Hacker News: marticode

New comment by marticode in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

marticode — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:31:11 +0000

This is great but at this point you should also give the calories since you have all the precise ingredients

New comment by marticode in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

marticode — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:54:47 +0000

Are we talking about bonds or government bonds here? The former will beat inflations assuming you don't just buy AAA rated ones. Investment grade perpetual bonds in US dollars yield over 6.5% on a Yield-to-call basis.

New comment by marticode in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

marticode — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:20:10 +0000

I use a plain Firefox on a plain Windows 11 PC on a plain regular mass market ISP in a developed country and I get completely blocked by websites daily.

At least let me complete a "prove you are human" challenge or something, but don't outright ban my IP address?

New comment by marticode in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

marticode — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:26:58 +0000

Well my IP (regular plain residential Asian ISP) is blocked on this site. Zealous Cloudflare-blocking is breaking the web.

(also thanks for the useful message telling me to "contact the website owner... while blocking me from the website where the contact info should be)

New comment by marticode in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

marticode — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:41:14 +0000

> It's people who stopped believing anyone was watching.

Which, in the era of social media, video surveillance, smartphones and dashcams, is crazy. Once you leave your home, you have to assume everything you do is recorded and might end up online or in court.

New comment by marticode in "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"

marticode — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:53:14 +0000

I spent countless hours as a teen on that game. I feel it might be faster to rewrite it from scratch though than reverse engineer it.

New comment by marticode in "A brief history of oral peptides"

marticode — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:04:06 +0000

AFAIK it's a meme stock, reality doesn't matter anymore than it matters for Tesla or Gamestock.

New comment by marticode in "Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function"

marticode — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:07:31 +0000

> higher caffeinated coffee intake was significantly associated with lower dementia risk (141 vs 330 cases per 100 000 person-years comparing the fourth [highest] quartile of consumption with the first [lowest] quartile; hazard ratio, 0.82 [95% CI, 0.76 to 0.89])

That's a very big difference.

New comment by marticode in "jQuery 4"

marticode — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:05:09 +0000

It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')

New comment by marticode in "jQuery 4"

marticode — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:04:14 +0000

Indeed. Though a lot of its feature found their way into plain vanilla Javascript and browsers, the syntax is still so much easier with jQuery.

New comment by marticode in "OLED, Not for Me"

marticode — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:04:44 +0000

Same here. OLED is fine for gamers who use it a couple hours here and there but for a system that's on 8+ hour per day with a taskbar and the usual work apps, this is just not adequate.

New comment by marticode in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

marticode — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:12:26 +0000

It's ugly, poorly built, expensive and not very good as a truck. A gas engine will not fix all these flaws.

New comment by marticode in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

marticode — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:50:18 +0000

I have almost zero spam (that isn't filtered properly). Once in a while I catch a false positive in the spam folder but that's about it.

New comment by marticode in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

marticode — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:20:53 +0000

There's worse than having to prove (over and over and over again) that you are human: having your IP just completely blocked by Cloudflare zealous bot-filtering (and I use a plain mass market ISP in a developed country and not some shady network)

New comment by marticode in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

marticode — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:19:09 +0000

As a user I do care, because I waste so much time on Cloudflare's "prove you are human" blocking-page (why do I have to prove it over and over again?), and frequently run on websites blocking me entirely based on some bad IP-blacklist used along with Cloudflare.

New comment by marticode in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

marticode — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:05:09 +0000

It wouldn't be hard to select and accredit at least the better universities. Giving an automatic work visa to every foreign Ivy graduate should be a no-brainier. You could take the top 30% or 50% ranked US News universities and accredit those, or some similar heuristics.

New comment by marticode in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

marticode — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:46:58 +0000

Basic cakes are fairly trivial. A pound cake (or butter cake) for ex is just egg, butter, flour and sugar in equal weights and a bit of baking powder.

The other issue the article's author doesn't discuss is that boxed mixes are usually country specific. What you find in the US is usually not available in 90% of the world, nevermind in the right box size.

New comment by marticode in "CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up"

marticode — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:42:59 +0000

Lack of construction is likely the problem. High financing costs, expensive construction material (a lot of it is imported, like Canadian wood) and disappearing construction workers is probably all contributing.

New comment by marticode in "My phone is an ereader now"

marticode — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:36:20 +0000

Reminds me of that phone that had a regular screen on one side and e-ink on the other side. Maybe someone should make a foldable where the outside screen is an e-ink and the inside a regular foldable OLED.

New comment by marticode in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

marticode — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:42:48 +0000

BYD makes a pickup truck (the BYD Shark) and SUVs (though none as large as a Tahoe or Suburban - yet)