Hacker News: Sarkie

New comment by Sarkie in "Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude"

Sarkie — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:28:58 +0000

New cocaine?

New comment by Sarkie in "Regex visualized as 3D marble run"

Sarkie — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:19:57 +0000

Now I have 3 problems

New comment by Sarkie in "Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern"

Sarkie — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:25:17 +0000

We ain't wealthy

New comment by Sarkie in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

Sarkie — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:02:49 +0000

I hope optimization comes back into fashion

New comment by Sarkie in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

Sarkie — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:06:23 +0000

Reloads the same page for me

New comment by Sarkie in "System-level ad-blocking in Android"

Sarkie — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:01:12 +0000

Blockada old version.

And then add lists.

And add your own constantly when they miss

New comment by Sarkie in "Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer"

Sarkie — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:36:39 +0000

I had no idea what an enlarger was.

New comment by Sarkie in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

Sarkie — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:31:26 +0000

Intellisense?

Was that there?

New comment by Sarkie in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

Sarkie — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:04:49 +0000

They need to remove that one frame

New comment by Sarkie in "Commit description as a thinking tool"

Sarkie — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:11:34 +0000

BDD. Absolutely changed my world

New comment by Sarkie in "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"

Sarkie — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:01:39 +0000

Unrelated.

But if you have a spare phone with your account on, e.g. kids or whatever

You can install Authenticator and get codes, even if the other phones need biometrics.

New comment by Sarkie in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

Sarkie — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:49:56 +0000

"But it's not really relevant" correct

New comment by Sarkie in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

Sarkie — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:40:03 +0000

I worked in hotel industry, same deal.

Power users would complain within hours

New comment by Sarkie in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

Sarkie — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:16:21 +0000

I used to do loads of accessibility testing with my sites.

I was fired because I did too much once

New comment by Sarkie in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

Sarkie — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:52:58 +0000

Make it work, make it fast, refactor

New comment by Sarkie in "What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine"

Sarkie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:42:27 +0000

Bollocks.

Probably is doing heavy lifting here

New comment by Sarkie in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

Sarkie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:29:33 +0000

First unicode hostname I've seen?

New comment by Sarkie in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Sarkie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:49:02 +0000

Google Authenticator works?

New comment by Sarkie in "Commander Keen Games (free book)"

Sarkie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:26:26 +0000

https://forgottenbytes.net/books/White_Papers_Keen.pdf

New comment by Sarkie in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

Sarkie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:38:18 +0000

I would never dare put that in production