Hacker News: FryHigh

New comment by FryHigh in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

FryHigh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:53:14 +0000

I had to move to Bunny.net after Cloudflare disabled my homepage following a malicious report, despite me being a paying customer for several years. I also never received a response to my appeal.

I’ve now been with Bunny.net for over a year and have been very happy with the service.

New comment by FryHigh in "Show HN: Login with the Vulcan Hand Salute"

FryHigh — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:25:15 +0000

Didn’t know TensorFlow can run on the browser. The browser performs reasonably.

New comment by FryHigh in "Voice, an invite-only social network where everyone is verified"

FryHigh — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:14:14 +0000

Main differences from the usual social network.

- KYC based account registration. Legally verified names.

- Blockchain powered (de-centralisation). Censorship resistant. Many interfaces to this website.

- Earn money. Users get paid for content directly. More likes, views translate to payment.

Early stages of voice.com but the ideas have potential in a hard to crack market.

New comment by FryHigh in "The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D"

FryHigh — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:22:24 +0000

I didn’t realise D&D was this challenging.

On the flip side, this is what people said. Forget Chess - Go is the one. Forget Go - D&D is the one.

New comment by FryHigh in "Is This Genocide?"

FryHigh — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:55:56 +0000

Woah!

Has to be the most heart wrenching article I’ve read in 2017! Babies and children slaughtered by hand, houses set on fire, in such large scale.

The evil that exists in the world is just crazy. I kinda wish I didn’t read the article.

New comment by FryHigh in "Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?"

FryHigh — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:30:24 +0000

All business is aimed at "human welfare". Even if the people in the business are not fully aware of it.

New comment by FryHigh in "Browser auto-fill phishing"

FryHigh — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 18:17:14 +0000

This vulnerability was published (another article) over a year ago. I'm surprised Chrome hasn't fixed it.

I think this means browsers will never fix this issue. I won't be using auto-fill on untrusted webaites.

New comment by FryHigh in "AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks"

FryHigh — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:32:10 +0000

I feel unusual when I see articles like this. I deploy "workloads" that require instances, auto scaling, Multi-AZ etc. It makes my projects feel minuscule at the scale of other companies that actually use something like this! I wonder how many companies will actually use this in any given year.

New comment by FryHigh in "Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals"

FryHigh — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:55:16 +0000

Yes. This is also the problem with all Automation tech from the early days of AI.

New comment by FryHigh in "Estimate the cost of a Web, iOS or Android app"

FryHigh — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:57:56 +0000

There are so many websites that do the same.

http://www.kinvey.com/app-cost-estimator

https://www.otreva.com/calculator/

http://howmuchtomakeanapp.com

New comment by FryHigh in "Potato paradox"

FryHigh — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:21:57 +0000

Here is another variation.

A fresh lake gets infested with algae and the amount of algae doubles every day. The algae covers the whole lake in 10 days. How many days did it take the algae to cover half the lake?

New comment by FryHigh in "The secret life of SIM cards (2013)"

FryHigh — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:00:37 +0000

In Kenya, the SIM card application is very important as most Telecommunication companies have important services that they offer thorugh the application. These include Mpesa, Airtel Money, YU Cash and Orange Money among other services.

The iPhone has a menu option within Settings > Phone > Sim Applications where these are displayed. I haven't seen this on other SIM cards

New comment by FryHigh in "Should holiday email be deleted?"

FryHigh — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:56:59 +0000

This is a brilliant idea. A corporate email account gets lots of emails: people leaving, people joining, meeting requests, missing mobiles, cars parked wrong, fire drills, etc. Not to mention broken builds, etc.

Holiday email within work environment where there is someone else covering for you suould all be deleted. In the case of Dailmer, the out of office clearly explains that the email is going to be deleted.

New comment by FryHigh in "Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure"

FryHigh — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:13:09 +0000

All of the reasons of unhappiness according to Freud had to do with expectations. We need a philosophy of expectation.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

New comment by FryHigh in "Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs"

FryHigh — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:50:44 +0000

$3bn to be given to WhatsApp staff! Lion share goes to the founders but wow!

New comment by FryHigh in "Is the Universe a Simulation?"

FryHigh — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:47:35 +0000

Even if it is a simulation, as in the words of Rene Descartes, I think therefore I am.

My interpretation of it is, I might be in the matrix but I exist somewhere. I might be a butterfly in another dimension hooked up to the matrix like simulation to be in a human body and experience earth. Anyhow I exist.