Hacker News: mkeedlinger

New comment by mkeedlinger in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:52:18 +0000

I just switched to an iPhone and I don’t know how this could possibly be the case for you. I get them from a bunch of Apple apps and even in the settings app.

New comment by mkeedlinger in "A lawsuit says Workday's AI shut out applicants over 40"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:01:25 +0000

> my default stance towards complex "AI" systems is that they all harbor biases

I’m sure there are exceptions, but one could assume that opaque systems are used as tools to encode biases that are advantageous but wrong.

These biases could have existed in code, but opaque agents give much better plausible deniability.

(Caveat here acknowledging one can often assume a lack of malice)

New comment by mkeedlinger in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

mkeedlinger — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:17:56 +0000

Hey, this looks really cool! Best wishes and I’ll try to watch out for when this is more ready

New comment by mkeedlinger in "I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:13:53 +0000

This matches my experience. Very difficult to understand what I needed to get the effect I wanted.

New comment by mkeedlinger in "GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support"

mkeedlinger — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:38:46 +0000

Thanks, your disambiguation helped me

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Ploopy Trackpad"

mkeedlinger — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:31:45 +0000

I can't tell and I couldn't seem to find confirmation one way or the other, but is this connected via USB micro? Would be very unfortunate not to be USB C.

Otherwise this seems awesome! I'll certainly take a look at their other products

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued"

mkeedlinger — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:07:15 +0000

There are so many examples of this. It's been hard to express and advocate for my severe distrust of proprietary garbage (my choice of words isn't hyperbole in this case) to others around me. But with so much of this race to the bottom, I can't help but wonder: how much will consumers take?

I'll admit, my FOSS prefering, DIY leaning use of tech is tedious, but is it worse than dealing with the churn companies force you (and your wallet) to deal with?

New comment by mkeedlinger in "I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search"

mkeedlinger — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:29:32 +0000

And alternatives that I honestly think are better.

One reason I'm unwilling to move from Firefox right now: Recommended Extensions.

They're extensions that are checked by Mozilla employees for quality, security and privacy. Extensions have such unfettered access to my browsing, and so many have such nefarious practices that I'll only install extensions that Mozilla vets.

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Show HN: bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams"

mkeedlinger — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:22:49 +0000

Hey this is very cool! And something I've looked for multiple times before

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems"

mkeedlinger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:35:39 +0000

Can't wait! I've currently settled on Caddy as my reverse proxy, but something rust based and extended with wasm would be great

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Plex Accounts Getting Disabled"

mkeedlinger — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:20:39 +0000

I mostly agree and wouldn't do it myself, but as a consumer what are the odds this is just a better experience? All content, very few restrictions

New comment by mkeedlinger in "[dead]"

mkeedlinger — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:58:00 +0000

This company seems like the complete antithesis to some of the pseudo-futurism that seems so prevalent with seemingly revolutionary new products.

I am especially impressed by the practical focus on just doing things that work. While it is just a prototype, it has already hauled over 100k lbs [0]. There is also an interesting interview with Louis Rossmann about right to repair [1].

Maybe someone else can help me articulate this, but there's something so refreshing about the shear practical nature and BS-less MBA-less talk of the founder. It reminds me of some of the videos on Smarter Every Day when he interviews someone who has "hillbilly energy" (for lack of a better description), but upon further inspection it's obvious they're very intelligent, action oriented individuals that have strong engineering principals that produce real-world value.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGN7rjZGjMQ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-PUFtWb8pY

Ask HN: Self-Improvement for the Pseudo-Religious?

mkeedlinger — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:52:20 +0000

What resources do you find helpful for self improvement that aren't focused on a specific religious dogma? When I was more religious there were things like sermons and scripture to ponder which focused on moral quandaries and proclaimed personal qualities worth developing.

Since becoming less religious this is something I find lacking and miss.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39286118

Points: 4

# Comments: 16

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled"

mkeedlinger — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:25:02 +0000

This is a patch file from the repo that you listed. Does it not remove the problematic hard-coded URLs?

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source/src/branch/main/patche...

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released"

mkeedlinger — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:53:24 +0000

Is parallelism used very much in the wild? They mention it's experimental and there's a blog post from 2019, but I'd like to know how mature it is.

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.11/guides/concurrency.h...

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal/

New comment by mkeedlinger in "KeePassXC merged Passkey support to their next release branch"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:50:41 +0000

I love KeePassXC! It not being open to a network, while still being super easy to share between devices is perfect.

Btw, they have a donate page if you want to contribute

https://keepassxc.org/donate/

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Ask HN: Does Instagram suspend accounts just to get their phone numbers?"

mkeedlinger — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:11:26 +0000

Same for me for any Meta product, except (as I recently found out), Oculus. For some reason that was fine not asking for my number.

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club"

mkeedlinger — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:44:37 +0000

This comment [0] doesn't list their sources, but their list of events certainly makes it seem more conclusive than I was initially impressed skimming the post. That seems to be causing some confusion between the "just an accusation" and "it's not just an accusation" people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37080296

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Why is DNS still hard to learn?"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:56:47 +0000

I found out about https://www.nslookup.io/learning/ recently, which greatly increased my knowledge of DNS. If you look at the list of DNS record types [0], you might be surprised at how many their are. Knowing how to use those can be a bit much.

[0] https://www.nslookup.io/learning/dns-record-types/

New comment by mkeedlinger in "Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that can cool a building"

mkeedlinger — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:09:37 +0000

Here is a frankly incredible video of how you could make such a paint if you were so inclined. I don't think it's very practical, but the video is very interesting anyways

https://youtu.be/KDRnEm-B3AI