Hacker News: MobileVet

New comment by MobileVet in "The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure"

MobileVet — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:20:41 +0000

That’s a really good point. Thanks for the zoomed out perspective.

New comment by MobileVet in "The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure"

MobileVet — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:26:17 +0000

I wonder if this post was planned prior to Anthropic's announcement regarding Github's inability to handle their volume of merges.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/redesigning-source-contro...

New comment by MobileVet in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

MobileVet — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:46:16 +0000

I was at WWDC for the Vision Pro launch and asked someone a technical question about tvOS. He said, 'ah, [Jim] could answer that, but he isn't here today'. When I asked if anyone else from tvOS was here the reply was, '[Jim] is the only person on tvOS' and I am pretty sure he was serious.

New comment by MobileVet in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

MobileVet — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:07:08 +0000

This took way longer than I hoped & expected... the DeBeers cartel in full damage control has really squeezed everything they could from it.

New comment by MobileVet in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

MobileVet — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:15:44 +0000

Isn’t wild how our mind remembers these things? It has probably been 2+ decades since that command was in the front of my dome and yet, when I wanted it, it was there instantly

New comment by MobileVet in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

MobileVet — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:38:52 +0000

LOAD *.*,8,1

New comment by MobileVet in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

MobileVet — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:18:20 +0000

I’ll never forget seeing Second Life for the first time at a conference, in Flagstaff I think. You guys had a single folding table booth (as we all did) and computer running Second Life. Our team thought it was pretty cool and we talked about it quite a bit back at the office later. It was either 2002 or 2003.

We were with Evolution Robotics and were showing off the ER1, a new hobbyist robot.

Good memories for sure!

New comment by MobileVet in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

MobileVet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:03:37 +0000

But does it work on a Gibson??

New comment by MobileVet in "Rebasing in Magit"

MobileVet — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:44:12 +0000

Run spacemacs in ‘evil mode’ so you can use Vim!

New comment by MobileVet in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

MobileVet — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:06:13 +0000

Love that they added a switch after you comment... nice work!

New comment by MobileVet in "How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)"

MobileVet — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:22:25 +0000

Thanks for this… great trip down memory lane. I also worked at Babbages during the 1993 academic year. I probably spent my whole paycheck there! I definitely considered myself lucky, I didn’t find a wife but it sure beat McDonald’s!

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

MobileVet — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:36:19 +0000

I like your thought process around the ‘empty’ case. While the opposite of a filter is no filter, to your point, that is probably not really the desire when it comes to data retrieval. We might have to revisit that ourselves.

New comment by MobileVet in "I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D"

MobileVet — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:42:32 +0000

Fantastic. Nice work using color as additional altitude information.

Maybe I missed it, but it is always fun to see the origin and destination when looking at flight tracks.

New comment by MobileVet in "Descent, ported to the web"

MobileVet — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:10:26 +0000

I was lucky enough to have a flight stick with a hat switch. Absolutely unfair, but I tore up my peers in the dorm because of that. Fantastic memories.

New comment by MobileVet in "Hung by a thread"

MobileVet — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:21:24 +0000

Man I miss embedded robotics work. So fun to write a control loop / algorithm and then see it play out in the real world. Whoops, guess we better review that routine...

New comment by MobileVet in "Unifi Travel Router"

MobileVet — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:07:46 +0000

Took my PS5 Pro on a work trip. Was livid to find out the horrific 'browser' on the PS5 wasn't able to handle the captive portal login page. $700 gaming rig and it can't load a simple HTML page so I can enter my name and room number?! Ridiculous.

Thought about it for a few minutes and realized that the portal was likely just doing mac filtering. So I adjusted my MacBook Pro's MAC address to be the same as the PS5, went through the portal login and then powered down the MBP. Booted up the PS5 and I was online.

Damn it feels good to be a gangster.

New comment by MobileVet in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

MobileVet — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:57:43 +0000

Honestly, he doesn’t need to be the best to make it enjoyable. He seems like a generally chill guy and he goes back and breaks down his games. Fascinating to hear what he was thinking and why he did what he did.

New comment by MobileVet in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

MobileVet — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:33:52 +0000

If you still want to experience the joys of RTS... but struggle to play after so many years away, I highly recommend catching a few streams from Grubby. He plays WC3 and a few other games and is quite entertaining to watch. He is also crazy good... His typical APM during a game hovers between 200 and 250. He is an absolute beast at leveraging his items and maximizing his heroes' hp.

https://youtu.be/qaaWsRfbsls?si=EJ0WBvJ9hMmQCaNb

New comment by MobileVet in "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation"

MobileVet — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:38:02 +0000

I know they have to peak interest, but man, so many spoilers in the 2 trailers. They look amazing, clearing a huge budget and I hope a solid adaptation… sad for people that don’t know the story to miss out on the reveals.

New comment by MobileVet in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

MobileVet — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:55:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing the story and committing to a 6-month and 1 year follow up. We will definitely be interested to hear further how it went over time.

In the mean time, I am curious where the time was spent debugging and building Atlas deployments? It certainly isn't the cheapest option, but it has been quite a '1 click' solution for us.