Hacker News: oybng

New comment by oybng in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

oybng — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:38:17 +0000

It's not just new hardware, even used hard drives manufactured a decade ago have at least doubled in price. Scam Altman has effectively killed personal computing for all but the most affluent

New comment by oybng in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

oybng — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:30:30 +0000

This device would be an instant buy if it were backlit, replacing my kobo mini

New comment by oybng in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

oybng — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:08:56 +0000

just how evil can google be?

New comment by oybng in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

oybng — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:09:06 +0000

It's very convenient, I wish I could offer a worthy suggestion. The trouble in my case is that it's very sensitive and the palettes are barely in view before the page refreshes, they don't reach the center of the screen. Thanks for sharing

New comment by oybng in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

oybng — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:26:31 +0000

Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it

New comment by oybng in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

oybng — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:20:46 +0000

With the state ebay is in, I'd welcome anyone else to run it

New comment by oybng in "Dav2d"

oybng — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:01:32 +0000

renders your gigabit connection pointless

New comment by oybng in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

oybng — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:07:11 +0000

The writing was already on the wall when MS required logins to search code just 48 hours after acquisition

New comment by oybng in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

oybng — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:44:24 +0000

Is 1000 cycles above 80% even possible without gimping the device like apple does with all its hardware?

New comment by oybng in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

oybng — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:28:34 +0000

Cancelled my subscription after repeatedly hitting ridiculously low limits. Unfortunately since off-peak free usage was increased there are way more timeouts and failed requests, but hey at least it's free.

New comment by oybng in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"

oybng — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:40:55 +0000

days since google was evil: 0

New comment by oybng in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

oybng — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:09:01 +0000

This occurs to dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of people on a daily basis. It happened to me many years ago. This is your opportunity to escape, instead you cry out here for attention. How pathetic

New comment by oybng in "C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell"

oybng — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:15:38 +0000

If you can't discern between bash and shell, or even read the title, then it's certainly not for you

New comment by oybng in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

oybng — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:56:47 +0000

The landscape has been destroyed by wind turbines, and energy prices are higher than ever. lose lose.

New comment by oybng in "Should QA exist?"

oybng — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:15:38 +0000

Like the majority of slop articles, the author is advertising his services.

New comment by oybng in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

oybng — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:32:58 +0000

Really highlights the plummet in quality and massive shift in user tolerance that w10 is considered "good" now

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

oybng — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:14:00 +0000

Windows will never be 7 again. It will never be 2000. Wake up

New comment by oybng in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

oybng — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:53 +0000

Could you share what you're currently using?

New comment by oybng in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

oybng — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:20:38 +0000

Just 20 steps and 18 screws to replace a battery, easy!

New comment by oybng in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

oybng — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:07:45 +0000

Automatic chopping has existed for decades, popularised here: https://web.archive.org/web/20051225061044/http://www.cus.ca... https://github.com/mdsp/Livecut See also, dblue Glitch, chrisGlitch, Renoise