Hacker News: mparlane

New comment by mparlane in "Ask HN: Is your email inbox also filled with Zendesk reply spam?"

mparlane — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:35:20 +0000

Yes, sadly they are legitimate emails so its hard to block them. The problem seems to be on zendesk side where they are accepting any email as the source of the ticket and simply replying to that email with the contents of the ticket.

Apparently they are well aware of this problem since at least last year:

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9833274501786-...

New comment by mparlane in "Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025"

mparlane — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:39:33 +0000

Because it returns a 301 moved permanently with a header of location: https://one.one.one.one/

New comment by mparlane in "The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary"

mparlane — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:20:58 +0000

Gorillaz owe their sound to the Omnichord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0NtSNeQEQ

New comment by mparlane in "Grover's algorithm offers no quantum advantage"

mparlane — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:50:48 +0000

Does this finding affect Shor's Algorithm which I only learnt about last night from Veritasium ?

New comment by mparlane in "Where does all the cardboard come from?"

mparlane — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:13:38 +0000

I imagine the consumers who took their products home in the free box will then recycle the box. So the recycling company gets the box anyway and not another plastic bag.

New comment by mparlane in "Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music"

mparlane — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:49:59 +0000

I think in terms of scrolling through the big lists, the wheel was a far superior scrolling device than touch scroll is.

New comment by mparlane in "Michigan asphalt company paves first US public roads containing recycled plastic"

mparlane — Sun, 02 May 2021 10:22:24 +0000

Is rubber considered a microplastic?

edit: oh no, tyres use 24% synthetic rubber (which is a plastic polymer) :(

New comment by mparlane in "Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers"

mparlane — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:21:58 +0000

Still easier to harvest if you have the rows though.

New comment by mparlane in "Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location"

mparlane — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:59:11 +0000

Twitter thread here is the person explaining their method:

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382375691233103874

New comment by mparlane in "Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study"

mparlane — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:33:59 +0000

Wouldn't they fall out like baby teeth do if new teeth grow under to push them out?

New comment by mparlane in "Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable"

mparlane — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:46:16 +0000

More likely it will be picked rather than cut at that point.

New comment by mparlane in "Show HN: Skynet Simulator"

mparlane — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 01:41:29 +0000

Is it possible to "win" time quest ? I feel like I always end up in the same place, and the enemy always catches me up in attack ability....

New comment by mparlane in "GDC 2020 has been postponed"

mparlane — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:33:15 +0000

Red Hat Summit April 27-29 is also in the Moscone Center in San Fran

New comment by mparlane in "One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans"

mparlane — Mon, 20 May 2019 20:10:46 +0000

Because CT scans and MRI scans are very different technologies....

CT = xray

MRI = Magnetic resonance imaging

There is no exposure in an MRI to radiation. The only danger would be having bits of metal on you or inside you.

New comment by mparlane in "Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool"

mparlane — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:17:12 +0000

Bad actors have been using IDA this entire time. So no, not really.

New comment by mparlane in "China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid"

mparlane — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:53:20 +0000

Why? You created an account just to post this?

New comment by mparlane in "A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big"

mparlane — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:50:43 +0000

Take the viewable title of the article:

"A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big"

Paste it in to google, and click the first link that takes you back to that website.

Due to google's requirements of the search bot seeing what normal people can see when coming from google, they have to honor this...

New comment by mparlane in "'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi"

mparlane — Wed, 02 May 2018 19:39:38 +0000

I imagine tor exit points have the exact same issues?

New comment by mparlane in "Recovering commit after Git reset --hard"

mparlane — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:49:10 +0000

Except for git stashes :(

New comment by mparlane in "Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start"

mparlane — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:45:08 +0000

S7 also..