Hacker News: archerx

New comment by archerx in "Small, native web tricks worth remembering"

archerx — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:22:41 +0000

Sometimes things overflow and you don't want scrollbars popping in and out.

New comment by archerx in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

archerx — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:20:40 +0000

So what you're saying is we should use linux?

New comment by archerx in "Small, native web tricks worth remembering"

archerx — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:33:12 +0000

An online game for example.

New comment by archerx in "Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo"

archerx — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:31:07 +0000

I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.

New comment by archerx in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

archerx — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:23:26 +0000

Maybe they should pay their programmers to fix the audio bug in their iOS app. I can't listen to my podcasts and use the facebook app at the same time because it wants to mute the podcast to play nothing, even with the phone on silent and autoplay disabled the facebook app just randomly mutes my podcasts for no reason making me not want to use the app.

New comment by archerx in "Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today"

archerx — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:34:42 +0000

I remember bringing worms 1 on a diskette to my schools computer lab and playing with classmates, we all got hook and had good times. Then Worms Armageddon came out many days after school were enjoyed blasting each other with bazookas, sheep and holy hand grenades.

New comment by archerx in "Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices"

archerx — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:36:28 +0000

Ignorance is bliss.

New comment by archerx in "99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots"

archerx — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:19:58 +0000

A lot of my sites are on $5 vps and run very well.

New comment by archerx in "Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels"

archerx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:41:33 +0000

It autocompleted the PyTorch library into webGPU…

New comment by archerx in "Hetzner is working on LLM Inference"

archerx — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:47:47 +0000

Infomaniak is such a shitty company, I had to use them on a previous job I worked at and dealing with them was awful.

New comment by archerx in "John C. Dvorak has died"

archerx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:13:37 +0000

I do, he and Andrew had a nice chemistry that somehow blended well. I wonder if Andrew will have John’s son on again.

New comment by archerx in "John C. Dvorak has died"

archerx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:57:01 +0000

This was a very sad thing to wake up too. He sounded alright in the last episode of No Agenda. I wish him, his family and friends the best. I will miss John’s unique brand of charm and insights. I really looked forward to the biweekly episodes + DH unplugged.

Rest in Peace John, I will shed some tears for you today.

New comment by archerx in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

archerx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:51:38 +0000

Ok Spez

New comment by archerx in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

archerx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:15:46 +0000

Right with his tech skills instead of money.

New comment by archerx in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

archerx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:43:13 +0000

He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS.

If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed. The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.

New comment by archerx in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

archerx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:42:43 +0000

The kale and enema one makes sense, they get so much fiber they get blocked up and need an enema. The parsley and condoms I don’t get but the adult diapers and baby food is probably some terminally online poor souls who “roleplay”. Oreo’s and lube I don’t get, it could be the absurdity that has the writer thinking it’s funny.

New comment by archerx in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

archerx — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:49:07 +0000

Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…

New comment by archerx in "Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website"

archerx — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:51:42 +0000

Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes as they say.

New comment by archerx in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

archerx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:22:11 +0000

It said the message was removed for violating some rule or something. The message was a link to a website meta does not approve of but it was removed like a day later.

New comment by archerx in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

archerx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:32:27 +0000

I never believed that the messages were truly E2E encrypted and I know for sure when WhatsApp retroactively censored a message I sent to a friend a while back, I found that super sus.