Hacker News: jcwayne

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: HookVerify – Webhook delivery visibility for production systems"

jcwayne — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:58:26 +0000

Thank you for actually showing a base price for an enterprise tier.

New comment by jcwayne in "Meta outage"

jcwayne — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:59:10 +0000

The sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog"

jcwayne — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:27:13 +0000

I find presenting this as an open source alternative to commercial solutions a little disingenuous when any commercial use of it also requires a paid license. Like many other cases it seems like the AGPL is functioning more as a trial license.

New comment by jcwayne in "A Beginner's Guide to eBPF"

jcwayne — Mon, 08 May 2023 09:51:56 +0000

The parody here is so perfect, they even created the technology they don't bother to define.

New comment by jcwayne in "Low Earth Orbit Visualization"

jcwayne — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:31:42 +0000

Thank you for this. While the visualization is useful/interesting, it frustrates me how often similar visuals are used in news stories about space junk. Yes, it's a problem, but using visuals like this without proper explanation misrepresents it terribly.

New comment by jcwayne in "How the SQLite virtual machine works"

jcwayne — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:05:31 +0000

I'm curious how many companies building for >1M concurrent users have even a tenth of that in reality.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: Extensible OSS Retool Alternative"

jcwayne — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:46:19 +0000

I'm sure it's not a popular opinion, but I consider AGPL to be more source-available trialware than OSS. Even for strictly internal tooling, I hesitate to use AGPL licensed code.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data"

jcwayne — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:06:58 +0000

Overall, this looks great. My only concern the the project file being a SQLite db. I'd really like to have something to (usefully) put in version control.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: Pxl.to – A serverless link shortener with no limits and no downtime"

jcwayne — Tue, 17 May 2022 04:36:25 +0000

> It's largely free

Looks like it's $30/mo for a useful plan.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software"

jcwayne — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:17:57 +0000

The ability to add location and an Alexa skill to allow me to ask Alexa where my foo is would be great.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: Tempchan – Throwaway Discussion Boards"

jcwayne — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:15:49 +0000

Would be nice if there were a way to differentiate all of the anonymous users. Personally I like Google's random animal name approach.

New comment by jcwayne in "How to programmatically find out if computer is on"

jcwayne — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:40:59 +0000

Seems like a reasonable compiler would inline the most likely implementation as 1. So, while technically undefined, it's safe to assume that it will 'return' 1 regardless of the actual on/off state of the computer.

New comment by jcwayne in "MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data"

jcwayne — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:33:39 +0000

Add in a startup fee and it would be a gym membership.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphically Encrypted Brainfuck Virtual Machine"

jcwayne — Sat, 22 May 2021 23:41:17 +0000

The level of evil here is inspiring.

New comment by jcwayne in "Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic"

jcwayne — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:56:29 +0000

I prefer "walking petri dish".

New comment by jcwayne in "John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT"

jcwayne — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:16:40 +0000

"It's NFTs all the way down."

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: NudeNet – Nudity classification and exposed part detection in images"

jcwayne — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:55:28 +0000

I don't think it would take much to get funding and political support with exactly that pitch.

New comment by jcwayne in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

jcwayne — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:16:25 +0000

It seems that what they've ruled is not that the treaty must be honored, but that only the federal government gets to decide not to honor it. Absent a specific decision to that effect, the treaty is still in force which limits the state's authority.

New comment by jcwayne in "Show HN: Reclaim – an adaptive calendar app that plans time for your routines"

jcwayne — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:40:00 +0000

I'd love to see todoist integration. The "find me 4 hours to do this" feature looks like a natural fit for this. Also, any plans for a public API?

New comment by jcwayne in "Oppose the Earn IT Act"

jcwayne — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:21:51 +0000

With failure to pay eventually landing you in jail.