Hacker News: mdevere

New comment by mdevere in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

mdevere — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:49:05 +0000

If this is true, I'll need to stop using Backblaze. I have been relying on them for years. If I had discovered this mid-restore, I think I would have lost my mind.

New comment by mdevere in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

mdevere — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:53:09 +0000

Very strange how HN elevates news about random drug candidates at very early stages of development.

There is a very active landscape of people developing/validating 'biomarkers' for neurological and psychiatric disorders and developing drugs specifically for those populations with the biomarker present; this news is far from extraordinary.

The real news is when these reach FDA approval.

New comment by mdevere in "Bitwarden Authenticator"

mdevere — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:34:56 +0000

Big fan of Bitwarden, albeit you are putting a single point of failure on all of your secure info.

I'd love to know what others do to maximise both convenience and security.

For two-factor authentication, I wouldn't use the same service for both layers. Seems daft to use Bitwarden as both the password keeper and the TOTP provider. Not sure if that's a cryptographically coherent view, but hey.

Psilocybin-assisted therapy company goes public

mdevere — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:01:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1308415395569729536

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24561019

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdevere in "Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs"

mdevere — Mon, 04 May 2020 17:52:40 +0000

Every day I have to use something like 4gb of data to let Backblaze sync. This is despite the fact that I might only have created/changed 100mb worth of files since the previous day's sync.

New comment by mdevere in "Writing Code to Be Spoken (2019)"

mdevere — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:46:06 +0000

He is out of his mind

New comment by mdevere in "The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money"

mdevere — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:49:23 +0000

How can you be the real Satoshi when _I_ am the real Satoshi? This guy is a fraud, don't listen to him!

What's Special About This Number?

mdevere — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20923793

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdevere in "Mattermost raises $50M to advance its open source Slack alternative"

mdevere — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:54:29 +0000

Can someone explain to me how open source products can generate revenues like this?

New comment by mdevere in "Stop Brexit: 700k sign UK petition to stay in EU"

mdevere — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:57:26 +0000

Only 16m more to go

New comment by mdevere in "Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?"

mdevere — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:36:41 +0000

I don't have pics anywhere. That's all in Photos app/ iCloud. It's very cheap, something like $1 per month.

I use Backblaze to backup everything to cloud.

New comment by mdevere in "Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?"

mdevere — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:32:59 +0000

Generally agree with ppl who say that searching is more important than organising. I use Alfred to search, but I think the default Finder app is quite good these days.

Most important thing is having a consistent filenaming convention. This helps you find files via search. I use 'YYMMDD_HHMM name' if I authored the file or 'YYMMDD_HHMM [sender] name' if someone emailed it to me.

Tangentially, what I'm really happy with is how I manage my web bookmarks. I don't use browser bookmarks or folders. I save bookmarks to Pinboard.in, a cloud service. Then there's a nice Alfred extension which allows me to find them (http://www.packal.org/workflow/alfred-pinboard).

New comment by mdevere in "Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time"

mdevere — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:29:27 +0000

This is not a problem

New comment by mdevere in "Helm: Personal Email Server"

mdevere — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:27:01 +0000

i really like the idea but it's too expensive for me. i would consider this it if was $200 didn't have a subscription fee.

New comment by mdevere in "Roger Bannister has died"

mdevere — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:30:34 +0000

great guy

New comment by mdevere in "[dead]"

mdevere — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:02:44 +0000

Why is this flagged?

New comment by mdevere in "Chrome is Not the Standard"

mdevere — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:55:44 +0000

i am certain the ppl who write these articles have also read the other 427 articles saying the same thing

New comment by mdevere in "Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories"

mdevere — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:49:17 +0000

any thoughts on SME customers vs consumers?

Ask HN: Best articles on how A/B testing is done in a large tech company?

mdevere — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:08:36 +0000

Hi HN,

I am working for a large online retailer, similar to Amazon.

Are there any great articles out there on how A/B testing fits into a large tech organisation (i.e. as opposed to a startup, where it can be done on a more ad-hoc basis)?

Hacker News: mdevere

New comment by mdevere in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

New comment by mdevere in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

New comment by mdevere in "Bitwarden Authenticator"

Psilocybin-assisted therapy company goes public

New comment by mdevere in "Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs"

New comment by mdevere in "Writing Code to Be Spoken (2019)"

New comment by mdevere in "The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money"

What's Special About This Number?

New comment by mdevere in "Mattermost raises $50M to advance its open source Slack alternative"

New comment by mdevere in "Stop Brexit: 700k sign UK petition to stay in EU"

New comment by mdevere in "Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?"

New comment by mdevere in "Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?"

New comment by mdevere in "Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time"

New comment by mdevere in "Helm: Personal Email Server"

New comment by mdevere in "Roger Bannister has died"

New comment by mdevere in "[dead]"

New comment by mdevere in "Chrome is Not the Standard"

New comment by mdevere in "Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories"

Ask HN: Best articles on how A/B testing is done in a large tech company?

New comment by mdevere in "Show HN: An interactive guide to compression basics"