Hacker News: itsamario

New comment by itsamario in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

itsamario — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:51:11 +0000

Wise men speak when needed; fools because they want

New comment by itsamario in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

itsamario — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:44:22 +0000

I remember hearing that NYC had millions of commuters a day via NJTransit.

I took those trains for a decade and the math doesnt add up. The capacity of the carts and speed they operate through the tunnel suggests less than a million at most.

New comment by itsamario in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

itsamario — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:11:03 +0000

They pay the most for human involvement. Wages, special conditions, and insurance are exponentially higher than their plans of warehouse to end-user via lockers and drones.

New comment by itsamario in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

itsamario — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:08:15 +0000

God made things earlier than previously thought. Ha

New comment by itsamario in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

itsamario — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:18:31 +0000

If ice only goes after undocumented or expelled immigrants, why are they in the medicade system?

New comment by itsamario in "Show HN: BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser"

itsamario — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:42:05 +0000

I use to use pulse turbobytes use tracroute from dozens of networks.

I lost count of how many times those results got a peer to acknowledge a forwarding plane discrepancy

New comment by itsamario in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

itsamario — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:12:44 +0000

Only in America. America is deigned to make you mad that public common life isn't keeping up with whats in everybody's pocket.

Gently forcing the individual to choose sapient or insentient.

New comment by itsamario in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

itsamario — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:06:25 +0000

Companies like Schneider electric have systems for 25-50% the hyped brands but they don't provide batteries.

This is the company that owns APC so its not like theyre new or untested. They just don't bother with brand awareness

New comment by itsamario in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

itsamario — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:19:51 +0000

Phones are cheap, serivce isn't. If currency goes fully digital, not having two devices is irresponsible.

New comment by itsamario in "Open Infrastructure Map"

itsamario — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:21:11 +0000

Yep and its why some of us look for careers that let us work in rarely seen places, and devices most dont know exist, but are imperative to modern society.

New comment by itsamario in "Eat Real Food"

itsamario — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:38:25 +0000

I cut out mammal products and replaced with plant protein like lentils and wild rice.

I can eat 200g of lentil noodles in a sitting.

New comment by itsamario in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

itsamario — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:40:30 +0000

Most providers enforce rpki but unless you peer with tier1 networks you can't influence a network you don't peer with.

New comment by itsamario in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

itsamario — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:29:12 +0000

This is more recent and informative.

https://youtu.be/-sN2_Lp10lw?si=blBPFQ9jy2L8rCNp

New comment by itsamario in "My First Meshtastic Network"

itsamario — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:08:06 +0000

Thats what helium and some iot manufacturers tried like Ring. A mesh that only routes out the least utilized egress node. This is also convenient for backpackers and campers to request help, or get alerts, with their exact location

New comment by itsamario in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

itsamario — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:36:54 +0000

Our legal systems are based around being concise and succinct, relevant, and objectively unbiased.

I was raised to be respectful by "getting to the point, afap" to avoid wasting anybody's time.

But I've noticed that mostly only the members of the science and legal community exercising similar principles.

New comment by itsamario in "Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?"

itsamario — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:54:55 +0000

I started in development because I had websites I made and ran but didn't profit and had expenses.

There I learnt to be a sysadmin and went to MSP support.

As a sysadmin I relied on networks more and more and became a netadmin and that evolved to network engineer then architect.

I worked in startups and kept evolving until I looked down on those "professionals" that stayed dependent specialist. The back and forth to just identify an issue was all lazy waste to me.

Now I'm studying electrical engineering because there's lots of opportunity to scale tech but not enough supply of trade professionals that support the fundamentals.

I also wanted a role that didn't require several specialist to concur simple decisions of my daily job.

Tech is full of specialist that lack a general understanding of the principles they interact with. I needed to avoid being dependent on their approval for any matter

New comment by itsamario in "Some people can't see mental images"

itsamario — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:22:19 +0000

Can you remember seeing? I use my imagination to get a very grainy image but it's usually my interpretation of it and what I'm using it for.

Like when in school I'd imagine graphs lines before drawn or best example is a cad test and from reading the directions I could get an idea of what I was about to draw in cad

Man made computers in our image, it use to be a job title.