Hacker News: RexM

New comment by RexM in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

RexM — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:17:41 +0000

It’s a lot like someone bragging that they’re bad at math tossing around equations.

New comment by RexM in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"

RexM — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:38:03 +0000

Does dedicated hetzner servers handle this?

New comment by RexM in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

RexM — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:11:49 +0000

For a 20% return in a year?

The numbers given have to be incorrect.

New comment by RexM in "Workday to acquire Pipedream"

RexM — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:10:54 +0000

As an employee, too.

New comment by RexM in "How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]"

RexM — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:45:52 +0000

Then you can’t make it targeted.

New comment by RexM in "Progressive JSON"

RexM — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:10:43 +0000

Interesting take considering graphql adoption is growing and generally in favor at my company.

New comment by RexM in "Tower Defense: Cache Control"

RexM — Sat, 17 May 2025 06:36:53 +0000

That seems verbose

New comment by RexM in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

RexM — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:26:53 +0000

Is this VM somehow related to Lynx (their cross platform dev tooling?)

https://lynxjs.org/

Also discussed on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264957

New comment by RexM in "Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil"

RexM — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 06:26:29 +0000

From the article:

> Rocha explained that KOBO’s bone marrow is actually “full of oil,” even though the whale has been dead for more than two decades.

> “It’s seeping out through the pores of the bones,” Rocha said. “The outer edges of the bone are a little more porous than human bones and [gravity is] just pulling the oil out.”

New comment by RexM in "Gleam Is Pragmatic"

RexM — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 05:49:03 +0000

I think you just fell into the trap.

New comment by RexM in "20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use"

RexM — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:48:37 +0000

If the panels are 20% more efficient, wouldn't you need to install 20% less of them?

New comment by RexM in "Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor"

RexM — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:02:48 +0000

Because you don’t want to share germs with other users of the browser? The logic makes no sense and I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking.

New comment by RexM in "Introducing passkey support to Fastmail"

RexM — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:15:10 +0000

I think it’s so it can look at the login method for the account and act accordingly.

If the user is configured to use SSO it can redirect to the identity provider. If it’s password auth it can ask for the password, etc.

New comment by RexM in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

RexM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:27:43 +0000

Did you also come up with Sharknado in this whiteboarding exercise?

New comment by RexM in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"

RexM — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:56:09 +0000

Yep, I’ve done something similar. Flew to a conference for work, then had them fly me to my vacation destination instead of home.

I basically ended up getting a free one-way flight for vacation.

New comment by RexM in "LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground"

RexM — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:27:28 +0000

Is there anything like this for Java. I really miss LINQPad since I’ve moved to a company that uses Java instead of C#.

New comment by RexM in "Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California"

RexM — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:48:45 +0000

Common or not, if the practice is bad why make the law specific to warehouse workers instead of making it a general law that applies to everyone?

New comment by RexM in "We need 70% less coders as the AI handles most of the coding"

RexM — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:37:00 +0000

I’m unsure about the higher quality part. I’ve seen code written by both AI and some humans — it’s a toss up.

New comment by RexM in "Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions"

RexM — Wed, 22 May 2024 04:52:52 +0000

> without the knowledge or consent of the employer

New comment by RexM in "Apple enters the generative AI race"

RexM — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:21:20 +0000

I’ve had several experiences where I ask Siri to play X on Spotify, then it says it’s going to play X on Spotify, and then nothing happens. The music never starts playing.