Hacker News: mlex

Before GitHub

mlex — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:17:40 +0000

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921

Points: 588

# Comments: 191

Layoffs at Block

mlex — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:17:56 +0000

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/block-laying-off-about-4000-...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/block-plans-to-lay-off-nea...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172119

Points: 910

# Comments: 1080

Legendary filmmaker David Lynch has died at 78, his family says

mlex — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bnonews/status/1879958644609151098

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728976

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

An Update on How We're Evolving League

mlex — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/marcmerrill/status/1846243708100091985

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851495

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlex in "Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet"

mlex — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:10:14 +0000

Power outlets so you can charge your laptop/phone.

New comment by mlex in "The Peking Duck Exemption"

mlex — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:00:23 +0000

Had this once in Osaka, definitely had food poisoning the next few days.

I mostly blame myself for thinking it would be a good idea. It did taste pretty good though.

New comment by mlex in "Avoiding homework with code and getting caught"

mlex — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:21:56 +0000

JobMine Plus?

New comment by mlex in "World’s largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City"

mlex — Sat, 21 May 2022 05:26:47 +0000

Watched this YouTube video on them a year back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFmJAwc4s5I

New comment by mlex in "Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto"

mlex — Tue, 17 May 2022 06:17:52 +0000

Searching on Google Maps, it looks like the "HQ" is located inside Toronto-Dominion Centre, which is an office complex downtown, nothing too exciting to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

I'm sure if they had their own facade to show off they'd have a photo in the article.

New comment by mlex in "Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto"

mlex — Tue, 17 May 2022 06:14:27 +0000

That p90 number (equivalent to 204k USD) looks like some typical SDE2 TCs in Redmond:

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Microsoft/salaries/Software-E...

New comment by mlex in "Preview, the Mac app people forget about"

mlex — Mon, 09 May 2022 19:44:50 +0000

Speaking as an iOS developer, we use PDF files to represent our vector icon assets in the app.

I thought it was a bit odd of a choice on the platform vs SVG which seems more popular (and which the Android devs on our team use), but CoreGraphics using it internally ties the whole picture together.

New comment by mlex in "Practical advises on recommendation systems in production"

mlex — Wed, 04 May 2022 06:28:51 +0000

The better analogy on the YouTube side is the chronological subscribed channels feed: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

The Better Alternative to Lifetime GATs

mlex — Sun, 01 May 2022 16:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sabrinajewson.org/blog/the-better-alternative-to-lifetime-gats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31226506

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlex in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

mlex — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:29:50 +0000

Coincidentally, AWS has a video streaming service already: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/

Disclaimer: I work at Twitch, an Amazon subsidiary whose tech it's based off of.

New comment by mlex in "Elo scoring two years of Magic: The Gathering games"

mlex — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 02:35:44 +0000

There's already an Elo project for sanctioned events at the Grand Prix level and above: http://www.mtgeloproject.net/

It uses the public pairings and results that were published each round for events all the way back to the 90s. Unfortunately, there are less competitive MTG events these days, so most peoples' ratings stop in early 2020, but that's another topic altogether.

New comment by mlex in "China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board"

mlex — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:54:43 +0000

Flightradar24 of the flight in question: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/b-1791#2b367bc1

Purported footage at the crash site:

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1505829095204085760

https://twitter.com/ChinaAvReview/status/1505815956001501184

https://twitter.com/TheLegateIN/status/1505820283734994947

New comment by mlex in "User reports indicate problems at Discord"

mlex — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:54:14 +0000

Discord's own status page: https://discordstatus.com/

Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

mlex — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220207-00/?p=106223

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252263

Points: 448

# Comments: 208

New comment by mlex in "In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns"

mlex — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:29:32 +0000

There’s one of these at 10th Street turning left onto Folsom.

New comment by mlex in "California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide"

mlex — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:14:44 +0000

In Canada, ninth grade was around 14-15 years old, depending on the month you were born. I think the US has a similar timescale for primary/secondary schooling.