Hacker News: jacobtracey

New comment by jacobtracey in "Open Parliamentary Accountability EXchange"

jacobtracey — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:10:02 +0000

A little context on this post - I've been collecting and cleaning the Australian public record (Hansard) for a little while and have been implementing knowledge bases recently and thought it was worth while smashing it all together into a single resource.

The intent is to collect, label and summarize as much publically available data related to Australian politics and provide useful lenses with which to view the evidence, rather than opinion or cherry picked data.

Would love any feedback/points into directions of data that we could ingest!

Open Parliamentary Accountability EXchange

jacobtracey — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:46:20 +0000

Article URL: https://opax.com.au/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620207

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jacobtracey in "A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing"

jacobtracey — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 06:21:52 +0000

I did a bit more reading and noticed in the WebAIM stats that Narrator usage is indeed on the rise. Given that it is included in the OS, I would hope that it ends up as the defacto standard in much the same way as VoiceOver is for macOS.

Really interesting to hear some of the technical details from someone that worked on it - thank you!

New comment by jacobtracey in "A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing"

jacobtracey — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:12:59 +0000

I completely agree with you. At the very least it could be a feature you opt in to. Would help a ton with the issue of fragmentation as well.

A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing

jacobtracey — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 01:12:39 +0000

Article URL: https://jaketracey.com/a-developers-perspective-the-problem-with-screen-reader-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25665851

Points: 70

# Comments: 52

New comment by jacobtracey in "Storm 2.0"

jacobtracey — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:22:43 +0000

What exactly are you doing?

New comment by jacobtracey in "The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’"

jacobtracey — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:27:58 +0000

A lot of high school kids, some in Australia were in the top warez groups back in the day.

Very few people with full time jobs had the time to be super active in the 'scene'. It was almost entirely highschool and college students.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern"

jacobtracey — Sun, 27 May 2018 12:29:28 +0000

Free dispatch

New comment by jacobtracey in "A profound apology"

jacobtracey — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 04:42:18 +0000

The drivers are just a stopgap until most Uber rides are self driving cars.

They're all screwed in the end anyway.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Building fast.com"

jacobtracey — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:22:34 +0000

They also have slow.com... speedtest.net might be dead.

New comment by jacobtracey in "We apologize"

jacobtracey — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:44:14 +0000

The entire userbase doesn't matter that much. The majority of reddit users don't contribute any decent content.

Keeping the minority of users that are actually producing content happy is what they have failed to do and is the real risk - if there's nothing to look at, the rest of the userbase will follow the content somewhere else.

New comment by jacobtracey in "We apologize"

jacobtracey — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:41:26 +0000

The outcry was over a female employee being fired. The pattern you're seeing is more likely than not sheer coincidence.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

jacobtracey — Thu, 28 May 2015 02:41:16 +0000

I'm not airing anything except I think her article was bitter - you can read into that until the cows come home.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

jacobtracey — Thu, 28 May 2015 01:32:34 +0000

Personally I don't feel that airing someones dirty laundry on a huge website is an appropriate venue. Isn't this exactly what support groups like AlAnon and therapy aim to address in a more delicate manner?

New comment by jacobtracey in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

jacobtracey — Thu, 28 May 2015 00:48:33 +0000

She claims to be ashamed to admit to a periodontist that her husband died of alcohol related causes...

Then proceeds to describe on a hugely trafficked website how he urinated in a basement sink every night and left her with $64,000 of credit card debt.

I have no desire to shame anyone, it's written now - again I simply stated that it felt bitter to me. Having spent 15 minutes reading her blog, it seems that is a reasonable description of her current mental state.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

jacobtracey — Thu, 28 May 2015 00:09:06 +0000

I wasn't excusing anything, simply stating that perhaps airing ones dirty laundry - particularly about a dead person - in a newspaper no less, just seems bitter.

New comment by jacobtracey in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

jacobtracey — Wed, 27 May 2015 23:55:27 +0000

What a bitter, twisted thing to write about a dead person.

It seems her husbands problems have become a large part of her identity, and what greater way to feel better than write an opinion piece about how shitty he was in the NYT?

New comment by jacobtracey in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on?"

jacobtracey — Tue, 12 May 2015 05:07:47 +0000

Been working on https://fris.bi for a while - it's a WebRTC group video chat app.

Would love anyones feedback!

New comment by jacobtracey in "Frisbi – Peer to peer group video chat"

jacobtracey — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:25:18 +0000

Hey, Jake here from Frisbi.

Do you think WebRTC is a good enough selling point to have somewhere on the main page?

Regarding open source, we may go down that route quite soon - the code could use some refactoring (this is a pet project for 2 people with jobs ;)

We haven't got a real desire to make money off this in the short term. It's simply for fun and we hope that a community can form around the site.

Thanks for your feedback, it's really appreciated.

Frisbi – Peer to peer group video chat

jacobtracey — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://fris.bi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9455433

Points: 11

# Comments: 5