Hacker News: regus

New comment by regus in "Theranos.world"

regus — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:36:26 +0000

This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.

New comment by regus in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

regus — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:06:42 +0000

I had this game as a kid. Although it looked good, the gameplay left a lot to be desired.

Anyway, another great article from Fabien.

New comment by regus in "Show HN: Bible as RAG Database"

regus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:03:45 +0000

Did you include the Deuterocanonical books?

New comment by regus in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

regus — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:14:29 +0000

I used to use my Dreamcast to browse the web. I had bought the keyboard and mouse peripherals to play Quake 3, and they worked with the browser. Back then I would use a variety of free dial up internet providers. Once the free trial ran out I would have to find another. This was in addition to the Internet that my parents were paying for.

New comment by regus in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

regus — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:38:21 +0000

I also considered recommending Solitaire.

I personally enjoy playing Free Cell with a deck of actual cards (although a video game version is just as fun).

New comment by regus in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

regus — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:35:49 +0000

Here is my list, I won't go into too many details as to rules or anything like that. I recommend checking out the links below to see what the games are like.

Two Players:

- Backgammon: This is my favorite "classic" game. I think it is _way_ more fun than chess. Especially if you play it with the doubling cube. Backgammon is easy to learn and it is common across many cultures.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2397/backgammon

- Lost Cities: this is a card game for two players that does not require any reading, aside from numbers. The game is very simple to learn but has a lot of depth and it is a lot of fun. I usually recommend this a good game for couples.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50/lost-cities

- Battle Line: This is like Lost Cities but a little more complex, it has great depth.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/760/battle-line

Four Players

- The Mind: This is a four player card game that won game of the year back when it came out. It has no words at all. This game is extremely popular and the game play is very easy to learn (even easy for a kid). It requires all players to work together as team.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/the-mind

- The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine - This is also a four player card where you play as a team and there are no words. This game involves trick taking, which is gameplay mechanic that I was not familiar with before I played this, but you grandpa has probably played a card game in the past that does this (Bridge, Spades, and Hearts).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/the-crew-the-ques...

Single Player:

- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases - This game is entirely made up of reading words. It is a very clever game that is kind of like a choose your own adventure. You get multiple cases to try to solve and you have to try to beat Sherlock Holmes. It can be frustrating but also rewarding. I would recommend getting it in grandpa's native language.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2511/sherlock-holmes-con...

The Vibe Coding Era: Why AI Won't Replace Software Engineers [video]

regus — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:30:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYU7zaaRjmE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286246

Points: 1

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New comment by regus in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

regus — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:34:56 +0000

Please cite sources for those claims.

New comment by regus in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

regus — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:52:07 +0000

I tried using gimp on Mac to do some extremely basic stuff. I just wanted multiple layers to make a little mock up at work. Gimp’s mental model is unintuitive to me, I got so frustrated trying get anything done. I gave up and bought acorn for Mac to make my basic little image.

New comment by regus in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

regus — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:09:44 +0000

If you want some more Cartoon Network nostalgia, enjoy this VHS recording of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI

New comment by regus in "Car Seats as Contraception"

regus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:04:10 +0000

I didn’t need the minivan until the third kid appeared. I would have stayed with a sedan as long as possible.

New comment by regus in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

regus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:12:48 +0000

As I get older I prefer the text on my screen to be bigger than usual. Most websites tend to have super small fonts for some reason.

For coding I much prefer fonts that are bold and easier to read. Who actually likes these whimsical cursive looking comments or super thin looking fonts?

I ended up with "Roboto Mono" btw.

New comment by regus in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

regus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:22:51 +0000

And I'm over here using Graphviz like some caveman.

New comment by regus in "Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs"

regus — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:43:10 +0000

“ And I realized my setup instructions weren’t documentation. They were a wall between my product and the people who wanted to use it.”

Assuming this was written by a human, I think it is time to retire saying “this is not x it is y”.

The moment I see that I think the text is AI generated and I lose interest.

New comment by regus in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

regus — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:43:02 +0000

Jq's syntax is so arcane I can never remember it and always need to look up how to get a value from simple JSON.

New comment by regus in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

regus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:12:46 +0000

Overplowing is what created the dust storms of the Great Depression Dust Bowl era.

New comment by regus in "Hammerspoon"

regus — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:07:51 +0000

How does this compare to AppleScript?

New comment by regus in "Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography"

regus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:21:20 +0000

Looks like grainydays on youtube can finally stop chugging flaming hot mountain dew everyday in the hopes that Kodak will bring back Aerochrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KBQd_DkQw

New comment by regus in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

regus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:08:41 +0000

This afternoon I was getting the oil changed for my car, and while I was in the waiting room the Amen Break started playing from a nearby speaker.

New comment by regus in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

regus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:55:23 +0000

This is great, your final line summarizes my thoughts as well. When it comes to matters of faith your average Redditor and Hacker News commenter will heap scorn and derision on religious people for accepting things blindly without any proof, yet they will blindly accept what other people tell them is true, or now what an LLM says is true.