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New comment by CommonGuy in "The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive"

CommonGuy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:22 +0000

Reminds me of sprinkling DoEvents all over my VBA code to keep it "snappy" when I started to get into programming

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

CommonGuy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362401

Points: 216

# Comments: 76

New comment by CommonGuy in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

CommonGuy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:34:47 +0000

Acid (oxalic acid, formic acid) treatments can be used multiple times in a row, but are harder on the bees

New comment by CommonGuy in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

CommonGuy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:31:51 +0000

Yes, they remove the mites if they detect them. Asian honey bee colonies usually do not collapse from varroa mites.

But since European honey bees produce much more honey, the are the prefered species and used worldwide

New comment by CommonGuy in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

CommonGuy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:27:21 +0000

I have bees myself. Beekeepers and scientists all over the world are trying to breed better bees with improved VSH. While it may work in a laboratory, it does not seem to work consistently in practice. You cannot just buy a "VSH colony/queen" and no longer treat Varroa mites. Even with careful breeding, the VSH behavior often vanishes (or is greatly reduced) after 1-2 generations.

Of course having only colonies with a strong VSH would be the end goal so we no longer need to treat our bees. But until then, better treatments are needed.

New comment by CommonGuy in "OAuth for all"

CommonGuy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:21:07 +0000

Cloudflare really likes to publish new projects, but improving them in the future is not really their style. Some examples:

- They launched Cloudflare Web Analytics in 2020, but it still does not support basic things such as UTM parameters or custom events

- With wrangler (their CLI), you still cannot undeploy a Cloudflare Page

New comment by CommonGuy in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

CommonGuy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:40:35 +0000

GraphQL implementations could switch to this

New comment by CommonGuy in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

CommonGuy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:15:34 +0000

Proxies are allowed to drop bodies of HTTP GET requests.

RFC 9110 states:

> [..] content received in a GET request has no generally defined semantics, cannot alter the meaning or target of the request [..]

> A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request [..]

The new HTTP QUERY method explained

CommonGuy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/new-http-query-method-explained/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640974

Points: 220

# Comments: 172

The new HTTP QUERY method explained

CommonGuy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/new-http-query-method-explained/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596269

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Stack Overflow for Agents

CommonGuy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:46:37 +0000

Article URL: https://agents.stackoverflow.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487507

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by CommonGuy in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

CommonGuy — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:55:15 +0000

He was arrested in New York, so he was in the US

New comment by CommonGuy in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

CommonGuy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:43:49 +0000

Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.

Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.

gRPC in the browser: gRPC-Web under the hood

CommonGuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-web-deep-dive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489300

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Virtual Scrolling: Rendering messages without lag

CommonGuy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:40:34 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/using-virtual-scrolling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by CommonGuy in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

CommonGuy — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:28:59 +0000

Insufficient mock data in the staging environment? Like no BYOIP prefixes at all? Since even one prefix should have shown that it would be deleted by that subtask...

From all the recent outages, it sounds like Cloudflare is barely tested at all. Maybe they have lots of unit tests etc, but they do not seem to test their whole system... I get that their whole setup is vast, but even testing that subtask manually would have surfaced the bug