Hacker News: geephroh

New comment by geephroh in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

geephroh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:50:30 +0000

Sounds like a good diy project with an old monitor and a raspberry pi...

Why the Meta Verdicts Are a Big Deal (and What It Was Like to Testify) [audio]

geephroh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/why-the-meta-verdicts-are-a-big-deal-and-what-it-was-like-to-testify

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545015

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe

geephroh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:23:07 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315738

Points: 45

# Comments: 3

New comment by geephroh in "Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died"

geephroh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:32:20 +0000

Not only a tech pioneer, also a genuinely decent human who helped found Social Venture Partners and IslandWood here in the puget sound. He will be missed, but not forgotten.

New comment by geephroh in "The remaking of Thomas Mann"

geephroh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:59:43 +0000

Many thanks to the op -- it's a book I haven't read in about a decade and seems like the right time to revisit.

Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

geephroh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:32:24 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/downdetector-speedtest-sold-to-it-service-provider-accenture-in-1-2b-deal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240042

Points: 28

# Comments: 5

Relooted challenges who gets to own and tell African history

geephroh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.avclub.com/relooted-game-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993644

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by geephroh in "illumos"

geephroh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:20:28 +0000

Blast from the past! I think it was something like 15 years ago when I had an OpenIndiana vm running NexentaStor to control an HP MSA P2000 SAN.

I am not nostalgic for those days.

New comment by geephroh in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

geephroh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:54:33 +0000

If you haven't listened to the interview[1], it's is absolutely bananas. Baszucki might want to think about dialing back on the ketamine a bit.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-...

New comment by geephroh in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

geephroh — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:49:36 +0000

That last one still makes me tear up. What a beautiful way to exit the stage.

Librarian vows to stop invasive ed tech after ending lawsuit with Proctorio

geephroh — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:06:45 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/proctorio-settles-curious-lawsuit-with-librarian-who-shared-public-youtube-videos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45987981

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by geephroh in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

geephroh — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:51:11 +0000

"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf ball..."

New comment by geephroh in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

geephroh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:51:05 +0000

Sometimes a little good old fashioned mayhem is good for employee morale

New comment by geephroh in "Teen safety, freedom, and privacy"

geephroh — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:33:32 +0000

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/how-openai-s-chatgpt-guid...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/podcasts/the-daily/chatgp...

New comment by geephroh in "A venture capitalist goes to extremes to punish her surrogate"

geephroh — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:40:34 +0000

Among all the incredibly depressing and shitty stories about late-stage capitalist consumer culture I've heard, this has to be one of the most depressing and shittiest.

New comment by geephroh in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

geephroh — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:14:35 +0000

https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/indonesia-urges...

Scientists unlock secret to thick, stable beer foams

geephroh — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-why-belgian-beer-foam-is-so-stable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45028166

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by geephroh in "Git-Annex"

geephroh — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:54:21 +0000

YMMV, but it works for my org. We're an archival institution and have been using git-annex for more than a decade as the storage backend for a digital repository system designed for long-term, robust preservation. Admittedly, we only have 15-20 staff; but +30TB of data, ~750K files (binaries + metadata), across hundreds of collection repos.

New comment by geephroh in "OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution"

geephroh — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:19:19 +0000

It (Solaris) was also the origin of ZFS, if I'm not mistaken.

New comment by geephroh in "What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?"

geephroh — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:01:36 +0000

Please and thank you!