Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

311–320 of 891 posts

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#311

Post by massysett »

neurostimulant wrote: post #304
anexprogrammer wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lenovo destroyed the Thinkpad legacy. I gave up on them a few years ago when they dropped the 7 row keyboard. The 7 row keyboard was leagues ahead of any other laptop keyboard, ever. The replacement keyboard is awful. I hate the loss of web forward/back keys too. I hate chicklet keys. I hate pgup/dn placed as though I'll almost never use them. I still prefer the trackpoint over any touchpad. I'd buy a retro Thinkpad,…

Whoa, I never tried any of the old Thinkpad. I think the keyboard in Lenovo's Thinkpad is already better than other cheap laptops, and the old one is even better?

Opinions differ on this. For a couple of years I had Thinkpads with both the old and new keyboards and I strongly preferred the new one. Each key is slightly larger, the spacing is better, and the keyboard springs are just right. However, if you use a lot of function keys, I can see why you'd like the old one better. The keyboard heavy things I do involve old school text editors (I use Vim awhile, get mad at it, switch to Emacs, then reverse) and these don't use function keys much.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#312

Post by CraigJPerry »

jmiserez wrote: post #254
Grue3 wrote: post #151

Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…

> Tab Groups Still works, I use it on a daily basis. It's just an addon now. It will probably continue to work for a few years, they've been wanting to get rid of it since 2013 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758 ) and it's still there. But I'd be glad to hear of any alternatives!

I've seen this plugin but I don't understand the use case. Group of tabs = a browser window.

Am I missing out on a productivity boost?

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#313

Post by op00to »

frik wrote: post #302
Chickenosaurus wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

500 € Notes are a gift to criminals because they allow large amounts of money to be smuggled easily - e.g. to a country where no questions are asked when you deposit large amounts of money with your fake company.

Your rhetoric is off, "smuggle" is the term for illegal stuff. Don't use it for legal stuff. And don't make cash money look like it's bad - that's just the propaganda that started after the Davos conference to bad mouth cash money in the interest of a small elite. We all know better: You transfer legal stuff. Cash money is valid money form, you just carry money around in your wallet. While it's already true, some sta…

You're free to transfer value anonymously. Purchase gold.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#317

Post by i336_ »

hackbinary wrote: post #169

list, a DOS text file browser by Vernon D. Buerg. Anyone know where I can get a copy?

...Yay, that was fun!

This has the last version of LIST that was released, 9.6y1: http://web.archive.org/web/20080704121935/http://www.buerg.c...

The earliest cached copy has 9.6x: http://web.archive.org/web/20030104124009/http://buerg.com/d...

You have to poke around to find earlier versions.

And I found 6.2a from 1987! http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/dos/RbbsInABoxVol1No2_640...

According to this poor version the file I tried to view in DOSBox was created in the year ";6". (The 9.x versions show "04/15/2016".)

Also, here's what was indexed as "ASM for early V Buerg LIST file viewer", but it's very rudimentary, at only ~1000 SLOC of ASM. No compiled copy provided so I can't test it, looks like MASM syntax: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/msdos/coast/textutil/lst60asm.zip

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#319

Post by scrollaway »

Grue3 wrote: post #151

Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…

Have you tried Bazqux as well? I've been extremely pleased with it and even signed up for a lifetime account.

https://bazqux.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#320

Post by mattbee »

mattbee wrote: post #309

Zap, the text editor for RISC OS - http://zap.tartarus.org/ (not that it's not still available, just that I can't justify working on a RISC OS system for the last ... 16 years :) ).

Also on RISC OS "The Hacker" was one _the_ best ARM disassembler / OS inspection / debugging tools. It was sold as a game cheating tool, but was particularly great for pulling apart copy protection :) Learned so much with it. Again, still available, for an irrelevant OS.
Post reply on HN