Hacker News: mparkms

New comment by mparkms in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

mparkms — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:38:57 +0000

Chasing trends and it's now cheaper to have a single touchscreen with software controls than to design and manufacture physical controls.

New comment by mparkms in "Banned in California"

mparkms — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:47:54 +0000

The creator of the website is the CEO of a battery-powered induction cooktop company. (https://x.com/sdamico)

He clearly has an agenda against what he perceives as onerous environmental regulations: https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026536815902208479 https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026552845294792994

New comment by mparkms in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

mparkms — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:25:05 +0000

You definitely shouldn't hold your breath considering the CFPB effectively doesn't exist anymore.

New comment by mparkms in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

mparkms — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:15:32 +0000

This is why I remapped the shortcut for AI autocomplete to Option-Tab.

New comment by mparkms in "Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps"

mparkms — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:46:54 +0000

What makes you think the Korean apps don't do the exact same thing?

New comment by mparkms in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

mparkms — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:37:32 +0000

FIFA tried to make a movie to whitewash their reputation during one of their many corruption scandals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Passions

It didn't work because it was a terrible movie and blatant propaganda, but I could see someone doing this successfully if they were more subtle about it.

New comment by mparkms in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

mparkms — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:28:25 +0000

The most difficult part, and one that Youtube has struggled with since the beginning, would be content moderation. It's a technical, legal, and PR nightmare and there's no reason for Netflix to wade into that mess.

New comment by mparkms in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

mparkms — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:15:02 +0000

There are lots of places in the US where if you don't have a car your only reasonable options are an Uber/Lyft or calling a cab that may or may not arrive.

DNS Blackhole (AS112) Service

mparkms — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iana.org/help/dns-blackhole

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43713876

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mparkms in "Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator"

mparkms — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:44:55 +0000

This is pretty similar to the Japanese "flick" keyboard that's fairly commonly used on smartphones. Instead of 3 possible directions per button there's 5 (up, left, right, down, and neutral): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5UEsHEZWII

It's pretty intuitive because Japanese kana is a syllabary that's organized by their starting consonant and one of five possible vowels in the Gojuon system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goj%C5%ABon

I never got used to it but people who use it swear by it. Google even made a mechanical version for an April Fools a few years back: https://youtu.be/5LI1PysAlkU

New comment by mparkms in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

mparkms — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:26:05 +0000

That would explain why their receipt scanning is so damn slow even for easily scannable PDF receipts.

New comment by mparkms in "Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada"

mparkms — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:27:38 +0000

Looks like 73% of freight is moved by truck in the US vs 77% in the EU. Not a big enough difference to really matter I think.

https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1068592/eu-road-freight-...

New comment by mparkms in "The hijacking of rare Japanese KitKats"

mparkms — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 22:03:05 +0000

So this guy whose job it is to hire truckers to move goods fell for the same scam twice in a row? Fool me once, etc, etc...

New comment by mparkms in "Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts"

mparkms — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:02:15 +0000

They cheaped out and didn't include a basic security feature that 96% of all other cars have.[0] This isn't a problem in countries outside the US because they have regulations requiring immobilizers in new cars.

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2022/09/129_336571.htm...

New comment by mparkms in "Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity"

mparkms — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:28:46 +0000

Stripe started issuing RSUs ~7 years ago and the first of those are set to expire next year without a liquidity event, which is why they're doing this.

New comment by mparkms in "Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries"

mparkms — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:10 +0000

It's a travelogue, not a Wikipedia article. People read it for the fluff and prose.

New comment by mparkms in "Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai"

mparkms — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:50:10 +0000

Someone I know was rehired to Ford from Argo and got an extremely generous offer. He seems pretty happy about it.

New comment by mparkms in "We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone"

mparkms — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:38:56 +0000

That revenue is almost entirely from Google, their biggest competitor. I don't think it's any surprise that they want to diversify from that.

New comment by mparkms in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

mparkms — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:48:49 +0000

You do if you're on a work visa and don't want to leave the US.

New comment by mparkms in "Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town"

mparkms — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 04:11:29 +0000

Sounds like you're talking about the Vancouver Special: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Special

Tons of houses in the 70s and 80s in Vancouver was built in the exact same style because of zoning laws and certain regulations at the time. I couldn't tell you why they chose stucco but they basically all follow the same template and they're basically a signature of the city now.