Hacker News: iFred

New comment by iFred in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

iFred — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:32 +0000

With these guys you get into a weird world of "is it them, us, or upstream of both of us" all the time. I had been using Twilio's telco partner maintenance notifications as a way of figuring out if someone like Orange was responsible for a bunch of French end points independent of Twilio had network degradation.

New comment by iFred in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

iFred — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:57:14 +0000

I mean, their viz is free and straight forward, not hidden behind a paywall or a demo page. I also appreciate not putting any comment based signal indicators as that is often noise.

New comment by iFred in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

iFred — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:33:44 +0000

High end resins and epoxies are in a critical supply shortage right now. I suspect that there are going to be some serious resource driven PCB shortages in the very near future.

New comment by iFred in "Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts"

iFred — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:06:46 +0000

What kind of image set is used here? A quick scan over the site and I don't know if I can provided my own aerial or satellite imagery or if you provide it.

New comment by iFred in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

iFred — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:57:44 +0000

Looking forward to an CNN breaking chyron titled "Oops!"

New comment by iFred in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

iFred — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:33:43 +0000

The German “ICON” model uses a spheroid shape that escapes me right now, but each grid cell is effectively a triangle. Most others are gridded squares.

New comment by iFred in "Photos: New Phoenix Microcenter is a 'tech-heaven' for geeks"

iFred — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:21:01 +0000

I keep hoping for a Microcenter in either Portland or Seattle but alas, I get the "we're always looking for new locations" email from their team and a "why not just order it from Amazon" from nearly everyone else.

New comment by iFred in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

iFred — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:28:53 +0000

I can't be the only one let down that there wasn't some new slot design. Something with pizzazz and flare.

New comment by iFred in "GCP Outage"

iFred — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:31:03 +0000

SLA contracts, clawbacks, and performance obligations make these pages a bit of a minefield for CSPs. When I was at a top-tier CSP, we had the status page that was public, one that was for a trusted tier of customers, one built for a customer-by-customer basis, and one for internal engineering.

New comment by iFred in "GCP Outage"

iFred — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:27:49 +0000

Down Detector can have a poor signal to noise ratio given from what I am assuming is users submitting "this is broken" for any particular app. Probably compounded by many hearing of a GCP issue, checking their own cloud service, and reporting the problem at the same time.

New comment by iFred in "Confessions about my smart home"

iFred — Sun, 18 May 2025 06:14:26 +0000

I feel like a kindred soul of sorts with this author.

I’m on my fourth iteration of a smart home setup with HA. Depression, neglect, a feeling that I need to burn it all down and restart, and depression again were all extinction level events for my setup. At one point I had meticulous Grafana dashboards worthy of a Golden Grot that could tell you the concentration of CO2, the pressure waves from the Tonga eruption, a map of Puget Sound gas prices, and other bits and bobs. I had dozens of Airthings sensors, plant sensors, ZWave temp sensors, three weather stations, countless LIFX bulbs, all working in unison to give me a pulse on my house.

Then I had a bout of the existential sads and just stopped looking at the slack notifications when HA connected the dots between a spike in radon and a nearby earthquake. I stopped caring that the CO2 concentration in my office was over 750ppm, or that watering my plants in my office in the winter was contributing to increased particulate in the air. Because I wasn’t listening to the interesting stuff, I stopped listening to the important stuff- alerts about failed drives, dying batteries, and broken updates.

Not caring felt so freeing. I didn’t start things up again until a few months later when I realized I wanted something cool to show in an interview. The cycle started anew.

P-P-P-Power Book (2004)

iFred — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:00:38 +0000

Article URL: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/p-p-p-powerbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981666

Points: 1

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New comment by iFred in "United States Power Outage Map"

iFred — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:05:22 +0000

Are you folks working directly with utility companies or pulling the data yourselves?

New comment by iFred in "DeepSeek R1 671B running on 2 M2 Ultras faster than reading speed"

iFred — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:45:14 +0000

Complete aside, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen Apple’s internal DNS outside of Apple.

New comment by iFred in "Gordon Mah Ung has died"

iFred — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:19:45 +0000

Learned about this last night and needless to say it was a gut punch. There is a whole generation of us that have Gordon to thank for our monthly pilgrimage to the magazine section looking for the latest edition of Maximum PC. Once a year we were treated to a buffet of hardware with amazingly high specs and prices to match with these Dream Machines later serving as mental checkpoints of the eras fastest personal compute. The. There was the effort that Gordon put into consumer advocacy in his columns, bad parts, badder corporate practices, and he was there fighting for us on the printed page.

Rest in peace Gordon.

Half Life 2 running on a Unifi CloudKey

iFred — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:17:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBZbPq7Nsek

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942691

Points: 1

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New comment by iFred in "Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024"

iFred — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:07:39 +0000

Bought it at launch and use it a couple dozen times a week.

For me, the killer function has been doing display mirroring with my Mac and leveraging the environments like Mt Hood or the Moon as a way to get into a focused flow. I love the idea of windowing in a virtual space, but the there is the same feeling of limitation that I get with this device as I get with my iPad. I've used it to capture some VR photos and videos of family, survey the house to identify the source of a water leak, used it for a couple workouts, to play some Xbox games in bed without waking my wife.

Weight only seems to be an issue for me at the 3h mark or so, but at that point I am taking a break. My eyes don't seem to be effected so far and the only visual quality issues have been either due to pancake lense physics or fogging up when the device is cold. App quality has been okish for the most part. I periodically check the app store for something new, but so far nothing that feels incredible. I'll probably buy a MetaQuest Pro after this just to see what that is like

I'm ultimately waiting for the ultrawide enhancement they teased earlier this year and hoping they add a few more environments.

MacPlusDancer

iFred — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:07:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/samhenrigold/MacPlusDancer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41882474

Points: 1

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New comment by iFred in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

iFred — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:53:32 +0000

Transall Saga by Gary Paulson. One of those young adult survival stories he was known for writing but with a sci-fi element. The book has been living rent free in my head since an elementary school book fair 26 years ago.

Humanity

iFred — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 23:54:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XttcWn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161079

Points: 2

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