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New comment by Zeebrommer in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

Zeebrommer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:19:44 +0000

> You’d have to be specifically watching the domain friendster.com at the right time to find and participate in the auction, or you’d have to actively watch gname.com daily to see this auction.

You're telling me there's no "notify me when domain X becomes for sale" service?

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Shipmap.org"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:19:14 +0000

In the North Atlantic most paths are slightly curved to take the most efficient route (taking curvature of the earth into account). There is one prevalent route from Gibraltar to Florida that is straight as an arrow though. What is up with that?

New comment by Zeebrommer in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

Zeebrommer — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:55:15 +0000

I know it does for a small Dutch setup :) https://www.kalamatakarma.com/ Marketing is still completely word of mouth afaik, but the webshop makes it easier for total strangers to tag along.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

Zeebrommer — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:06:46 +0000

Or ending it with the same salute involving the name of the leader, for that matter.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

Zeebrommer — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:37:26 +0000

A bit like Anathem.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "When we get Komooted"

Zeebrommer — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:30:03 +0000

Is someone even trying to open source that type of content (routes, pois)?

New comment by Zeebrommer in "My sourdough starter has twins"

Zeebrommer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:00:36 +0000

From experience, the bread has a better rise when I feed my starter for three or more cycles/days after storing it in the fridge. As if it needs to "wake up" and increase its speed of metabolism.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired"

Zeebrommer — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:10:58 +0000

I agree that most leaders will now they are fallible, and also have some idea of which things are problematic. As an inexperienced leader, I still valued getting "known feedback". It gave me a better idea of which problems were growing too large, and which ones remained minor annoyances. In addition, acknowledging the points that were brought up and explaining why I hadn't gotten to addressing them (besides being human) usually gave the person giving the feedback a more positive outlook.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "WireGuard for the ESP32"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:27:34 +0000

Rust is getting there, but I don't think it's production ready yet: https://github.com/esp-rs

New comment by Zeebrommer in "WireGuard for the ESP32"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:23:46 +0000

That's an interesting idea, you'd probably be able to know ip addresses via wireguard. Protocols like CoAP or SenML can be used to keep payloads small.

MQTT, aside from being pubsub, has more functionality that is especially useful in IoT though: robust sessions with LW&T to monitor onlineness, and retained topics to deliver messages as devices come online again

New comment by Zeebrommer in "The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth"

Zeebrommer — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:54:46 +0000

I'm curious which lost land you are referring to.

Building skyscrapers on former swamps is indeed difficult.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth"

Zeebrommer — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:51:10 +0000

> This is honestly just dumb

Yes, but in an indirect way. At some point, nitrogen deposition was identified as harmful to nature, and emissions targets were put in place. Politicians then did everything they could not to be the one having to introduce unpopular legislation, until they couldn't anymore. Now the government has painted themselves in a corner and cannot give permits for building projects anymore without breaking the law.

I think we'll see this more often in the future when the consequences of ambitious targets will need to be reckoned with.

Luos: Embedded Microservices Orchestrator

Zeebrommer — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:56:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.luos.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850389

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy"

Zeebrommer — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:54:21 +0000

That is not nearly the same thing. The US and western Europe have been roughly aligned about geopolitical interests, values (democracy, freedom, mostly liberal, based on a secularising Christian foundation), rules and laws. China is diametrically opposed on all those things.

The cultural influence of the US on Europe is enormous, and the US has often crossed the line spying on European citizens, but the US is not an adversary.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Hard to work with"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:32:50 +0000

Makes me think of the Peter principle. Pretty depressing conclusion though: a large company is bound to be an environment with many distractions by underperformers. Any way out?

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)"

Zeebrommer — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:57:31 +0000

Sensorfact | Utrecht, Netherlands | Full Stack dev, Devops, Frontend | semi-ONSITE (mostly REMOTE but in-office a few times a month) | Full-time

Sensorfact is a fast-growing, well-funded, English-first scale-up saving energy in SME industries with IoT, data science and consultancy. We have hit a clear product-market fit and are scaling rapidly to different European markets. Our small dev team (~10) could use some help making our systems ready for another multiplier growth, improving our product and building a professional, solid team that is a joy to work in and with!

More about our company: https://sensorfact.eu/

Openings: https://sensorfact.eu/about-us/working-at/ -- If you like our tech stack and product but don't quite fit the bill, don't hesitate to reach out!

You can get in touch directly by guessing my email address ;)

Bouke - CTO

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Roblox has been down for over 24 hours"

Zeebrommer — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:19:39 +0000

I wouldn't have thought "any publicity is good publicity" would hold even in this case.

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Handheld Device Fights Fatigue by Stimulating Vagus Nerve"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:12:46 +0000

It's wonderful that this device may help people perform for very long stretches of time where that is unavoidable. It will probably make easier to deem a long shift 'unavoidable' though: if you can have people be alert for 12+ hours while sleep-deprived, why avoid it?

New comment by Zeebrommer in "Doom running on a pregnancy test"

Zeebrommer — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:30:51 +0000

One wonders how this method was discovered...

New comment by Zeebrommer in "A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy"

Zeebrommer — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:01:41 +0000

This is exactly the kind of order-of-magnitude estimation that I was looking for in the article. Where did you get the wave energy numbers?