Hacker News: brynnbee

New comment by brynnbee in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

brynnbee — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:35:18 +0000

Mine rarely shows rage bait and when it does I just block everyone involved or add words to mute list. I think people who see this a lot are in fact baited and it creates a cycle. Which isn't to say it's a good system, more that it's easily avoided

New comment by brynnbee in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

brynnbee — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:32:08 +0000

I guess it's a question if whether you miss bail of the bail bondsmen can recover 100% of the bail despite having only lost 30% of it. I bet I can guess which it is.

New comment by brynnbee in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

brynnbee — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:25:24 +0000

I'm not sure I've ever noticed a single one or had a ticket from any or heard of anyone ever getting a ticket from one. They don't seem common in my experience, or maybe it's just like an east coast thing because I've never lived in that part of the US.

New comment by brynnbee in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

brynnbee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:04:35 +0000

I doubt bots, the linked page is really boring to read and looks like a dashboard instead of easily consumed reading. I think people are therefore drawing conclusions from the headline more than usual since the link makes the real information sort of opaque.

However it's ignorant to think that there aren't bots on HN and especially for the very many motives people have for swaying public opinion.

New comment by brynnbee in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

brynnbee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:53:48 +0000

I super rarely use it myself these days, basically just for images, because it still seems like the best of terrible options for images. Everything else is asking ChatGPT to search for me and clicking on sources to verify if its important

New comment by brynnbee in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

brynnbee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:52:07 +0000

5.6 has been a huge pivotal change in reverse engineering tasks for me too (largely extracting game assets from binary client files). Something I spent literally weeks on in January with claude models at the time was solved in about 30 minutes with 5.6 Sol at medium just yesterday. It's both extremely satisfying but at the same time also a little annoying how much time I had previously spent on it only for it to be solved so quickly now. I suspect improvements in AI will continue this happy but annoyed trend.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

brynnbee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:58 +0000

I think you may be applying extrinsic too broadly. I believe it's still intrinsic because it's about an internal feeling and desire rather than the threat of bad grades, punishment, or coercion from someone else. It's about the motivation, not the output.

New comment by brynnbee in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

brynnbee — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:30:09 +0000

Search result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire planet. It's a shame that Firefox whitelisted these, but I'm sure they did it both because Google pays for their existence but also Apple themselves probably wagged their finger for some reason.

New comment by brynnbee in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

brynnbee — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:25:35 +0000

I mean I don't want autonomous cars to follow directions by humans that sound like "plow into this crowd of people". Even things like microwaves don't let you turn it on without the door closed. I don't see how this is any different.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:21:12 +0000

Thanks :)

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:56:23 +0000

I'm working on getting the full storyline working, it's a little complicated because I need to morph it a bit to work in an MMO context. It's also inherently a little complicated because it's all flag based and flags can be set in various orders. But yes soon, you can ask for many sailors. Possibly while riding forklifts through Dobuita.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:32:21 +0000

They have physics now! And flip over when you go too hard. I spent literally like 5 hours fine tuning forklift physics, haha.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:29:12 +0000

I accept they might C&D me. I'll take it down instantly if they do. Or even just a polite email. It's just a fun demo project and I refuse to accept any money for it so my hope is that it's fine. The current owners of EverQuest tend to leave projects alone as long as they aren't making money and I hope Sega doesn't care too much either for a 27 year old video game.

Sorry to hear about bluescreen, I haven't had any other reports of that from other players. Do you have resist fingerprinting turned on? It can mess with WebGL games a lot.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:37:21 +0000

I wanted to make MMOs when I was like 12 years old and everyone on the internet told me it was impossible and it took millions of dollars and a team of 200 people and crazy levels of knowledge to even do the basics. Which, to be fair, was sort of correct at the time. However, it's fun to make not just one but now have 4 seperate MMO projects I've made huge amounts of progress on! And granted it's massively helped by reverse engineering original assets and reusing existing game designs - but conceptually it's entirely possible, and I've done as much for a project I haven't released much public info on yet. I'm also running 3 of them on a $15/month lightsail server - I put a huge emphasis on client-side work to make it as lightweight for the server as possible. This makes cheating easier but I'm not really worried about that since these are sort of glorified demos and not something I'd ever financially benefit from.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:26:14 +0000

Thanks! It's been a labor of love for over a year. Maybe closer to two, I sort of lose track.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:24:45 +0000

The Shenmue one does! Also the pool game in the jazz club should work well on mobile. The pool game is available as a small stand-alone website here too, complete with Shenmue assets: https://luckybreak.app/

I've had people play IdleQuest on tablets and Steam Deck but I'm fairly certain it would be horrible on phones.

New comment by brynnbee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynnbee — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:34:15 +0000

My two biggest projects are:

https://www.idlequest.net/ - a from-scratch recreation of the 1999 MMORPG classic EverQuest, featuring a real-time MMO server written in Go, a 3D game browser-based client built with Babylon.js, and the clasic UI recreated using React. You can play it both as a regular MMORPG but also in "idle mode" where it basically plays itself. This had up to 70 players online at once a while back which was really cool, though its popularity is in a bit of a lull right now. There are still tons of bugs and stuff that isn't fully implemented (and balance issues) but it's still fun for most people who have nostalgia for it.

https://www.newyokosuka.com/ - an unofficial Shenmue MMO experience. Based on the 1999 Sega Dreamcast game Shenmue, it's playable entirely in your browser! It's basic world exploration with forklift shenanigans, some basic dialogue systems, and a basic combat system test, but I'm about to push an update that includes all cutscenes and story progression as well. The story part is taking a bit of time because I'm having to mold it to fit in an MMO context. But it's a fun project to work on and the Shenmue community loves it so far.

New comment by brynnbee in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

brynnbee — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:49:37 +0000

GIMP isn't bad these days, I use it constantly

New comment by brynnbee in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

brynnbee — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:39:27 +0000

Yeah that's my weakest browser game since I've actually transitioned to using a desktop Godot client I haven't released yet. It will load eventually it just takes forever bc the assets are quite large, which is part of the reason I've had to move to Godot. That project doesn't exactly have an active user base which is why it's lower on priority list to fix.

I automate testing playable parts in browser by adding a dev mode that allows text commands for everything instead of having to rely on clicking UI or 3D elements. It can see the full game state in JSON and interact in any way via commands.

And re: IP - I just accept that I might get a C&D any day and have to take it all down. I'm careful to not accept a single penny for any reason and don't even have Patreon. Usually monetizing is what makes IP owners unhappy. And for the Pokemon MMO I just don't advertise it anywhere meaningful since they'll C&D the second they see it. Largely made it for my nephew and we play it together.

New comment by brynnbee in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

brynnbee — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:25:03 +0000

It'd be interesting to see what someone could do to turn a 90s era adventure game into an MMO! I never played the game myself but I think basically any game dev project that modernizes stuff is really neat.