Hacker News: JoeOfTexas

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

JoeOfTexas — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:56:00 +0000

I find it useful, and use it almost daily. Helps answer "how to" questions for working on my house, development or just general questions. If I need more info, I just look at the links or videos which are also right there.

To each their own.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

JoeOfTexas — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:06:01 +0000

Status quo changes at the speed of snail.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"

JoeOfTexas — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:11:03 +0000

In web development, you mostly deal with data, sometimes you need to group that data, and some of these algos can help with that.

Most useful when you work with large datasets, if you can reduce a workload that takes hours into minutes or less, congrats, otherwise, you are forced to wait the hours. Either way, job security.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

JoeOfTexas — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:19:22 +0000

Internet + Natural Gas + Light + Water + Home Insurance + Auto Insurance + Property Tax + Phone + Home Security + Car Gas + Credit Cards

A $350k mortgage with bills, is expensive. Will eat up a whole check if you don't make more than $140k/year.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

JoeOfTexas — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:18:35 +0000

I would advise against this action. Just ride the crash.

Show HN: Built a soundboard for my haunted garage with AI assistance

JoeOfTexas — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:45:40 +0000

It's 3 weeks from Halloween and I decided to host a haunted garage at my house for our neighborhood. I drafted a layout of the garage, got donated decorations, spent $500 on amazon to transform the garage and found a great horror ambience on youtube.

Oh crap, its 1.5 weeks away now, and I need sound effects. All the apps have prefilled spooky sound effects. None of the apps let me auto-play sound effects, because I'm short on actors.

I do web dev, simple, I just make one. Tadah, in about an hour I got a prototype. In 4 hours I finished it. I had some boilerplate already done to get it up on a URL.

Next actual sound fx...

1. Download a few from free soundfx sites.

2. Crap, I need specific ones, found ElevenLabs, and generated my own, and downloaded a few already generated by others.

3. Upload to R2

4. Hardcode into the throwaway webapp

5. The show is ON.

Got a good 2.5 hours of about 200+ people, and sometimes the sound fx lined up perfect with actors scaring our guests. FUN!

Now, I'm showing it off on HN, before I throw it away. Goodbye.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808062

Points: 1

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New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia"

JoeOfTexas — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:56:01 +0000

Finally, holding my Nokia shares pays off. I was down pretty bad since the meme stock phase.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Show HN: Verbiage, a Gemini-powered word game"

JoeOfTexas — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:05:23 +0000

This was actually pretty cool. It's similar to crossword puzzles in how you get a hint. Maybe its too easy though, I got it in 2 attempts. I'm definitely not smart lol.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine"

JoeOfTexas — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:05:12 +0000

One man shows be like that =(

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine"

JoeOfTexas — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:18:18 +0000

I can't seem to find an demo of what this can do. Am I blind or is there no example?

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites"

JoeOfTexas — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:03:08 +0000

I spent too much time trying to build one of these gaming portals, and they pop them up as a scam like nothing. Must be a team of people behind it.

The technology behind the scenes and UI design are all well made.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting 'Woke AI'"

JoeOfTexas — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:13:13 +0000

Is AI free speech?

Show HN: Made an app for streamers to overlay live Telemetry for Bambu printers

JoeOfTexas — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:55:13 +0000

It works for my P1S, but could use help testing on other printers.

I would love some help from a designer to make the stream overlay look sleek.

If you don't have Python setup, no worries, I made a zip file that has a Windows app.exe to run the app.

In the /static folder is the html/css/js files that let you customize the look and feel. The python app runs a webserver with websockets to share the live telemetry data from printer to browser.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537152

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?"

JoeOfTexas — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:18:42 +0000

There is a bit more nuance in using `this` in a named function that wasn't covered. Named functions defined in classes are scoped outside of the class, meaning they are not bound to the class. To use `this` in your named function, you usually have to bind it in the constructor using `this.functionName.bind(this)`

Arrow functions defined within a class are scoped and bound to the class automatically. Hence, arrow functions do not require calling the .bind in constructor, and you can happily use `this` inside arrow functions.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering"

JoeOfTexas — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:26:22 +0000

So who will develop the first Logic Core that automates the context engineer.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "Weird Expressions in Rust"

JoeOfTexas — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:41:59 +0000

Bruh, I started learning Rust yesterday. Why do you do this to me. Now I don't know anything I studied.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom"

JoeOfTexas — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:57:37 +0000

Doesn't AI have diminishing returns on it's pseudo creativity? Throw all the training output of LLM into a circle. If all input comes from other LLM output, the circle never grows. Humans constantly step outside the circle.

Perhaps LLM can be modified to step outside the circle, but as of today, it would be akin to monkeys typing.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "2048 with only 64 bits of state"

JoeOfTexas — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:45:51 +0000

I too am impressed with his bash script. Simple and concise.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

JoeOfTexas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:49:56 +0000

Debugging on Firefox has always been awkward with sourcemaps. The sourcemaps load late, so breakpointing is hard at load time.

New comment by JoeOfTexas in "I've acquired a new superpower"

JoeOfTexas — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:10:47 +0000

Wife was not impressed. That hit home haha.