Hacker News: space_ghost

New comment by space_ghost in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

space_ghost — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:50:30 +0000

Here's a good starting point for those of us that use XFCE:

New comment by space_ghost in "Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig"

space_ghost — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:23:01 +0000

This [0] is pretty close. IBM made a version of the Model M with Trackpoint but those are rare. Lenovo also sells [1] a keyboard that's basically a Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint in a separate chassis.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CS1FVF2

New comment by space_ghost in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

space_ghost — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:17:24 +0000

I loved my N900. Enough that I eventually replaced it with an N9. It wasn't the same, tho. The N900 had a certain charm.

New comment by space_ghost in "X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans"

space_ghost — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:25:13 +0000

Followed immediately by these groups making VPNs a standard part of their toolkit. This data is enlightening but its reveal doesn't solve the problem.

New comment by space_ghost in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

space_ghost — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:47:56 +0000

I thought Myna looked weirdly familiar. I use Source Code Pro just about everywhere.

New comment by space_ghost in "Starcloud"

space_ghost — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:44:37 +0000

The Webb telescope is a _wildly_ different apparatus, designed from the ground up to run as cool as possible, and with an effectively unlimited budget. It lives in the shadow of the Earth behind multiple layers of shielding. These "data centers" need to live in direct sunlight and operate as cheaply as possible _at scale._ Very little of Webb's tech is applicable.

New comment by space_ghost in "The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls"

space_ghost — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:55:24 +0000

"Every time I see a programmer they're just staring at their monitors." :D

New comment by space_ghost in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

space_ghost — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:18:22 +0000

Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.

New comment by space_ghost in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

space_ghost — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:54:05 +0000

I have three of the cells, framed in my office. I adored the TV show.

New comment by space_ghost in "Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band"

space_ghost — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:49:59 +0000

That's high praise. :D

New comment by space_ghost in "Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue"

space_ghost — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:33:45 +0000

The response rate is impressive! The "quality" of the responses not so much. Here's a transcript of my second test:

Moshi: "Hi there, what's going on?" Me: "What year is it?" Moshi: "Oh, it's 2019. I think it was about a year ago." Me: "Are you sure it's 2019?" Moshi: "Oh, yes, I'm sure. It must be 2019. The number is for the last one." Me: "What is COVID-19?" Moshi: "That's a rare disease. It's caused by an overactive immune system that attacks the skin."

At this point it stopped responding to me.

New comment by space_ghost in "Windows NT for Power Macintosh"

space_ghost — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:13:11 +0000

The truest of arts require no purpose other than to exist.

New comment by space_ghost in "Playwright Test Generator"

space_ghost — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:06:33 +0000

100% agree, that screenshot is a _perfect_ example of why I don't use these tools.

New comment by space_ghost in "Playwright Test Generator"

space_ghost — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:04:30 +0000

SDET here, and no, I don't use these tools. Hammering out the actual test code is the easiest (and most fun!) part of the job for me, tools like this one actually make that experience painful and slower. :(

New comment by space_ghost in "Untranslatable"

space_ghost — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:55:55 +0000

I like the idea, but the "see what people have added" button on the landing page links to the new-entry page instead of the explore page.

New comment by space_ghost in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

space_ghost — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:03:18 +0000

Nitpicks:

* On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however.

* The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

New comment by space_ghost in "Google Fiber - 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 will be available to select customers"

space_ghost — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:53:03 +0000

Google Fiber started a deployment in my city (Louisville) in 2017 before eventually giving up [0] after ~2 years.

AT&T, on the other hand, has been steadily rolling out gigabit fiber across the city since 2016ish, and I've enjoyed their service that entire time. It's consistently stable, fast, and the price is only slightly higher than Google Fiber's - I think I'm paying $90/month right now for symmetric gigabit.

The local Spectrum cable ISP guys offer ~300mbit (with a pathetic upload rate), and a Spectrum sales guy once asked me if I "really needed a full gigabit, no one actually needs that much speed." Lol.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...

New comment by space_ghost in "Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review"

space_ghost — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:33:20 +0000

According to the aria-label in the page: Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, and TypeScript.

New comment by space_ghost in "Therac-25"

space_ghost — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:35:57 +0000

The always-excellent Plainly Difficult ran an episode [0] on this topic a few years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gVqBY52MY

New comment by space_ghost in "Debian celebrates 30 years"

space_ghost — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:03:57 +0000

Debian installs perfectly on my Thinkpad x61, and works great out of the box. (x)Ubuntu's installer won't even boot on this hardware.