Hacker News: colinbartlett

New comment by colinbartlett in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

colinbartlett — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:30 +0000

I was shocked to see that a "brand name" stethoscope is $100+ and even generic ones are $30.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?"

colinbartlett — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:38:44 +0000

A single engineer should not get fired for an architectural decision that clearly had buy in from many people.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015"

colinbartlett — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:42:57 +0000

Yes because if it helps keep devices in use longer it helps reduce waste and the planetary impacts of a culture of disposable products.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?"

colinbartlett — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:32:01 +0000

The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.

Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)

For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.

Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.

The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Art Bits from HyperCard"

colinbartlett — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:26:56 +0000

HyperCard was definitely my first taste of what would become my career in web software development.

I wasn't a Mac user at home, but school had them and I absolutely loved what I could create with HyperCard, there was nothing like it on Windows.

I also recall switching to SuperCard simply for the COLOR support, what a time.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter"

colinbartlett — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:28:14 +0000

I thought so, too. I randomly found this on Reddit and it struck a chord with me, especially as an urban dweller that absolutely despises litter and litterers.

Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

colinbartlett — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sixstepstobetterhealth.com/litter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212451

Points: 208

# Comments: 75

New comment by colinbartlett in "xAI joins SpaceX"

colinbartlett — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:08:25 +0000

Or any more than "full self driving" by 2017.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Route leak incident on January 22, 2026"

colinbartlett — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:29:13 +0000

I do appreciate these post mortems from Cloudflare, however I wish they would include timestamps of their status page posts in their timelines.

In this case, the timeline states "IMPACT STOP" was at 20:50 UTC and the first post to their status page was 12 minutes later at 21:02 UTC:

"Cloudflare experienced a Network Route leak, impacting performance for some networks beginning 20:25 UTC. We are working to mitigate impact."

New comment by colinbartlett in "If you're struggling to get your engineers to adopt AI, read this"

colinbartlett — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:35:37 +0000

Why?

New comment by colinbartlett in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

colinbartlett — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:45:08 +0000

These demonstrate just how car-obsessed our society is. Depressing.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text"

colinbartlett — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:38:33 +0000

Any practical use for this IKEA data specifically?

Or just a handy open data set you could use to prove out the concept?

New comment by colinbartlett in "RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?"

colinbartlett — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:08:09 +0000

They do back a lot of companies. Is there any evidence that they are pushing unethical or illegal business practices on their portfolio companies at a rate higher than non-YC start ups?

SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything

colinbartlett — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlnet.cc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483657

Points: 60

# Comments: 18

2025: The year of the global cloud outage

colinbartlett — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://statusgator.com/blog/2025-the-year-of-the-global-cloud-outage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375690

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?

colinbartlett — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370592

Points: 104

# Comments: 80

Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

colinbartlett — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:02:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368863

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by colinbartlett in "Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024"

colinbartlett — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:10:26 +0000

Citation needed.

New comment by colinbartlett in "Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline"

colinbartlett — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:51:09 +0000

GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.

Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

colinbartlett — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://statusgator.com/blog/scrapers-take-down-github-december-11-outage-timeline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248021

Points: 11

# Comments: 7