Hacker News: skeeterbug

New comment by skeeterbug in "Scorched Earth 2000 is back"

skeeterbug — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:34:57 +0000

Just played a round, think I found a bug - It was down to one other computer and myself. For some reason the power capped at 235, so neither of us could come close to hitting one another.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

skeeterbug — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:28:01 +0000

Oh man, we played this in computer lab in high school to pass time after we were done with our assignments. I believe it was a java/flash version though (year 2000/2001)

New comment by skeeterbug in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

skeeterbug — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:23:01 +0000

Just an FYI - Your QA and Typescript links are swapped!

New comment by skeeterbug in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

skeeterbug — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:11:10 +0000

Nah. Offshoring has been a thing since I started working in 2003. There are always cycles. When offshore projects fail, work comes back.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers"

skeeterbug — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:22:27 +0000

We have had the X10 Pro Omni for a bit over a year now and we have been enjoying it. A mix of hardwood/carpet. I have it mop 3 times a week and vacuum alternate days. The mopping has been good. I change out the mop pads and blow out the filter once a week. The vacuum is OK, nothing compared to an upright, but it keeps dog hair manageable. If we only wanted vacuuming, I would have probably chosen a different brand.

Just curious, what issues have you had?

New comment by skeeterbug in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

skeeterbug — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:39:27 +0000

> Right now, Windows gets a lot of attention because it’s everywhere.

I disagree with this take. Linux dominates in the server market.

New comment by skeeterbug in "mIRC: Internet Relay Chat Client"

skeeterbug — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:52:28 +0000

To be fair, the front page news section doesn't even have a date next to the 7.81 release entry. I clicked it to see if there was a date, but at first glance the page just looked like a time capsule. The title of this post doesn't even mention the release.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Apache ECharts"

skeeterbug — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:02:13 +0000

They publish plotly.js and react bindings as well.

New comment by skeeterbug in "The Frontend Treadmill"

skeeterbug — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:25:41 +0000

I recently had the opposite experience. App was built in older version of React/MUI/CRA/tsc (project started in 2020). I upgraded everything to latest, removed CRA for vite, and it just worked for the most part (vite has some docs for upgrading from CRA). MUI had a few things deprecated, but it didn't break. Removed the yarn lock and switched everything over to vanilla npm now that it has package locks. Took < 1 hour.

New comment by skeeterbug in "When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell"

skeeterbug — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:16:02 +0000

I wonder what this codebase will look like after a year or so of doing this.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?"

skeeterbug — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:17:09 +0000

Just a quick note on my comment. We have mostly hardwood floors, so the mopping is really nice. The vacuuming is OK, def not the best. I can see if someone had mostly carpet they would be disappointed with it.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?"

skeeterbug — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:13:07 +0000

We bought a few in 2018/2019 that are holding up fine. They get more use than our expensive Samsung TV!

New comment by skeeterbug in "Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?"

skeeterbug — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:33:26 +0000

Which Eufy? We got a Eufy X10 Pro that mops/vacuums back in June. We love it. We have an older roomba for a different floor/level, and that thing is always getting stuck on something.

New comment by skeeterbug in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

skeeterbug — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:18:09 +0000

This spring our one year old de-humidifier died. The manufacturer would send you a new replacement unit, but first you had to leave a review of the new unit. After the review was submitted, they would send you an Amazon gift card with the replacement value. So the old units that died never get a 1 star, and the new units being "sold" are getting 5 stars.

I guess it is still better than most companies that will find whatever reason they can not to replace faulty equipment.

New comment by skeeterbug in "Web Browser Engineering (2021)"

skeeterbug — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:44:27 +0000

I believe Chrome uses Skia

New comment by skeeterbug in "Show HN: Brisa Framework – Unifying server and client using the Web Platform"

skeeterbug — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:11:48 +0000

There is a 800kb font file loaded from the css. Can reproduce in dev tools by disabling the cache. The shift happens when those fonts are applied.

New comment by skeeterbug in "US opens probe into 130k Ford vehicles over hands-free tech"

skeeterbug — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:33:49 +0000

"...but the system that can kill you is still safer than the average driver!"

New comment by skeeterbug in "20 Years of Gmail"

skeeterbug — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:51:06 +0000

It is funny how the goalposts moved.

> The last product google ever built and launched successfully.

Now becomes "it doesn't count if it was an acquisition". Youtube would probably be dead if any other company purchased it. Google ate losses for years with it. Golang is a developer product. Chrome was not an acquisition. Maybe you are splitting hairs and saying it is an "acquisition" if they forked an open source project.

New comment by skeeterbug in "20 Years of Gmail"

skeeterbug — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:53:37 +0000

Maps, Chrome, Golang, Android, Photos

New comment by skeeterbug in "Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users"

skeeterbug — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:21:21 +0000

This was brought up in a recent interview with Raymond Chen on Dave's Garage channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJQv4rgHYE