<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mark_sz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mark_sz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:17:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mark_sz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://vask.dev" rel="nofollow">https://vask.dev</a> - websockets - Pusher alternative. It's Pusher compatible, but way cheaper and powered by Cloudflare.<p><a href="https://tailstats.com" rel="nofollow">https://tailstats.com</a> - display data on almost any device (ios,android,macos).I've build this for myself so I don't have to build dashboards or mini-one-purpose-apps and clog menubar/workspace.
It also works with AI agents via API and MCP so agents can create interactive cards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888741</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But be fair: Poland had to rebuild after WWII and 40+ years of communism.<p>When Western countries got money via the Marshal Plan:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan</a><p>Poland had... "friendly" Soviets "supporting" their country for almost 44 years...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:38:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062968</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Short-term rentals are hollowing out communities with loose restrictions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We live in the UK, in our own home, though we’re still paying off the mortgage. I’m a software developer working in a hybrid arrangement (part office, part home), and I live here with my partner and our daughter.<p>A few years ago, the family next door were evicted with just a few weeks’ notice after the landlord sold the property to an "investor"—it was his second house on our street. The investor spent 10 months renovating the house himself and turned it into a short-term rental. For us, those 10 months were a nightmare: drilling, hammering, and building noise from early mornings to midnight, seven days a week. Despite this, we didn’t complain, as we wanted to establish a good relationship with the new owner. He reassured us that the property would only be rented out to families.<p>But then the first guests arrived—on the night before New Year’s Eve. It was a group of people ready to party. That first night, they partied until 4am. We thought, “Alright, they’ll have their New Year’s Eve celebration and move on.” But no, the parties continued on New Year’s Eve and beyond. From then on, it’s been one group after another—loud, late-night parties and noisy families. We’ve lost countless nights of sleep. My partner, my daughter, and I were all constantly exhausted.<p>For eight months, we tried dealing with this directly with the owner. We asked him to soundproof the walls, even offering to soundproof ours to help. I spent my own money soundproofing one room in our house. But after I told him what we’d done, he refused to do anything on his side, saying that my soundproofing solved the issue—when it clearly hadn’t. We could still hear everything, especially as there’s a hot tub in the garden, which guests often use late into the night.<p>When it became clear that the owner wasn’t going to help, I filed a complaint with the council. I explained that the property was being run without proper planning permission and causing significant disruption to us and other neighbours. Unfortunately, the owner found out about the complaint and started sending us offensive messages, targeting both us and other neighbours.<p>Despite reporting this to the council, nothing has changed. Two years ago, we bought a campervan, and now, whenever we see a large group of people arriving next door, we leave and sleep in the campervan. Imagine that—being forced out of your own home just to get a proper night’s sleep. Even now, the council says they’ll “look into it,” but we’re still waiting for action.<p>We even left our house over Christmas this year just to get some peace and quiet.<p>This is what life is like living next to an unregulated short-term rental. For us, it’s not just about the noise—it’s about the mental and emotional toll it’s taken on our family. It’s hard to explain this to people who’ve never experienced it themselves, but I hope this sheds some light on the reality of these situations.<p>Investors and short-term lets are about more than money—they can have a devastating impact on the lives of the people around them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:34:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543435</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Show HN: HyperFast, a React Native starter kit. Idea to app store in a week."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks good, well done! Got a license, thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481139</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "McDonalds Event Driven Architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately McD app doesn't make a good impression. It's quite buggy (iOS and Android) and has some obvious usability issues.<p>So it doesn't matter what architecture is behind McD systems if customer facing software doesn't work correctly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892097</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Why don't websites offer a “low power mode”?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why Google cares about website speed? Not only because of user experience but also because of energy usage/env impact.<p>If you have to crawl & render billions of pages on daily basis - costs are huge (CPU power & energy usage).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843759</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Knuddels: Chat platform must pay after hacker attack fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reported to them that it's not a good idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:10:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532284</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Knuddels: Chat platform must pay after hacker attack fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe <a href="https://www.plus.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.plus.net/</a> should be next.
Reported few times without any result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510291</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "A Commodore hacker’s story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do remember these days. I was part of C64/Amiga demoscene.
I saw intros before cracked games on C64 and I wanted to build my own. That was the whole reason I got in to programming... And now, 28 years later... 
I can still write simple assembly code on C64:)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:56:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440918</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Show HN: Sitemapbot.io – crawl and screenshot an entire website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good idea!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:33:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427767</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Show HN: Sitemapbot.io – crawl and screenshot an entire website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is my weekend project, hope some people will find this useful. Any feedback is welcome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:18:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427395</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Sitemapbot.io – crawl and screenshot an entire website]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://sitemapbot.io/">https://sitemapbot.io/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427286">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427286</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://sitemapbot.io/</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm guessing their next step will be to charge monthly for Bluetooth connectivity and probably Navigation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:19:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197804</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Show HN: Archive websites from the command line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ok, but does it archive whole website or just one page (given URL)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 13:43:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795961</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Show HN: Archive websites from the command line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool.<p>How does it work? What's under hood?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 09:12:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790078</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Rails 5.1.0 Beta 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In terms of integration with Javascript, RoR seems to be behind for example (PHP) Laravel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:38:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718055</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>devOS?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591457</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "MacBook Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disappointing, almost boring event.<p>Almost, because it made me laugh when I heard someone saying "incredible" again and app called "TV" :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12810410</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12810410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12810410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Microsoft, I Forgive You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how "harder" is it on Windows?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:07:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807649</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mark_sz in "Microsoft, I Forgive You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tim Sweeney lives in the past.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806591</link><dc:creator>mark_sz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806591</guid></item></channel></rss>