Hacker News: mattmerr

New comment by mattmerr in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

mattmerr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:24:01 +0000

What does "a domain that was making about $9k/year in ad revenue" look like? Is this domain one where people randomly stumble upon it and give ad views to a parking page? A website with regular use or other content that people visit for some purpose that is now under different ownership?

New comment by mattmerr in "Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers"

mattmerr — Tue, 13 May 2025 15:46:41 +0000

How much is that? A finger? A foot?

New comment by mattmerr in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

mattmerr — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:50:02 +0000

I read parent comment "grew 35% last quarter" as (income on 2024-09-30) is 1.35 * (income on 2024-07-01)

The balance sheet shows (income on days from 2024-07-01 through 09-30) is 1.35 * (income on days from 2023-07-01 through 09-30)

These are different because with heavily handwavey math the first is growing 35% in a single quarter and the second is growing 35% annually (by comparing like-for-like quarters)

New comment by mattmerr in "CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished"

mattmerr — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:37:24 +0000

ASCII already has designated bytes for unit, group, and record separators. That aside, a big drawback of using unprintable bytes like these is they're more difficult for humans to read in dumps or type on a keyboard than a newline (provided newline has a strict definition CRLF, LF, etc)

New comment by mattmerr in "[dead]"

mattmerr — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:45:38 +0000

I am not a Trump supporter but the headline is completely incorrect and disingenuous. It seems like there's a game of telephone happening for the quote "you're not going to be able to sell those cars", but the context of him saying this was for an import tariff on electric cars built in Mexico by Chinese companies.

> ["you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us. Now, we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars, if I get elected"](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speaks-at-...)

https://youtu.be/XGJwCUHVgc0?t=1875

I don't care to discuss the nuances of this policy and am not saying this to support him, but journalism like this taking stuff out of context and creating a strawman (even if accidental) is really irritating.

New comment by mattmerr in "Bossware is a big legal risk"

mattmerr — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:47:42 +0000

Does watching a video pause the timeout? If so, hypothetically one could stream or locally create a video with no contents but long duration.

New comment by mattmerr in "Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP"

mattmerr — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:47:37 +0000

I am curious to see benchmark results for the same use cases but with 10ms and 100ms latency added between the client and server. It looks like the bench currently just stays within the same machine.

I do not often operate below application layer, but as I understand it both the HTTP and SSH layers would add back-and-forths from client to server that UDP does not perform. Would UDP over HTTP over SSH have a slowdown steeply (but linearly?) correlated with the ping to the server? And (>linear) increased effects on packet loss? Crowbar seems to only do HTTP, so saves some considerable amount of backs-and-forths... but doesn't have the benefit from websockets...

New comment by mattmerr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

mattmerr — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:00:11 +0000

Sent you an email. Could you provide context what that email is associated with? It's unclear whether this is for the athletic program, the evolution and ecology group, a recruiter, or a rogue undergrad.

Bentham's Mugging (2022)

mattmerr — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:16:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/benthams-mugging/9C67002F344B20661A6C35C960F25A86

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37854358

Points: 133

# Comments: 99

New comment by mattmerr in "Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome"

mattmerr — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:18:56 +0000

My understanding is that the "disabled" radio option just means the Gnome Tweaks program won't override anything. Caps Lock behavior will be the system default, instead of being changed by Gnome Tweaks. The other one is "Gnome Tweaks will override Caps Lock to disable it"

New comment by mattmerr in "Algorithms for converting binary to decimal floating-point numbers (2021)"

mattmerr — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 20:11:31 +0000

The variance in the 10^i number generation graphs stands out to me. Is number generation really so periodic in performance? I've seen bumpy graphs from O(log2) algorithms recursing additional times near each power of two, for example.

For the last two graphs, is the x-axis "each run"? Maybe there's a better chart for this than a line chart, as you're really trying to show distributions, not the correlation between run # and time. (if the experiments are independent you could rearrange the order of the runs and the meaning shouldn't change)

New comment by mattmerr in "Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call"

mattmerr — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 20:20:12 +0000

Sounds like hiding IP is going to be opt-in? I'm not sure what the implications are of TURN but what would be the downside of making IP-hiding the default?