Hacker News: fmx

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

fmx — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:50:49 +0000

Even worse, I've seen the JetBrains AI auto-complete insert hard-to-spot bugs, like two nested for loops with i and j for loop index variables, where the inner loop was fairly complex and incorrectly used i instead of j in one place.

New comment by fmx in "Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness"

fmx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:02:02 +0000

> The first class passengers are effectively paying 3x as much

3x? If only! If we're talking international first class (not US domestic "first"), it's typically 10-12x the price of economy.

New comment by fmx in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

fmx — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:13:54 +0000

GMail disagrees with you, because GMail users disagree with you. They are clicking "report spam" on your emails. Whether or not you think what you're sending is spam, the recipients think it is, and that's what matters. (Based on the other comments in this thread it's not hard to see why they might think so.)

New comment by fmx in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

fmx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:33:00 +0000

Perhaps a stupid question, but why do notifications need to be stored in a database in persistent storage at all?

OK, maybe they can be stored until they're dismissed in case the battery suddenly dies, so they can be displayed again on next boot and are not lost, but it sounds like they are being stored long after they are dismissed.

New comment by fmx in "What being ripped off taught me"

fmx — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:33:12 +0000

> Ironically, the good clients pay within 2-3 days normally, and the difficult ones are very “long tail”.

Why ironically? Isn't that exactly what you'd expect?

New comment by fmx in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

fmx — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:19:06 +0000

There have been so many cases of Apple, Google, etc. doing this that it's hard to have any sympathy for them at this point. If it was some grandma who didn't know better that would be another story, but the author was surely aware

  - that Apple *can* always *just* disable their account
  - that Apple regularly *does* do that
  - that Apple does not care about them at all

and they chose to bet their entire digital life on Apple's benevolence anyway. They lost that bet.

We need more stories like this hitting the mainstream news until even a non-technical person's reaction to this is "well, what did you expect?"

New comment by fmx in "DOOMscrolling: The Game"

fmx — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:26:17 +0000

The number of monsters on the screen doesn't seem to affect playing speed for me, but when the wall of fire appears it slows down the game very noticeably. (Using Firefox on desktop.)

New comment by fmx in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

fmx — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:50:03 +0000

The paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.10...

(Agree that the title is awesome, by the way!)

New comment by fmx in "PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client"

fmx — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:31:42 +0000

Just tried it and, apart from the UI being highly confusing (you just get a blank workspace basically, and it's unclear how to see other DBs and objects in them) it seems to have no support for PG schemas. When I did manage to connect to my DB it showed me the tables in the "public" schema only.

New comment by fmx in "Money bubble"

fmx — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:52:09 +0000

Right, I didn't notice the end date, sorry. So that was ~5.7% return for ~15 months (not 26) and the remaining ~28.7% was in the last 11 months.

New comment by fmx in "Money bubble"

fmx — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:08:23 +0000

> since launching Grizzly Bulls (https://grizzlybulls.com) in January 2022, 6 of our 7 models have outperformed the market on an unleveraged basis:

> VIX-TA-Macro Advanced: +34.38%

I'm not sure how to reconcile that with the numbers shown on https://grizzlybulls.com/models/vix-ta-macro-advanced

When 2022 is selected as the starting year, it shows an increase from 16,911,242 to 17,881,510 which is an increase of 5.7% in 26 months.

New comment by fmx in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

fmx — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:55:31 +0000

> This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls.

> Are you strong enough to pass technical interview?

> We will pay $100 for per call whether you pass the call or not, but hope you try your best to keep working with us.

I've never seen this kind of thing in a legitimate job at. It smells like a scam to get bank details, especially combined with the very generic description here and lack of any company details.

New comment by fmx in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

fmx — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:06:40 +0000

I like the brevity of it, but I don't like the assumption that every good candidate will have everything that they want to share with a prospective employer on their LinkedIn page. Something like "Link to resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc. (whatever you want to show us)" would be more inclusive.

New comment by fmx in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

fmx — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:47:23 +0000

That is the second-shortest job application form I've ever seen. (The shortest one asked for a name, email and LinkedIn without a free-text field. I think "who are you" is more important than "name".)

New comment by fmx in "4B If Statements"

fmx — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:56:41 +0000

Ah yes, that actually explains a lot! Thanks.

New comment by fmx in "4B If Statements"

fmx — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:12:03 +0000

I see, thanks. I guess that answers one question, but raises another: why have his packages depend on more of his packages? If his goal was to be included in as many node_modules directories as possible, and handlebars-helpers was already included what's the point of pulling in is-odd/is-even, too?

New comment by fmx in "4B If Statements"

fmx — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:46:25 +0000

When I first heard of the is-odd and is-even NPM packages I was sure they were a joke, yet there we are: 200K weekly downloads! Publishing the packages may have been the effort of one spammer, but many developers obviously chose to use them - that's the part that boggles my mind.

New comment by fmx in "A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors"

fmx — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:34:12 +0000

Discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973

Nice to see that some of the suggestions from there, like listing the hidden URLS (/leaders, etc.) seem to have been implemented.

New comment by fmx in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

fmx — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:22:00 +0000

Just want to say I really like the values on your careers page. Compassion and humility, but raising the bar at the same time. (Of course, it could all be complete corporate BS, for all I know, but I'd really like to believe it's not!) It's such a shame you switched from "remote (worldwide)" to "remote (North America)"!

New comment by fmx in "I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]"

fmx — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:31:24 +0000

Yeah, as hilarious as this is when it happens to a bad guy the really sad aspect of it, for me, is that their customer service experience is not so abnormal. If it were, most would immediately identify it as fake. Like, counting the numbers of nuts in a photo is a bit much, but we are so used to horrible CAPTHAs now that it's just plausible. Same with the phone menu, etc.