Hacker News: zaps

New comment by zaps in "Em dashes are fucking amazing"

zaps — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:20:41 +0000

Nice language

New comment by zaps in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

zaps — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:47:57 +0000

“Good old Vista. People give it a bad press but I’m never upgrading, why would I? It just feels like a good pair of jeans.”

New comment by zaps in "El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died"

zaps — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:56:20 +0000

Stupid question: how do they know with such fidelity what the water temp was in the Pacific in 1877?

It’s not like solid land where there are strata and whatnot that leave a geological record? Or is it?

New comment by zaps in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

zaps — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:25:33 +0000

Those icons… I just, I can’t

New comment by zaps in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

zaps — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:20:22 +0000

Lost another keyboard to Diatec

New comment by zaps in "How Much Caffeine in Coffee Cup?"

zaps — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:06:20 +0000

If you mean the actual cup, I would say close to zero

New comment by zaps in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

zaps — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:52:18 +0000

sherlocked

New comment by zaps in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

zaps — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:54:32 +0000

Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about anything?

New comment by zaps in "You are not your job"

zaps — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:26:05 +0000

Dobel says work gives us the illusion of meaning

New comment by zaps in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

zaps — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:43:26 +0000

Holy shit that’s a lot of windows

New comment by zaps in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

zaps — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:03:59 +0000

We see what you did there w/r/t whether/weather

New comment by zaps in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

zaps — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:19:01 +0000

Stop it with “free forever”. It never ever is.

New comment by zaps in "Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a Web Icon"

zaps — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:55:59 +0000

tl;dr hipster youtube has an identity crisis and falls apart

New comment by zaps in "Are arrays functions?"

zaps — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:30:46 +0000

idk probably?

New comment by zaps in "Google broke my heart"

zaps — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:40:04 +0000

I knew it was you, Google

New comment by zaps in "OpenGitOps"

zaps — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:46:29 +0000

brb, registering openjjops.org for when Jujutsu overtakes Git as the default scm

New comment by zaps in "3-way FTP: Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods"

zaps — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:37:52 +0000

kinky

New comment by zaps in "Dr. Jane Goodall's final message to the world"

zaps — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:31:54 +0000

Be excellent to each other

New comment by zaps in "Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More"

zaps — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:14:04 +0000

No way I’m reading all of that Pete

New comment by zaps in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

zaps — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:59:58 +0000

idk if you should call it that