Hacker News: mdb333

New comment by mdb333 in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

mdb333 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:24:28 +0000

too true, but "dovremmo essere tutti antifascisti!" doesn't have much ooomph to it unfortunately.

New comment by mdb333 in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

mdb333 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:12:09 +0000

Siamo tutti antifascisti!

New comment by mdb333 in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

mdb333 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:05:12 +0000

I could never quite get too into the game because of such viciousness -- you really had to grind!

New comment by mdb333 in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

mdb333 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:40:45 +0000

Hackaday is still pretty cool if you're into technogadgets and the like

New comment by mdb333 in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

mdb333 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:07:36 +0000

so true, re: patience

I was just thinking back the other day about BBS days and how frustrating a busy signal could be, or connection time limits, etc.

New comment by mdb333 in "Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant"

mdb333 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:25:39 +0000

is grad school an option?

not a solution to the problem as you presented it... but a solution none the less: You'll spend your time learning more, developing more skills, more opportunities for internships, networking, growth, etc. and hopefully when your done in a year or two the job market is better and you're entering at a high compensation level.

New comment by mdb333 in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"

mdb333 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:55:32 +0000

yes!!!

New comment by mdb333 in "VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project"

mdb333 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:10:13 +0000

Looks like you submitted opposition to their new registration (Deepki) and then they retaliated by applying for cancellation to your existing mark (Deepkit)?

are they actually pursuing use of "Deepkit" or possibly did you just piss them off? Either way, I wouldn't expect to win anything going up these majors. Also, isn't clear there's any tangible benefit even if you were to win appeal.

New comment by mdb333 in "Internet Artifacts"

mdb333 — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:06:11 +0000

surprised no mention of Craigslist? or is it not an "Internet artifact" because it remains in essentially its original form...?

New comment by mdb333 in "DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than"

mdb333 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:24:55 +0000

"Alarmingly, a Department of Energy server allowed anonymous login with write access, raising the risk of hackers uploading malicious code or installing backdoors for persistent network access."

I sincerely hope that's a honeypot

New comment by mdb333 in "Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood"

mdb333 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:37:55 +0000

I found it really hard to read this as I kept envisioning Alex P. Keaton interrupting, "but Mallory..." and then taking over the whole conversation after she stormed off upstairs.

Flipper Zero can be used to crash iPhones running iOS 17

mdb333 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/flipper-zero-can-lock-up-an-iphone-running-the-latest-ios-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37919396

Points: 90

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New comment by mdb333 in "Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?"

mdb333 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:57:09 +0000

sorta related: I remember first day of CS101 class circa 1998... professor starts off with question, "why are you here? why are you all here?"

After going around and replying "no" to a half dozen or so different individuals with increasingly philosophical responses he broke it down for us with, "you're all here because 60k! You're going to graduate with a computer science degree and make 60k a year!"

to even imagine that was supposed to be an inspiring number back then is pretty laughable. I was already making as much doing chinsy web dev stuff.

It was a different time for sure. There were no (or very few) laptops, you took notes on paper, you went to the computer labs to do work (with old sparcstations and such) or you remoted in to your shell and used emacs and gdb. Pretty simple times.

New comment by mdb333 in "The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]"

mdb333 — Tue, 10 May 2022 00:32:28 +0000

huh... never knew they were the same shop responsible for Lemmings. what an awesome bunch!

New comment by mdb333 in "Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan"

mdb333 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:07:19 +0000

Basically the same article that ran ~6 months back...

Anyhow, I happened to interview with these folks a year or two ago:

   20% interesting concept 
   80% red flags

At that time I could barely find anything more than tenuous links to Sam Altman. Seems like maybe he's upped his role as they're getting into bigger $$$ raises.

New comment by mdb333 in "Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer"

mdb333 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:37:28 +0000

Unlimited PTO is fundamentally use it or lose it... which is illegal (at least here in Cali). I don't know why the Division of Labor hasn't come out and said as much yet.

I filed a claim against previous employer (several years back before everybody was on the unlimited bandwagon) with an 'unlimited' PTO and ended up with ~20k awarded. Process took forever, and of course the devil is in the details with employment docs, agreements, etc... but worth pursuing if you're still salty over the situation.

Prior to that I found myself in a similar situation... basically getting the boot for availing myself of sick leave when my family needed me. Fortunately, I got a big chunk of cash upon leaving and it gave me a much needed boost for moving on. So best advice I can give is to not let the situation keep you down or hold you back. And in general, a good reminder: HR has one job and its not to protect you the employee.

New comment by mdb333 in "The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN"

mdb333 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:04:51 +0000

NM... presume it's due to the news re: ExpressVPN --> Kape

New comment by mdb333 in "The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN"

mdb333 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:02:05 +0000

Curious what was the impetus for this statement? Rumors about selling out or something else?

New comment by mdb333 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"

mdb333 — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:27:48 +0000

ON24 (NYSE: ONTF) | Engineering, Operations, and Security roles | SF/Charlotte/Remote | Full-time

Variety of roles open at ON24 as we continue to scale up post-IPO: http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/jobs

Security Engineer-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/o3uYffwu

Compliance Analyst-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/o5uYffww

Linux/Ansible System Administrator-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oHsCffwK

Network Engineer-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oT4ydfws

Sr. Director Program Management-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oDoAgfwB

SRE Manager-- https://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/obsAgfwd

New comment by mdb333 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

mdb333 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:50:17 +0000

ON24 (NYSE: ONTF) | Engineering, Operations, and Security roles | SF/Charlotte/Remote | Full-time

Variety of roles open at ON24 as we continue to scale up post IPO: http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/jobs

Also hiring Security Engineer and Compliance Specialist role which aren't posted yet but em me @ matt dot bateman at on24 dot com and I'll send specifics.

Senior Product Manager - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oygCffwp

Senior QA Engineer - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/o9vJefwl

Software Engineer (Analytics) - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/omBuefwp

Sr. Cloud Engineer - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/obSwefwx

UX Designer - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oQb3dfw1

Linux/Ansible System Administrator - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oHsCffwK

Network Engineer - http://jobs.jobvite.com/on24/job/oT4ydfws