and do it all again.

New comment by lnx01 in "Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time"

lnx01 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:48:10 +0000

green-needle/brain-storm would disagree with you!

New comment by lnx01 in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

lnx01 — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:50:13 +0000

I really hope they bring back the Denon AK-DL3

New comment by lnx01 in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

lnx01 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:32:22 +0000

I would imagine it's minimal. I'll never forget a demo I played with at a Science museum as a kid. A dynamo with a crank you can turn, and set of switches that allow you to turn on one, two, or three incandescent bulbs. The crank turns freely without load, and is increasingly more difficult to turn as load is added.

New comment by lnx01 in "Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser"

lnx01 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:37:38 +0000

Waterfox isn't new, its first release was in 2011. I used to run it because they had an x86-64 build when Firefox didn't.