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New comment by mlhpdx in "MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless"

mlhpdx — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:27:58 +0000

I had hoped they’d go with CoAP for the better overall fit with agent systems (natively async, con/non, Observe), but stateless is enough of a win I can’t complain.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

mlhpdx — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:38:13 +0000

HTTP? It would be a more interesting thought experiment with CoAP. And, is it really “modern” if it still uses a model (essentially) requiring stateful compute like JMAP?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

mlhpdx — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:03:25 +0000

API Gateway direct integration to Step Functions. Unlike Lambda, there is not automatic transform for requests so I just wrote one and copy/paste it to each method integration (via a preprocess script; one of the ugly bits). Yes, EXPRESS state machines. I’ve found they have better tail latency behavior, and of course they involve zero patching/dependency updates which is nice.

The state machines use JSONata for the sweet, sweet power vs JSONPath. Generally I have a Parallel state that splits the different parts of the page and Map states for data driven repetition (usually some data pulled from DDB). I have a simple JSONata method for replacing placeholder values (aka data binding). Zero Lambda at the cost of come copy paste.

I’m not unhappy with it despite the warts.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

mlhpdx — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:13:44 +0000

Likewise, I started using HTMX with AWS Step Functions as the backend and it’s been difficult but also a joy. Sfn these days makes for a weird and wild text templating engine. I’ve been thinking about working on DSL overlay to smooth the bumps a bit.

3GPP Version 19

mlhpdx — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.3gpp.org/specifications-technologies/releases/release-19

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036136

Points: 40

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New comment by mlhpdx in "Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first"

mlhpdx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:26:47 +0000

Not the email, the link in it is blocked by ad blockers. You might want to check the number of emails sent versus the number confirmed.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first"

mlhpdx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:08:07 +0000

Your email confirmation link’s domain is in common adblock lists.

New comment by mlhpdx in "TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years"

mlhpdx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:50:27 +0000

Good, they used UDP for a one off request /response (maybe) exchange. Bad, they included precise location information.

I can see how rough location information is helpful for support and business information. Maybe country, maybe even zip code. But precise GPS was a bit overkill. Maybe it was easy, maybe it was nefarious, but not encrypting it over the wow was just plain dumb. I guess there is a razor for that.

How would this exfiltration happen though? Aren’t these cameras going to be behind a firewall? Without a request originating internally no external packet will make it past, right? Does the firmware make the first request? If so, I missed it.

I’m more mystified by the fleet wide certs. Old manufacturing tech that makes per-device firmware difficult, perhaps?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

mlhpdx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:39:35 +0000

No prescription is required, but as the other comments say, you’re unlikely to learn anything significant.

Blood sugar in non-diabetics is boring, rarely moving in any significant way.

One impact could be dispelling misconceptions if you have them. Another could be discovering pre-diabetes.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

mlhpdx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:29:02 +0000

Have you studied control systems? Adding a second storage mechanism with different dynamics changes control, and may complicate it. Those muscles may increase hypoglycemic events as well as soften spikes.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

mlhpdx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:23:23 +0000

I try to be open minded about research choices because I have no special knowledge of what will or won’t be important. Left-field discoveries have made profound and positive impacts on many occasions.

I’m having trouble with this one, and am tempted to write it off as playing with mice in a lab. The extrapolation to human conditions is hyperbolic, maybe worse.

Given the number of people with continuous glucose monitors and activity tracking watches in the world, why not study that data directly? Causation by activity would be more apparent, more relevant and more significant (if present) wouldn’t it?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Networking and the Internet, from First Principles"

mlhpdx — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:49:17 +0000

I know the guidelines make this a faux pas but I’m just here to say that was a great read. Very informative, well structured and compelling story of how we have networks and how they work.

To those saying it’s the work of an LLM: if it is I don’t care. It’s good.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations"

mlhpdx — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:04:17 +0000

Fundamentally aren’t they concluding that tasks assigned to software developers (human or otherwise) are often incomplete, self contradictory or worse? This is the world in which their tool must play. I’m unsympathetic.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)"

mlhpdx — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:54:36 +0000

People have been people since there have been people.

Proxylity: Academic and Non-Profit Program

mlhpdx — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:38:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.proxylity.com/academic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724879

Points: 2

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New comment by mlhpdx in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

mlhpdx — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:33:13 +0000

What companies can expand if the income of consumers is shrinking. This is the scary bit to me — AI crashes and takes the economy with it, or; AI succeeds as promised and people go unemployed and crash the economy.

The only path that isn’t disastrous is threading the needle of “just right” productivity gains. The people in charge aren’t smart enough to give me warm fuzzy feelings on that.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

mlhpdx — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:05:56 +0000

Gas is priced in $/gal, not dollars per mile or hour of lawn mowing or whatever. The resource and the use are completely different concepts and the resource owner/producer cares not of the buyers purpose for it.

MIT Open Courseware: Sailing Yacht Design

mlhpdx — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:44:26 +0000

Article URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-996-sailing-yacht-design-13-734-fall-2003/download/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682414

Points: 3

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New comment by mlhpdx in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

mlhpdx — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:31:40 +0000

Sailing.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

mlhpdx — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:02:28 +0000

This concept makes a lot of sense for first time car buyers. Having never owned a car, maybe being fresh out of college, a car can be a big leap. What will it need, what will it do? Commute? Car pool? Camping? Moving? Boating?

If the customization can be done after the fact it lowers the risk of buying.

Makes sense to me.