Hacker News: laurensr

New comment by laurensr in "PHP's Oddities"

laurensr — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:05:47 +0000

/joke

But it doesn't have Perl's brevity: https://imgur.com/a/CfRqh5X

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

laurensr — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/07/ibm-cloud-evaporates-as-datacenter-loses-power/5234835

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062155

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

Phos-Chek Fire Retardant

laurensr — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phos-Chek

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555729

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurensr in "Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated"

laurensr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:14:26 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out! My ISP, (Orange Belgium), does not support IPv6 yet!

New comment by laurensr in "Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated"

laurensr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:58:46 +0000

Unfortunately towel.blinkenlights.nl is permanently dead

New comment by laurensr in "Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?"

laurensr — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:11:00 +0000

I see them less and less. Recently an acquaintance got hearing aids and when asked about the T functionality (to listen to induction loops) they didn't even know about it.

The Millenial Pause

laurensr — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_pause

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798765

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurensr in "test-ipv6.com will stay online"

laurensr — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:15:49 +0000

Meanwhile some ISPs are still not offering IPv6, such as Orange Belgium.

New comment by laurensr in "Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser"

laurensr — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:27:48 +0000

The most absurd limitation in Postman is a limit on how many times your team can run a collection. Locally, on their machine.

Let that sink in: on YOUR LOCAL machine.

https://learning.postman.com/docs/collections/running-collec...

New comment by laurensr in "Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser"

laurensr — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:24:36 +0000

What we really need is a community-driven alternative without lock-in. Many other use cases are covered by great FOSS products, but somehow API clients are abused as a sync cash cow:

- insomnia deliberately broke a 3rd party sync: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync

- I could go on

New comment by laurensr in "Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser"

laurensr — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:52:42 +0000

I've been using Bruno lately. It can use any directory as a collection, and I use git repos with my team to sync collections.

https://www.usebruno.com/

Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser

laurensr — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:18:23 +0000

Article URL: https://status.postman.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797620

Points: 4

# Comments: 9

New comment by laurensr in "My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server"

laurensr — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:51:14 +0000

In my browser the ads cover the actual content.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

New comment by laurensr in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

laurensr — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:22:53 +0000

Imagine governments allowing money for gold that's present but locked away. And later for gold they don't have!

New comment by laurensr in "Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver"

laurensr — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:36:39 +0000

Video presentation at https://ftp.fau.de/cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2024/h264-hd/38...

New comment by laurensr in "How a Gas Compressor Station Works"

laurensr — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:41:26 +0000

In the sixties, hexavelent chromium was used as a rust inhibitor in cooling towers in a Hinkley PG&E compressor station. It caused ground water contamination affecting the health of many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contaminat...

Explosives Detector Powered by Bees

laurensr — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fp85vn/explosives_detector_powered_by_bees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656303

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurensr in "Waking up to NYT Crosswords on reMarkable paper tablet"

laurensr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:06:31 +0000

The lengths we have to go to make a device at this price point do what we want is... reMarkable

New comment by laurensr in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

laurensr — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:47:24 +0000

And then there is FATCA and CRS : when opening a bank account for my non-profit I had to answer 15 pages of questions related to me, other directors and the non-profit itself. I'm a non-US citizen outside of the US.

New comment by laurensr in "Tell HN: Mattermost published ± 2000 266 bytes Docker images on 2024-07-24"

laurensr — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:53:17 +0000

Mattermost published ± 2000 266 bytes docker images on 2024-07-24