Hacker News: mikey_p

New comment by mikey_p in "Bufo pulls the andon cord"

mikey_p — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:46:10 +0000

Didn't even share the :bufo-pulls-andon-cord: image for adding to your own Slack :(

New comment by mikey_p in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

mikey_p — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:05:07 +0000

No, if you read the article the author was downloading firmware from their website and still found the token.

New comment by mikey_p in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

mikey_p — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:03:00 +0000

This is a great question, and theres alot of history there, this is how time used to work until travel and communication speeds necessitating coordination over larger areas required it. The biggest driver in North America? Railroads.

Great documentary on the history of human relationship with time is available here: https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-indies-time-1/

New comment by mikey_p in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

mikey_p — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:51:27 +0000

They didn't have to but Anthropic chose to open their mouth and announce their "reasons" for the rewrite. Don't blame anyone but Anthropic for this, they didn't have to try to justify it, but they decided to anyway.

New comment by mikey_p in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

mikey_p — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:17:29 +0000

I think the thing is that there is no official accepted value of LD50 for THC since there has never been a recorded death from THC:

> The median lethal dose (LD50) of THC has been determined in various animal species through oral administration and ranges from 800 to 9000 mg/kg. In humans, there have been no recorded instances of fatal overdoses resulting from acute THC use. However, estimates for a potentially lethal human dose range from 4 to 15 g.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563174/

New comment by mikey_p in "GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io"

mikey_p — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:36:26 +0000

The longer I go the more I have actually come to appreciate the way Packagist works for the PHP community, there are lots of cool things it does that I wish NPM or other registries did by default, like forcing you to package from a source repository, so that you can't upload a different artifact from what you keep in source control.

New comment by mikey_p in "Fox to buy Roku"

mikey_p — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:06:11 +0000

I've already been wanting to get rid of my Roku TVs and boxes for awhile now, they tend to be slow and buggy lately which requires ALOT of restarting.

Before Roku I spent 2005-2018 on various TiVo systems including whole house with minis and the cable-card system. Was thinking of quitting that for awhile, but the Rovi/Macrovision acquisition was definitely the writing on the wall.

Guess it's time to try an Apple TV as it seems like the only semi-premium option available.

New comment by mikey_p in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

mikey_p — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:06:24 +0000

> Laws aren’t made that way

That's basically exactly how they get made. You don't know anything about the agriculture checkoff in the US, do you?

Every single pound of pork sold or produced in the US sent a tiny amount of it's sale price to the "Pork. The Other White Meat" campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork._The_Other_White_Meat

> laws made that way usually aren’t good.

I don't think anyone said they were good laws.

New comment by mikey_p in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mikey_p — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:02:45 +0000

Similar example Ohio legislature makes it illegal to drive with any THC of Cannabis products in the passenger compartment to crack down on people driving high, but there is nothing to prevent you driving with an open bottle of prescription opiates or benzos and popping those while you drive.

New comment by mikey_p in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

mikey_p — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:54:26 +0000

All of that because some CSS was wrong?? Jesus what are we even doing as an industry.

New comment by mikey_p in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:47:59 +0000

Well the fun things is that no one knows how much traffic of what kind they are getting when they use Cloudflare.

You get the numbers that Cloudflare tells you, but who knows if you can trust their stats after their CEO is apparently cherry-picking data to shape their product narrative?

New comment by mikey_p in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:45:48 +0000

Do people really expect CEOs to be knowledgeable about any technically details in 2026? My experience is that CEOs are getting increasingly out of touch with what their employees actually do and what their customers want.

New comment by mikey_p in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:41:44 +0000

Thanks for answering, this makes tons of sense

New comment by mikey_p in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:09:31 +0000

Is this an open sourcing of something they use internally? My first thought on durable jobs was GHA aka Azure Devops.

New comment by mikey_p in "macOS needs its grid back"

mikey_p — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:51:10 +0000

Did you know that Facebook actually has a message styled with color and different font sizes that pops up in the browser console when you open the inspector for Facebook.com with instruction not to paste things you're told to paste there, with a link to https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information?

New comment by mikey_p in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mikey_p — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:17:17 +0000

I know this is Hacker News and supposed to be serious and all, but do you really think the people running Meta are capable of embarrassment at this point?

New comment by mikey_p in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mikey_p — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:15:41 +0000

Why does X make sense? It makes no sense at all to me. X is the least logical place to put it.

New comment by mikey_p in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

mikey_p — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:37:00 +0000

Page 8 shows yield of irrigated wheat YIELD TRENDS. I'm not saying it never ever ever happens, but it is far from a common practice. Are you seriously asserting that is more common than not to irrigate wheat in Kansas? Are you asserting that there is a greater than 50% change that any randomly chosen wheat acreage in Kansas is irrigated???

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:33:13 +0000

My name is not even remotely hard to figure out, you should be able to leverage that plus some basic info into my home address via voting records in a matter of minutes. DOB might require some sleuthing, but it's not terrible hard to find for many people (often from socials).

At least in US culture, DOB isn't really considered super secret. (If it is I have an excellent source of secret info called "Wikipedia")

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:11:13 +0000

Oakwood in Montgomery county is addressed as Dayton on all mail until you get to Kettering which has it's own name for addressing.

A quick search shows that Oakwood in Paulding County has it's own PO and zip code 45873 and Oakwood, Cuyahoga County has 44146.

I suspect that the postal service is much more forgiving on duplicate town names since the advent of zip codes.