Archive for February 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What was better in the golden age of tech (a.k.a. the grumpy thread)

February 21, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What was better in the golden age of tech (a.k.a. the grumpy thread)
Ask HN: What was better in the golden age of tech (a.k.a. the grumpy thread)
18 by rixed | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Not that progress should be denied entirely , but I often think that the past gets discarded too quickly and many good ideas got lost with the bath water. I'm certainly not the only one to feel that way. So I'm wondering what such good ideas that have disappeared can other HNers remember. I'll start: In the golden age of sun stations, the BIOS was written in forth, and the ROM contained a forth interpreter. Not only all extension cards ROM was interpreted and therefore all extension cards were architecture independent, but you were given a Forth REPL to tinker around the boot process, or in fact at any later point once the system had started with a special key combination. That was in my opinion way ahead of the modern BIOSes, even taking into account OpenBIOS. Your turn?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

February 09, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
23 by encryptluks2 | 20 comments on Hacker News.
In the last few months Twitter has went from letting you browse the site without signing in, to now prompting you to sign in to do pretty much anything. Even something as simple as scrolling down with my mousewheel in Twitter prompts me to sign in. This also happens with official government communication pages. I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media. When requiring users to sign in and agree to the companies terms, wouldn't this be considered a form of preventing access to those communications?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

February 06, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
62 by trendingwaifu | 38 comments on Hacker News.
I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally. I have held jobs in small and big companies for mostly for 1-2 years each, traveled and lived in different countries, had 2 failed startups, and have about $500k in savings. I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now. As time went on, I started feeling less excited about everything, personal or work related. I used to be excited about new technologies, but not these days. I feel like I've seen most things before, and it's all just different iterations of the same. I increasingly wish I could go back to my 20s. Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way. This has been a recent change for me. When I was ~30 I still considered myself young and able to do anything I could do when I was in my 20s. But not anymore now. I feel like my time for everything is running out. Have you been through a similar thing? How did you deal with it?

2022 Is a Boom Year For Weddings

February 05, 2022 Add Comment
2022 Is a Boom Year For Weddings
If the predictions pan out, there will be some 2.5 million weddings in 2022 — the most since 1984 — and yet it’s never been more difficult to plan one. Here’s what couples should expect.

from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/VgxEG1M

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle

February 05, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle
Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle
5 by mahin | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word. So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?

February 01, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?
Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?
14 by Snoddas | 13 comments on Hacker News.
I'm not a morning person. Mornings are by far the most challenging time for me to be productive. I sit at my desk fighting through my brain fog trying to find something I can focus on. If I'm "lucky" something has gone wrong that needs my immediate attention [1], the small kick of adrenaline is usually enough to get my brain to wake up and I can continue being productive. By this I mean, solve problems, implement solutions, do the non-routine part of my job that I enjoy. But having stuff break is not a sustainable method of waking up. If everything runs smoothly it can take an hour or two before the fogs clear. Even walking the dogs in the Scandinavian winter wakes me up sufficiently. I do of course use this time in some manners, read HN/reddit/blogs, write emails, meetings.. But I don't do any "real work", at least it feels that way. So finally my to question What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning? [1] Bosses boss-boss decided that 24/7 oncall is too expensive so 8-17 it is.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?

February 01, 2022 Add Comment
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
24 by etamponi | 28 comments on Hacker News.
This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional? Let me provide a (frustrating) example: the last straw for me has been OneDrive. I am using it to select and share photos from my wedding. It is an app written by one of the largest and most ancient software companies in history, so they should know something about making apps. And still: 1) The directory list view keeps "losing" the position at which I am, so every time I share a photo, I have to scroll down to where I left (in a directory with 5000 pictures). 2) If I screenshare using the Google Cast functionality, after a few dozens photos it loses the signal and I have to wait a few minutes before reconnecting. The entire app becomes extremely slow in the meantime. 3) The app in general is inconceivably slow. What is taking so long? I am viewing the same directory for 2 hours, why is it still so slow to load? So at this point I am struggling to understand: how comes such an app got released? Are the incentives given to developers so at odd with app quality?

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