Hacker News: larrymcp

New comment by larrymcp in "I just want simple S3"

larrymcp — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:25:31 +0000

Ah, thanks. Yeah I was confused because in his long list of vendors he didn't mention Wasabi, Backblaze etc. It appears that I do not know the context of his post.

New comment by larrymcp in "Anthropic Reopens Talks with Pentagon"

larrymcp — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:29:18 +0000

https://archive.is/cEq9x

New comment by larrymcp in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

larrymcp — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:26:43 +0000

He probably means the large German drug store chain called DM.

https://www.dm.de/

New comment by larrymcp in "Kansas invalidates drivers licenses of trans people"

larrymcp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:28:39 +0000

The headline was mis-typed here: you're missing the apostrophe in "driver's licenses".

New comment by larrymcp in "Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google"

larrymcp — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:34:01 +0000

I agree; I'm calling "incorrect" on this for now, pending corroborating sources. I run a few sites that don't contain a robots.txt file, and they are showing on Google just fine. I see links to the home page and several interior pages; all good.

New comment by larrymcp in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

larrymcp — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:46:00 +0000

Ah, I think I recall the story you're referring to: reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a public web site was exposing Social Security numbers of teachers in Missouri. He notified the site's administrators, and later published a story about the leak after it was fixed.

The governor of Missouri at the time, Mike Parson, called him a hacker and advocated prosecuting him. Fortunately the prosecutor's office declined to file charges though.

New comment by larrymcp in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

larrymcp — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:27:01 +0000

Can anyone elaborate on what they're referring to here?

> GPT‑5.2-Codex has stronger cybersecurity capabilities than any model we’ve released so far. These advances can help strengthen cybersecurity at scale, but they also raise new dual-use risks that require careful deployment.

I'm curious what they mean by the dual-use risks.

New comment by larrymcp in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

larrymcp — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:40:48 +0000

I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.

New comment by larrymcp in "Claude Skills"

larrymcp — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:55:22 +0000

> starting from ground zero

You probably mean "starting from square one" but yeah I get you

New comment by larrymcp in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

larrymcp — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:18:05 +0000

> I had one client spending $12,000 per month on Google Ads

In Google Ads you can just turn off the option to run your ads on non-Google sites; I think it's called their Display Network. Just run your campaign only on Google's search pages.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention this rather common solution.

New comment by larrymcp in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

larrymcp — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:32:43 +0000

Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj

New comment by larrymcp in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

larrymcp — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:32:12 +0000

Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj

New comment by larrymcp in "After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller"

larrymcp — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:27:02 +0000

Fantastic. Another great one that blew my mind (and P&T's) is Nick Einhorn from the first season, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-S9-bgvlg&t=77s

New comment by larrymcp in "Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page"

larrymcp — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:48:30 +0000

The funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".

New comment by larrymcp in "Earths largest camera:3B pixel images"

larrymcp — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 03:32:56 +0000

The title should be corrected to "Earth's", which is the original NYT headline. "Earths" would mean more than one Earth.

New comment by larrymcp in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

larrymcp — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:27 +0000

I think you probably mean "shouldn't have". There is no "shouldn't of".

Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried

larrymcp — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:15:27 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/02/11/bitcoin-trash-landfill-purchase-james-howells-newport/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016116

Points: 17

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New comment by larrymcp in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

larrymcp — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:28:23 +0000

Get a taxi or ride-share maybe?

I was expecting the article to cover this possibility, but it didn't mention it.

New comment by larrymcp in "The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us"

larrymcp — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:29:46 +0000

Ah, yeah. If this signal reaches your neighbor across the street, then maybe it's a "public performance" and you've got to get ASCAP and BMI licenses.

(And start taking requests.)

New comment by larrymcp in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

larrymcp — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:08:32 +0000

https://archive.is/AWVuv