Hacker News: NBJack

New comment by NBJack in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

NBJack — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:43:13 +0000

Hey, you didn't join the Discord to get early access. And I dont see any SweepBucks in your account; how are you going to unlock loot boxes?!?

New comment by NBJack in "GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]"

NBJack — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:02:17 +0000

I recall some Gameboy games actually took advantage of the slow response times for subtle effects. For example, in Metroid II, pausing the game results in a slow, subtle pulse of the whole screen. In reality, and emulators, the screen is just flashing pixels at such a rate that the transition of the old LCD naturally smoothes out the intensity over time.

New comment by NBJack in "Docker Agent"

NBJack — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:32:34 +0000

Can confirm. Every job I've seen it at, whatever form it takes, is consistently horrible.

New comment by NBJack in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

NBJack — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:04:36 +0000

"That sounds like a tough problem in your relationship right now. Would you like me to order another Crave cookie for you? There's a special right now on free delivery. What about renewing your subscription to aitherapynow.com?"

New comment by NBJack in "cp: -r or -R?"

NBJack — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:41:21 +0000

Nope.

My first thought was 'regular expression'. I've also never heard of the classification of a 'special' file in *nix land either (at least as utility flags go).

New comment by NBJack in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

NBJack — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:36:42 +0000

That's a lot of rolling the dice to risk some interesting (and unseen) hallucinations.

New comment by NBJack in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"

NBJack — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:32:19 +0000

To each their own. I personally find the visual aesthetic of Factorio to be very rough around the edges (literally and figuratively). I respect this is a design choice to help the entire simulation scale well. But I, personally, would never rank it's aesthetic above that of something like Skylines.

New comment by NBJack in "Apple Pass Designer"

NBJack — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:32:31 +0000

I'd settle for Chrome. I know Amazon, despite being "frupid" in so many ways, takes the time to address it. They had a whole framework too: submit url, get screenshot across multiple devices and sizes.

New comment by NBJack in "FLUX 3 Image"

NBJack — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:29:37 +0000

Bingo. With slightly more control and metadata.

New comment by NBJack in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

NBJack — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:55:49 +0000

I would go as far as to say the museum was negligent (by their own admission) and lazy, assuming (rightly so) the judicial system would protect them. Wild stuff.

New comment by NBJack in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

NBJack — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:47:48 +0000

I think the part that stands out is how at least one court went out of its way to invent a new argument on behalf of the museum. I was surprised to learn this is actually somewhat common in French law. The court itself, at least with cases involving administrative actions, has every right to step in like this. It is not a neutral arbiter.

New comment by NBJack in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

NBJack — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:56:21 +0000

And it changes constantly "for the better".

Remember when they decided the best UI experience was to give everything a vague abstract collection of shapes? Early 2010s or so. Couldn't tell a damn thing apart.

New comment by NBJack in "Vx – One Language, Every Chip"

NBJack — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:45:01 +0000

And it doesn't seem to render correctly on mobile. I hit this myself trying to vibe up a side project; it looked slick, but it took multiple prompts (and at least an uploaded screenshot or two) just to make it mobile friendly.

New comment by NBJack in "FLUX 3 Image"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:01:50 +0000

Adobe has had something like this for a while with Generative Fill. Drag a box, specify contents.

New comment by NBJack in "Apple Pass Designer"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:57:25 +0000

I really doubt that. Unless Apple has completely hosed their QA budget.

Honestly, this "app" is at best an interactive picture template with text and metadata.

The real question is, why is something this simple not just part of Apple's website?

New comment by NBJack in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:11:04 +0000

Thank you; it's nice to be appreciated.

New comment by NBJack in "Dutch computer museums (2022)"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:47:00 +0000

R.I.P. Living Computer Museum (yes I am aware of its formal name). They took such good care of the systems there, and basically everything could be played with. It's technically not the only museum like it around Seattle, but it was incredibly memorable.

New comment by NBJack in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:50:25 +0000

I'm sure you took the time to study the works of the artist over the course of their 23 year tenure and their body of work. Right?

New comment by NBJack in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:41:31 +0000

This is true to the style of what it parodies. The lack of punctuation is part of the intent.

New comment by NBJack in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

NBJack — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:40:02 +0000

That's a cute attempt at ragebait. Consider a more aged account next time?