Hacker News: petarb

New comment by petarb in "Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019"

petarb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:57:57 +0000

So no cold plunging and then sauna?

New comment by petarb in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

petarb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:52:57 +0000

Not a fan of this and other consoles moving to digital only. Behind us are the days when you could share/borrow games with friends

New comment by petarb in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

petarb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:41:41 +0000

Congrats to the Arena team

New comment by petarb in "Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps"

petarb — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:20:40 +0000

Beautiful website and experience

New comment by petarb in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

petarb — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:41:24 +0000

That’s unfortunate. I will not be buying or recommending Apple Gift Cards going forward.

New comment by petarb in "Claude Skills"

petarb — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:30:17 +0000

So it’s a folder of prompts specific for the task at hand?

Apple in talks to use Gemini for Siri

petarb — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-talks-use-googles-gemini-ai-power-revamped-siri-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-08-22/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016414

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by petarb in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

petarb — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:53:41 +0000

In California our rate in 2019 with PG&E was $0.20/kWh - in 2025 it’s $0.38/kWh. CA keeps giving them the ability to raise prices and under deliver

New comment by petarb in "I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project"

petarb — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:45:53 +0000

> My wife and I have a deal where 1 day a month, She takes the kiddo and I am absolved of all responsibilities. I get a full day to lock in and build projects.

I love it!

New comment by petarb in "Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI"

petarb — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:10:51 +0000

As some one who used to play CS 1.6 for countless hours as a teenager, this is amazing and I can’t wait to use this for a fun project.

New comment by petarb in "Trump names Elon Musk to role leading government efficiency drive"

petarb — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:00:50 +0000

Seems like a massive conflict of interest

Trump names Elon Musk to role leading government efficiency drive

petarb — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-2024-11-13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123048

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by petarb in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

petarb — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:38:55 +0000

Love the product, as a casual user of light photo editing it’s allowed me to get rid of Adobe.

I hope they integrate this as a free first class citizen into iOS and MacOS

New comment by petarb in "ChatGPT Search"

petarb — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:32:39 +0000

For those that have access to this, how does it compare to Perplexity?

Update from Sony: Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios will close

petarb — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/an-update-from-playstation-studios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42003617

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by petarb in "Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click"

petarb — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:30:57 +0000

It’s down for me right now

New comment by petarb in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"

petarb — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:37:54 +0000

Use SSO when possible and fallback to 1pass vaults when SSO isn’t possible

New comment by petarb in "p5.js"

petarb — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:04:14 +0000

I started learning how to program using Processing about 16 years ago, so P5 and other similar libraries always have a soft spot in my heart. It’s so gratifying for a beginner to write some code and see some shapes move around the screen.

New comment by petarb in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

petarb — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:31:38 +0000

Doesn’t work on safari mobile

New comment by petarb in "Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform"

petarb — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:11:38 +0000

This is awesome to see as an open source project.

This functionality is some of my favorite when editing videos in Descript. It’s so much easier than chopping up waveforms in Audacity