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New comment by pan69 in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

pan69 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:24:45 +0000

Looking through his work it seems that he has build a whole .net browser based ecosystem [1]. Pretty impressive its own right. However, for his showcase projects I was wondering how he'd prompt to guide these recreations, i.e. what is used as the input, I can't image that he'd describe every tiny detail...

[1] https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/Home/ecosystem/

New comment by pan69 in "So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes"

pan69 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:28:18 +0000

Anyone can make a website and publish it but for some reason when it comes to apps there needs to be a store with a review process. Aren't apps, in a way, not just specialised browsers (not talking about webview apps here) that run in a sandbox? Why the need for all this "reviewing", does it make apps safer or better quality? Is it a device ecosystem permission / security problem? I.e. why do apps need stores and websites don't?

New comment by pan69 in "The JavaScript Midlife Crisis"

pan69 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:24:14 +0000

> In the month of July 2020, we developed a prototype of TigerBeetle in Node as a performance sketch to measure the basic components of the design (batching, TCP protocol, cryptographic checksums everywhere, fsync journalling, in-memory business logic and hash table operations).

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle-history-archive/b...

New comment by pan69 in "I said no and Apple said yes"

pan69 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:08:10 +0000

my work offers win or mac only.

New comment by pan69 in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

pan69 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:03:00 +0000

Similar thing with Aldi. Both brothers kept the name, sort of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi#Split

New comment by pan69 in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

pan69 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:32:51 +0000

When I started using a Mac many years ago, I also could not believe how terrible Finder is. This is software from the "design" company.

One of the biggest pitfalls I ran into at the time (and remember from the top of my head) was that when you copy a folder, and a folder with the same name already exists at the destination, it will quietly replace it, rather than giving me a dialog asking if I want to Replace or Merge.

Oh, that I can't switch on/off show hidden files, I have to run some command line command to do that...

MyNoise – Custom Soundscapes for Focus, Relaxation and Sleep

pan69 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://mynoise.net/index.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583688

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pan69 in "My Business Is Dying"

pan69 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:08:31 +0000

Who uploads their bank statements into some random website?

New comment by pan69 in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

pan69 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:10:54 +0000

Syndicate on MS-DOS is the only game I know of to look good with 16 colors on VGA 640x480. The other one would be Gods by Bitmap Brothers also 16 colors but on 320x200 resolution. Great examples of limitations driving amazing outcomes.

New comment by pan69 in "Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?"

pan69 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:25 +0000

A few decades ago I was diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure) and for about the last 15 years I have been tracking my blood pressure and weight. Every morning when I wake up, I weigh myself and take my blood pressure. I write the results in a CSV file that sits on my desktop (it gets backed up). I do this religiously, every single day. I have tried other, more "modern", solutions but somehow they don't stick or are too cumbersome to use. Even tried to build my own app but lost motivation at some point.

New comment by pan69 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

pan69 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:32:32 +0000

> I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt.

100% agree.

> Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience.

Not my overall experience 30 years in the industry.

> They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

You'll always be asked to do more with less, at least, that's my own experience.

New comment by pan69 in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

pan69 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:20:09 +0000

Not sure either why they are providing an API to detect either and what you say make sense.

However, if my understanding is correct, the reason for the watermark / detections is that its not directly aimed at end-users, but to be able from them to detect if text was produced by one of their models so they don't use it as input in training data. So, yeah, in that context, not sure why they are announcing this with an ability for anyone to detect if it was produced by one of their models. Also, they are happy to ingest text produced by models they don't own? Maybe someone with more information can elaborate?

New comment by pan69 in "TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS"

pan69 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:35:36 +0000

Solitiny :)

> NOTE: For DosBox users, DosBox doesn’t seem to support AT&T 6300 but the other modes work fine.

I'm pretty sure DOSBox supports the Olivetti M24 graphics mode.

New comment by pan69 in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

pan69 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:32:04 +0000

What's even worse is that, when you do this on the description of a story or task, everytime it comes up with a slightly different format of how it's going to layout the "enhanced" description.

New comment by pan69 in "The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)"

pan69 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:31:14 +0000

It's more like two collisions rather than two parties.

New comment by pan69 in "What it means for an API to be RESTful"

pan69 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:53:08 +0000

Anyone working in an organisation where teams are trying to map business logic errors into HTTP status codes?

Wasn't Fieldings original dissertation meant as a formalisation of the web? I.e. it had nothing to do with APIs until later, when that became popular in the mid 2000s?

The amount of nonsense conversations / meetings I have been in over the years around designing "RESTful" APIs, endless discussions, I can no longer keep count. Because, unless you're working on an academic research project, everything in REST becomes a compromise.

At this point I am starting believe that REST has done more harm than good for the industry.

New comment by pan69 in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

pan69 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:25:24 +0000

I scanned through it and settled on Design H as well, birds and buildings. One thing I started to notice while looking over the design that I had a strong preference for the number to be in the corners. The last two one are "portrait" which feels weird to me but might be more appealing to a younger generation.

New comment by pan69 in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

pan69 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:59:29 +0000

I have switched to vocalised morse code. My colleagues love me.

New comment by pan69 in "Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown"

pan69 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:21:36 +0000

> I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown

Maybe I am spoiled but I rarely read markdown directly. As a user of vscode I do ctrl + shift + v on a markdown file and read the rendered version.

New comment by pan69 in "Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?"

pan69 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:18:14 +0000

> The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is.

I have audio CDs from 1990 that play just fine and look to be in tip-top condition. Not so much CDs I have burned in the 2000s, they seem to fade, clearly a different manufacturing process. However, based on my older audio CDs, it seems that, if manufacturers want to produce quality, they certainly can.