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Gualdrapoon Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome

Makes you wonder if that's where they got the name of Palantir, since Denethor went mad by using one (at least according to the Peter Jackson movies, I reckon the situation was different in the books).

Gualdrapoon I love my dumb watches

My parents bought an automatic Orient watch for each of them in the 70s - those that don't require batteries nor anything. My mother's watch was stolen somewhere in the 2010s and my father broke the crystal and kept stored for like 15 years or so. Just some weeks ago I remembered about it and sent it to service - now it looks and works like new and the service itself wasn't expensive. I'm pretty amazed.

Gualdrapoon The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

Even Linus Torvalds himself acknowledges they have done some outstanding pieces of software (and I wholeheartedly agree with every word he says on this clip - it's absolutely on point about this thread's topic).

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BS-_ur-tYPw

Gualdrapoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

    Location: Bogotá, Colombia
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, TeX/ConTeXt, PHP, Jekyll, Tailwind CSS
    Portfolio: https://miler.codeberg.page/
    Résumé-CV: https://codeberg.org/miler/curriculum-vitae/raw/branch/main/curriculum-en.pdf
    Email: Please see Portfolio or CV/Résumé
    GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/

Professional graphic designer with experience in both frontend and backend web development (PHP; Wordpress, Framer, some Joomla and some Typo3), iconography, editorial design/typesetting with ConTeXt and general graphic design. Please feel free to check my portfolio for some examples of my work.

Gualdrapoon Building Better Country Selects

> A full country list inside a native `<select>` has several structural limitations:

> No filtering. Users cannot narrow the list by typing

But you can use an `<input type="text">` instead and add a `<datalist>`[0] to it with the list of countries and you will be able to filter them by typing. Granted, it still has no full support (namely, firefox), but still that's much better than a `<select>` with no filtering ability whatsoever.

Not sure why this is not more known, though, I've seen it just like a couple of times in the wild. Now, back to job searching...

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Ele...

Gualdrapoon Ask HN: How to be alone?

This might sound silly but I'd consider getting my dog a dog. This will not be the absolute solution but your dog will have a companion and your house will have more life.

Gualdrapoon Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)

Elephants should do it quicker as they don't do doomscroll when pooping, though

Gualdrapoon “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

Is "Microslop" really insulting, though?

Gualdrapoon The war against PDFs is heating up

Makes me remember of this, which was posted a few days ago here in HN:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/djvu-and-its-c...

Gualdrapoon Sprites on the Web

I remember Microsoft Front Page had a feature about doing buttons with image sprites and it spitted a ton of JS gibberish.

I don't think the example of the trophy in the article is a good use case this days, you could draw that trophy as a SVG and animate the flames with GSAP or something, or draw each flame frame as a <symbol> and animate that with CSS.

Gualdrapoon Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss

Colombia*

Gualdrapoon Music Discovery

I've discovered and learned about lots of interesting musicians listening to the radio station of my university

Gualdrapoon Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026

I remember I had a plugin that let you change your profile picture each <x> time. And I seem to recall with ubuntu's notify-osd you could reply to your incoming messages from within the notification itself. I loved using Pidgin.

"Modern" mainstream IM is completely misserable. I hate having to use one-app-per-each-protocol for the sake of "security" and "features".

Gualdrapoon How did the Maya survive?

Not sure if it's 100% clickbait, there is some really interesting stuff I didn't know.

Also it makes me realize that all indigenous peoples across what you call the Americas have been/are being subjected to all kinds of discrimination and systematic extermination, from North America all the way to the island of Tierra del Fuego, and of course here in Colombia. We all try to hide our own past for some reason and feel ashamed of it while ignoring the spaniard/european culture and beliefs they brought there have huge flaws compared to what was already here for thousands of years.

Gualdrapoon What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)

When I was much more active in Reddit did one time a meme for r/peloton of Froome yelling at disc brakes - but wrote it as "Old man yells at disk brakes".

Nobody told me anything so I guessed it was good grammar and such.

But then noticed everyone calls them "disc brakes"

Gualdrapoon Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

Gualdrapoon Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025)

Been living here in Bogotá all my life and in all my years of commuting (walking, bus and now almost exclusively cycling) and have never seen one of them.

Though I wish there were more of them. Traffic here (in general terms) is a complete nightmare but it is too civic culture.

Gualdrapoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

    Location: Bogotá, Colombia
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, TeX/ConTeXt, PHP, Jekyll, Tailwind CSS
    Portfolio: https://miler.codeberg.page/
    Résumé-CV: https://codeberg.org/miler/curriculum-vitae/raw/branch/main/curriculum-en.pdf
    Email: Please see Portfolio or CV/Résumé
    GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/

Gualdrapoon Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam

Thank you for letting us know, got a bunch of those in the last two hours, like one each five minutes, but it seems they've stopped (at least for now).

Gualdrapoon The dank case for scrolling window managers

Been using it for like two years now. It's great. No need for anything else.

Gualdrapoon KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd

I hope there can be ways to circumvent this limitation and make it usable on non-systemd installs, i.e. with elogind (systemd's "logind extracted out to be a standalone daemon") https://github.com/elogind/elogind

Gualdrapoon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Knowing there are Apple fanboys around HN (I got downvoted for saying the liquid glass thing and the iphone air were pointless) I fear they will take your comment seriously

Gualdrapoon Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Enlightenment. No, really.

If they ever move away from GTK (due to the GNOME shenanigans GNOME-izing GTK) I wish Englightenment and Xfce were together a single thing. But that's if I could ask the Tux genie three wishes.

Gualdrapoon Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Cries in KDE3 -> KDE4

Gualdrapoon Show HN: An opinionated fork of micro, built for vibe coders who enjoy code

> thicc — a fork of micro that's heavy on opinions, not bloat.

> What is thicc? File browser. Editor. Terminal. AI tools. One vibe.

I don't follow. That seems to be heavy on bloat. Or maybe I'm just happy with vis (https://github.com/martanne/vis). I don't know.

Gualdrapoon String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?

> given the uselessness of the field

It's not useless, though. String theory can be a fad (or "difficult to prove", per Witten) but some of the mathematics used in its research or "trying to prove it" have been used in other fields.

Gualdrapoon Use social media mindfully

I wish "Hacker News front page but the titles are honest"[0] was a real thing. Your TLDR does it for this article.

[0] https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-hon...

Gualdrapoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

    Location: Bogotá, Colombia
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, TeX/ConTeXt, PHP, Jekyll, Tailwind CSS
    Portfolio: https://miler.codeberg.page/
    Résumé-CV: https://codeberg.org/miler/curriculum-vitae/raw/branch/main/curriculum-en.pdf
    Email: Please see Portfolio or CV/Résumé
    GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/

Gualdrapoon CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

One day when I have some extra bucks I'd try to get a home server running, but the idea of having something eating grid electricity 24/7 doesn't seem to play along well with this 3rd world budget. Are there some foolproof and not so costly off-grid/solar setups to look at (like a Raspberry-based thingy or similar)?

Gualdrapoon 30 years of <br> tags

I think they meant that from a vanilla HTML standpoint