Hacker News: 8bitme

New comment by 8bitme in "Turn Dependabot off"

8bitme — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:52:08 +0000

The issue with not updating often enough is that if there is a zero day and you're far enough behind you will be forced to go through the pain of working out how to upgrade to the latest patched version where there may be a painful upgrade path in between

New comment by 8bitme in "YAGRI: You are gonna read it"

8bitme — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:37:26 +0000

For `updated_at` and `deleted_at` making them nullable and null until touched is incredibly useful.

Answering queries like how many of these were never updated? Or how many of these were never cancelled?

New comment by 8bitme in "Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted"

8bitme — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:31:47 +0000

This sort of thing is also an issue for phone numbers, some other company could have used your new number for robocalls and gotten it spam blocked on Truecaller and similar services.

New comment by 8bitme in "Makefiles for Web Work (2022)"

8bitme — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:42:49 +0000

Makefiles also have good support for tab completion of the make targets in most shells.

New comment by 8bitme in "Did you lose your AirPods?"

8bitme — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:31:27 +0000

Good use of Fermi reasoning

New comment by 8bitme in "The Lunacy of Artemis"

8bitme — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:33:37 +0000

*The Lunarcy of Artemis

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Light Speed Constraint

8bitme — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://bauzen.substack.com/p/light-speed-constraint

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213065

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by 8bitme in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

8bitme — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:05:48 +0000

> the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking.

I would apply this to fiction books too. Some people consider reading fiction books a waste of time.

But fiction books too can expand your mind by exploring ideas that may not be possible in non-fiction books or exploring the same ideas but in a way that non-fiction books cannot achieve easily or at all.

New comment by 8bitme in "Focus by Automation"

8bitme — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:00:05 +0000

On the typing point, touch typing is also really important to hone early as it can prevent neck strain vs not being able to touch type and constantly look down and up

New comment by 8bitme in "Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?"

8bitme — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:16:09 +0000

It is really hard making something complex seem simple.

A lot of what we take for granted has had plenty thought put into their design.

The book the Design of Everyday Things goes into this in more detail.

New comment by 8bitme in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

8bitme — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 07:46:30 +0000

It may already be the case but it's not clear. If Bruno supported importing Postman collections it would be an easy decision moving across

New comment by 8bitme in "SumatraPDF Reader"

8bitme — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:16:12 +0000

SumatraPDF does not acquire a file lock on the pdf. This is really useful if you're debugging a process that outputs a pdf and you want to see how the pdf refreshes. With other readers the tool that tries to replace the pdf will fail as the pdf viewer has a lock on the file.

New comment by 8bitme in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

8bitme — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:30:48 +0000

It also supports a subset of extensions on the Android app vs most other browser apps that support no mobile extensions

New comment by 8bitme in "Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap"

8bitme — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:24:55 +0000

Big props to Jeff.

As he says repeatedly in his posts if you don't like his art style or games you're free to find other games.

He's been supporting himself successfully this way for over 25 years despite the criticism. Clearly there is a community of people who favor his style of games depsite "the old school art style"