Hacker News: rypskar

New comment by rypskar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

rypskar — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:15:23 +0000

How did you get siding with Amazon from giving up on the Kobo website? There are more than two options, re-reading some of the dead-tree variants I have would keep me occupied for years. Hopefully a new alternative would come out before I run out of space for books

New comment by rypskar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

rypskar — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:13:11 +0000

I did consider a Kobo, but the terrible website did turn me away. When trying to browse it was wait for button on tracking consent to be active so I could click reject. Then change language to what I'm fluent in instead of getting language based on IP, reject tracking, reject changing region back to IP based and the same two reject for every link clicked. Half the times pages was still shown in language based on my location instead of what I have set or what my user agent tell I want. When a site ask about allowing tracking for every page shown I assume the company care more about selling PII than getting customers, so not a company I want to use

New comment by rypskar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

rypskar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:56:20 +0000

Changing gears while driving? Are you sure you where supposed to? Many old tractors are without synced drives, so you are supposed to select gear before you start driving. Of course you can change when driving, but then you have to match revs to not get the drop betwen

New comment by rypskar in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

rypskar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:16:30 +0000

All-wheel drive doesn't help you at all where it is most important, and that is in braking. Having all-wheel drive only helps you get up to a dangerous speed faster when the grip is low

New comment by rypskar in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

rypskar — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:14:51 +0000

Yes, big companies can copy your product. But at what cost, especially when including opportunity cost and the levels of bureaucracy in larger companies? I have heard your question many times during the last 20 years, and still there are more software startups.

In many cases it would cost them less to buy your company than to create it from scratch. Which is why so many small companies are acquired instead of copied. The question should be more what do you want to do and are you able to follow up on creating a startup? Writing the code is a small part of creating a successful startup

New comment by rypskar in "After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up"

rypskar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:45:38 +0000

Try to use any Google site while traveling. I have two languages in my Accept-Language header, but Google always give me language based on location if I'm not logged in. There are also many other sites that does the same, often without any option to change language

New comment by rypskar in "A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos"

rypskar — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:59:30 +0000

Nice looking demos, I hope to some day manage to get results close to what you have.

I started playing around with GLSL recently and the closest I have come to describing working with it is that it is like creating poetry using math. Getting started was much easier than I expected, getting good results is so far as hard as expected

New comment by rypskar in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

rypskar — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:36:04 +0000

Not only that. When your self-host goes down your customers complain that you are down. When AWS goes down your customers complain that internet is down

New comment by rypskar in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

rypskar — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:42:50 +0000

The problem with blood tests in my experience is all the false positives, skin prick tests are often used based on result from blood tests. But when having many allergies it is normal to only check for the most severe using skin prick tests.

Food diaries are probably good for those that are more experimental in what they eat, the difficult part come when it is a combination of things that give a reaction. The most important is to learn to listen to your body and not buy into peer pressure when someone urge you to try something new that you are not sure about

New comment by rypskar in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

rypskar — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:34:22 +0000

It would be great if there was accurate tests for allergies. Blood tests shows what you absolute should stay away from, you maybe should be careful with, and what to do more testing with. Then there are different tests to learn more, but in the end they end of with learn to read your body's reaction and stay away from things you react badly to.

And yes, this have made me a picky eater, not because I don't want to try new things but because the setting with trying new things is in most cases not the settings where you want to get the bad reactions

New comment by rypskar in "A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data"

rypskar — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:48:56 +0000

I did probably not formulate myself good enough. By calling it ID theft you are blaming the person the ID belongs to and that person have to prove they are innocent. By calling it by the correct words, bank fraud, the bank have to prove that the person the ID belongs to did it. No ID was stolen, it was only used by someone else to commit fraud. The banks don't have enough security to stop it because they have gotten away with calling it ID theft and putting the blame on the person the ID belongs to

New comment by rypskar in "A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data"

rypskar — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:16:04 +0000

We should also stop calling it ID theft. The identity is not stolen, the owner do still have it. Calling it ID theft is moving the responsibility from the one that a fraud is against (often banks or other large entities) to an innocent 3rd party

New comment by rypskar in "How to Firefox"

rypskar — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:35:57 +0000

Is your screen 60Hz? Game loops are normally using requestAnimationFrame [0], which is capped at refresh rate of your display

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/requ...

New comment by rypskar in "Car Physics for Games (2003)"

rypskar — Fri, 30 May 2025 05:51:24 +0000

That brings back memories. I remember using that article when creating a simple racing game for a school project in 2005. Using that game I found that the car I was using for a starter series in rallycross at the same time had higher top speed in 4th gear than 5th because of a lack of power

New comment by rypskar in "The Myth of Developer Obsolescence"

rypskar — Wed, 28 May 2025 05:54:39 +0000

>> lets you bookmark every page

In today's world with all the SPAs that don't push to history or don't manage to open the correct page based on history, this seems like a valid requirement

New comment by rypskar in "Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU"

rypskar — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:22:50 +0000

Seems like we might get WebGPU support soon, maybe in FF 141 according to https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status

New comment by rypskar in "Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere"

rypskar — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:50:29 +0000

Don't forget about the root system, a large part of a tree is underground, so naturally buried

New comment by rypskar in "Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?"

rypskar — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:03:20 +0000

I did the same more than 10 years ago, still perfect vision. It did take around 15 minutes for each eye, with 2 weeks between and 10-15 minutes recovery time

New comment by rypskar in "So you want to abolish time zones (2015)"

rypskar — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:05:41 +0000

Go far enough from equator and that will happen anyway, or for some of us sunset at parts of the summer and sunrise parts of the winter are both NaN. But the change between standard and DST makes a big difference for some weeks during spring and fall

New comment by rypskar in "Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study"

rypskar — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 06:56:59 +0000

>>Are you suggesting some metal brake components have unusual rust because of disuse

Yes, the brake disks, especially if you drive some place where they salt the roads during the winter. I had to change the rear disks on my hybrid after two years because they started to fall apart from rust, now I have learned to do some heavy braking at the end of trips to clean and dry the disks