Hacker News: travbrack

New comment by travbrack in "Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces"

travbrack — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:24:52 +0000

There's a clip from his video in the post :)

New comment by travbrack in "Show HN: 18yo first iOS app: blocks distracting apps and unlocks with QR/barcode"

travbrack — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:02:11 +0000

You nailed why Apple chose to let people uninstall - that would be crazy if you could soft brick your phone.

New comment by travbrack in "Show HN: 18yo first iOS app: blocks distracting apps and unlocks with QR/barcode"

travbrack — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:14:39 +0000

You can just uninstall the app

New comment by travbrack in "Cursor 1.0"

travbrack — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:34:30 +0000

I'm sure it is but cursor plus API usage is out of reach for my hobbyist usage

New comment by travbrack in "Cursor 1.0"

travbrack — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:16:16 +0000

I'm surprised nobody is mentioning how cheap copilot pro is. $20 and you get all you can eat inference without using your own api key for the models on vs code agent mode.

New comment by travbrack in "Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)"

travbrack — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:45:35 +0000

Exactly. If you choose the approach with no tech debt but takes twice as long, how are you going to hide that from your manager?

New comment by travbrack in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

travbrack — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 04:44:24 +0000

how come?

New comment by travbrack in "How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?"

travbrack — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:13:37 +0000

I was thinking it's an example in the system prompt. "Here's how you would behave when corrected" or similar

New comment by travbrack in "There oughta be a bullet time video booth"

travbrack — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:11:13 +0000

This exists. https://bigfreeze.com/projects - They have one at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle: https://podcam.net/pacsci/

New comment by travbrack in "LSD: Not Even Once"

travbrack — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:25:57 +0000

Or they took something that was presented as LSD but was actually something else. This sounds like the kind of nerve damage people get from taking dangerous doses of MDMA. Not saying it's MDMA specifically but it could have been something neurotoxic.

New comment by travbrack in "Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server"

travbrack — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:02:52 +0000

Check out 6b6t if you haven't already. It's an anarchy server that runs on multipaper, which is a distributed Minecraft server. The owner claims it can support 1000 simultaneous players.

New comment by travbrack in "An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxiety"

travbrack — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:10:56 +0000

I think capitalism might take care of this. Let's say we have tools that make devs 10x more productive. A company could lay off 90% of their engineers and produce as much as they did before generative AI. What if their competitor decides they're going to retain all of their engineers and produce 10x more than they did before? That's going to force everyone to staff up to be able to keep up with the 10x company.

New comment by travbrack in "Loxilb: eBPF based cloud-native service load-balancer"

travbrack — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:27:16 +0000

Any benchmarks?

New comment by travbrack in "Show HN: G-Script – Visual Scripting for the Web"

travbrack — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 04:53:49 +0000

Looks like you got the hug of death

>FirebaseError: Firebase: Exceeded daily quota for email sign-in. (auth/quota-exceeded).

New comment by travbrack in "Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive"

travbrack — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:10:16 +0000

I had one too. I guess I did math on it, but I remember much more clearly downloading games to it via the graph link cable. I spent hours playing Tetris in math class.

New comment by travbrack in "Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes?"

travbrack — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:21:42 +0000

I couldn't figure it out either, coming from lightwave.

New comment by travbrack in "ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section"

travbrack — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:19:06 +0000

Not bad for a net that's not even specifically trained to code.

New comment by travbrack in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

travbrack — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:01:52 +0000

Did you try running the prompt multiple times? Sometimes it misses a few times but then nails it.

New comment by travbrack in "The link between August birthdays and ADHD (2018)"

travbrack — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:26:10 +0000

Really inspiring story. Why did you pursue school so late in your career? Just to prove to yourself that you could do it?

New comment by travbrack in "Run your own DALL-E-like image generator"

travbrack — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:48:13 +0000

I recently went through this and conda handled the python deps pretty well, but the nvidia cuda stuff was a massive pain to get the right things installed. I think it’s safe to blame nvidia.