Hacker News: RKearney

New comment by RKearney in "GrapheneOS – When an app is slow"

RKearney — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:07:52 +0000

"Before installing, please turn off all anti-virus and firewall software."

New comment by RKearney in "Air pollution spiked 30% since US stopped worldwide embassy monitoring in 2025"

RKearney — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:57:23 +0000

Wildfires tend to cause a decrease in air quality, yes.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/wildfires/1/8

New comment by RKearney in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

RKearney — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:27:06 +0000

Didn't Reddit ban open access to their APIs and kill third party viewers/apps as well by charging outrageous amounts for continued API access?

New comment by RKearney in "How to get a free .arpa domain"

RKearney — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:13:55 +0000

As the post calls out, most certificate authorities will not issue certs against .arpa domains. I found this out the hard way when paying for CloudFlare's Advanced Certificates add-on for an .arpa domain I had successfully delegated and registered.

They return failures and exceptions when attempting to generate the certificate for the .arpa domain and then I spent months trying to get a refund (they are very slow to respond) and only caved once I threatened a chargeback for the service not working as advertised.

New comment by RKearney in "[dead]"

RKearney — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:36:45 +0000

Please stop spamming this every few days.

Previous Discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529125

New comment by RKearney in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

RKearney — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:49:13 +0000

Title should read (2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=12factor.net

New comment by RKearney in "The first Windows app that automatically reduces loud TV commercials"

RKearney — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:54:05 +0000

Please stop spamming this every few days.

Previous Discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529125

New comment by RKearney in "Windows tool for automatic TV volume leveling"

RKearney — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:06:34 +0000

Previous Discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529125

New comment by RKearney in "Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection"

RKearney — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:03:25 +0000

Every post as well https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Bo_Amigo_910

New comment by RKearney in "Grok 4.3"

RKearney — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:14:27 +0000

Is this satire? Ask it about June 4 1989, Taiwan independence, or Winnie the Pooh.

New comment by RKearney in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

RKearney — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:26:36 +0000

This post is 12 minutes old. Have you finished yet?

New comment by RKearney in "Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2"

RKearney — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:47:33 +0000

The testing VM is specified as VM.Standard.A1.Flex (Oracle Cloud)

Is this the endpoint you tested against? https://bgp.he.net/dns/t3.storage.dev#_ipinfo

Did you test from a VM in the same cloud that's hosting the product? If so I'm not sure "neutral cloud provider" is an honest statement.

New comment by RKearney in "Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow"

RKearney — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:09:02 +0000

I'd just be happy if organizations stopped doing business with software vendors that still mandate disabling DEP, ASLR, and the dreaded "Please disable your antivirus before installing".

New comment by RKearney in "8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business"

RKearney — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:57:00 +0000

I’m currently ~6 weeks into a billing issue with CloudFlare. They typically take 5-6 days to respond, ask you for verification to do things, wait another 5-6 days, then they ask you to do it because it turns out they don’t have permission. It’s a mess.

New comment by RKearney in "Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4"

RKearney — Tue, 28 May 2024 18:29:29 +0000

> On macOS, I can't ping or bind to 127.0.0.2

     uname -a
    Darwin LT-JT6692XPXJ 23.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May  1 20:12:58 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384
     options=1203
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     nd6 options=201
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
    
    ~ 11s
     sudo ifconfig lo0 add 127.0.0.2
    Password:
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.824 ms
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.824/0.824/0.824/nan ms
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384
     options=1203
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000
     nd6 options=201
    
    ~

New comment by RKearney in "Cable ISP fined $10k for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband"

RKearney — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:52:14 +0000

For comparison, this is roughly the cost of a pair of coherent 400G optics used in DWDM.

New comment by RKearney in "Jeff Bezos will save over $600M in taxes by moving to Miami"

RKearney — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:40:00 +0000

He is moving from Seattle to Miami. Where did you get California from this?

New comment by RKearney in "iOS Wi-Fi Profile Generator"

RKearney — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:36:03 +0000

No escaping is done, so you can end up with a malformed profile if your SSID or PSK includes a < for instance.

New comment by RKearney in "Beeper Mini is back"

RKearney — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:35:37 +0000

iMessage is not about the color of the bubble. While the color is what's most noticeable to the end user, a non-iMessage chat means:

  1. Unable to rename group chats
  2. Photo sharing quality is lowered  
  3. Video sharing quality is abysmal
  4. Messages traverse carrier networks in plain-text
  5. Loss of undo send and delete
  6. Loss of inline replies
  7. Loss of typing indicators and read-receipts (if enabled)

Just to name a few.

New comment by RKearney in "Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)"

RKearney — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:13:19 +0000

AWS has an endpoint for this: http://checkip.amazonaws.com