<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: markdoubleyou</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=markdoubleyou</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:00:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=markdoubleyou" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, roommates were huge for me before I started a family. I have a strong tendency to become a hermit, and having another human in the vicinity is just enough healthy social pressure to snap me out of it. Forces me to wash the dishes and do normal human things.<p>Also very important for me: I <i>always</i> have some decent clothes hanging in my closet that are washed, prepped and ready to go for various situations. Not having something nice to wear for a last-minute social event is a massive source of friction, but if I can easily throw on some clothes that I feel good about then it really dials up my enthusiasm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:23:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312141</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "When Mark Zuckerberg Moved Next Door"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surprised this article didn't mention his antics in Hawaii,  where he tried using lawsuits to secure all of the parcels in his 700-acre Kauai property from native Hawaiians. (He dropped the lawsuits after the optics became terrible, but he's still reviled there.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:09:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865029</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zyruh, your individual comments & submissions are friendly, appreciative, and inquisitive... but they're a little uncanny when viewed as a whole. Are you a real person?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822549</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "The Fastest Mutexes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm the Mark who's referenced there. When I did that original benchmark I discovered that the underlying mutex used by MSVCRT did change between versions. For example, in Visual C++ 2013, they used the Windows Concurrency Runtime, which was awful under heavy contention. Newer MSVCRT versions use SRWLOCK.<p>(And I wouldn't characterize myself as being <i>overly</i> impressed... for my particular scenario I wrote, "if you have a poorly written app that's bottlenecked on a lock, then consider targeting Windows to make the best of a bad situation." A better approach, of course, would be to just improve your code!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:31:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725537</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "NeVerMore: Exploiting RDMA Mistakes in NVMe-Of Storage Applications (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks like RDMA is kind of like IP4, in the sense that it wasn't originally designed with security in mind. Was this vulnerability a big deal when the paper was submitted in 2022, or more a case of doing cool research on a protocol vulnerability? The attack scenario looks pretty limited:<p>"We consider an adversary that is on one of the endpoints of the victim connection (i.e., it is co-located with either the NVMe-oF target or client). The attacker is an unprivileged user and is assumed to have obtained access to the machines using legitimate means. We assume that the attacker shares the same physical RNIC as the NVMe-oF entity and both can use it for communication. We assume that the attacker and the NVMe-oF entity are not separated through RNIC virtualization. The TLU model is prevalent in private clusters that use RDMA and NVMe-oF to accelerate their workloads."<p>An attacker is pretty deep into your infrastructure if they can even get a whiff of your storage fabric like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 02:20:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40530844</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40530844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40530844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-ai-censored-naked-capitalism">https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-ai-censored-naked-capitalism</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801120">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801120</a></p>
<p>Points: 39</p>
<p># Comments: 10</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-ai-censored-naked-capitalism</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author and former Navy SEAL David Goggins sues Amazon over bootleg books]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2024/author-and-former-navy-seal-david-goggins-sues-amazon-over-bootleg-books/">https://www.geekwire.com/2024/author-and-former-navy-seal-david-goggins-sues-amazon-over-bootleg-books/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520508">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520508</a></p>
<p>Points: 27</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:36:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.geekwire.com/2024/author-and-former-navy-seal-david-goggins-sues-amazon-over-bootleg-books/</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was my first mechanical keyboard, and I had the same reaction. My fingers would feel fatigued after an hour of heavy use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359647</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Phones track everything but their role in car wrecks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can kind of understand being temporarily distracted when a message comes in and your phone chirps, but wow... watching a video while you operate a 3000 pound machine is next-level idiocy.<p>I haven't been driving as much in recent years wasn't aware of this trend. (Except for Tesla drivers: 5 years ago, I remember looking over to see a Tesla on autopilot next to me, doing 60 on Seattle's 520 bridge with the driver totally checked out and watching a video.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146121</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're getting close to making your own CHM format, which Sphinx could make for you.<p>I always thought CHM files were a nice self-contained option for multi-page HTML docs. (Though they'd happily execute whatever JavaScript the author embedded in there... Maybe that's why they fell out favor?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:10:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138868</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's also the Audi RS6 Avant, a good option for anyone interested in spending $160K on a station wagon with 621 horsepower.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109317</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "9 years of Apple text editor solo dev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks great! Did you use QT Quick or the Widgets?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:11:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887249</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Pixel 8 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I "upgraded" from a Samsung Galaxy S9 to a Pixel 7 this year, only because Samsung stopped doing security updates. Big disappointment for me, too. The fingerprint scanner from that 2018 phone was 10x more reliable than the in-screen thing that the Pixel uses.<p>I don't miss the battling software ecosystems (Samsung vs Google) on that old phone, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:23:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772626</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Square is down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My local coffee shop gave up and closed after the 4th hour of this outage. They tried accepting cash for a while, but apparently nobody in Seattle carries cash anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:05:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426891</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Casio G-Shock time sync radio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My Pro-Trek syncs most nights in Seattle, but only if I leave it on a window sill with 12 o'clock facing southeast.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:14:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157875</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gmail supports IMAP, right? Would changing to a different desktop/mobile client make the ads go away?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 14:59:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35830077</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35830077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35830077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My last car, a 2007 Acura TSX, had the same problem--it wouldn't start after 4 or 5 days (maybe 2 or 3 during the winter). This model was from the first wave of touchscreens and bluetooth. Mechanics shrugged, pointed to the tiny, underpowered battery, and told me to drive it more.<p>Thankfully there are a lot of car enthusiast forums out there that have been plugging away on vBulletin for years. Someone on an Acura forum had figured out that the bluetooth module was always on and looking for a connection. I tried disconnecting it, and the problem was fixed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:26:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514801</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair enough, it's filed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144401</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that they don't blatantly violate any of the policy bullets in that FTC press release... all the terms are spelled out in the interstitial. The issue is that the design goes out of its way to give it a very <i>mandatory</i> vibe. I don't log in very often, but I always have to catch myself ("...wait, what is this? Do I have to do this?"), and then remember to go hunting for the NoThanks button. It has a very opt-out feel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144103</link><dc:creator>markdoubleyou</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by markdoubleyou in "Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a free Experian account that I look at every few months.<p>Every time I log in, a big, disorienting interstitial appears and pitches me on Experian CreditWorks Premium ($25/month), with fields asking for my credit card info. It's designed like it's part of a normal registration/login process that you're supposed to fill in. You have to scroll down past all of it to the bottom of the page and click the washed-out, kind-of-disabled-looking button that says "No, keep my current membership", at which point they reluctantly take you to your normal account overview page.</p>
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