Hacker News: Liuser

New comment by Liuser in "Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary"

Liuser — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:06:09 +0000

Tomato juice is also disproportionately popular during flights compared to what one would normally order grounded. You can also buy tomato v8 juice from a shop, but there’s a reason taste changes when you’re flying, which they explain in the article.

New comment by Liuser in "I Don't Like LLMs"

Liuser — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:39 +0000

I admit I may have rose colored glasses on, but the snark, toxicity and the need to “gotcha” feels like it has gotten acutely worse over the last couple of years. My unfounded theory is that with the democratization of software development with LLMs, it has encouraged more to participate in tech dedicated forums. So, you trend towards forums like Reddit level comments now.

The degradation of comment quality has always been a complaint over years well before LLMs, but it feels much worse recently is all. There was a repost of an article where someone made a LAN gaming house and I was dismayed just how toxic the overall comments were of someone’s success. Compared to years prior where the comments were of a much different positive tone.

New comment by Liuser in "Lucasart's Afterlife"

Liuser — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:47:12 +0000

Amen. Sam and Max Hit the Road has a special place in my childhood. So much encouragement of exploration and humor.

New comment by Liuser in "Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today?"

Liuser — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:40:59 +0000

I live in Oakland and this resonates true from what I’ve seen, where Flock is a deeply divided issue in Alameda county compared to the overall negative sentiment you find on HN.

Listening in on city council meetings or even just perusing Nextdoor posts you’ll find there are many proponents for more cameras generally from folks tired of crime.

New comment by Liuser in "Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis"

Liuser — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:33:12 +0000

thank you! - minor feedback, make the end URL case-insensitive for those that want to navigate by URL quickly

eg:

https://name-redacted.com/stocks/crm

https://name-redacted.com/stocks/CRM

New comment by Liuser in "Van Life in Japan"

Liuser — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:54:10 +0000

Is that link for personal water use or does it account for farming?

What do you suggest to people who exercise everyday?

New comment by Liuser in "Ask HN: What tech advice are you giving to those around you for 2023?"

Liuser — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:09:58 +0000

> Mitm attacks are still a thing

TLS directly addresses this.

New comment by Liuser in "Ask HN: What tech advice are you giving to those around you for 2023?"

Liuser — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:25:52 +0000

> Don't connect to random public WiFi. If you do, don't login to any online account on it, or send confidential information.

Why? TLS establishes secure channels over insecure networks.

New comment by Liuser in "Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?"

Liuser — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 03:10:38 +0000

Develop an exercise routine.

I hated the feeling of running or working out hung over and used that as motivation to not drink. Would rather feel good working out and feel good after the work out.

New comment by Liuser in "Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring"

Liuser — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:14:42 +0000

I suspect the reason why people have stopped posting is because of increasing content from other sources. It's definitely my reason.

It's a negative feedback loop.

New comment by Liuser in "Hertz is still having rental car customers wrongfully arrested, lawsuit claims"

Liuser — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:38:40 +0000

This doesn’t bring me confidence. Just rented from Hertz yesterday and after waiting 30 minutes to even get to the counter I needed to wait another 30 minutes for them to locate the car I was supposed to be renting. They never located the car and swapped to a different car. I’m going to be paranoid that someone else’s rental is going to show up on my tab now. Not a good experience especially after a very long flight. Their process and operations is broken. It should not take more than an hour to rent a car when you’ve already reserved online and already have an account setup with them.

I normally rent with Enterprise or Sixt through Lyft with no issue but they did not have any available cars so I tried Hertz. It now doesn’t surprise me Hertz went into bankruptcy.

New comment by Liuser in "Is this the end of social networking?"

Liuser — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:51:47 +0000

I wonder if timing may have been off. I'd like to imagine that re-introducing it today there'd be more appetite for a personal social network, now that Facebook/Meta is pivoting away.

But, yes I agree, I used to use Path also with just a group of 5 friends around 2013. The app was cleanly designed and it definitely felt intimate.

New comment by Liuser in "Walking Venice"

Liuser — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 09:51:41 +0000

Visited Venice last year late November. During the day, the most enjoyable parts for me were walking a bit further away toward the northern sections (Cannaregio) which are away from the main shopping centers and thus crowds. Then during the late night/early morning I would walk with my wife and explore the city a bit more once the crowds died down and the city felt quiet (after 11pm). That was romantic. I’d parrot with others that it’s amazing not having to worry about cars.

We did Rome, Florence, Tivoli, Siena and Venice. All beautiful cities coupled with amazing food. Florence felt like I was walking through a painting at times; I loved them all.

New comment by Liuser in "Authorization in a Microservices World"

Liuser — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:33:41 +0000

Works fine for 1 application, but what about for thousands of services with many teams?

Everything is difficult with scale. We can’t expect every service owner to implement authz correctly, but if we can expose and build tools that help standardize and abstract as much as possible the difficulties of authz then service owners can focus their energy on other things.

New comment by Liuser in "Authorization in a Microservices World"

Liuser — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:13:44 +0000

I agree that identity is important, but I would argue that challenge lies in authn and would be it’s own separate article. This focus was on authz. We are assuming we trust the passed in identity at this point. Eg user has authned, session is established, and we trust that the identity has been passed securely from downstream.

New comment by Liuser in "A Primer on Proxies"

Liuser — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:57:03 +0000

> Normally the client sends a single CONNECT [hostname] request to the proxy and after that the proxy just forwards TCP packets on that connection, which is nothing that HTTP/2 can improve.

Trying to test my understanding - Does the CONNECT HTTP protocol need to match the underlying payload protocol. Eg After CONNECT over HTTP/1.1 tunnel is established it’s still possible for the client to still use HTTP/2 with the upstream server for its underlying payloads correct?

My intuition is that it doesn’t need to match because the proxy has no way to know what http protocol is being used when the workload is encrypted.

New comment by Liuser in "Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)"

Liuser — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:30:28 +0000

Not VR, but "Just Dance", a video game series teaches actual dance moves.

New comment by Liuser in "Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike"

Liuser — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:15:37 +0000

They just place ads on it. Motivate runs a lot of bikes: Ford Gobike (SF), CitiBike (NYC), Biketown (Portland), Capital Bikeshare (DC), Divy (Chicago), BlueBikes (Boston), Cogo (Columbus), Nice Ride (Minneappolis),

Lyft is reportedly close to buying the company behind Ford GoBike and Citi Bike

Liuser — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/01/lyft-is-close-to-buying-the-company-behind-ford-gobike-and-citi-bike/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241068

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New comment by Liuser in "Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds"

Liuser — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:06:21 +0000

Been thinking of cancelling my reservation as well. My need for a car has dramatically decreased in the last couple of years with the ubiquity of ride sharing services. Now with last mile services spreading more and more (scooters/bike shares) I'm thinking this trend will only increase.

I take the bus and bike to work. Small groceries are also done by bicycle. Whenever I go out to eat with my wife we use a ride sharing service because we enjoy a drink or two with our meals.