Hacker News: RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RoryHHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 21 May 2026 17:53:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Vivaldi 8.0"]]>Yes I agree, there was a time where it was worse and FF just did not have the same support coverage for Browser APIs etc, but now if I encounter a problem in FF I tend toward blaming the website developer for ensuring it works ok.

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:56:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220159RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220159<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"]]>Hmmm, It seems to require the WebUSB API: https://caniuse.com/?search=webusb

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:48:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216259RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216259<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Realtime BART Arrival Display"]]>Thank you for the inspiration from your nice and simple real-time API. I made a pass a few years ago on digesting similar GTFS data and you've made me realise how much simpler it could be! :-)

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:16:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874441RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874441<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Helium Browser"]]>It was also a time before Google demoted "Don't be evil." from their company literature.

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:32:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370543RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370543https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370543<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Infinite Pixels"]]>This article triggered flashbacks to 20 years ago and using all sorts of crazy CSS to hack the browser to do what you needed it to. Nowadays CSS is (usually) a remarkable land of sanity in comparison.

]]>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:00:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824563RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824563<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges"]]>Mmmmm, space Kimchi!

]]>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:19:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610449RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610449https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610449<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED"]]>Possibly the point is that an individual can not be as easily tracked by first identifying the bus, however most cars are registered to their owners. Nowadays most buses and public transport are full of CCTV though so same problem really.

]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:57:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192848RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192848https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192848<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024"]]>It's multiple factors I believe, aside from this one here's some more:

- German EV government subsidies were reduced considerably (possibly removed?) in Dec 2023

- Other manufacturers are catching up to Tesla in many areas.

]]>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:20:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876788RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876788https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876788<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Crash tests show nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles"]]>Cause.. Big Oil FUD

]]>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:36:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216387RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216387https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216387<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"]]>Was this message posted on x.com?

]]>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:43:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847078RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847078<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Microsoft in furious attack on UK as major gaming deal blocked"]]>> Just goes to show that it was the right decision by the UK.

Bingo!

]]>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:20:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35725408RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35725408https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35725408<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework"]]>They do have the option to just pick and [choose from a variety of libraries](https://deepkit.io/library). I like the look of @deepkit/type

]]>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:26:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665790RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665790https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665790<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "E Ink Gallery 3"]]>Yes! This is the perfect use case for Photo frames, or even for advertising billboards where there's no need to have humans change the advert.

]]>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:48:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194010RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194010https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194010<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube"]]>They are also in the process of releasing the Megane model as EV only model going forward, and the reviews so far are very encouraging.

https://www.renault.ie/electric/megane-electric.html

]]>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:26:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697489RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697489<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "UK to ban all in-hand mobile phone use while driving in 2022"]]>Good!

]]>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:51:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275895RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275895<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "I keep making things out of checkboxes"]]>Make things out of Checkboxes... check!

]]>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:53:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826583RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826583https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826583<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations"]]>Good luck with that!

]]>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:23:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289250RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289250<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live were down for over two hours but have recovered"]]>LOL, nice :-)

]]>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:46:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672421RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672421<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC"]]>I personally think this product looks awesome, maybe partly nostalgia.

]]>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:44:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966596RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966596<![CDATA[New comment by RoryH in "Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity"]]>It's not more secure, but it certainly does help prevent unwanted bots spamming your SSH daemon.

]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:32:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543158RoryHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543158