Hacker News: prevailrob

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

prevailrob — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:33:03 +0000

Them beOS icons were lovely at the time

New comment by prevailrob in "Merlin Bird ID"

prevailrob — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:46:51 +0000

Discovered this app a year ago and love it. Use it almost everytime I'm out on a walk or a bike ride. Glad to see it's getting some love here. I echo the sentiments of another commenter that said it's the shining example of what "a computer in everyone's pocket" could have been.

New comment by prevailrob in "NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean"

prevailrob — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:51:11 +0000

All these worlds are yours - except Europa

New comment by prevailrob in "MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline"

prevailrob — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:52:12 +0000

I loved that show. I've struggled to explain to my teenage kids what the show was about and the appeal of it .. they don't get it. I used to tape it to VHS and still have said tapes in my loft, they haven't been played back since the late 90s. I dawned on me how much culturally significant material is probably on those tapes, down to the adverts and little MTV idents and the odd music video. I really must get round to getting them digitised.

New comment by prevailrob in "The laptop that won't die"

prevailrob — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:15:36 +0000

BonziBuddy

New comment by prevailrob in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"

prevailrob — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:43:20 +0000

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

New comment by prevailrob in "Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio"

prevailrob — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:33:32 +0000

Being from the UK, I take it NPR is the equivalent of Radio 4? (Albeit on a bigger scale, naturally)

New comment by prevailrob in "The Books We Talk About (and Those We Don’t)"

prevailrob — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:39:27 +0000

I for one would like to see IRC based book clubs flourish. Real time conversation without being limited to 140 characters