Hacker News: MobileVet

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.

New comment by MobileVet in "How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep"

MobileVet — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:29:59 +0000

Melatonin does have the potential for augmentation, but it isn’t a certainty or even the majority of people.

Oddly, the result isn’t a loss of initial efficacy but instead a ‘wide awake at 3am’ situation.

New comment by MobileVet in "New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours"

MobileVet — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:37:40 +0000

Even if it is later proved that Amyloids are NOT at fault, doesn’t the ability to remove them effectively improve our ability to make that very determination? My impression of this is at the very worst it isolates that variable and pushes the overall understanding forward significantly.

New comment by MobileVet in "Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy"

MobileVet — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:21:18 +0000

Yes! That latency was very quick to induce nausea for me while trying to play Battlefront with my son. I thought maybe it was just the frame rate… but latency makes more sense.

Thanks for sharing that and solving a mystery for me!!

New comment by MobileVet in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

MobileVet — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:47:44 +0000

Really nicely done. Love the mixing capabilities, that was particularly nicely implemented.

New comment by MobileVet in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

MobileVet — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:51:19 +0000

This was so much funnier than I wish it was… ugh. Contacting Google. Good luck.

New comment by MobileVet in "macOS Tahoe"

MobileVet — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:41:40 +0000

The part that I am so tired of is the ‘we are the best at this and this is amazing’ pitch that comes with every release. Never mind that this release’s design ‘language’ DIRECTLY conflicts with things they used to say ‘never do that’.

So what changed exactly? Change is understandable but this is a full 180. - floating anything was verboten - accessibility was paramount - clarity was prioritized

How did this release come about??

New comment by MobileVet in "The Synology End Game"

MobileVet — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:41:14 +0000

You didn't remember wrong, I have mine stored on an external drive. I am using DS 6.x though