Hacker News: mcoliver

New comment by mcoliver in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

mcoliver — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:36:36 +0000

SSG are over engineered? If anything it feels the opposite. Everything in a text git repo, templated, and a llm can understand and extend. Git branch to test new builds, merge to main deploys globally on cloudflare. Super fast load times, zero security issues to worry about, zero dependencies. Version control. Zip it up and take it wherever you want.

No server side things to worry about. It's super clean. Jekyll, css, js, GitHub and cloudflare is such a clean and refreshing setup.

New comment by mcoliver in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

mcoliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:02:39 +0000

Good additional info. I used a shortcut I figured most people would understand without getting into the weeds.

New comment by mcoliver in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

mcoliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:38:36 +0000

Sure but I should add I'm not saying this should be done in place of current reporting. It should be done in addition to. I'm advocating for more transparency augmented with periodic storytelling. Over time that noise becomes the pulse of the company.

Wrt Shannon, the channel capacity today vastly exceeds that of 1934 when quarterly reporting became standard. Give me more data and a filter any day over a once every 6 month black box. 6 month reporting is undersampling.

New comment by mcoliver in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

mcoliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:54:04 +0000

Maybe. I'l am also not saying they need to say where the dollars came from, went to, or what they were for. Aggregate daily flows. Could you do some deductive reasoning to make an informed guess especially when large sums are involved? Perhaps.

I am also of the (perhaps wrong) opinion that the majority of the important stuff leaks anyways, just not on a level playing field.

New comment by mcoliver in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

mcoliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:47:26 +0000

Help me understand what you are saying here. For those that don't know this one is "a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

I'm not advocating for a single metric that can be gamed. A business is fundamentally about dollars in and dollars out. Maybe add receivables in there and a few other metrics from the P&L. I'm not trying to be prescriptive here on purely cash in and out.

I do think there is a low friction way that companies could report daily certain metrics that over time would give their shareholders a sense of the company's health and trajectory.

New comment by mcoliver in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

mcoliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:55:02 +0000

Simultaneously they are opening up 0DTE options on certain stocks starting with large market caps but don't be surprised when this expands. Currently this was limited to large etfs like SPX. They are also extending trading hours towards 24/7 and eventually 365.

How they square increasing liquidity with delaying information is insane.

I know there is a lot of manipulation to make quarterly numbers and the tax code is convoluted but if companies reported dollars in and dollars out live to shareholders at least we would have an idea of how the company is doing in a general sense. And over time would learn the flow of the company and be able to make informed predictions on the overall health of the company. More information is usually better than less with very few exceptions.

If they want to delay the earnings call to every 6 months to talk about the business I have no problems with that.

New comment by mcoliver in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

mcoliver — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:54:36 +0000

Intune has two modes. Device registration and User registration. And two kinds of wipes, retire and wipe. Retire means only delete your work profile and is only available for User registration mdm. Sounds like Stryker didn't configure intune properly for byod to force users with personal devices to use User registration.

Beyond that there are so many other things in intune you can use to prevent this sort of thing. Short lived / JIT credentials with MFA, ip restrictions, multi admin approval, rbac (role based fine tuned permissions eg help desk can't wipe, only retire ) etc. sounds like there were some big misses here.

Also sounds like they were in the system long enough to exfiltrate 50+ TB of data without setting off alarm bells.

New comment by mcoliver in "Never buy a .online domain"

mcoliver — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:09:00 +0000

This is the real story. This is 100% a problem with Radix. Safe browsing targets the website not the domain. No reason a registrar should be suspending an entire account over something a company reports. Black-holing the A and CNAMEs on a subdomain? Maybe..... But even then I don't think it's the registrars place to do that. Freezing the entire account? Absolutely not.

New comment by mcoliver in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

mcoliver — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:04:56 +0000

$PYPL at $40 was/is free money. Nothing stopping you from getting on the train. 8 PE is insane for a company with brand recognition and market penetration.

New comment by mcoliver in "Code has always been the easy part"

mcoliver — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:45:39 +0000

Code was the easy part for people who wrote code day in day out with very strictly defined requirements. But even for someone like me that's been doing it for 30 years...new frameworks, languages, architectures, wiring up 3rd party apis, banging my head because I fat fingered something, greping debug logs, late nights, early mornings and lots of coffee. There were few times where I would call it "easy". I just ideated and built an app optimized for mobile and laptop, and deployed it globally in two hours and built a Roku companion app in a couple nights after the kids went to bed. I had never built a Roku app before and am pleased with the polish for something that went from an idea to launch in two hours.

Yes I have 30 years of experience and there were still areas that were not easy but man it was fun. Writing the code, building and deploying product is easier than it was before by a huge margin.

Skicamslive.con if you're wondering what I built. Feedback welcome

Show HN: Skicamslive.com

mcoliver — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:26:52 +0000

I built https://skicamslive.com because I was tired of clicking through youtube playlists to scope out my favorite mountain and wanted something I could put up on my big TV. I wanted something that felt like a "command center" for skiers.

Key Features: Zero Bloat: just the streams High-Res Grids: Every mountain page features a 16:9 grid of all available live cams.

Power User Workflow: You can "favorite" the resorts you care about and open all of them in new tabs with a single click (great for multi-monitor setups while you're getting ready to head out).

Fast Search: Filter by mountain name or state instantly.

Mobile Optimized: Works great on the chairlift or at your desk.

The Tech: Built as a static site using Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages. I focused heavily on a "premium" feel using vanilla CSS and minimal JS for the favorites system (stored in localStorage).

I’d love to get your feedback on the UI/UX, and if there are any specific mountains you think are missing, let me know and I'll add them!

Check it out here: https://skicamslive.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079671

Points: 2

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New comment by mcoliver in "Show HN: Cheapest Managed OpenClaw hosting – 30s setup (agent37.com)"

mcoliver — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:58:09 +0000

nice. what happened to $0.99? Current site is showing: 16 spots left at $3.99/mo then $9.99/mo for new signups

New comment by mcoliver in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

mcoliver — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:36:14 +0000

Visio with live kit (part of lasuite) or opendesk with jitsi would be my guess.

https://livekit.io/ https://www.clever.cloud/product/visio/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

https://jitsi.org/ https://www.opendesk.eu/en

As an aside I am surprised it has taken this long but seems inevitable now given the last 18 months.

A Big, Long Day: The Fastest Known Time on the Everest Base Camp Trail

mcoliver — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://strivetrips.org/blog/ebc-writeup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46441792

Points: 2

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New comment by mcoliver in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

mcoliver — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:36:18 +0000

Warner breakup fee is different. 2.8 billion.

New comment by mcoliver in "Why top firms fire good workers"

mcoliver — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:22:36 +0000

No. The reason top firms part ways with good workers is usually political. Either the manager doesn't like the person regardless of their work abilities, or the manager is not politely savvy enough to ensure their team is being recognized for work that grows or is valuable to the business. Or they get caught up in the endlessly popular reorgs (again management failure). It's a failure of management. Nothing more. Nothing less. A healthy market would encourage good workers to move around freely (through compensation, opportunity, benefits, location, etc..), not force their hand. And healthy organizations would recognize talent and retain/retrain as needed.

I think the other thing that's perhaps missing is that some companies have so much momentum (with thousands of people) that it probably doesn't matter when they lose people. The company will continue to thrive because there is demand for the product.

New comment by mcoliver in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

mcoliver — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:28:24 +0000

Why only the pixel 10? What piece of hardware is the pixel 9 (one year old) missing?

New comment by mcoliver in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

mcoliver — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:21:09 +0000

Used Claude to negotiate a 50% bump in a car insurance payout citing laws I didn't know existed. Yeah you have to cross check things and direct the prompt for tone and angle, but what an incredible leveling mechanism.

New comment by mcoliver in "Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster"

mcoliver — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:14:43 +0000

Hence the big push currently ongoing to allow 401ks to invest in private markets

New comment by mcoliver in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"

mcoliver — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:12:10 +0000

The counterpoint to this is that LLMs cannot only write code, they can comprehend it! They are incredibly useful for getting up to speed on a new code base and transferring comprehension from machine to human. This of course spans all job functions and is still immature in its accuracy but rapidly approaching a point where people with an aptitude for learning and asking the right questions can actually have a decent shot at completing tasks outside of their domain expertise.