Hacker News: markthethomas

New comment by markthethomas in "SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion"

markthethomas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:52:02 +0000

yup - updated

SpaceX strikes deal with Cursor for $60B

markthethomas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:27:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855448

Points: 100

# Comments: 1

New comment by markthethomas in "PaybackTime.app: survived the Eaton fire in LA, so I made an app"

markthethomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:25:21 +0000

Dealing with insurance reimbursements is a huge pain, so threw this together over a few weeks. Not bulletproof, but hoping it can help the thousands of other people in my situation a little bit

PaybackTime.app: survived the Eaton fire in LA, so I made an app

markthethomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:24:03 +0000

Article URL: https://paybacktime.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286420

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Split Pdfs by Page or File Size

markthethomas — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:01:18 +0000

Just a little utility project I put together; using Go, JS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092775

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by markthethomas in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

markthethomas — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:15:39 +0000

https://ifelse.io

Been a minute since I’ve posted but writing for it has made major positive impacts in my career and life

New comment by markthethomas in "Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool"

markthethomas — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 22:43:15 +0000

hey thanks so much for trying things out! I really, really appreciate it. Totally hear you on the search experience. I currently use Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/) for the search backend. I love how crazy fast it is and generally have had a nice experience running the system myself. But I totally hear you on the semantic search side of things.

I am definitely hoping / planning to offer that unified "view this product across stores" feature — that would be killer. Just have to work on the ML stuff to get that sufficiently good and get the data in a good spot. The CozoDB thing looks very promising, will check it out! Thanks again

New comment by markthethomas in "Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool"

markthethomas — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:10:37 +0000

I'm working on Costbot, a price tracking tool designed to help online shoppers save time and money by monitoring price histories and alerting them when their favorite products hit their target prices. The side-project recently become done "enough" to be shared in small fashion, and wanted to ask for feedback/thoughts etc. on here.

I'm a staff software engineer by trade, but love working on side projects in my (relatively rare) spare moments. This has been a fun project, involving some new things I hadn't worked on before (extended parsing / crawling, scraping, headless browsers etc.). Hoping to put together a write-up on the tech soon.

Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool

markthethomas — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.costbot.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35754242

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by markthethomas in "KV.js"

markthethomas — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:09:57 +0000

This looks super cool! I have a use case where I store some stateful stuff in Redis that a worker constantly interacts w/ and updates. Redis is great, but the project is a very side thing and would love not to have to pay for bandwidth / just embed it inside of it. Going to take a look at this and see if I can make it work! Didn't see any serialization formats, so might just do that myself. Ty for building this!

New comment by markthethomas in "Transactions Aren't Everything"

markthethomas — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 06:07:05 +0000

Not sure if I missed done nuanced point here or it was just a non-sequitur of an article

New comment by markthethomas in "Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage"

markthethomas — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:47:17 +0000

That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)

New comment by markthethomas in "Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage"

markthethomas — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:28:04 +0000

Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.

New comment by markthethomas in "Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage"

markthethomas — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:18:19 +0000

(unpkg seems to be up now)

New comment by markthethomas in "Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage"

markthethomas — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:05:49 +0000

Been a fan of fly and have had most, if not all, of my side and semi-side projects on there for some time now. But...the ratio of good/fun/snarky blog posts to reliable service has gotten a bit too large for me, starting to look for other providers at this point just in case they can't turn this trend around. Honestly been a good object lesson for me in the importance of backing up marketing/hype/"mind-share" stuff w/ absolute rock-solid performance/reliability or just forgoing the former for the latter.

As an aside, it's also taking down some decently-load-bearing web infra like unpkg => https://www.unpkg.com/

New comment by markthethomas in "Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine"

markthethomas — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:50:11 +0000

Ah gotcha very cool! Incredible it can run in the browser

New comment by markthethomas in "Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine"

markthethomas — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:32:12 +0000

Very cool! What’d you use for the engine?

New comment by markthethomas in "Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)"

markthethomas — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:24:13 +0000

“My shoes!!! They’ve been hacked!!!”

New comment by markthethomas in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

markthethomas — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:57:57 +0000

Wow. Wrote this in jest but seems like it won’t be long before it’s practically, if not actually, true https://unicorn.computer/twitter-suspends-all-users-who-have...

Some Helpful, Free APIs I Run with Fly.io

markthethomas — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:54:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ifelse.io/2022/11/29/some-helpful-free-apis-i-run-with-fly.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33793148

Points: 2

# Comments: 1