Hacker News: bromuk

New comment by bromuk in "London Mayor Blocks Palantir"

bromuk — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:32:36 +0000

I think a good consideration here is how would the outcry be if it was a Chinese company being woven into governmental and national health systems.

New comment by bromuk in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"

bromuk — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:21:56 +0000

huge if true

New comment by bromuk in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

bromuk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:11:40 +0000

I mean the US have nukes and they’re hardly stable and predictable.

Allow them to have nukes, who are you lol

New comment by bromuk in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

bromuk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:45:13 +0000

As a European citizen I hope it becomes law to have this data processed in the EU rather than the US.

New comment by bromuk in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

bromuk — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:36:01 +0000

Really great investigation, what's the URL of the "vibe coded" site with the access links?

New comment by bromuk in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

bromuk — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:45:49 +0000

Username checks out

New comment by bromuk in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

bromuk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:21:09 +0000

saas are really owning themselves by pulling crap like this.

I work in education sector, over the last year or so multiple saas providers have pulled this, we've inevitably gone in house, self hosted, open source. Saved tonnes of money and have bought skills back in house.

New comment by bromuk in "How well do coding agents use your library?"

bromuk — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:42:56 +0000

Was this vibe coded itself? Just wondering cause the login screen had this warning

Dev Keys One or more of your connections are currently using Auth0 development keys and should not be used in production. Learn More

New comment by bromuk in "Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?"

bromuk — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:27:13 +0000

Spend about 20% of my salary on (varies depending on month) - Eating out - Video games - PC Parts - Joint account with partner

Impact of life; is that I'm not miserable. (I was obsessive about not spending early on in my career and got really bad depression, i.e. working really hard, not allowing myself to enjoy the fruits of my labor)

Things I'd like todo if I had more money are: - Travel to see family abroad - Tidy up the nitpicky things in my house that bother me - A car with more doors (3 door at the moment)

My philosophy is to have enough saved for a rainy day, then excess goes to pension / investments and then provide myself with a small amount of ££ for myself (And research the hell out of the thing I'm buying)

New comment by bromuk in "Manufactured consensus on x.com"

bromuk — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:13:59 +0000

Interesting

New comment by bromuk in "Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS"

bromuk — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 01:53:10 +0000

What’s the windows equivalent?

New comment by bromuk in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

bromuk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:29:12 +0000

Dissapointed that buck bumble wasn’t mentioned.

New comment by bromuk in "Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem"

bromuk — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:20:10 +0000

Pretty much correct, I received a fake razer mouse that I ordered last month.

Luckily it was a direct replacement for the same one I purchased > 3 years ago so could compare.

Amazon provided no way to report the counterfeit and when talking to their support just wanted me to return it as fault. No doubt this will go back into the supply chain and someone unbeknownst to counterfeits will receive it.

New comment by bromuk in "How we communicate"

bromuk — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:21:55 +0000

Love the idea of daily “what have you done today”. I did this in a few of my previous roles, and it kept the team accountable for their work.

We don’t do it in my current job and it means; weeks or months of someone being on the same task.

New comment by bromuk in "Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?"

bromuk — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:26:02 +0000

404s and heartbreaks https://support.spotify.com/us/404/

New comment by bromuk in "Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions"

bromuk — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:16:31 +0000

ooh, love it. Would be great to have some installation information within the repo for people who aren't savvy at enabling dev mode in chrome extensions

New comment by bromuk in "Just Use jQuery"

bromuk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:40:06 +0000

Or just use vanilla JS

New comment by bromuk in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

bromuk — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:12:10 +0000

Fail?

So much success, the fact that it got off the ground and is providing tonnes of data to ground control.

Agile rocket building ftw.

New comment by bromuk in "SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series"

bromuk — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:27:33 +0000

Funny how Cities: Skylines 2 got announced after I’d commented on this earlier

New comment by bromuk in "SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series"

bromuk — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:46:15 +0000

Such a shame, I was very excited for this game and though hated it I did enjoy the graphic style, it looked great. (What a palava with the "online" simulation that was found out to be faked)

Cities Skylines really put a nail in the coffin of SimCity for me, the huge playable area, no faux online requirement, realistic cim routines and the amazing mod support (I've only used the steam workshop)

Now Colossal Order just need to make a sequel with more in depth mechanics akin to some of the mod tools made available (traffic management, I'm looking at you), also I don't know much about the Unity Engine but making the sequel more efficient on multicore CPU's is a must.