Hacker News: high_priest

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.

New comment by high_priest in "DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list"

high_priest — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:23:58 +0000

Funny, you are right. But it needs to be something without correct .exe metadata. "you_are_an_install_wizard_harry.exe" also triggers different behaviour/query for UAC.

New comment by high_priest in "Obsidian Note Codes"

high_priest — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:12:09 +0000

I can imagine a QR generator for "obsidian://" links, which would open tagged locations, could be very useful, to identify contents of boxes without opening them.

If the codes are written by hand, then typing them into UI and manually searching for them could be tedious.

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Emojis/Random Images on boxes, could be used to quickly, visually find the right box in a sea of identical gray boxes.

New comment by high_priest in "Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?"

high_priest — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:15:35 +0000

Ok, but is the eluctron runtime freed of this throttling limitation?

New comment by high_priest in "A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system"

high_priest — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:30:57 +0000

The 0 is positive is not true, but some day you are hopefully going to get it.

The true answer is that negative numbers have the top bit set, which can't be used for positive numbers. Hence positives are one bit short.

New comment by high_priest in "The “impossibly small” Microdot web framework"

high_priest — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:08:32 +0000

WebAssembly in a browser, is still JS.