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...as he (probably) posts to HN through a web GUI

• brudgers 11y ago
  I used a browser and a keyboard to hit the address bar and enter the URI and type my comment. Logging into HN did not required HTTPS, not GUI.
  • simoncion 11y ago
    Did you know that even Lynx is properly considered a GUI? It's a text-mode GUI, but a GUI nonetheless. Edit: To figure out where you're coming from: do you consider text editors like vim, nano, and pico to be GUIs or CLIs? Why do you hold this opinion?
    • brudgers 11y ago
      Ed is a visual line editor, and if that's a GUI then we can stop talking about PARC and just agree that Brainfuck is as good as Python via Turing Completeness while we're at it. If it's the turtles all the way down, any blinking light becomes a GUI, for what is a pixel?
      • simoncion 11y ago
        I never brought up ed. You're not a good troll, you try too hard.
    • JupiterMoon 11y ago
      He gets the content using wget and then posts directly using POST...