Hacker News: Brosper

Discover Crosspad the best finger drumming web app

Brosper — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://crosspad.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138437

Points: 1

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New comment by Brosper in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

Brosper — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:43:32 +0000

It's the end of cheap AI. (It's my opinion.)

It helps them cut the subsidization of tokens. Then they will release Pro x2, which could be the same as the old $200 but with fewer tokens.

An AI Agent. In COBOL. Yes

Brosper — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:59:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xawt/cobold-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687923

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Brosper in "Show HN: My portfolio as a working terminal (vanilla JavaScript, one HTML file)"

Brosper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:05:18 +0000

It's more like a magic than a real implementation. Originally it contained only basic commands, but I added some that users were complaining about.

New comment by Brosper in "Show HN: My portfolio as a working terminal (vanilla JavaScript, one HTML file)"

Brosper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:58:10 +0000

It's working. If not, write me what commends are not working.

New comment by Brosper in "Show HN: My portfolio as a working terminal (vanilla JavaScript, one HTML file)"

Brosper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:52:23 +0000

good idea, I would add it right away!

Show HN: My portfolio as a working terminal (vanilla JavaScript, one HTML file)

Brosper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:49:08 +0000

Built my personal site as a browser terminal. No frameworks, no build step — just one HTML file with ~1000 lines of vanilla JS.

Has a virtual filesystem you can navigate (ls, cd projects, cat cv.pdf), easter eggs, a tour command for non-technical visitors, and tracks what commands people actually type via Umami.

The interesting part: looking at real usage data to see what commands people try has been more fun than building it. Turns out recruiters type full frustrated sentences when lost.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624519

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by Brosper in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

Brosper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:57:47 +0000

It's baked in literally into every coding tutorial and is kind of industry standard, like JIRA. Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.

New comment by Brosper in "One endpoint. Best model. Any task"

Brosper — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:23:12 +0000

Stop choosing between 200+ AI models. Send one POST request — CodeSOTA routes to the optimal model for your task, budget, and latency needs.

One endpoint. Best model. Any task

Brosper — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:23:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.codesota.com/api-landing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552639

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Brosper in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

Brosper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:50:59 +0000

I think that only the author of this post didn't know that. Everybody know that Niantic is a big data company.

New comment by Brosper in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

Brosper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:40:50 +0000

I discovered it working in https://tolgee.io but I am kind of surprised it boomed today :D

What I can say that it's a well-maintained format but also kinda hard to learn.

Show HN: CSR vs. SSR Detector

Brosper — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:23:04 +0000

Hi HN

After work I built a small Chrome extension that detects whether a webpage is rendered using Server Side Rendering, Client Side Rendering, or a hybrid approach.

As a frontend developer I often wanted a quick way to check how a site is rendered without opening devtools and digging through network and DOM. This started as a personal after hours project and turned into something I use daily, so I decided to share it.

What it does • Detects SSR, CSR, or hybrid rendering • Recognizes frameworks like Next.js, React, Nuxt, Gatsby and others • Shows basic performance timings like DOM ready and FCP • Keeps last 10 checks in local history • Works fully locally with no data collection

Accuracy is based on 15 plus indicators and works surprisingly well across modern stacks.

Everything is open source. No tracking. No external servers. Just a lightweight dev tool.

I recently improved React 18 detection, fixed history display, added better error handling, and cleaned up docs and roadmap.

This is very much a side project made for fun and learning. If it helps even a few devs or SEO folks, I will be happy.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/csr-vs-ssr-detector...

Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for checking it out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764329

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Brosper in "Wheat Prices Help Predict Baseball Averages"

Brosper — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:32:10 +0000

Here's an absurd claim: If you want to estimate a baseball player's true batting average, you should look at wheat prices.

Not metaphorically. Not as a sanity check. Actually use them in your calculation. Your estimate will be more accurate.

This isn't a trick. It's called Stein's Paradox, and it broke statistics in 1956. The proof is airtight. The math is correct. And yet it feels deeply, fundamentally wrong.

Wheat Prices Help Predict Baseball Averages

Brosper — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.codesota.com/explainers/steins-paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499155

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Brosper in "Chess.com regional pricing: A case study"

Brosper — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:52:14 +0000

Thank you for this. Have you heard about PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)? Some pages sell products -50% in Poland because we don't earn as much as in other countries.

New comment by Brosper in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

Brosper — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:56:07 +0000

I like this Techno Fandom page!

New comment by Brosper in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

Brosper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:28:43 +0000

USA is only one country. What about the rest?

New comment by Brosper in "arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud"

Brosper — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:43:26 +0000

You don't understand UX/UI at all. It's User Experience and User Interface. This service is just obsolete and unfriendly. It's not about ASCII style etc.

New comment by Brosper in "I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)"

Brosper — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:42:22 +0000

I talked with them. They just offer it but don't offer any support for it.