Hacker News: pkphilip

New comment by pkphilip in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"

pkphilip — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:41:14 +0000

Absolutely agree. I hate the state management mess in these frameworks.

New comment by pkphilip in "EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?"

pkphilip — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:14:40 +0000

So a few questions: 1. Does this support threading? 2. Can I develop my website using this? 3. Can I develop a Claude competitor using this?

Much thanks!

New comment by pkphilip in "QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture"

pkphilip — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:28:49 +0000

Same here.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, I could not have imagined a scenario where an editor takes up 200+ MB! The entire Office 97 suite was well under 192MB closer to 130MB! Adobe Photoshop CS2 installed was under 370 MB.

Memory usage now is also insane.

Office 2000 would run on 32MB of RAM and run really well on 64MB! Now a single tab on Firefox or any other browser on a static website takes up well over 400MB.

A single tab showing Facebook on my laptop takes up about 390MB! Even Hackernews website takes up 36MB!

I too want to go back to the days when things were a lot simpler.

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

pkphilip — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:54:33 +0000

How often do you do a 4k RDP session on Linux?

New comment by pkphilip in "FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language"

pkphilip — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:11:44 +0000

For me the power of Object Pascal and Delphi was the ability to create reusable components that could be easily installed into the IDE. These components had powerful property sheets which could be used to set the values for their various properties etc.

Lazarus does fill that gap but somehow doesn't quite have the same feeling as the original Delphi.

The Free Oberon IDE looks like Turbo Pascal development enviroment from the late 80s and the early 90s. I wonder if it would have the concept of reusable components.

New comment by pkphilip in "/e/OS 4.0 is here"

pkphilip — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:34:33 +0000

Found some screenshots in their attached video: https://www.youtube.com/live/22lW9FBCldY?si=eyVmILcBtE_4KEAI

New comment by pkphilip in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:25:07 +0000

I just wish there were opensource OSs (not AOSP) like this for smartphones with full support for GPS, gyro, maps etc. But I guess that is not going to happen with all of the binary blobs.

New comment by pkphilip in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:18:42 +0000

I have to say that I hate SPAs. It is often a far worse user experience than the vanilla multi-page websites.

New comment by pkphilip in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:04:15 +0000

You mean the experiments where they said there wasn't enough data to show that what-cannot-be-named may have adverse effects?

Now those adverse events are showing up but you will still insist that it cannot possibly have anything to do with what-cannot-be-named without even checking

New comment by pkphilip in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:02:07 +0000

Interesting to see that I am being downvotted even when I didn't name what-cannot-be-named. The groupthink is strong on this one

New comment by pkphilip in "Blaise v0.10.0: Native Back End, Threads and Incremental Compilation"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:11:43 +0000

Interesting project! It is the first time I am hearing of it. I understand that the LSP support is in progress. It would be great if an IDE similar to Delphi could be developed as well - but I know that is a HUGE ask.

New comment by pkphilip in "Blaise v0.10.0: Native Back End, Threads and Incremental Compilation"

pkphilip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:05:02 +0000

Well said

New comment by pkphilip in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

pkphilip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:50:08 +0000

Yes, that which-cannot-be-named! It is amazing how everyone is tip toeing around it

New comment by pkphilip in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

pkphilip — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:04:10 +0000

However, this is not about age verification or protecting children. That is just the excuse they are using.

If Meta, Google etc could easily have algorithms in place for determining the age of the person seeing the video - apart from having the override capability via a parental login as you have stated.. but these platforms have consistently refused to limit the type of content they are showing to children.

New comment by pkphilip in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

pkphilip — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:33:01 +0000

I wish there was a similar attempt at making "open source" motorcycles

New comment by pkphilip in "Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars"

pkphilip — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:10 +0000

That is cool! thank you.

New comment by pkphilip in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

pkphilip — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:58:24 +0000

What a stupid move! way to make things worse for yourself! Some people have such low impulse control it is just unbelievable the sort of damage they can do to themselves and others.

New comment by pkphilip in "dBase: 1979-2026"

pkphilip — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:04:42 +0000

The Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero mess impacted a lot of software.

They could have still been the king of the hill now if it weren't for the suits who completely ruined it after Philippe Kahn left the scene.

New comment by pkphilip in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

pkphilip — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:59:40 +0000

There is a transaction charge for IMPS which is not there for UPI. Also, IMPS only works against already pre-approved bank accounts

New comment by pkphilip in "Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars"

pkphilip — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:57:53 +0000

It would be great if the Phel repl could connect to a running PHP process