Hacker News: poolnoodle

New comment by poolnoodle in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

poolnoodle — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:10:00 +0000

I'm under 30 at least and I do feel nostalgia for these albeit not having used most of them. First OS I ever used must have been Windows 95. I wish we could all go back to Windows 7, that was the best OS ever imo.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

poolnoodle — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:34:11 +0000

I'm starting to think HN isn't what it used to be when rubbish like this hits the front page.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

poolnoodle — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:24:00 +0000

Bad luck but doesn't really matter, does it?

New comment by poolnoodle in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

poolnoodle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:18:33 +0000

I don't know what the correct solution to this problem looks like but in my opinion it's not only the kids that need saving. Social Media is eroding our societies and adults are just as hooked if not more.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

poolnoodle — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:51:01 +0000

You really think Apple doesn't gather data on what you do on your devices? This notion that Android == spyware is so old and boring but HN just loves Apple.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

poolnoodle — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:05 +0000

The original is timeless and way more beautiful in my opinion.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

poolnoodle — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:05 +0000

Why not leave it in the wild? Now the poor thing has to stare at the inside of a bucket for the rest of its life.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

poolnoodle — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:26:20 +0000

Making the art changes you. Don't do it with the goal of having produced 'content' in mind.

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

poolnoodle — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:22:03 +0000

In my opinion Android (especially the Google Pixel flavour) is vastly more intuitive and logical than i(Pad)OS these days. I almost need to consult a manual to change my wallpaper on iOS. Anything to do with file management or notifications is also just plain bad on iOS. The keyboard is bad. Background downloads don't work reliably. If I want to transfer photos from a computer onto an iPhone I need special software and then cannot delete those pictures on the phone itself. I can choose between 3 multitasking paradigms on iPad – terrible!

New comment by poolnoodle in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

poolnoodle — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:27:38 +0000

Thank god for the Ladybird project

New comment by poolnoodle in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

poolnoodle — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:58:13 +0000

I freaking hate my Ikea chair. Thing shocks me every time I get up from it and then touch it.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

poolnoodle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:57:07 +0000

Maybe knife and fork could be the hands in the app icon.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

poolnoodle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:42:28 +0000

You can usually click the year and then pick that first. But the fact that so many people don't instantly get that shows how poorly designed it is.

New comment by poolnoodle in "I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made with iCloud Photos"

poolnoodle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:50:56 +0000

I'm damn glad I never started giving my photos to the cloud, be it Apple or Google.

New comment by poolnoodle in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

poolnoodle — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:46 +0000

I've never seen a non-latin alphabet URL before, huh.

New comment by poolnoodle in "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"

poolnoodle — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:38:58 +0000

Should have called it clamp

New comment by poolnoodle in "Migrating to the EU"

poolnoodle — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:38:57 +0000

Also https://uberspace.de/en/

New comment by poolnoodle in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

poolnoodle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:51:45 +0000

In a way, doesn't AI violate non-commercial open source licenses because it takes the code and then profits from it but in a way that is so opaque that nobody can prove it?

New comment by poolnoodle in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

poolnoodle — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:30:56 +0000

The physics remind me of Little Inferno

New comment by poolnoodle in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

poolnoodle — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:52:58 +0000

CRLF vs LF?