Hacker News: mocheeze

New comment by mocheeze in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

mocheeze — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:53:30 +0000

http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/99%20Regular/FinalVersions/SB013...

New comment by mocheeze in "Have a fucking website"

mocheeze — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:02:42 +0000

I don't understand this. There are super cheap shared-hosting plans the allow you to just do a couple clicks to install WordPress with full control. Then about $13/yr for a .com with no trouble with SSL or Google.

New comment by mocheeze in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

mocheeze — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:46:04 +0000

AT&T had to pay $4B for failure to acquire T-Mobile. T-Mobile used that money quite wisely.

New comment by mocheeze in "Yes, It's Fascism"

mocheeze — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:59:52 +0000

There are though. Regularly.

New comment by mocheeze in "The Legacy of Undersea Cables"

mocheeze — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:50:06 +0000

NPR's Throughline podcast did a nice dive into this subject in October as well: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5582393

New comment by mocheeze in "Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig"

mocheeze — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:12:54 +0000

In middle school (age 11-13 in the late '90s, USA) I had a hand-me-down Palm Pilot (probably upgraded to Handspring in there). I'd leave it on my serial(?) port cradle and have it download my daily news from sites like IGN and Slashdot over 56K before I woke up. I was also the kid that regularly read the "Time Life for Kids" mags they'd pass out to us in homeroom. That's the outlet I learned about Napster from and hooked my school onto. Your comment reminded me of those days. Now I'm still desperately hooked on RSS since the early days.

ETA: When I was a late teen I ended up managing a bunch of younger teams for a free mod for an indie PC game called Blockland. I had them code up IRC and RSS capabilities into the mod from scratch in the Torque Game Engine's custom TorcueScript. I couldn't believe what those kids were capable of. They all went into programming, engineering, or founding their own companies out of highschool and college. If one of them told me something was impossible I'd just tell them that I saw that a competing mod already figured it out. Magically my dudes had a solution really quick lol. Sometimes when you have limited resources and/or experience the old and proven ways are just as good.

Was great when they had all that XML experience in a weird scripting language and I asked them to implement Jabber in-game from my Dreamhost shared-hosting plan. Crazy what a bunch of teens can do for an online Lego-like game.

Thanks for letting this older dude wax nostalgic off the rails. Hope it reminds others on HN about early hacking days like OP's project.

New comment by mocheeze in "Orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission"

mocheeze — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:36:25 +0000

Because of the lowered cost of launching on this particular New Glenn. By the time of the next window BO will be able to command more money for a less-risky launch.

New comment by mocheeze in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

mocheeze — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:43:18 +0000

In part 2 they had to go to a radiator and muffler shop to weld up some parts: https://youtu.be/qYpJF0mxiuo

New comment by mocheeze in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

mocheeze — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:14:29 +0000

No, Kimmel accused Trump supporters of publicly trying to distance themselves from the shooter.

New comment by mocheeze in "Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists"

mocheeze — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:48:10 +0000

Many media outlets reported Trump was mad that any of his staff had reporter contacts in the first place. If your assertion is true that would be the quick end to Waltz's short career.

New comment by mocheeze in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

mocheeze — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:21:26 +0000

Doesn't seem like Illumina actually cares much about security: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/widely-used-dna-seq...

New comment by mocheeze in "Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger dies aged 99"

mocheeze — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:56:32 +0000

I don't get it either. Over on Reddit I'm getting lambasted for saying that a Berkshire company's $6000 deductible for an employee's family health insurance is a raw deal in a memoriam thread (even with $0 premium). These people don't realize how they're getting ripped off by their boss.

But I guess they probably think I'm disobeying some Munger's Law like "Don't feel like you deserve better from your boss for your work. Just do better work for your boss. Trust me, it will pay off."

New comment by mocheeze in "Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership"

mocheeze — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:47:24 +0000

Walmart and Kroger have had their own disputes with Visa (for one example) and (at least Kroger) started blocking some of their cards at select chains in order to negotiate a better deal. Costco has super tight margins. The the point that when their execs are talking about the price of goods they don't say, "[Item] is $70." No, they say, "[Item] is 69.99." Their culture is about every last penny of the margin. Their money comes from memberships.

New comment by mocheeze in "Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users"

mocheeze — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:38:27 +0000

It's basically THE WAY to get authorizations for medical practices to get prescriptions approved for patients in the US. Ridiculous. (Along with a bunch of other medical logins.)

New comment by mocheeze in "Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers"

mocheeze — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:22:57 +0000

derefr admitted to making that up in order to elicit a response.

New comment by mocheeze in "The White House’s weirdly hip record collection"

mocheeze — Tue, 10 May 2022 07:27:26 +0000

He was pretty talented too. He even said later in life that if he grew up during the age of (good) rap music he probably wouldn't have been a politician: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/08/07/ri...

New comment by mocheeze in "80s Usenet first cultural references"

mocheeze — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 23:58:24 +0000

That sounds about right. Similar time to when I was seeing TV shows talk about to to reach them on CompuServe, AOL, then just straight up WWW websites. I especially remember my dad saying, "Well, it's definitely happening now if we're getting .com domains on regular TV ads." (He was using ARPANET as a teenager before going on to Stanford for EE and Physics, so he'd been following it for a while, haha.)

New comment by mocheeze in "My Stripe Tax Story"

mocheeze — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:04:55 +0000

And working in good faith to resolve the merchant's problem and rectify the issue can often prevent a lawsuit in the first place. You're overthinking it.

New comment by mocheeze in "My Stripe Tax Story"

mocheeze — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000

I've never had a merchant sign an NDA for me to fix their problem and/or transfer funds to reconcile a processing error, lol.

New comment by mocheeze in "My Stripe Tax Story"

mocheeze — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:47:21 +0000

I was about to reply to you, then I realized I was typing out a guide on how to commit credit card fraud. Not this time! ;)

(I worked for 6 years in that side of the industry. Particularly when it might apply to point of sale software.)