Hacker News: willmeyers

New comment by willmeyers in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

willmeyers — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:56:57 +0000

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I played Orbit so much.

Cartoon Network Flash Games

willmeyers — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360

Points: 362

# Comments: 110

New comment by willmeyers in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

willmeyers — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:07:01 +0000

WebRTC is great and so is Pion, thanks for help making and maintaining it! I loved learning about WebRTC from WebRTC for the Curious!!!

New comment by willmeyers in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

willmeyers — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:46:55 +0000

I'd argue (and against something that I've believed for a long time) that online (I guess that includes AI now) anonymity is gone and probably something that never really existed. Maybe I'm naive to finally believe this...

We all exist in a physical space (like real communities and neighborhoods). We can wear masks, hats, fake glasses, try and hide your voice...whatever, but your neighbors are always going to know who you are. I'd say that's true for the virtual space now too.

The pseudonym you've used for x years or the VPN you've used doesn't suffice. It's just a costume at this point. Your ISP knows who you are. Your phone carrier knows who you are. Cloudflare and Google and Apple have a fingerprint specific enough to pick you out of a crowd of millions. Every potentially anonymous account is one subpoena or a data breach or one FOIL request away from unmasking it. You were never anonymous. Whatever is going on now is not built for your anonymity.

New comment by willmeyers in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

willmeyers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:45:42 +0000

This is the most insightful comment in this thread. Unfortunately Oks decided to use a clickbait title that made people jump to conclusions.

Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies

willmeyers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://ssta.willhelps.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702791

Points: 147

# Comments: 73

New comment by willmeyers in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

willmeyers — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:36:59 +0000

I mean when you have Larry Ellison and other goons pledging investments in these major studios, it's no wonder people who actually enjoy watching movies don't want to give their money+time to watch some dumbed down bottom of the barrel slime that AI has decided people will sit through.

Thankfully, filmmaking is becoming more and more independent. It's never been easier and cheaper to make a movie and share it to millions of people on YouTube or Vimeo. Why go through Hollywood, investors, or give money to festivals for a chance at success when you can just upload the thing and see what happens?

New comment by willmeyers in "I’m joining OpenAI"

willmeyers — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:55:41 +0000

Innocent people are going to get hurt. Not sure how yet, but, giving a company intimate details about your life never ends well.

Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows

willmeyers — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:11:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/willmeyers/window-art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683858

Points: 37

# Comments: 5

New comment by willmeyers in "ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development"

willmeyers — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:44:40 +0000

For anyone curious, the source code: https://github.com/lelanthran/ZjsComponent/

New comment by willmeyers in "Ask HN: Weirdest programs you ever made?"

willmeyers — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:45:42 +0000

I made a random number generator API that used a shared caps lock key as entropy (https://eieio.games/blog/the-global-capslock-key/). It didn't really work because bots made everything kind of deterministic. But it's kind of weird.

Code’s here: https://github.com/willmeyers/global-caps-lock-rng

Show HN: An mcp server for jmap email clients

willmeyers — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:26:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/willmeyers/jmap-mcp-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088492

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by willmeyers in "Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original"

willmeyers — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:17:46 +0000

When I visited London a few years ago I went to the British Library and stumbled into their collection (and it was incredibly impressive). I had no idea they had two original Magna Cartas. If you have a chance to see the document at Harvard, you should! It's really something.

New comment by willmeyers in "Ask HN: I burnt out, quit my job – any advice on moving to freelance/consulting?"

willmeyers — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:07:14 +0000

> impossible deadlines and lots of pressure at work

Freelancing/consulting has unfortunately a lot of this. It helps if you start within your existing network, but once you branch out it gets stressful trying to please your clients.

New comment by willmeyers in "Ask HN: How are you using MCP when coding?"

willmeyers — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:49:41 +0000

On using MCP servers with Claude: It's actually been kind of annoying. Sometimes I just need a quick script to copy/paste and it tries to connect to a GitHub repo or write to a local file even when I specify I don't want those things. Overall they're the behavior when using them is wildly inconsistent when I use them. It's annoying I have to manually shut off the MCP servers to get what I want.

New comment by willmeyers in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

willmeyers — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:43:28 +0000

I updated the catalogue of movies and added some internal tools to my movies released on YouTube website: We Love Free Movies (https://welovefreemovies.com/). It's hard to share it because it gets flagged because of the name... But yeah, planning to add search, design touch ups, more movies, etc. this year.

Also working out the logistics of offering a microgrant to award people who want to make movies like this!

New comment by willmeyers in "Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?"

willmeyers — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:40:35 +0000

Game jams might be interesting, especially 24-hour ones. Someone who uses an LLM to handle some coding tasks can focus on the art and mechanics. I think it would still challenging and fair with vibe coding.

New comment by willmeyers in "Crystal 1.16.0"

willmeyers — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:50:48 +0000

I believe Kagi (https://kagi.com/) uses a lot of it.

New comment by willmeyers in "The HTML Review"

willmeyers — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:42:48 +0000

I saw these guys at WordHack in NYC! Super cool project and incredibly nice people.

New comment by willmeyers in "Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one"

willmeyers — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:11:27 +0000

Read.cv was the only professional networking website that I enjoyed using (and many others too). It was authentic, unpretentious, and without gimmicks. If anyone wants to make something similar, look at what they did for inspiration.