Hacker News: mook

New comment by mook in "IRCv3"

mook — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:57:04 +0000

One of the grocery stores near me actually uses that in their POS system, so you can hear it as you check out.

New comment by mook in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

mook — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:26:39 +0000

As an expansion on that, as far as I know there's only one implementation of Fossil. There was at least a Java one for git, I believe, and I don't think upstream git is related to libgit2 either. And GitHub is doing… something not visible from the outside.

(… looking at the parent, though, I imagine there might be some information from the inside…)

New comment by mook in "GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design"

mook — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:47:15 +0000

Unfortunately, somebody three levels up from you will decide that 90% is good enough and fire you. The fact that the company then crashes and burns doesn't help, because you'll already be out of a job.

New comment by mook in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mook — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:33:00 +0000

FWIW, it always requires retrofitting because otherwise you'll kill the guy trying to get your power back. That, or power your whole block…

New comment by mook in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mook — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:08:57 +0000

Different person, but I don't want a car that has an app precisely because it's so expensive. Cell phones her replaced way more often, and the people running the app stores are very aggressive about not supporting old apps. So within maybe half the life of the car, the app will no longer install.

New comment by mook in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mook — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:05:00 +0000

They're already at the kind of range I'd be happy to trade off the other way.

I don't need 400 mile ranges; I'm happy to half that to get a shorter front so I can see the corners, a squared off hatch at the back, and proper headroom. Basically give me a smaller Transit van.

New comment by mook in "I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior.""

mook — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:42:44 +0000

The two could make sense if they decided a normal user is a bot, and it's the humans that are not normal.

Given their push for AI, that could even be a consistent view… not great for us meat bags, of course.

New comment by mook in "Shrink your Go binaries with this one weird trick"

mook — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:20:29 +0000

(2016), -s -w + UPX.

I got confused by the mention of 1.6, since its somewhere around 1.27 these days; the article turned out to be a decade old.

New comment by mook in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

mook — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:29:40 +0000

Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt?

I'm interested in getting back to native application development; the job is on Electron right now and it's… meh.

New comment by mook in "Singapore subway (mrt) information display types"

mook — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:26:12 +0000

> In fact I believe they could've simplified it further by getting rid of station codes. Which passenger needs to know Dhoby Ghaut is NE6/CC1/NE24?

I believe they're usually for people who can't read the language (typically, tourists). NE6 is a lot easier to memorize for people who can't pronounce Dhoby Ghaut (think people from China or something that isn't used to reading Latin alphabets).

The code + number system is also easier for tourists / people new to the area to know which stations are on the same line, and to find them if you don't know the map (just find any station on the same line and look for the correct number on the line).

New comment by mook in "A note on subscription prices from LWN"

mook — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:34:12 +0000

Also, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, more scrapers. They're trying to keep things accessible without JavaScript, which mostly rules out the typical proof of work solutions like Anubis (which they're definitely aware of, as they had an article on it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252

New comment by mook in "Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop"

mook — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:41:46 +0000

Up to Win2k, I don't recall new releases of Windows leading to people lamenting the UI changes; I do remember people not liking the initial look of XP, though. Maybe it's just because complaints got more visible after the Internet became popular, though. But even now few people seem to have strong preferences for, say, Windows 1.0 (… which was pretty much a TUI, IIRC)

New comment by mook in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

mook — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:18:32 +0000

Yeah, I've been working around that for now by uninstalling notepad. Which actually uninstalls the store app, which in turn exposes the actual notepad executable that ships with Windows. Really confusing, and will probably break in some future version of Windows.

I don't understand why they didn't just stuff all the AI things and new features in Write, where it belongs…

New comment by mook in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

mook — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:41:04 +0000

Interesting, I don't really have downtime with my OpenWRT setup. Probably because I don't really touch the setup once it's there, other than occasionally doing the firmware updates.

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

mook — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:55:57 +0000

Well, I looked it up and the game shipped in the early 2000s, and listed Pentium 266 as minimum requirements (Pentium 500 recommended).

I don't recall the 386 era and the DVD era overlapping that much…

New comment by mook in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

mook — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:43:26 +0000

I think a better take is:

> Do you use personal / behavioral data / usage to shape the user experience and recommendations? You do not get covered by Section 230.

If they get to exercise editorial powers, then it doesn't make sense for them to be protected from liability for choosing what to publish. If they just give you a giant firehose, then they're not doing anything editorially and they should not have any liability as clearly that's not _their_ speech.

New comment by mook in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

mook — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:15:12 +0000

Well, they seem to have started shipping parts of that; recently I noticed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... was installed for me.

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

mook — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:37:50 +0000

Presumably MCTR was MicroCenter as well.

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

mook — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:11:30 +0000

Meh, in the early days of DVDs I recall a game that came with uncompressed 48kHz audio. Compress it to mp3 (which the game naively accepted if you had the correct Windows filters) and it fits in a CD.

New comment by mook in "Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals"

mook — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:12:35 +0000

I remember somebody trying to hook into the Apple Find My network (that is, do things with AirTags). They did that by… being a Mail.app plug-in or something to get the correct entitlements? That certainly sounds like the wrong permissions.

Ah, it was OpenHaystack: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#installation