Hacker News: ehershey

New comment by ehershey in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

ehershey — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:01:39 +0000

> the page you're reading now is ~2.2MB, which is in line with typical page weights of ~2.7MB these days

For a small mostly-text blog post? Wtf are you talking about? That’s absurd.

New comment by ehershey in "Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries"

ehershey — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:41:51 +0000

Wow what a fun little interesting time. My wife and I made it to the end on mobile!

NASA analog astronauts begin mock Mars mission today

ehershey — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:13:43 +0000

Article URL: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news_062523a-chapea-yearlong-mars-analog-begins.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475327

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ehershey in "Should we normalize ephemeral businesses?"

ehershey — Wed, 17 May 2023 03:37:40 +0000

Why would it?

Pentagon official suggests alien mothership could be lurking in our solar system

ehershey — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:15:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/alien-mothership-lurking-in-our-solar-system-could-be-watching-us-with-tiny-probes-pentagon-official-suggests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308586

Points: 10

# Comments: 8

On the Metal Podcast: Oxide and Friends

ehershey — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/oxide-and-friends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074305

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ehershey in "Scientific Discovery Raises Questions About Death"

ehershey — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:21:35 +0000

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

New comment by ehershey in "Glow: Render Markdown on the CLI"

ehershey — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 04:31:26 +0000

It uses the same library as glow (glamour) -

https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/e876b229634b02d40bdfbb15844d...

Google's 'Rest and Vest' Days for Senior Employees Are Over, Says CEO

ehershey — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-rest-vest-days-for-sr-employees-are-over-says-ceo-its-a-brilliant-idea.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32796382

Points: 54

# Comments: 51

New comment by ehershey in "Emilie (2010)"

ehershey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:45:02 +0000

And from 2010. I missed both facts despite reading the whole darn thing.

Why does Covid-19 make things smell disgusting?

ehershey — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2021/nov/16/why-does-covid-19-make-things-smell-disgusting-podcast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245376

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ehershey in "A terrible schema from a clueless programmer"

ehershey — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:44:30 +0000

Proud of myself for recognizing the conceit (pun intended) here pretty quickly. Good point in the end too!

New comment by ehershey in "Google DNS at 010.010.010.010"

ehershey — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:02:05 +0000

Did google get slashdotted by hacker news? The “getting started” link at the bottom gives me an internal server error.

New comment by ehershey in "Leaving Google"

ehershey — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 04:31:19 +0000

While the original site isn’t feeling well: https://archive.md/YV9AQ

Dead-Simple WireGuard in Lambda

ehershey — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:41:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/corey-writes-open-source-code-for-lambda-and-tailscale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838782

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

America is the world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China

ehershey — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 05:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/international_institute_for_strategic_studies_cyber_study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27672194

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by ehershey in "Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?"

ehershey — Thu, 27 May 2021 01:06:31 +0000

I enjoyed this. In particular the drawn diagram and:

> Look at an audio file's waveform before playing it at max volume.

That’s always good advice.

New comment by ehershey in "Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry"

ehershey — Wed, 26 May 2021 22:10:55 +0000

What do you mean by “sanitizing” the sdk’s? Did you remove the OpenTelemetry package?

New comment by ehershey in "The California Exception"

ehershey — Thu, 06 May 2021 01:51:02 +0000

They do the same thing for digital-only subscriptions.

New comment by ehershey in "Efficiency Is the Enemy"

ehershey — Wed, 05 May 2021 00:35:11 +0000

There’s this, a close match: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

From hbr in 1963. https://hbr.org/1963/05/managing-for-business-effectiveness