Hacker News: qrush

New comment by qrush in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

qrush — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:27:35 +0000

Apparently there's more work than just clicking "Recover Vessel" after splashdown!

New comment by qrush in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

qrush — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:55:21 +0000

hot take: I would accept ads under every PR comment in GitHub if we could get back to 3 or 4 nines of reliability.

New comment by qrush in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

qrush — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:32:20 +0000

I’m working on a new word game, called Wordtrak:

https://wordtrak.com

(Sign up and I’ll send out beta codes tomorrow!)

I’ve had a few friends call it “fun”, and one said it’s “Scrabble that doesn’t drag”.

Working on some social media shareable replays you can post after matches tonight, thanks to Remotion:

https://x.com/qrush/status/2030849966105559104?s=20

New comment by qrush in "[dead]"

qrush — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:22:18 +0000

This is a pretty painful AI read, also thanks for reminding me about all the trauma this past year.

New comment by qrush in "Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy"

qrush — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:53:13 +0000

Where else will finance bros get quarter zips from??

New comment by qrush in "Shipmap.org"

qrush — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:17:38 +0000

One of my favorite youtube channels right now is What's Going On With Shipping, hosted by a former merchant mariner. Here's a 101 primer if you are learning too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FR6_6kpG8

New comment by qrush in "Mr TIFF"

qrush — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:23:03 +0000

RIP Mr. TIFF. Hoping we continue to document these incredible engineers and their work before it's lost to the sands of time/pits of LLM muck.

New comment by qrush in "Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region"

qrush — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:25:49 +0000

Sounds like DynamoDB is going to continue to be a hard dependency for EC2, etc. I at least appreciate the transparency and hearing about their internal systems names.

New comment by qrush in "The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls"

qrush — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:05:17 +0000

I grew up close to Niagara Falls and my dad was a firefighter there for ~30 years who had to practice rappelling down the gorge to save people (which sadly happens too frequently).

His favorite story from the last time they "shut the falls off" was that they found tons of loose change in the rocks around the rapids - people were racing to get it and bringing back buckets of money. (Of course, they also found a few bodies as well...)

New comment by qrush in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

qrush — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:38:37 +0000

AWS's own management console sign-in isn't even working. This is a huge one. :(

New comment by qrush in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

qrush — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:36:19 +0000

I'm truly hoping for a reasonable resolution on all sides for this situation. IMO Ruby is too small, and shrinking compared to Python and JS/TS especially in the AI era, to be able to afford any splintering of efforts.

New comment by qrush in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

qrush — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:31:01 +0000

I thought this was about my favorite sparkling water brand at first glance.

New comment by qrush in "CVE-2025-43300: "an sophisticated attack against specific individuals""

qrush — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:48:54 +0000

PoC / more info about this bug:

https://github.com/b1n4r1b01/n-days/blob/main/CVE-2025-43300... https://github.com/h4xnz/CVE-2025-43300-Exploit

CVE-2025-43300: "an sophisticated attack against specific individuals"

qrush — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43300

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101777

Points: 5

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New comment by qrush in "This is my brain on leeches"

qrush — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:24:09 +0000

Leeches are very much in use today in the US, in operating rooms especially!

New comment by qrush in "Optimizing our way through Metroid"

qrush — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:41:05 +0000

Curious - what OS? (I work at Wistia!)

New comment by qrush in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

qrush — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:08:50 +0000

A good day to make sure you're a member of your local public media station and supporting them directly.

New comment by qrush in "Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction"

qrush — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:37:50 +0000

These guys are going to learn a fun lesson about organized crime and labor unions in construction real soon.

New comment by qrush in "AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone"

qrush — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:46:49 +0000

Are there plans to let AWS customers hook this up to Bedrock / use models through that?

New comment by qrush in "No as a Service"

qrush — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:49:02 +0000

Oh great, it's Balatro's Wheel of Fortune card as a Service (WoFaaS)