Hacker News: neuropacabra

New comment by neuropacabra in "I Love the Computer"

neuropacabra — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:19:43 +0000

What a story. I never had a chance to play with System 6.0, my first one was Mac OSX Maverick...before DOS/W95-98/XP and Debian/Ubuntu...what was it like?

New comment by neuropacabra in "I Love the Computer"

neuropacabra — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:18:27 +0000

This is so nice and resonates with me deeply. For quite a while I have been stuggeling to love modern computer. When I was reading this, I saw myself - this is more or less me. We got a 386 when I was 4, and as much as I can remember I was playing DOS games and later on Windows I have been exploring this whole concept of computers and dreaming about writing a game or learn how to program. This was so transformative. I remember the whole hacker like community - tweaking registries, shareware on floppy drives, demo scene, the dawn of the internet, Altavista - yes no Google, every generation was a leap forward. Golden time? Maybe I romantize it too much? I don't know, but I remember I was technology positivist and loved computers. How am I suppose to love the machine that is snooping on me and selling my behavioral data to 3rd party and making people selling me ads based on this rich. Every app needs an account, now also age verification - what the ***. I want my computer to be mine. I want my data to be mine - how did we let happen all of that...Apologies for the rant :-) today's technology is equally exciting and cool, but one have to be careful about it much more. After reading this, I am certain I do love computers...but for few years now, I was a bit in lethargic mode thinking I once loved the computers.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields"

neuropacabra — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:02:56 +0000

This is super nice article. Will revisit this one more time and try that out as well. In the age of AI slop, it is such a pleasure to read actual people blogs about what they do and are passionate about. Thank you this one!

New comment by neuropacabra in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

neuropacabra — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:47:39 +0000

Apple Mail, I am a simple man :-)

New comment by neuropacabra in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

neuropacabra — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:46:11 +0000

I went for this one https://huggingface.co/yuxinlu1/gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-com... and seems very fast, resonable...don't expect 100% replacement, but a lot of things can be done with local LLMs today.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

neuropacabra — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:00:38 +0000

As much as I avoiding any Microsoft technology at any cost. I do have a gaming rig at home, and yes I have Windows on it. I only use it to launch Steam and GOG, nothing else except the casual web browsing. I have been driving Arch btw and was fine, but these days you CAN install Windows 11 locally without Microsoft account. So I took it a shot for better game compatability.

This is not Linux/Window flame. I am trying to say, local account is possible and is working.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Apple Foundation Models"

neuropacabra — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:55:38 +0000

Can someone explain me what it means in the context of Apple and ChatGPT/Claude/Mistral...?

New comment by neuropacabra in "What happened to nerds?"

neuropacabra — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:41:22 +0000

Totally. I feel the author, we just used to nerds, but now the space is occupied by social media and false narrative that revolves around founders. No ego hurt here of course - but it is hard to imagine Woz or Stallman to ask for a mass surveillance program or ads in AI or pushed AI search in internet search. I believe this article actually went to this realm - tech for tech, having fun…but all we get is maxxxx enshitification.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

neuropacabra — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:43:01 +0000

I stopped using that software no matter how painful it was some games included. I wanted to play BG2 and the remake from GOG just litter the Documents folder even when running though Wine. Well, no game for then. Pity. I want my computer to serve me and to have my own files where yo want them.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

neuropacabra — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:56:06 +0000

True, search took a shot too. I am on DDG - not perfect, but at least I can I don't know...search the internet and not talk to LLMs about it? I am not anti AI, I am using AI a lot - I also search things occasionally in ChatGPT, but when I go to search the internet I want to go to search to the internet. Gmail I don't use for very long time, having my own domain and using email elsewhere...only YouTube is something I keep returning back.

New comment by neuropacabra in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

neuropacabra — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:53:36 +0000

I never got into DuckDuckGo, but here we go. Defaulted from yesterday when Google made AI Search a default for Google Search. Well, I have been using Altavista and others so I can get used to another one.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

neuropacabra — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:15:37 +0000

Gnome 2 anyone?

New comment by neuropacabra in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

neuropacabra — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:38:51 +0000

This is very unusual statement :-D

New comment by neuropacabra in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

neuropacabra — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:38:08 +0000

I hear you, me personally I only use Fedora when it comes to Linux. It is easy to install, has everything I need. I keep everything default - maybe change wallpaper and install my apps and IDE. That is it. From this standpoint it is MUCH better than a Windows box for games, which always has some ads, long update, sometimes it breaks, a lot software is actually writing their config in "My Documents" folder which bugs me a lot AND I do not have to have Microsoft account (actually I don't need any account on that matter) to create a local account on my own computer. So yes, I would agree with inferiority argument almost completely. If Linux got a bit mainstream, the ecosystem and apps would follow very quickly I am sure. But Microsoft is trying hard to people try out Linux (which is good btw) so let's see. Myself, I am off to Fedora even for the games, I am done with Copilot and inability to have offline account.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

neuropacabra — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:32:34 +0000

I think for a lot of people is already too late

New comment by neuropacabra in "Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial"

neuropacabra — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:48:15 +0000

Agree, self agency or not, people are depressed and loosing critical thunking because all of it is designed as a slot machines.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

neuropacabra — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:09:05 +0000

I am not sure what I just read.

New comment by neuropacabra in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

neuropacabra — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:55:48 +0000

So far it feels they are vibe coding it day and night lol…probably with GitHub Copilot

New comment by neuropacabra in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

neuropacabra — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:54:02 +0000

I simply do not believe that all of these people can and want to setup a CI. Some maybe, but even after the agent will recommend it only a fraction of people would actually do it. Why would they?

New comment by neuropacabra in "Web development is fun again"

neuropacabra — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:34:54 +0000

Amen to that!