Hacker News: omnibrain

New comment by omnibrain in "Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage"

omnibrain — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:39:22 +0000

They had bet 100% on it killing PA-RISC and DEC Alpha. They ported HP-UX, OpenVMS and NonStop to it. All 3 of them were tangled up in long running enterprise and government contracts.

They since discontinued HP-UX, offloaded OpenVMS and ported NonStop to x86-64.

New comment by omnibrain in "Lego building instructions through time"

omnibrain — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:04:16 +0000

I just built one of those plant sets. I'm use to that modern instructions just place 1 or two bricks per step. But these plant sets took the cake. You had to build identical submodules. From the picture at the box you could see that it's essentially 8 times the same submodule. But the way the manual presented it was, that you build one submodule 2 times, fit it to the base, then build it 2 times again (same illustration!) and put them on the other side of the base. Then you start building the top and build the same submodule 2 times again, fit it to the top and then 2 times again and fit it to the other side of the top.

New comment by omnibrain in "Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs"

omnibrain — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:17:04 +0000

IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.

Riding a Spitfire: The Story of Margaret Horton

omnibrain — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://rafa.org.uk/blog/2021/03/08/magaret-horton/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363022

Points: 3

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New comment by omnibrain in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

omnibrain — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:55:45 +0000

It's the shell around the core.

The Fulda Gap: A Cavalry Scout's Account of the End of the World That Never Came

omnibrain — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:33:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/wgmorrow/status/2055100442737037566

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152123

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Analysing the Urban Attack: Insights from Soviet doctrine as a 'model checklist'

omnibrain — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:09:40 +0000

Article URL: https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/analysing-urban-attack-insights-soviet-doctrine-model-checklist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093959

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by omnibrain in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

omnibrain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:51:45 +0000

German here and me and my wife almost exclusively use Apple Maps, mainly because it looks and feels nicer. The differences in navigation are miniscule, but if we want to really check the traffic before we start we do a quick glance at Google maps. One difference in navigation we noticed is, that Apple Maps gives some small local streets - those just one revel above "Feldwege" (agricultural/forestry roads) - more weight than they should have. They are not really "single track" (almost unheard of in Germany) but come close, with no lane delineation dashes, etc.

New comment by omnibrain in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

omnibrain — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:21:12 +0000

The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?

Open Source Routing Machine

omnibrain — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:51:37 +0000

Article URL: https://project-osrm.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633908

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Phantom of Heilbronn

omnibrain — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566834

Points: 9

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New comment by omnibrain in "WSL Manager"

omnibrain — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:42:01 +0000

Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.

New comment by omnibrain in "No right to relicense this project"

omnibrain — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:22:53 +0000

Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Everything else may be more difficult.

See what FFmpeg writes on this topic: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:25:24 +0000

> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.

You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:23:24 +0000

> people who've already come to grips with the app

They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:22:25 +0000

> 2010 was my favorite Office UI.

Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the task at hand. Everything else was just a click away. Advanced stuff stayed in the menu. And, at least for me, it helped discoverability of features.

New comment by omnibrain in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

omnibrain — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:47:54 +0000

Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.

New comment by omnibrain in "A History of Haggis (2019)"

omnibrain — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:20:44 +0000

One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.

New comment by omnibrain in "East Germany balloon escape"

omnibrain — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:47:22 +0000

It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.

Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch

omnibrain — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01/online-mod-for-rockstars-classic-bully-is-abruptly-taken-down-after-one-month/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651877

Points: 1

# Comments: 0