Hacker News: rokkamokka

New comment by rokkamokka in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

rokkamokka — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:55:40 +0000

Just do a quick search for German toilet and you'll see.

New comment by rokkamokka in "Bourbon waste could provide next-gen supercapacitor components"

rokkamokka — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:27:35 +0000

Unless I'm mistaken there's somewhat of a bourbon crisis where the production has massively outpaced the consumption lately

New comment by rokkamokka in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

rokkamokka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:42:25 +0000

Pretty big assumption of empathy there

New comment by rokkamokka in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

rokkamokka — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:47:05 +0000

I gave this game a shot but honestly the art style got in the way of the gameplay for me. Fun to read how much effort went into it

New comment by rokkamokka in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

rokkamokka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:21:29 +0000

This is an attempt at a reverse Streisand effect, right? He didn't like people memeing that he was the antichrist, so he did all this so any searches would turn up his lectures rather than the memes/accusations.

New comment by rokkamokka in "Docs directories are doomed"

rokkamokka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:46:32 +0000

The blog reads like an advertisement for some product that doesn't exist (yet?). It seems rough to store, access and accurately update this context-code mapping

New comment by rokkamokka in "A simple web we own"

rokkamokka — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:41:05 +0000

Likely demand dropped and when the infra hosting it was needing replacement it just never got replaced

New comment by rokkamokka in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

rokkamokka — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:32:38 +0000

I'm on the fence about this. Sometimes a new feature needs maybe 2k lines of code split over 10-20 or so files. Sure, you could split it up, but you can't necessarily run the parts in isolation and if they get split over multiple reviewers it might even be that no one reviewer gets the whole context.

So, I'm kind of okay with large PRs as long as they're one logical unit. Or, maybe rather, if it would be less painful to review as one PR rather than several.

New comment by rokkamokka in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

rokkamokka — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:11:46 +0000

Does that mean you sat down every work day for 32 years and wrote the same thing on the top of your notepad? I appreciate the consistency but it looks like you could've gotten it inscribed on a plaque at that point :)

New comment by rokkamokka in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

rokkamokka — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:11:31 +0000

Wow, that's a really big gap. No wonder it derailed

New comment by rokkamokka in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

rokkamokka — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:36:58 +0000

They're doing their damndest to prevent the robot uprising by trying to keep the users nice

New comment by rokkamokka in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

rokkamokka — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:23:13 +0000

Heatpumps are not a gimmick - they're an excellent technology with lots of efficient and effective uses :)

New comment by rokkamokka in "People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters"

rokkamokka — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:16:03 +0000

Then they will regain (some of) the weight, most likely?

New comment by rokkamokka in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

rokkamokka — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:51:22 +0000

Only if you assume literally all other tokens are voting against you

New comment by rokkamokka in "Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)"

rokkamokka — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:52:00 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly - I've fought against refactors like this for the same reason. In the end readability is king, and jumping through 6 methods instead of one decreases readability quite a bit.

New comment by rokkamokka in "UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space"

rokkamokka — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:20:14 +0000

Isn't the primary benefit the lack of gravity?

New comment by rokkamokka in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

rokkamokka — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:20:04 +0000

Remember that a large part of hiring is finding someone who fits in an existing team. A team that uses react won't appreciate someone choosing to use native DOM APIs instead of a react component.

New comment by rokkamokka in "CSS Grid Lanes"

rokkamokka — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:11:52 +0000

I suppose just checking scroll height of the container? Once you're x pixels above the bottom, fetch more. Not the smoothest, but doable

New comment by rokkamokka in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

rokkamokka — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:37:07 +0000

No! Let's encrypt is easily the best thing that's happened for a secure internet the last 10 years.

New comment by rokkamokka in "Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup"

rokkamokka — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:11:32 +0000

If I set this up i would just run every service on the same machine sans jails. Are there any practical benefits to doing it like this? The extra complexity buys some slight measure of security in case one service is exploited, I guess?