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New comment by mlhpdx in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

mlhpdx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:43:38 +0000

If you leave your door wide open folks on the sidewalk can take pictures and write about what they see all day long.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

mlhpdx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:20:09 +0000

The wisdom from my Mom was “it’s better to be paid for what you know than what you do”. I’ve found it’s a bit more subtle than that, and enjoyed and learned a lot from piece work labor. But the sweet spot seems to be getting paid for what you do that uses what you know.

AI notwithstanding, of course.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

mlhpdx — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:37:28 +0000

Traveling without a quick acting pen and a long acting pen would never occur to me. Even if I’m traveling for a weekend I do (and take finger prick strips and tester). It means not having to worry about pump or sensor failures, which for me generally happen during exactly the fun activities I go on vacation to enjoy.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

mlhpdx — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:23:14 +0000

I’d love to see CoAP/wg play a part here. It’s similar enough to HTTP to be familiar, but not supported in any browser. It supports content types and server sent events. It can be implemented in far less memory and uses far less CPU than TLS. It seems like the perfect protocol for this kind of thing.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

mlhpdx — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:52:14 +0000

Oof. And how much more expensive will the models be to get that 80%?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ferrari Luce"

mlhpdx — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:37:59 +0000

Rolls knows their customers, as absurd as it may seem. The electrics hit the Royce brand first because it is the car “in which you are driven” and likely the reasons you state. Bentley, the car “you drive” has a different customer base and will be closer to the “normal” hypercar experience.

New comment by mlhpdx in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

mlhpdx — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:36:06 +0000

> The supply side is exploding. Demand? I dunno man.

Isn’t that the nature of the paradox; that we can’t predict where the demand comes from and yet it does?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

mlhpdx — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:51:37 +0000

None of the AWS “outages” have impacted us. They have either been regional, in which case we stand down the region (we run multiple hot regions), or didn’t involve things we need to maintain operation.

I can’t imagine AWS ever doing such a cascading delete. I mean, they have made deletion protection a difficult thing to ignore even for individual resources.

New comment by mlhpdx in "A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks"

mlhpdx — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:49:08 +0000

I was under the impression that it was illegal to have any kind of light emitting signage on a moving vehicle. Does this vary by jurisdiction?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

mlhpdx — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:49:47 +0000

Agreed. OP, get a CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) and run wild.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

mlhpdx — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:36:03 +0000

Regarding the viability of rewrites of successful PoCs: Does the current environment change the math? How difficult would it be to overcome the inertia/hesitation/perception of slow, painful projects that may no longer be so?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

mlhpdx — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:09:12 +0000

Perhaps an aside, but the things we do to compensate for the warts of TCP are staggering.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

mlhpdx — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:07:26 +0000

Out in L.A.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mlhpdx — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:37:37 +0000

I didn’t see the successor in the field much, RADIUS seems entrenched. If they are similar enough I may build both but this was the place to start.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mlhpdx — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:15:06 +0000

The two are linked. Need to change the configuration of a fleet? That's going to be restarting every instance of the process. Update an extension model? Same. Load balance? You'll need one that understand RADIUS or clients will suffer because of incorrect session affinity. Client with dramatically different loads? Better put them on different clusters. Somebody had a power outage? Better have 10x capacity on hot standby for the load.

And on and on.

A stateless compute model with separation between the packet handling and the authentication logic solves pretty-much all of it.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mlhpdx — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:08:21 +0000

Maybe. I'm thinking about options but haven't decided on anything yet.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mlhpdx — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:24:34 +0000

Past trauma motivated it.

I was responsible for multiple RADIUS services used by millions of people every day. The existing software is slow to build with, difficult to scale and expensive. I couldn't let it go.

Step one was building the platform to run it on and make it sustainable as a business. Step two is implementing protocols like RADIUS that lack a separated compute/storage model but should really have one.

I chose C# because I know it, and build native single-file executables using AoT.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

mlhpdx — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:10:49 +0000

I’m not saying it isn’t bad. I clearly understand it’s bad.

My point is that this kind of headline doesn’t help the cause. It’s hyperbolic nonsense to laypeople, though they may use the more colloquial term “bullshit”. Getting people to pay attention is really, really hard given the tremendous volume of hyperbole they see every day.

I don’t know what the solution is, but I know this kind of headline works against it.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mlhpdx — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:04:55 +0000

I’m working on a ground-up implementation of RADIUS with everything running on stateless compute. It’s a beast with many problems to solve but I have EAP-TLS, TTLS and PEAP all working. I’d love to connect with folks interested in this kind of thing.

New comment by mlhpdx in "I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left"

mlhpdx — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:17:02 +0000

I find it really difficult to discuss the two with people because of the overloaded terminology.