Hacker News: brtknr

New comment by brtknr in "Rsbuild – A Better Vite?"

brtknr — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:55:26 +0000

New comment by brtknr in "Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case"

brtknr — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:08:37 +0000

Surely Spotify wouldn't be able to publish if it wasn't paying $100/year fee to Apple. I guess $100 is nothing to Apple.

New comment by brtknr in "Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?"

brtknr — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:22:06 +0000

I had a similar offer but I had a gut feeling it wasn't a good idea at the time and I feel somewhat vindicated by the comments in this thread.

New comment by brtknr in "Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard"

brtknr — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 06:33:36 +0000

Looks like the Guardian have already amended the temperature differences in the article in question according to the footnote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/malawi-swelter...

New comment by brtknr in "Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git"

brtknr — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:46:08 +0000

Looks great! What this now needs is a nice Web UI and also convince major players to adopt it. It would be in their interest to assure users that they can take their data with them (even though most people probably wouldn't).

New comment by brtknr in "Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1"

brtknr — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:55:34 +0000

Bob looks an awful lot like Bill Gates.

New comment by brtknr in "Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub"

brtknr — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:27:36 +0000

So happy this is finally here! Been waiting months for this!!

New comment by brtknr in "Apple Airpod Pro (2nd gen) lanyard on sale for $12.95"

brtknr — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:50:44 +0000

Available for $12.95

Apple Airpod Pro (2nd gen) lanyard on sale for $12.95

brtknr — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:50:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HQ662ZM/A/incase-lanyard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32778507

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by brtknr in "Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C"

brtknr — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:12:59 +0000

My two pence: It’s not a very sexy name for a language compared to the competition.

New comment by brtknr in "Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch"

brtknr — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:05:45 +0000

It should be priced at the maximum value someone is willing to pay for it… and naturally in market economy it often will. The Artist needs to also make a living and not all of their artwork will sell at earth shattering prices. It seems just as arbitrary to limit the price of the item to a fraction of the value of a single item. I do wish more art was auctioned rather than come with a fixed price tag to make the market more fluid and less egotistical.

New comment by brtknr in "Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait"

brtknr — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 04:55:44 +0000

Hmm would be great if it was mobile friendly, the keyboard did not show up at all.

Does anyone care that Wordle now has cookie based tracker?

brtknr — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:00:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408803

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by brtknr in "Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs"

brtknr — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:30:29 +0000

Probably easier to stick to bash rather than learn a new set of commands from scratch. Also bash commands are universally available whereas this needs to be installed first which is not always that straightforward. Also python is slower at some of the examples than compiled executables.

New comment by brtknr in "Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone"

brtknr — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:13:42 +0000

Contactless but you have to tap and most will make slight contact :) exciting nevertheless!

New comment by brtknr in "Bitcoin to $1M, Ethereum to $180k by 2030: ARK Report"

brtknr — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:22:43 +0000

Who gives a fuck about people who read articles like this and consider it a good use of their time

New comment by brtknr in "Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website"

brtknr — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:16:51 +0000

Amazing that they have a page on their position against suicide https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/letter.htm. Non-spoiler alert: it’s exactly what you might expect.

New comment by brtknr in "Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time"

brtknr — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:30:46 +0000

What the hell is happening past the point of 2k where the ball remains in the centre? Is it all happening too fast for my tiny brain to comprehend?

New comment by brtknr in "Safest mushrooms to forage and eat"

brtknr — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:04:37 +0000

I have never learnt more about mushrooms than I did after reading this article followed by discussion on HN. Any visual mushroom foraging books anyone would recommend for the UK?

New comment by brtknr in "Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?"

brtknr — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:26:25 +0000

You need 200 karma sadly