Hacker News: wartijn_

New comment by wartijn_ in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

wartijn_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:03:13 +0000

Seems likely

New comment by wartijn_ in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

wartijn_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:42:33 +0000

Fyi, you are replying to an llm

New comment by wartijn_ in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

wartijn_ — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:45:44 +0000

Doesn't seem to be EU related. I'm in The Netherlands, using the .eu servers from 1Password and the email I got just says:

> The new price will take effect at your next renewal, provided it’s on or after . Those occurring prior to , will continue at the current pricing until your next renewal.

New comment by wartijn_ in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

wartijn_ — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:21:02 +0000

The website has an about page that explains some of the reasons why this project exists. The first heading in the readme of their repo is "Vision". The creators of this project are people with a track record of creating popular, high quality, useful Javascript projects.

I'd say the probability that some thought has gone into this project it pretty high. Your reply stating that this was created without any though or effort is, ironically the least thoughtful, laziest and least useful response possible.

New comment by wartijn_ in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

wartijn_ — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:56:48 +0000

Are you recommending they read it again or requiring it?

New comment by wartijn_ in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

wartijn_ — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:17:13 +0000

Ah ok. Shows what I know about Scrabble.

New comment by wartijn_ in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

wartijn_ — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:30:25 +0000

Wouldn’t that make Scrabble only harder and more annoying to play? With that limitation you’ll get situations where you play a perfectly valid word, but it gets rejected because it’s not in the list of approved words. To get good at that version of the game, you’ll have to study the Scrabble word list instead of the dictionary.

With Wordle the limitation is only put on the words the game generates as answers. You can use obscure words to guess, they just won’t be the answer.

New comment by wartijn_ in "jQuery 4"

wartijn_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:55:23 +0000

I don’t understand your use case. If you’ve got legacy projects that you don’t want to touch, why upgrade a dependency to a new major version? You can keep using jquery without having to think about it. Just keep using version 3.7 and don’t even think about version 4.

New comment by wartijn_ in "Consent-O-Matic"

wartijn_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:17:28 +0000

But this thread stars with someone saying they don’t care about cookies because they’ll delete them anyway. That’s different than saying they don’t care about their privacy, so it’s worth pointing out that accepting every cookie banner does have privacy implications beyond just having cookies placed.

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

wartijn_ — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:35:35 +0000

It’s the name of the accordion and matches how radio buttons work. If you want to distinguish them, you’ll give them different ids.

New comment by wartijn_ in "Floor796"

wartijn_ — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:14:08 +0000

From the FAQ in the "about" section of the website:

- You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.

- Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase.

- Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to the pirate ship.

- Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor.

- In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc.

- One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796.

- In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation.

- You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer.

- You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station.

- Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone.

- Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references.

- Click on Naruto near the pirate ship.

- There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to.

- There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur.

New comment by wartijn_ in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

wartijn_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:24:09 +0000

My guess would be it’s to have accounts with some comment history that can be used for spam. Otherwise you’ll always be spamming from accounts with green names.

New comment by wartijn_ in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

wartijn_ — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:06:58 +0000

“the game” is No One Lives Forever, not Doom

New comment by wartijn_ in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

wartijn_ — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:22:41 +0000

https://archive.ph/2OaGe

New comment by wartijn_ in "In memory of the Christmas Island shrew"

wartijn_ — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:55:41 +0000

You’re either severely overestimating the size of the mines or underestimating the size of Christmas Island. On satellite images[0]you can see where there has been phosphate mining, but it’s also very clear that it hasn’t replaced the habitat of the shrew.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/3e55Y1Q3AvMSuccz6?g_st=ic

New comment by wartijn_ in "LineageOS 23"

wartijn_ — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:47:18 +0000

It has a Mediatek soc, custom roms for these chips are scarce. If you look at the supported devices on the Lineage wiki, you’ll see only 2 out of 550 devices have a Mediatek soc[0], most of them are Qualcomm.

And iirc from the xda forums, even for Xiaomi phones with a Qualcomm soc it isn’t certain anyone will try to make a custom rom. Xiaomi just releases too many devices to have support for all of them.

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

New comment by wartijn_ in "Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance"

wartijn_ — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:35:58 +0000

Really old version of Angular as well. The article uses Angular 11, the latest version is 20 (Angular has a new major version every 6 months).

New comment by wartijn_ in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

wartijn_ — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:02:40 +0000

Ah yeah, in those cases it is possible to just use the defaults. Come to think of it, I have worked with Deno, which comes with a formatter (and linter and testing library) and I’m a fan. Saves a couple of dependencies, some config files and a bit of mental overhead when creating a new project.

New comment by wartijn_ in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

wartijn_ — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:09:41 +0000

Which defaults? The programming languages I’ve worked with don’t have defaults for everything related to formatting. Editor defaults don’t work, since not everybody uses the same editor. So you have to make a choice somewhere.

New comment by wartijn_ in "Burner Phone 101"

wartijn_ — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:34:42 +0000

In The Netherlands you can buy prepaid sims without any kind of identification.