Hacker News: high_priest

New comment by high_priest in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

high_priest — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:40:27 +0000

A testament to how well Brave protects you from being identified by [Cloudflare in this example]

New comment by high_priest in "A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all"

high_priest — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:08:14 +0000

What do you mean that looking for SMB (Samba) related posts on HackerNews gives results about SuperMarioBros?!

New comment by high_priest in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

high_priest — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:54:50 +0000

This is why humans are better (for now) than AI.

New comment by high_priest in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

high_priest — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:15:10 +0000

There are far too many Asian electronic engineers for NA or EU based craftsmen to gain easy living. You have to make a viral product and find a way to satiate the demand, to find similar success to software & AI bros.

New comment by high_priest in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

high_priest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:28 +0000

No pricing page, you've lost my interest. Doesn't matter that there is an obscured quote on the front page. Be up front about the costs.

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

high_priest — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:09:50 +0000

Major problem

New comment by high_priest in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

high_priest — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:26:00 +0000

Fort Firewall is my tool of choice. Each connection requires explicit approval.

New comment by high_priest in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

high_priest — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:27:09 +0000

"Ask your AI Agent"

New comment by high_priest in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

high_priest — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:02:24 +0000

This looks great if combined with versioning system. As part of git repor for example. But, for general journaling, I would not trust something that does not leverage the strengths of a filesystem.

New comment by high_priest in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

high_priest — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:48:07 +0000

Why not... hifipartpicker?

New comment by high_priest in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

high_priest — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:36:57 +0000

I am an experienced dev, who learned about all the marvelous FLOSS tooling, by randomling stumbling upon it in deep dives into Linux ecosystem.

And I have no idea how it could be even remotely possible for a youngling to discover the same things in the torrent of sloppy SaaS.

Do you know of a "hitchikers guide to the FLOSS galaxy" that could teach the ways of the elders, from the ground up?

New comment by high_priest in "Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?"

high_priest — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:31:17 +0000

For me, its a distraction from the corporate world. A token of my outies existence in the innie world.

New comment by high_priest in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

high_priest — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:32:49 +0000

A lot of tedium is added into these games to force the player into spending real money for skips & access to content. It is a valid way to incentivize customers into paying for given service, but also means there are many time wasting repetitive tasks that can ruin the experience if one does not grasp the concept of "when the game starts getting tedions, you are supposed to pay"

New comment by high_priest in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

high_priest — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:25:38 +0000

Can it be used to insert content from an intranet server? It would be nice to have the ability to insert ads with company content, so people slacking at work get to involunarily learn about some opportunities or company policy.

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

high_priest — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:12:16 +0000

I've read your blog entries and I wish you well my friend. I hope there are better times in front of you, as journals like this, are disheartening https://lowkpro.com/blog/this-app-will-never-be-open-source....

New comment by high_priest in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

high_priest — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:59:44 +0000

I use the Nova Launcher in exact same way as you. I've checked many alternatives and none are as polished as Nova.

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

high_priest — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:14:10 +0000

I bet you are running some personal server or tinkering VM. Why not use a dedicated, coherent tool like Immich to manage all your image organisation needs? I don't see how this renaming would help me in any way, to make use of old screenshots left in random places.

New comment by high_priest in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

high_priest — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:45:50 +0000

I've opened this demo, on a flagship phone from 5 years ago. And this phone almost spewed its guts out trying to render it.

Why is react still considered a viable tech?

New comment by high_priest in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

high_priest — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:01:15 +0000

Imagine OG Xbox menus, or the PS3/PSP menus.

New comment by high_priest in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

high_priest — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:38:49 +0000

I was shocked that the game loaded fairly quickly on a 128kbps connection. I only wish it would say that it is loading additional data, because I was stuck on white screen for a bit, with no info on the state.

I love it.