Hacker News: mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mechazawaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 26 May 2026 20:52:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"]]>There are plenty of people who are willing to work for the government and the pay is pretty decent. But their stack is often Microsoft based and their IT is located in Apeldoorn.

Who in their right mind would want to travel all the way to Apeldoorn.

A good example of internal development in the government is the police. They have internal development teams.

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:53:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280681mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280681<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"]]>For some reason vibe coders with no development background consider him a god. But all he is is a charlitan at best

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:57:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775974mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775974https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775974<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"]]>I wish it was still just iDeal. The rebranding was done very poorly and the things that they added like accounts are just bad ideas

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:59:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972164mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972164<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"]]>Half life 3

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:35:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823218mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823218<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"]]>That'd be really appreciated. For me it just kept repeating the same phrase or just started reflecting on the prompt itself for a sentence or two after which it started spouting random nonsense like a pasta recipe.

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:00:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822948mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822948<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"]]>it's one huge grift. The fact that people (or most likely bots) in this thread are even reacting to this positively is staggering. This whole "experiment" has no value

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:10:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822605mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822605<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "How to Leave Germany"]]>I don't understand the relevance

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:51:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731878mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731878https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731878<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"]]>I'm personally especially interested in 'Latent Reflection'. I've tried to make something similar never got to a point where I was happy with the output the AI model gave me.

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:50:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731404mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731404<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API"]]>performance for a tool like this isn't really a huge priority imho. Libraries should have compatibility as a priority over performance unless it's the stated goal.

]]>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:28:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718375mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718375<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API"]]>Is only bun supported or also regular node?

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:10:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691980mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691980https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691980<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart"]]>Why are they undesirable though

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:42:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690797mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690797<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Postal Arbitrage"]]>afaik PostNL has to make a profit and the USPS can operate at a loss.

Classic Dutch privatization

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:17:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600562mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600562<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"]]>More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?

]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:11:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131544mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131544<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Laptops with Stickers"]]>kinda funny that I recognize a bunch of those laptops from people I know

]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:49:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898245mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898245<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"]]>The only upside of that game was that I taught myself assembly because of it. Even though it never released

]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:12:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45757534mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45757534https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45757534<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses"]]>Yep that also works, I've made a proof of concept for that ages ago https://github.com/Mechazawa/pixelAntiAdblock/blob/master/ap...

]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:54:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820591mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820591https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820591<![CDATA[Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses]]>Article URL: https://github.com/Mechazawa/103-early-anti-adblock

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816835

Points: 108

# Comments: 199

]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:32:43 +0000https://github.com/Mechazawa/103-early-anti-adblockmechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816835https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816835<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger"]]>You can't sell the platform if it's heavily integrated. Whoever buys it will just have to rewrite it from scratch then.

]]>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:23:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998695mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998695<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation"]]>Scrolljacking is a bad idea in general https://codepen.io/gunderson/pen/GJJPpV

]]>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:55:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986515mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986515<![CDATA[New comment by mechazawa in "Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation"]]>I'm getting nauseous from this website.

]]>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:55:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986513mechazawahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986513