Hacker News: petarb

New comment by petarb in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

petarb — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:58:38 +0000

Having trouble loading the link

New comment by petarb in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

petarb — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:45:25 +0000

Is this the same thing that hit the military bases in the US?

New comment by petarb in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

petarb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:29:19 +0000

This is such a cool immersive experience on mobile that works so well. Great job on this!

New comment by petarb in "Ask HN: Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow?"

petarb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:24:50 +0000

It’s a little bit slower compared to 5.5 xhigh for me but I don’t have the numbers to justify it, just “feels”. 5.6 sol on xhigh seems to dig a bit deeper and find more edge cases so it takes longer than predecessors.

New comment by petarb in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

petarb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:17:39 +0000

Just wow, I didn’t realize there’s that many star link satellites in orbit.

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