Hacker News: bguebert

New comment by bguebert in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

bguebert — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:42:53 +0000

I feel like its because other than the user, the people involved have a benefit to running native instead of as a webapp. The phone OS companies get their percent of apps developed in their stores and the app developers get better access to your data to resell. Apple in particular has been really hostile to webapps.

New comment by bguebert in "America's never had such high national debt heading into an economic shock"

bguebert — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:49:50 +0000

There might have been a budget surplus but we were still in debt.

https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-749929...

Here they show the debt increasing through the 90s but by less than most other decades. I don't know if it takes into account inflation though so maybe that would have made the debt have less value. Seems like they didn't use any of the surplus to pay off the debt.

New comment by bguebert in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

bguebert — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:43:33 +0000

Adobe added embedded javascript to pdfs. Its an option to turn it off but its enabled by default. I turned mine off a long time back and never notice any problems but I don't use a lot of pdfs with interactive forms.

New comment by bguebert in "Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down"

bguebert — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:26:03 +0000

This is cool. I did something similar at my work using smokeping and the #@vtext.com to send the texts.

https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

Biosciences announces de-extinction of the dire wolves

bguebert — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/a-revolutionary-milestone-colossal-biosciences-announces-de-extinction-of-the-dire-wolves/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624018

Points: 1

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New comment by bguebert in "Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads"

bguebert — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:00:41 +0000

It does seem like they have destroyed most of the competition. I was frustrated with the ad-blocking the other day and looking for a video but the whole first page of links was all youtube. I guess that's why they are starting to crack down on adblockers since people don't have as many other places to go now.

New comment by bguebert in "Farmers are abandoning their land. Is that good for nature?"

bguebert — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:20:27 +0000

I mean I don't know if I would say the land is just abandoned. Some farmland that people let go back to forest can also have the trees harvested from it periodically so its still productive in another way. The land can still be valuable.

New comment by bguebert in "Ask HN: It's 2030 – JavaScript has been deprecated by a new language. Which one?"

bguebert — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:33:45 +0000

It's kinda ironic to post that on a site that uses var in its javascript

New comment by bguebert in "Firefox removes "do not track" feature support"

bguebert — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:23:08 +0000

I always though something like ublock origin should be built in with a standard format for the block list rules so people could just use different rules lists if they wanted to.

It would be nice to have a feature for enable/disable javascript per site also.

New comment by bguebert in "Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report"

bguebert — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:12:11 +0000

The NOAA has an api here:

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

It's free to use, but they have rate limits. I was always wanting to set up something like that too, but I never got around to it.

New comment by bguebert in "The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal with Bird Flu, and It's Scary"

bguebert — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:37:48 +0000

https://archive.is/N9WLx

New comment by bguebert in "Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free"

bguebert — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:53:09 +0000

They don't mention any extra costs for people to manage the on premise setup. I mean its probably still a savings for them but it seems weird to leave that out.

New comment by bguebert in "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms"

bguebert — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:58:16 +0000

yeah, its pretty cool how most of these photos they were trying to take a picture of something else and the red sprites just happened to be in the right place because of a storm front moving in.

New comment by bguebert in "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms"

bguebert — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:53:34 +0000

Here's an article with some pictures in case anyone else was curious about red sprites like I was.

https://earthsky.org/earth/definition-what-are-lightning-spr...

New comment by bguebert in "California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired"

bguebert — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:21:37 +0000

https://archive.is/R6x7s

New comment by bguebert in "Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%"

bguebert — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:58:15 +0000

Probably not for live shared audio/video

New comment by bguebert in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

bguebert — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:40:35 +0000

Hezbollah has been warning its members not to use cell phones because they get targeted by using them too. Seems like the pagers were supposed to be the workaround for that.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sya00qlswa

New comment by bguebert in ""Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button""

bguebert — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:22:08 +0000

On their site they say it can run at 220V 15A if you got that.

https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinybox/

New comment by bguebert in "Ask HN: Where are the paid Linux desktop distributions?"

bguebert — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:31:40 +0000

I thought SUSE had a desktop version. They used to sell it at places like walmart back when you'd get linux on cd/dvd media, but its been a long time since I've seen that. There is also stuff like PopOS that comes on System76 computers or PureOS for Purism/Librem computers.

New comment by bguebert in "Air Force chief hints at existence of clandestine spy aircraft"

bguebert — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:15:05 +0000

Lockheed Martin is working on a SR-72 concept plane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72