Hacker News: jlebrech

New comment by jlebrech in "Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s"

jlebrech — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:01:51 +0000

then this happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

New comment by jlebrech in "FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen"

jlebrech — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:32:24 +0000

do we really need auto-injectors? what about a syringe that is administered much faster than a normal syringe? (slight distinction)

New comment by jlebrech in "The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI"

jlebrech — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:22:18 +0000

I was thinking you could have an AI character play the level and that would reinforce that character's moveset.

New comment by jlebrech in "The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI"

jlebrech — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:06:13 +0000

Is it possible to use machine learning to have the AI improve itself?

New comment by jlebrech in "Alcubierre drive"

jlebrech — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:20:10 +0000

but if we keep trying there should be a spacefaring equivalent of Moores law?

what if instead of formula 1 we had races in orbit? this would push the boat out.

New comment by jlebrech in "Alcubierre drive"

jlebrech — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:53:09 +0000

how about we just figure out how to get as close as possible to 1C?

New comment by jlebrech in "AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API"

jlebrech — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:15:43 +0000

I want to make a voice assisted keyboard.

New comment by jlebrech in "Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds"

jlebrech — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:58:25 +0000

they could keep their profit were they also a bird farm.

they could recalibrate the laser for that task.

New comment by jlebrech in "First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU"

jlebrech — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:06:06 +0000

you could also just avoid your migraine trigger, I have and get around 3 migraines a year max rather than having one every month or 2 or 3 a week as a teen.

New comment by jlebrech in "Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC"

jlebrech — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:48:52 +0000

this should ask the user to upload a ROM manually.

New comment by jlebrech in "Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead"

jlebrech — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:16:15 +0000

at which point will it have a negative on human life? (hopefully just humans)

New comment by jlebrech in "Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker"

jlebrech — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:14:14 +0000

you could have pi-hole redirect to a site with the same story maybe? or even pi-hole could cache it.

New comment by jlebrech in "Why in Hong Kong people choose to sleep at McDonald's instead of going home"

jlebrech — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:38:43 +0000

there should be an establishment that's open 24hrs for different purposes, Cafe, sandwich shop, bar, club, hotel.

New comment by jlebrech in "Freeing the Web from the Browser"

jlebrech — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:17:33 +0000

One way would be to create a browser/portal(combo) that only indexes webgl/wasm apps for example. and you could still visit the info page about that app via a normal browser but would have to install the specific browser.

the irony is that walled garden might have a valid use case (not to wall from a vendor, but to wall us from old tech)

New comment by jlebrech in "The BASIC Engine"

jlebrech — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:15:42 +0000

and compile it to webassembly? :)

New comment by jlebrech in "Introducing the Dweb"

jlebrech — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:48:29 +0000

something similar to https://zeronet.io/

New comment by jlebrech in "The Age of the Wordless Logo (2016)"

jlebrech — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:24:57 +0000

that's a good example

New comment by jlebrech in "The Age of the Wordless Logo (2016)"

jlebrech — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:26:03 +0000

or maybe "no logo" is the new logo.

just have a unique font made for your brand and nothing else.

New comment by jlebrech in "Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History"

jlebrech — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:08:23 +0000

i should have guessed it, HN has no humor

New comment by jlebrech in "Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts"

jlebrech — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:08:40 +0000

what type of bank account can you have on a works visa?