Hacker News: brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brianbest101Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:09:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"]]>IIRC it was quite a fight for react, it wasn’t a slam dunk out of the gate.

]]>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:09:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253017brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253017<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law"]]>But what counts as obscene is not well defined. Forget newspapers you could have to age gate Wikipedia

]]>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:22:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398050brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398050https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398050<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law"]]>What counts as sexual material?

]]>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:17:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398006brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398006https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398006<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA"]]>It’s really hard to beat the “it’s a felony to knowingly carry our phones on to an airplane” level of fiasco

]]>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:35:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334539brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334539<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation""]]>This is a great explanation

]]>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:10:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617443brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617443https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617443<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?"]]>They’re fine just horribly expensive for what you get.

]]>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:36:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590496brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590496https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590496<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+"]]>This by a mile.

Anecdotally, by buddy runs a few bnb’s in cottage country in Ontario. Bookings for the summer are mimicking that pandemic surge in 2020/21. It’s wild out there right now.

]]>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:20:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485920brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485920<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"]]>Beyond sanity. The US breaking trust with the world will have repercussions for generations. This is a stupid decision

]]>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:37:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308166brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308166https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308166<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine"]]>The game engine that’s probably kickstarted more game dev careers than most. I remember when 4chan came together to produce the surprisingly good Katawa Shoujo with it. Wild times

]]>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 03:21:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135780brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135780<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise"]]>Except Diamonds.

]]>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:42:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116893brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116893<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi"]]>Completely understandable. Sucks to see this keep happening to OS devs

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:25:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956193brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956193<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Notes on OpenAI o3-mini"]]>Open AI really needs to work on their naming conventions for these things.

]]>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:18:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894629brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894629<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry"]]>Good news! They have CarPlay on all their vehicles now

]]>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:51:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42750906brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42750906https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42750906<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO"]]>Stock prices do not help me find fixes for my 3d printer.

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:05:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707514brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707514https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707514<![CDATA[New comment by brianbest101 in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"]]>Yeah, he pretty much had no choice. Most of his party had given him the ultimatum. This has happened a bunch of times outside of the Trudeau Harper Chrétien eras, it’s normal.

]]>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:27:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611925brianbest101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611925