Hacker News: meshko

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:39:52 +0000

yeah this is what happens when you let LLM design the UI. The whole flow needs to be updated.

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:30:32 +0000

WebSockets.

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:28:20 +0000

yup, this is the original website. The domain kept auto-renewing I guess :)

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:08:15 +0000

yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:36:46 +0000

you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:31:23 +0000

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

New comment by meshko in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:41:29 +0000

for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

meshko — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:41:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.scorch2000.com/web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694

Points: 302

# Comments: 110

New comment by meshko in "Preliminary Post Incident Review"

meshko — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:13:42 +0000

I so hate it when people fill these postmortems with marketing speak. Don't they know it is counterproductive?

New comment by meshko in "The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night"

meshko — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:15:22 +0000

to be fair, they needed to scale to roughly a thousand concurrent users (where concurrent is used very loosely here). so I wouldn't say that scaleability was really a requirement. 1000 users is nothing.

New comment by meshko in "Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data"

meshko — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:34:46 +0000

You think I was rude asking you about your experience. Now think how rude this unsubstantiated allegation of obvious simplicity of the code in question is to the person who wrote it -- with the weight of hundreds of lost lives on their shoulders. These control systems can get arbitrary complex. We don't know anything about the hardware this runs on and what it has to interface with. We don't know the constraints and age of the codebase. Nothing. To assume that this boils down to a simple if statement is something I would expect from a recent college graduate, or someone who has only worked at a web startup, not a person with 5+ years of real world experience building complex systems. I agree about all the points about testing and business processes. We have enough evidence to conclude that unforgivable mistakes were made there (and I point to that in my original comment).

New comment by meshko in "Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data"

meshko — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:58:43 +0000

"The technical implementation can be roughly inferred by any programmer", "such a foreseeable failure state"... how many years of experience do you have?

New comment by meshko in "Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data"

meshko — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:28:02 +0000

All the talk about how crappy Boeing engineering here was is bullshit and speculation and I am surprised PG participates in it. What we can discuss objectively here is incident response in which Boeing allowed the situation to continue after the first crash. How did they not run hundreds of hours of simulations, code reviews etc, etc on the system assumed to be at fault? How did they not immediately change the safety features associated with MCAS to be free and mandatory for everyone? Engineering mistakes happen and are hard to prevent. Business mistakes like this are a sign of terrible culture, lack of priorities and are an existential thread to the company.

New comment by meshko in "Conference call simulator"

meshko — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:14:52 +0000

how about they just use ML for once and detect the typist and mute her automatically?

New comment by meshko in "Ask HN: What do you struggle with?"

meshko — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:48:15 +0000

Meh, it is not as hard as it seems. Just get yourself 2 kids in quick succession. Adding second one will be both easier than getting first and it will highlight how silly it was to feel that it is difficult when it was just one. Also they will play with each other while you watch TV and drink beer.

New comment by meshko in "Ask HN: What do you struggle with?"

meshko — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:45:39 +0000

Dude I lost 10 pounds and keeping that is constant work. You go!

New comment by meshko in "“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”"

meshko — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:31:15 +0000

I agree. I know some doctors and while they do tell stories about the patients (obviously completely anonymously) and sometimes have a laugh about them, you can always feel certain base level of respect, love and care, not unlike someone telling about their kids doing something silly. Good doctors don't dehumanize their patients, ever.

BAE fires a guy on his first day after learning his wife is terminally ill

meshko — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:47:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/13/the-soullessness-machine/rpljPWdV7gSVlBdMoygDXP/story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13885421

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by meshko in "Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM"

meshko — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 04:20:01 +0000

I wonder if it would be possible to design a system which would power down some of the memory when not plugged to a power source. I do all my dev on an MBP and would be more or less fine if the memory-intensive things were only available when plugged in. That said, I don't really feel like 16gb limits me in any way except for doing data processing, but that should be happening on the cluster anyways.

New comment by meshko in "Museu de la Tècnica"

meshko — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 06:31:10 +0000

Oh man, I don't care (as much) about typewriters but yeah, what a happy story. It's like visiting a town for a day and learning by accident that the band you've loved for years but never seen live is playing there this very night.