Hacker News Reader

n-gateon Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country

One thing I'd guaranteed- it's not china. China is very well adept at paying newspapers and tv firms journalists as my friends from south asia tell me and that is a much cleaner approach.

n-gateon Electronics-Recycling Innovator Going to Prison for Extending Computers’ Lives

I presume you distribute everything you create for free?

n-gateon A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine

PSA: AoE2 HD is on sale on steam right now for super cheap.

n-gateon A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine

I remember 37 mb

n-gateon Ask HN: How can individuals or small businesses acquire IP addresses?

Thank you for saying "external bgp announcements". I can go research now.

n-gateon Tipping May Be the Norm, but Not for Hotel Housekeepers

I've always wondered hoe much is a good tip? Is $2 a good for a 300usd a night hotel?

n-gateon Show HN: Blind for Apartments – Stay in touch with your neighbors anonymously

Submit anyway if HN can learn something and if it justifies sidestepping rules by removing the http and dot part.

n-gateon Ask HN: How can individuals or small businesses acquire IP addresses?

Can I use this with my own isp? Bring your own ip?

Or with azure?

n-gateon China levies anti-dumping tariffs on chemical imports from Taiwan, Malaysia, US

The article didn't mention this- how do they "justify" taxes on what is "their own province"?

n-gateon lsix: ls for images

This is the windows thumbnail view

n-gateon Emacs Fireplace

Does your DNS hosting solution allows for routing to least latency geographically closest host?

n-gateon Emacs Fireplace

Emacs

n-gateon Emacs Fireplace

Vim

n-gateon Emacs Fireplace

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too

Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on this?

2:52 UTC 9-7 vim-emacs

n-gateon Emacs Fireplace

I know about ram and don't have a computer handy but processor too?

n-gateon Surface Go with Linux Review: almost the perfect open source notepad

How is the surface line for writing code using a pen? I hear they are the best note taking devices but does that apply to code too? What are some other options for writing code?

What I'm looking for:

1) natural writing feel

2) low response times

3) easy erasing (software)

4) optional: Digitization/handwriting recognition

n-gateon Cloudflare: Welcome to Crypto Week

Points for trying to reclaim the word crypto.

n-gateon Ask HN: Bot to increase documentation usage and reduce support effort. Useful?

How do I contact you? I'm building a product for businesses and would like to use this (when ready).

n-gateon Ask HN: Bot to increase documentation usage and reduce support effort. Useful?

I would pay something. I have to evaluate more to decide how much and under what pricing model.

n-gateon Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World

Isnt it Microsoft windows registry?

n-gateon Show HN: Sciter and Node.js versus Electron

It definitely is interesting. There is a huge pent up demand for a cross platform easy to use GUI lib which is manifesting in the form of people using electron despite I'd bring resource intensive.

I will say open source or not is not an issue for most. Few look at source and rare modify it. I just want an easy API.

n-gateon Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

How many non-toy non-self compilers and interpreters are written in Rust?

n-gateon Trump signs legislation to back quantum computing with $1.2B

Does it all go to QC? If so, this is a major bet.