Hacker News: brynnbee

New comment by brynnbee in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

brynnbee — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:18:49 +0000

Your way of writing is nice.

New comment by brynnbee in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

brynnbee — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:09:23 +0000

I made the old MMO EverQuest but in a browser, complete with a custom server built from the ground up. It's in a bit of a state of transition right now and sorta buggy, but:

https://www.idlequest.net/

It shares the neat feature of the HL2 project in that it doesn't need any installation, and it downloads zone files (which aren't huge) as needed. It can also run around and kill/loot things automatically for you!

New comment by brynnbee in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"

brynnbee — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:32:47 +0000

Anthelios line still contains homosalate in a concentration 20x higher than recommended by EU. I do like that brand a lot though.

New comment by brynnbee in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

brynnbee — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:49:26 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_(politics)#Controll...

New comment by brynnbee in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

brynnbee — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:33:39 +0000

Installed, thanks!

New comment by brynnbee in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

brynnbee — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:33:20 +0000

This was good info, thanks! Didn't think it'd be possible.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:04:13 +0000

Hi, I'm Brynn!

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Remote: Open to remote or hybrid/in-office in SF Bay Area

Willing to relocate: Open to west coast

Technologies: Full stack web dev for 15+ years in many forms. In recent years I've been focused on game development projects using Babylon/WebGL and working with C++ & Go server-side (MMO servers). Many years of project and product management as well.

I have some cool projects! See my personal site for email and some of those projects:

https://brynnbateman.com/

My largest project is https://www.eternalsagas.com/, which is a near-full reverse engineering and work towards a re-implementation of the 2007 MMORPG "Vanguard". The current browser-based client is very far behind my Godot based client, which I'll be releasing in a couple weeks.

Coolest more-released one is probably https://www.idlequest.net/, which is an idle-game web-based version of classic EverQuest, complete with its original 3D graphics in-browser and a real-time MMO server! Had up to 70 players online at the same time a month or two ago.

Looking largely for product engineering positions for organizations that are on the vibe-coding bandwagon, or project/product management style work. Have done both and enjoy both a lot. Open to contracting or full-time.

Email/LinkedIn/GitHub is on my website!

New comment by brynnbee in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

brynnbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:39:07 +0000

Were any of them actually failures? My understanding is they push limits and create intentional weak points to see where it fails, and something failing isn't a mission failure but rather part of the research process.

New comment by brynnbee in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

brynnbee — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:28:05 +0000

Taking about clippy? If so that's good feedback! I'll make it disappear after a couple seconds. Thanks!

New comment by brynnbee in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

brynnbee — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:20:21 +0000

I did something similar for my personal site :)

https://brynnbateman.com/

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

brynnbee — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:47:15 +0000

Hi, I'm Brynn!

Location: SF Bay Area, California

Remote: Open to remote or hybrid/in-office in SF Bay Area

Willing to relocate: Open to west coast

I have some cool projects! See my personal site for email and some of those projects:

https://brynnbateman.com/

Coolest released one is probably https://www.idlequest.net/, which is an idle-game web-based version of classic EverQuest, complete with its original 3D graphics in-browser and a real-time MMO server! Had up to 70 players online at the same time a month or two ago.

About to release my biggest project, which is a full reverse engineering and re-implementation of the 2007 MMORPG "Vanguard".

Looking largely for product engineering positions, or project/product management style work. Have done both and enjoy both a lot. Open to contracting or full-time.

Email/LinkedIn/GitHub is on my website!

New comment by brynnbee in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

brynnbee — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:52:37 +0000

ICANN's main process for handling trademark-based complaints is the UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy). This policy is used for instances where someone claims you registered a domain in bad faith that matches their trademark, and they have a panel that looks at whether you have "rights or legitimate interests" in the name. Bad faith evaluations by this policy often involves intent to sell the domain to the trademark owner, disrupt their business, or attract users by confusion.

So the spirit of ICANN's philosophy around this is clear: we don't want people buying domains with the intent of withholding them and later profiting by selling them to trademark holders. I would argue that preemptively buying domains with the speculation that people will eventually want them and pay for them is basically a violation against the spirit of their policy, you're just operating in bad faith preemptively against any possible future owner rather than a current specific one.

Disputes around this are notoriously unsuccessful. I say all this context to get to the point that I think the current system would work fine if there were policies that included this style of preemptive squatting, and more of an ability to successfully dispute bad faith actors. Including by looking at: how many other domains does this person own and not meaningfully use, how much is the site a legitimate use versus asking ChatGPT to write 50 articles, and whether the effort or investment put into the site is proportional to a ballpark of the value of a domain name. With exceptions, perhaps, for situations like domains that are also your name.

I'm even fine with the idea that domains go to the highest bidder on fixed terms, like 5-10 years. Or that it will at least require good-faith evaluation after a fixed term. But it's a problem when that money goes to squatters instead of towards something useful, like funding infrastructure. Maybe we can have a non-profit version of Cloudflare.

New comment by brynnbee in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

brynnbee — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:24:56 +0000

My observations have been that image generation is especially challenged when asked to do things that are unusual. The fewer instances of something happening it has to train on, the worse it tends to be. Watch repair done in water fits that well - is there a single image on the internet of someone repairing a watch that is partially submerged in water? It also tends to be bad at reflections and consistency of two objects that should be the same.

New comment by brynnbee in "Claude Opus 4.7"

brynnbee — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:14:23 +0000

I'm currently testing 4.7 with some reverse engineering stuff/Ghidra scripting and it hasn't refused anything so far, but I'm also doing it on a 20 year old video game, so maybe it doesn't think that's problematic.

New comment by brynnbee in "Claude Opus 4.7"

brynnbee — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:58:15 +0000

In GitHub Copilot it costs 7.5x whereas Opus 4.6 is 3x

New comment by brynnbee in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

brynnbee — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:46:12 +0000

I watched a starship launch live, in-person, and had the experience of driving up to the launch complex the night before and car camping right outside of it and looking out my car window in the middle of the night and seeing a massive rocket lit up with spotlights. It was the most "I live in the future" experience of my entire life. I can't wait to go back and see a chopsticks catch live.

New comment by brynnbee in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

brynnbee — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:22:12 +0000

If the physics were accurate enough, I don't think it'd be easy - you'd get constant elliptical orbits in most cases, right? making the timing much harder going forward

New comment by brynnbee in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

brynnbee — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:26:52 +0000

Huge fan of this! I love learning-by-doing and this captures that cycle perfectly.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

brynnbee — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:43:41 +0000

The main section of your website (on any page) fails to load on Firefox in MacOS, just as a heads up if you want to pass that on.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

brynnbee — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:09:31 +0000

Location: SF Bay Area, California

Remote: Open to all

Willing to relocate: Open to west coast

Technologies: Full stack web dev for over a decade, in recent years been focused on hobby game development projects using Babylon JS/WebGL and working with C++ and Go server-side (for multiplayer stuff). Many years of project and product management as well.

I have some cool projects! See my personal site for email and some of those projects:

https://brynnbateman.com/

Coolest recent one is probably https://www.idlequest.net/, which is an idle-game web-based version of classic EverQuest, complete with its original 3D graphics in-browser and a real-time MMO server!

Looking largely for product engineering positions, or project/product management style work. Have done both and enjoy both a lot.