Hacker News: regus

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.

New comment by regus in "Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount"

regus — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:48:16 +0000

If Netflix had won they would have shut down HBO Go, oops I meant HBO Now, oops I meant HBO Max, oops I meant Max, oops I meant HBO Max.

New comment by regus in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

regus — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:02:31 +0000

What is the story behind the name?

New comment by regus in "Text-Based Google Directions"

regus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:08:16 +0000

This takes me back to the MapQuest era, printing out directions and reading them while driving.

New comment by regus in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

regus — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:23:36 +0000

When I was a kid I sent a letter to Snapple telling them that they should make Snapple flavored popsicles. They sent me a nice letter telling me it was a good idea. I have not thought about it since. But I wonder if my letter directly lead to this disaster:

"Disaster on a stick An attempt to erect the world’s largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier."

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8321110

New comment by regus in "Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM"

regus — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:36:08 +0000

I tried Zork 1. I got stuck immediately. I saw a house, went to it, read what was in the mailbox, but couldn't open the door. Now what? I never played the original Zork but if this was D&D there would be a little more information to go off then just "you see a house and there is nothing you can do there".

Sonic R: The R&R mod – Hacks the Saturn Racing Game into a Platformer

regus — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://32bits.substack.com/p/sonic-r-the-r-and-r-mod

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768542

Points: 6

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Why planes periodically crash in GTA San Andreas? [video]

regus — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJ0eVY5ACw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330390

Points: 3

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New comment by regus in "Useful patterns for building HTML tools"

regus — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:36:46 +0000

I used to dislike AppleScript but now I enjoy using it. The turning point for me was when I finally bit the bullet and read a book on the subject.

AppleScript’s human readable language lulls you in this false sense of security that you can wing it and everything will just work out. This is simply not the case, it is a very quirky language and it helps to read a book to get the right mental model.

The second thing that helped was getting AppleScript debugger from Late Night Software. They recently decided to no longer develop it and release it for free on their site. It’s worth getting if you haven’t done so already.

Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52B in largest private equity buyout

regus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:27:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/electronic-arts-acquired-largest-ever-private-equity-buyout-rcna234432

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425897

Points: 61

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