Hacker News: rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rffnHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:54:40 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Jürgen Habermas died"]]>See also https://bsky.app/profile/suhrkamp.de/post/3mgzkowbtrk2r

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:09:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376863rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376863<![CDATA[Jürgen Habermas died]]>Article URL: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article69b564f11d2f30593708d717/weltweit-bekannter-denker-juergen-habermas-im-alter-von-96-jahren-gestorben.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376832

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:06:10 +0000https://www.welt.de/kultur/article69b564f11d2f30593708d717/weltweit-bekannter-denker-juergen-habermas-im-alter-von-96-jahren-gestorben.htmlrffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376832https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376832<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Framework: Something big just got better"]]>I hope its an update to the 16 inch laptop, maybe using the Ryzen AI platform.

Something bigbcould also be a printer. Oh well…

]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953619rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953619<![CDATA[Framework: Something big just got better]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRG7Og61mw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953576

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:49:15 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRG7Og61mwrffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953576<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "You know more Finnish than you think"]]>The word kalsarikännit told me how compact the Finnish language can be. They even have a word for this! :-)

]]>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:29:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836227rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836227https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836227<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"]]>Many years ago I has some pretty good experience with a FrogPad. See http://www.frogpad.com/

Maybe it is possible to find one sold used. I think they are not available new anymore.

There different versions for left and right hand use.

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:55:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180784rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180784https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180784<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "JSON has become today's machine-readable output format (on Unix)"]]>Thanks. I wasn't aware about this library.

]]>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:17:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162122rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162122<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "JSON has become today's machine-readable output format (on Unix)"]]>The article suggests that Gnu Awk might soon improve its understanding of JSON.

Can somebody please shed some light at this? Will gawk get JSON support. Or is is already there and I just need to get a recent version?

]]>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:19:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157423rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157423<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Databroker Files"]]>40000 apps tracking user location

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:07:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710401rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710401https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710401<![CDATA[Databroker Files]]>Article URL: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-new-data-set-reveals-40000-apps-behind-location-tracking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710400

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:07:39 +0000https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-new-data-set-reveals-40000-apps-behind-location-tracking/rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710400https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710400<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Programmer in Berlin: Culture"]]>I never understood why Ritter Sport has a feature to close so that some can be saved later.

]]>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:50:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055882rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055882<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Practical Jokes (2007)"]]>Reminds me of the old days. When X11 was not correctly secured, i.e., most of the time, it was possible to remotely login to someone‘s system, take a screenshot of :0 and display it on :0. :0 is the local display, so the computer seemed to be frozen.

More funny when all were in the room. :-)

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:02:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943504rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943504https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943504<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "The backlash against the world's most hated font may be ending"]]>I do not think I can agree to hate something, in particular in larger groups.

]]>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:02:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923206rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923206https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923206<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news"]]>Given that Canada is in America one would assume they consume much American news.

]]>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 06:06:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376442rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376442<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)"]]>Ah, the memories. First DKB Trace, then the newly renamed POV-Ray.

Left the computer on for hours to get tiny pictures.

Adding a 387 was a huge step forward; IIRC approximately a 10x speedup.

]]>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644052rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644052<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "United Airlines starts serving passengers personalized ads on seatback screens"]]>This reminds me if scenes from the movie Idiocracy. They were mostly right about our future society (the movie is from 2005).

One thing they got wrong though. It did not take humanity 500 years to reach this depicted state.

]]>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:41:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610952rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610952<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Awesome Engineering Games"]]>I would have added the Portal games to the list.

]]>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348505rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348505https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348505<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)"]]>Thanks for the memories. These were the cool tools in the nineties. Not a very practical UI, but good looking. :-)

]]>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:56:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871350rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871350https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871350<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "Streaming Databases: Everything You Wanted to Know"]]>The site works for me now.

]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:52:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595443rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595443https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595443<![CDATA[New comment by rffn in "iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C"]]>Yes, I was using the term thin client as they did in the article. DeX actually tries to make the phone the only computer one needs. Just connect a screen and either use the phone as keyboard/mouse or connect a physical device.

This might be even more interesting with Samsung TVs which allow wireless DeX. Have not seen this in action though.

]]>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:51:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484891rffnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484891https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484891