Hacker News: progforlyfe

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

progforlyfe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:13:37 +0000

I love it! I just wish I could enlarge the photos! EDIT: ah, it works to right-click open image in new tab.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

progforlyfe — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:16:23 +0000

I grew up on the small 6 inch 1 bit Mac SE display so the art style has a special place in my heart. Sadly I'm too "dumb" to fully enjoy the game as it requires a lot of attention to detail -- amazing if you enjoy detective style puzzles! I still highly respect it.

New comment by progforlyfe in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

progforlyfe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:08:58 +0000

wow, had no idea. that's honestly hilarious!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Facebook is cooked"

progforlyfe — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:54:19 +0000

I'm definitely not a "fan" of Facebook or anything, though I do use it and make a few interactions per day -- based on this blog post I think the reason why his dashboard was full of trash & slop was simply because he hasn't logged in for 8 years. If you have no interactions in 8 years (and people you friend/follow are also gone from the platform) they will resort to showing you this crap.

I honestly do not care if Facebook is cooked or goes away -- but I doubt the situation is that bad.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

progforlyfe — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:01:55 +0000

also, I would bet Linux desktop users are more likely to use an Adblocker or Brave browser, which actually block statcounter! Probably not enough to bump numbers significantly, but maybe 1-2% additional.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

progforlyfe — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:02:54 +0000

Every month more and more people switch to Linux and I just love it. I'm tired of one company controlling the core operating system of 85% of desktop computers and users being at their whim.

You want proprietary programs? Alright, fine, one can argue for that. But the central, core operating system of general purpose computers should be free and fully controllable by the users that own them!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

progforlyfe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:54:10 +0000

It's ridiculous that they ever did this in the first place! Just assume that things sent to you from a random seller / middleman were good products in a fully automated system.

New comment by progforlyfe in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

progforlyfe — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:24:25 +0000

Apple does not want you to resize windows. They want to set the window size for you so don't need to re-adjust it. Apple always knows what's best for the customer.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Smartphone without a battery (2022)"

progforlyfe — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:40:00 +0000

I love stuff like this. There must be millions of similar old Android devices that can still perform tasks like this, or even tiny web servers. Similar to what raspberry PIs are used for, but more powerful.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems"

progforlyfe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:55:39 +0000

I love hard-core deep debugging for stuff like this. Great work!!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

progforlyfe — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:40:30 +0000

absolutely love these time savers!!

New comment by progforlyfe in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

progforlyfe — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:18:59 +0000

and this fucking slop is going to further pollute search engine results and future LLM models as it gets scraped up. Bleak future!

New comment by progforlyfe in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

progforlyfe — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:07:54 +0000

That was supposed to be the whole point of the Free (Libre) Software movement, not about cost/price and not about features/functionality... it was about being in control of your destiny and not being chained to the whims of a corporation!

You're right that privacy and freedom should never be sacrificed for convenience or aesthetics!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups"

progforlyfe — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:44:50 +0000

Probably what they meant but -- Eventribe sounds like an awesome name =)

New comment by progforlyfe in "Monodraw"

progforlyfe — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:02:22 +0000

sign. Another macOS-only tool. Yawn

New comment by progforlyfe in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

progforlyfe — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:58:00 +0000

Beautiful that CodeRabbit reviewed an exploit on its own system!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man"

progforlyfe — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:35:12 +0000

It's not loading at all for me. Hug of death?

New comment by progforlyfe in "The best programmers I know"

progforlyfe — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:18:34 +0000

> Read The Error Message

100% !!! I get so annoyed when engineers get an error message and just copy/paste in Slack saying "I got this error: xyz" and nothing else... No inspection of the error, no reading docs or at least putting it in a search engine. No "This is what I tried so far...". Just a brand-dead copy/paste and shoving it someone else's plate to perform all those steps.

New comment by progforlyfe in "I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs"

progforlyfe — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:23:23 +0000

Extremely high level genius stuff -- nice work and thank you for your efforts!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k"

progforlyfe — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:57:17 +0000

Wow, until the very last paragraph for some reason I was thinking that it COST $10,000 to leak the email of any YouTube user, like either a black market cost or purchasing cloud resources =) -- Very nice exploit though!