<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: smackeyacky</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=smackeyacky</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:51:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=smackeyacky" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a long, desperate and complicated tale as the Windows team, frightened by their own shadows, attempted to head off any and all possible competition.  From web views to tablet interfaces and every other mistake you can see the legacy of it in windows 11.  The tablet/touch screen panic also affected Linux as well but at least most of the worst of that has been fixed.<p>When I get jobs to work on older systems I get a visceral sick feeling whenever the server version of windows with the touch screen interface comes up in RDP.  Hideous and useless.<p>Win2k was easily the best thing they ever did.  Every version of server since then has pushed admins to linux</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339789</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which is true, so the distribution of the software cracker would have been fairly limited I would have thought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:12:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338972</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who is the customer in this business model.  Does that change the way you might think about prisons that must make a profit?<p>You might argue that it drives efficiency but what does efficiency mean in the context of a prison?  Cheaper food for the inmates?  Less pay for the guards?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:35:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307062</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Why Our Memory Slips After Age 50"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds simplistic but I found a multivitamin helped me with speed of recall that I noticed creeping up on me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297761</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In retrospect the inability of the empire to hold Singapore against the Japanese in WW2 and leave Australia in the hands of the US was the unraveling of the British empire.  The Dutch one as well with the fall of the Dutch East Indies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:00:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293612</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven’t looked at the code but the collision detection was buggy even back in the day.  You have to switch lanes while there is nothing or a donkey in front of you.  If the donkey is in the other lane it registers a hit even if it looks like you passed it<p>Edit: line 1750 is where it does a simple collision check and yep looks like it registers a collision without checking you’re past the donkey or not</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:26:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293397</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazing how they appear when money is involved.  Let’s talk bout AI intellectual property theft on a scale never seen before in human history, or Uber operating illegally until they were able to coerce permission, or the open collusion of robber barons in the guilded age, or the opium wars.<p>Or slavery and the history of the new world.  Let’s talk about that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:58:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266142</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Behind every great fortune is a great crime</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:11:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255267</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gemini has been a hilarious companion to my while I fixed the balance shaft chain guides in my old Mitsubishi triton (mighty max for US readers).<p>First it told me I could just remove said balance shaft chain as an emergency repair.  Sorry Gemini, it also drives the oil pump.<p>Then it told me I could remove the water contaminated oil caused by removing the timing case by filling the crankcase with hot, soapy water and running the engine.  Lord no.<p>Then it gave the wrong instructions for putting new gears on the balance shafts which meant the chain guides didn’t align with the chain. I’ll do it my way thanks Gemini.<p>The rest of the mistakes are too trivial to recount and sure it’s a pretty obscure subject but if I trusted it with a topic I’m not familiar with there is a huge potential for damage if you blindly follow it’s overconfidence.  I miss normal searching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:07:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253269</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the way.  You can jump in and out at any time and let everybody else wear the pain of working it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119866</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Time to revive the Sopwith Camel</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060625</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indian companies just don’t have the contacts and background to access capital in the way that “yeh we went to school together” that opens more doors.  It often seems like VC is designed to keep the idiot sons of the aristocracy occupied rather than being about building anything great.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:09:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042720</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The old HTC One M8 used to fill this niche but they might be too old to use on the daily any more.  I’ve been thinking of digging mine out, the headphone output was great</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:42:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033182</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume there are shortcuts like extending the service life of particular consumables and whatnot.<p>Even something like a Gripen, designed to be run from makeshift airfields needs 10 hours of maintenance per hour of flight. Maybe it’s just hard to build supersonic, combat capable airframes as was suggested above.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030209</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a fundamental misreading of self described “conservatives”.  They only pay lip service to economic liberalism because it gives them something to rally around.  It’s always been more about prejudice and punishment. If you want proof, look at the shift of the religious aligned conservatives starting in the 1960s who once leaned economically toward social democracy but quickly shifted right when the right started pandering to prejudice.<p>It’s a worldwide shift, happened across western nations as the left (once a bastion of prejudice) moved toward more progressive ideals.<p>Self identifying conservatives have never been terribly interested in economics and never will be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:20:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028835</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still, the F16 is 16 hours of maintenance per hour of flight or something close to that.  Which probably isn’t terrible compared to other aircraft but doesn’t seem sensible for something without aircrew</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028589</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not when you consider the cost per hour of flight.  You want a wingman you’re better off with cheap, cheap to run and disposable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:31:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028336</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "10 REM"_(C2SLFF4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The technique of putting machine code behind a REM was common in the Microbee (another Z80 machine).  Often used for sound effects in games as the standard PLAY basic statement only did tones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:08:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014694</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "John C. Dvorak has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He set the style of being confidently incorrect.  At least he was entertaining.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:46:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014508</link><dc:creator>smackeyacky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smackeyacky in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LG monitors not TVs</p>
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