Hacker News: manytimesaway

New comment by manytimesaway in "A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

manytimesaway — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:42:18 +0000

Steam used to be steamgames.com, too.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Starbase, LA"

manytimesaway — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:10:08 +0000

Isn't that wholesale which does not always land to customer sales? Honestly I don't know much about all of this.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Starbase, LA"

manytimesaway — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:09:27 +0000

Yeah that was a quick sumup based on the fact that the parent was not posting in good faith. Thanks for the precision.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Starbase, LA"

manytimesaway — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:58:13 +0000

No it's not. It was the most sold during March, but that's it.

Local sources (https://www.autohome.com.cn/hangye/showroom/) tend to show that it's Xiaomi / Geely that's leading the race in 2026.

Additionally, sales numbers doesn't correlate with the brand image of Tesla : it is a luxury brand, no matter how you put it.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

manytimesaway — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:40:30 +0000

It's been scalped on announcement, sadly. Sold out everywhere.

New comment by manytimesaway in "A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator"

manytimesaway — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:56:14 +0000

These are not calculators, but pocket computers. Different markets (one crashed, the other still exists) with different hardware.

New comment by manytimesaway in "How to Increase OpenBSDs Resilience to Power Outages"

manytimesaway — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:26 +0000

Honest question: Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this author puts her name absolutely everywhere on her posts? Feels very ego-trippy.

New comment by manytimesaway in "As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing"

manytimesaway — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:48:58 +0000

>AI/ML myopia is about as useful as Linux-myopia was in the 90's.

Not only is this argument a copycat of cryptobro discourse, but considering that the first truly usable Linux release was in 1999 and no one expected what was bound to happen with Solaris, this is bollocks at-best.

>Its here, its not going anywhere, it is getting widespread adoption.

Getting shoved up in everyone's lives does not mean adoption. Nobody makes money out of this (except the Nvidia ponzi) yet, so that's a bold assumption.

>accurate, timely, and well delivered products

Have yet to see one 100% vibe-slopped thing that features these criteria and isn't an abomination of maintenance.

>You've made your decision. You're kicking your own ass.

And proud of it! ;)

New comment by manytimesaway in "As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing"

manytimesaway — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:06:25 +0000

I enjoy retrocomputing a lot, being a huge part of my life.

I do not want to see advancements made by a technology I truly despise. I'd rather see less impressive, handmade projects (therefore, more impressive) rather than slop.

Feel free to kick my ass.

New comment by manytimesaway in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

manytimesaway — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:49:01 +0000

His entire discography is worth a listen, honestly. Gems absolutely everywhere, and deep knowledge of his (traveling!) studio.

New comment by manytimesaway in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

manytimesaway — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:08:21 +0000

As we say in another language, "you should probably get your ears cleaned".

Besides the Blade Runner & Chariots of Fire soundtracks (two masterpieces of albums, which is two more than 90% of the world), his repertoire is filled with instant electronic classics, such as Earth, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, and l'Apocalypse des Animaux.

I'm not even mentioning Aphrodite's Child.

New comment by manytimesaway in "PGSimCity – an explorable 3D model that shows how Postgres works"

manytimesaway — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754 two days ago - c'mon.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

manytimesaway — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:49:21 +0000

Example discussion here : https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/issues/63#issuecomment-9...

HN comment from a major maintainer here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314427

Valve has confirmed that it violates the HLSDK EULA, too. At least for the original Xash3D release.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

manytimesaway — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:07:21 +0000

Xash3D is not really open-source. The original codebase comes from leaked/decompiled code, and nowadays still requires the proprietary HLSDK to build.

New comment by manytimesaway in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

manytimesaway — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:18:25 +0000

>how do you know it has been vibe-coded?

Another comment mentioned the total number of tokens used, confirmed with the git history. But most importantly : it uses the exact same CSS as every other vibe-coded app, with the same fonts & spacing.

>And why does it matter?

Because I don't want to use nor recommend vibe-coded stuff. Simple enough.

New comment by manytimesaway in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

manytimesaway — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:28:31 +0000

Besides the sadly obvious vibe-coding, just note that SimCity is still an active trademark from EA, so might be good to rename it.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

manytimesaway — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:34:40 +0000

These are not as odd as satellite phones, I'd say.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

manytimesaway — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:02:57 +0000

Also based on leaks/reverse-engineering.

New comment by manytimesaway in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

manytimesaway — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:05:21 +0000

>your flight gets diverted to South Korea and you have condoms

..what? Condoms are not outlawed there, are they?

New comment by manytimesaway in "The small, real, original web"

manytimesaway — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:57:33 +0000

The era of MSN, MySpace and self/ISP-hosted pages didn't feel like gatekeeping at all; sure, there was some privilege involved (internet access still is a privilege in 2026), but there was less shame about attempting stuff.