Hacker News: romperstomper

New comment by romperstomper in "Google changes its search box"

romperstomper — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:49:05 +0000

According to Wikipedia "As of April 2024, Kagi listed that its sources for search results were derived from Google, Brave Search, Mojeek and Yandex" so I suppose Google won't be available there as a source anymore? And perhaps all others in the future if they choose the same path.

New comment by romperstomper in "I’ve banned query strings"

romperstomper — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:38:13 +0000

I noticed that ChatGPT started to add the utm_source parameters for all links it recommends. For example, for GitHub links. Not sure if this critical or not but it could affect users for sure if URLs with any query parameters are blocked.

New comment by romperstomper in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

romperstomper — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:11:57 +0000

And make all these batteries compatible among all smartphone brands

New comment by romperstomper in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

romperstomper — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:20:17 +0000

Something is wrong with images here https://britannica11.org/article/22-0043-s2/polymethylenes

New comment by romperstomper in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

romperstomper — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:15:16 +0000

Sometimes cross-references don't have links, is this expected? For example, here https://britannica11.org/article/26-0828-theosophy/theosophy there is no links for BOEHME and SWEDENBORG but all other references have the links.

New comment by romperstomper in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

romperstomper — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:47:10 +0000

Great project, thanks! Is there a chance to add a "random article" feature similar to which Wikipedia has? :)

New comment by romperstomper in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

romperstomper — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:02:30 +0000

I've read that there were very rare conditions to launch Voyagers which gave them tremendous advantage with gravitational maneuvers. It happens very rarely, I don't remember the exact periods but maybe it happens once per hundreds of years.

New comment by romperstomper in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

romperstomper — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:04:24 +0000

I guess they got rid of bunch of rockets with near expiration date

New comment by romperstomper in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

romperstomper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:52:29 +0000

And then you use AI to summarize those 50 pages :)

New comment by romperstomper in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

romperstomper — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:04:03 +0000

Could it be also a toggle to skip/not show any AI-generated content? And all child branches?

New comment by romperstomper in "Oil prices surge 20% on supply fears"

romperstomper — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:21:37 +0000

When I opened the link the title was adjusted and showed 25%..

New comment by romperstomper in "The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us"

romperstomper — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:07:30 +0000

https://archive.ph/oR30I

New comment by romperstomper in "Show HN: I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open"

romperstomper — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:04:31 +0000

I was thinking the "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.txt" is rather special than a proper README :)

New comment by romperstomper in "Show HN: I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open"

romperstomper — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:59:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Good old README.md in the repo would not hurt :)

New comment by romperstomper in "Building a new Flash"

romperstomper — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:29:19 +0000

Long live the new Flash! :)

New comment by romperstomper in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

romperstomper — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:10:04 +0000

> One thing I do know for sure. LLMs would have been impossible.

Maybe they could, as ASICs in some laboratories :)

New comment by romperstomper in "Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone"

romperstomper — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:49:15 +0000

Are there any nice TTS models? It could be handy to have them as well.

New comment by romperstomper in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

romperstomper — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:54:13 +0000

I wish they published it in a more organized manner.. At the moment all published episodes are mixed with other content of their channel.

New comment by romperstomper in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

romperstomper — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:12:27 +0000

The cyberpunk we deserved :)

New comment by romperstomper in "Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game"

romperstomper — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:48:43 +0000

Oh, I was very wrong, my apologies!

I was sure this one was for Python from 3.7 up to 3.10. But it is still here.. But as for 2026 it will not stay forever as it was supposed to - there are 2 PEPs which are suppose to fix it in Python 3.14 - https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/ and https://peps.python.org/pep-0749/