Hacker News: ThaDood

New comment by ThaDood in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

ThaDood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:55 +0000

Awh man. This is so sad. His dachshund collection was my favorite -

https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1995

New comment by ThaDood in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

ThaDood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:16:52 +0000

When I read the AWS infrastructure the agent setup I about fell out of my chair laughing.

New comment by ThaDood in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

ThaDood — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:59:03 +0000

I shamefully have some Facebook Marketplace notifications for some Massy tractors. I'd love one. I don't even have land to use them, I just think they are neat.

New comment by ThaDood in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

ThaDood — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:41:08 +0000

Likely: Scan everyone's home while en-route to the 911 call with an infrared camera. Or scan all of the license plates and faces of people along the way.

Possible: Perhaps crash into someone? Or worse.

New comment by ThaDood in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

ThaDood — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:05:43 +0000

If you check their telegram channel they have some humorous photos and his resume.

New comment by ThaDood in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

ThaDood — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:12:10 +0000

So, I'm not a dev nor a project manager but I found this article very enlightening. At the risk of asking a stupid question and getting a RTFM or a LMGTFY can anyone provide any simple and practical examples of software successes at a big scale. I work at a hospital so healthcare specific would be ideal but I'll take anything.

FWIW I have read The Phoenix Project and it did help me get a better understanding of "Agile" and the DevOps mindset but since it's not something I apply in my work routinely it's hard to keep it fresh.

My goal is to try and install seeds of success in the small projects I work on and eventually ask questions to get people to think in a similar perspective.

New comment by ThaDood in "Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]"

ThaDood — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:15:30 +0000

I use a lot of Kodak 35MM! They are still kicking around. They are kind of hard to find in my neck of the woods, so I mostly stick with Fuji anymore.

New comment by ThaDood in "Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)"

ThaDood — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:27:29 +0000

I legit wish I had known about you a few years ago when writing my thesis. It was about community run broadband internet. I was trying to identify repeatable models for communities who wanted to run their own ISPs to use. This would have been so helpful!

Side note, truly inspirational an something I would love to do in my little village in Ohio.

HealthIT company NextGen moves to closed source license [pdf]

ThaDood — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://ng.nextgen.com/l/488571/2025-03-11/5qzyy7/488571/1742392350ASgLivMF/Final_External_FAQ_Mirth_Connect_License_Update_March2025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436139

Points: 4

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New comment by ThaDood in "Intel's Battlemage Architecture"

ThaDood — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:05:43 +0000

Here are some benchmarks from a few months back. Seems promising. https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-gpu-compute

Whoops - included the wrong link! https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linu...

New comment by ThaDood in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

ThaDood — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:46:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. Reading his story is kind of insane honestly. He created the CC licenses which I did not know. What an icon, truly.

New comment by ThaDood in "For the strongest disc golf throws, it's all in the thumbs"

ThaDood — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:06:05 +0000

Reading this article makes me think that I just throw weird compared to the pros. But who cares! I'm having fun.

New comment by ThaDood in "Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box"

ThaDood — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:52:19 +0000

Do you add milk or sugar to your tea? Or both? Or neither?!

What's your favorite biscuit. Asking as a yank who likes tea and biscuits.

New comment by ThaDood in "Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move"

ThaDood — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:54:42 +0000

Former MSP I worked at is also looking to migrate customers off to something like Hyper-V or Nutanix. I told my old boss to hire a bunch of Linux gurus and go through the Proxmox partnership program and get certified. As much as people knock it for their support not really being ready for enterprise. I do think that proxmox is well suited to gain some of the market share.

I've been using it in my lab for the past few years without any major issues. Running an HA 3-node cluster. Only issue I ran into was when I kept getting kernel panic from an driver issues in my RAID card. But that really only affected me during reboots. Pinning to and older kernel worked. Oh and it was also because my RAID card is like 10 years old.

So HN - if you are moving off VmWare, what are you using?

New comment by ThaDood in "Parkinson's may begin in the gut, study says, adding to growing evidence"

ThaDood — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:19:56 +0000

It can in advanced caseas - from my personal experience: My gran had it for as long as I could remember. As she got older and her condition worsened she would have difficulty swallowing just about anything and we had to add thickening agents (even to her water) so she could.

This also might have been a side affect of her medication but I don't recall it happening earlier on the same meds.

Take this for what it's worth. Happy to be wrong, I know someone on HN will tell me lol

New comment by ThaDood in "Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers"

ThaDood — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:41:05 +0000

IIRC EBPF is an enhanced version of the Berkeley Packet filter. In this scenario I believe it is being used for sandboxing a low level process to allow for TLS "decryption" on network connections related to Docker.

New comment by ThaDood in "The Erie Canal: The man-made waterway that transformed the US"

ThaDood — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:31:41 +0000

I actually live in a home right on the old canal as it went through in southern Ohio. You can still see some of the old canal walls. Every time I see it, I get so bummed out the US bailed on canals as transport. You can check it out here!

https://www.stbernardhistory.org/rock-20-girl-scout-ln

New comment by ThaDood in "96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers"

ThaDood — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:58:28 +0000

Link to the actual study cited in the article -

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

And at a quick glance it looks like it is mostly related to website information, not PHI or PII.

New comment by ThaDood in "The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam"

ThaDood — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:43:44 +0000

Oddly enough, I actually tried to make something like this happen at my high school. My high school was a private and catholic one. We had a strong relationship with a lot of the local parishes and shelters and there was always a need for some paulbearers or otherwise "witnesses" for individuals with no family (older, homeless etc) who had passed.

Initially I would just attend a few burials. I did not say much (if anything), nor do much. I just tried reflecting on the person and hoped they found some peace and comfort.

When I tried getting it off the ground into something more formal we ran into some bureaucratic issues. Makes me kind of sad. Maybe I should reach back out and see if I could get it started again.

New comment by ThaDood in "Show HN: Tracecat – Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative"

ThaDood — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:37:46 +0000

Neat! Another FOSS SOAR platform. Quick read through built-in integrations. Any support for Elastic both SIEM and EDR?

And do you all have like an MSP program? Assuming not, but always need to ask.

Also forgot to ask, any chance of moving some of the develop/feedback off of Discord? I understand a number of projects are making this choice now, but I find whenever I need to search Discord for information, I'm not the most effective at it.