Hacker News: e40

New comment by e40 in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

e40 — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:55:30 +0000

Dave is such a good writer.

New comment by e40 in "[dead]"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:07:59 +0000

"Blowing up the world 200 times" isn't what this is about. It's about smaller weapons used in Iran, and being depleted because of it.

New comment by e40 in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:03:31 +0000

ups.com is one that really infuriates me. It shows 404s for me on Firefox and works perfectly on Chrome.

Kaiser's website works mostly on Firefox. Recently I had to print a "letter" and on Firefox it was blank and printed fine with Chrome.

I don't know if it's still this way, but Google Meet didn't work very well in Firefox, so last year I took all my meetings in Chrome.

These are just what I remember. There are a LOT more.

EDIT: on the UPS thing... it happens when I follow links from gmail in Firefox. Sometimes it wouldn't 404, but I'd see a "..." and it would just stay that way.

EDIT2: for a long time (not anymore), sending Kaiser emails was broken. Hitting enter would warp to the bottom on the page and I'd have to scroll back up to finish typing. They're completely redesigned the website recently and that bug is fixed.

New comment by e40 in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:01:17 +0000

I want to thank you. I replaced the two old gen SFP+ modules with a new one and a DAC SFP cable. Both are quite a bit cooler than before.

New comment by e40 in "Ted Turner has died"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:42:39 +0000

I should have said the "Jane Fonda of today"... everyone does dumb things and I didn't agree with everything she did when young. Recent interviews have shown a lot of maturity.

New comment by e40 in "Ted Turner has died"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:39 +0000

I agree she had a negative impact on nuclear, but I don't think it was just her.

New comment by e40 in "I want to live like Costco people"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:35:13 +0000

It's a great model. We get the benefit of low prices, they get sustaining revenue that allows us to get those low prices.

New comment by e40 in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

e40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:32:18 +0000

Because some things only work in Chrome. It's a fact. It's terrible.

We're the frogs being boiled, over the last decade. People sounded the alarms, but they were looked at like they had tin foil on their heads. Now, it's clear they were right.

I'm speaking generally, of course. I use Firefox for all my personal stuff, except for those situations where it doesn't work.

New comment by e40 in "Ted Turner has died"

e40 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:19:23 +0000

Jane Fonda was his last spouse. I hope he left it to her. She's a very cool lady with a great head on her shoulders. A recent interview (The Interview, NYT) is worth listening to. She talked very positive about Ted in this interview, which made me think they had a good relationship still.

New comment by e40 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

e40 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:15:52 +0000

> When called out, he would result to personal attacks.

Oh, that's bad. Sounds like a terribly toxic environment.

New comment by e40 in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

e40 — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:02:34 +0000

So pne step towards the Neuromancer universe.

New comment by e40 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

e40 — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:58:56 +0000

Speaking of that, sometimes I touch the card I want and it doesn't select it. I go through this dance of touch, wait, touch, wait, repeat. Insane.

New comment by e40 in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

e40 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:30:24 +0000

Thanks for the answer. I understand now.

New comment by e40 in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

e40 — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:54:11 +0000

Our main repo has git history back to 1985. RCS to CVS to git. Each step was lossless. I don’t remember the exact tool, but the CVS to git step was a fantastic Ruby program. It was incremental and each night I had a cron job that would update a checked out copy of the sources on the git side and diff with a copy from CVS. After 6 months I had confidence and the training of everyone was complete and we switched over.

New comment by e40 in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

e40 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:13:46 +0000

I remember when port knocking was discussed here on HN many years ago it was shit upon because people said security through obscurity is bad. What really frustrated me, at the time and still (when people shit on it), is that it's not just obscurity, it's also security. Port scans see nothing, but just knowing the port doesn't give you anything. You still need a password or key.

New comment by e40 in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

e40 — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:10:49 +0000

The "new gen" link you says

> Built-in Newest Marvell chip, Max. Power Consumption 1.65W

Is that wrong?

Also, I'm using this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3F5DSXJ?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...

which says

> Build in Marvell chip, Low Power Consumption (2.0W MAX @ 30m)

I have had 0 problems. One I use for my Sonic.net Ont and the other for my a 10G switch. Maybe I don't have issues because the cable lengths are so short (1-2')?

I just checked and both are VERY hot to the touch. Now I'm worried.

New comment by e40 in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

e40 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:16:38 +0000

Why would this be preferred over the Tailscale macOS app? What are the advantages of this method?

Thanks.

New comment by e40 in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

e40 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:09:52 +0000

I have used 1pw since fleeing lastpass many years ago. It seems to be just what you want, functional and boring. I never had issues with the version 7 to 8 upgrade, that pissed off so many people.

New comment by e40 in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

e40 — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:30:23 +0000

Freakonomics did a pod about this, titled “how to get away with murder”.

New comment by e40 in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"

e40 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:14:37 +0000

I got 3 calls purportedly from hubspot in the last week, from 3 different caller ids. It wasn’t a robocall, the same voice. I just hung up the first two times and the third asked him to stop calling. Incredible. I only answered the calls because I was expecting a call from an unknown number.