Hacker News: marticode

New comment by marticode in "Minimal Phone 2"

marticode — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:15:42 +0000

That seems excessive. In many parts of the world, WhatsApp is the default app for texting people (ie the one you use to contact a plumber or a restaurant) and not having it means the phone fails at its most basic requirements.

New comment by marticode in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

marticode — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:43:42 +0000

It blows my mind that a bunch of adults, prosecutors, CPS employees, etc all decided the fair, reasonable and best thing to do was prosecute and punish this mother.

New comment by marticode in "Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica"

marticode — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:34:03 +0000

Oh wow thanks, I had completely forgotten about the Ultrasound even though I loved mine back in the days.

New comment by marticode in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

marticode — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:35:06 +0000

Lucky you, at least you can load it. My IP (from a generic run of the mill ISP) just seems outright blocked.

New comment by marticode in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

marticode — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:35:07 +0000

From my understanding this one is used for hiring tech workers only. The (very) widely used Workday application system for ex seems to have its own built-in ATS.

New comment by marticode in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

marticode — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:42:12 +0000

I try to stick to plain HTML5 / Javascript validation. Trying to not reinvent the wheel and use what the browser already has built-in seems best.

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)