Hacker News: sah2ed

New comment by sah2ed in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

sah2ed — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:13:12 +0000

> https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

The article has been discussed around here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079699 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562968 (2017)

New comment by sah2ed in "Tell HN: There is a highlights page on HN"

sah2ed — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:54:15 +0000

I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is at the footer of every HN page.

New comment by sah2ed in "AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B"

sah2ed — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:24:44 +0000

No need to use Shodan. AWS already publishes the IPv4 address it owns in JSON from a well-known endpoint [0].

[0]: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

New comment by sah2ed in "Ask HN: How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today?"

sah2ed — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:39:34 +0000

This reply is from another (major) Linux kernel developer.

For those not in the know, gregkh = Greg Kroah-Hartman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

> broodbucket

New comment by sah2ed in "Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers"

sah2ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:20:18 +0000

> But this is not my field.

> Would a VPN do what I need? Where are instructions that a n00b can follow?

Never used them myself but lots of HN commenters think highly of the VPN services offered by Mullvad [0]. In fact, right now, Mullvad is currently on the HN frontpage [1], from a blog post by Tailscale.

0: https://mullvad.net/en

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420053

New comment by sah2ed in "jq 1.7"

sah2ed — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:43:33 +0000

I think parent is referring to the habit of technically inclined folks of using "trivially" similar to words like "simply" and "just" [0][1] in a way that assumes too much about what the reader already knows.

[0] https://www.parkersoftware.com/blog/stop-using-simply-in-tec...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35759449

New comment by sah2ed in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)"

sah2ed — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:58:10 +0000

> Anywhere in Europe (CET +/- 2h)

Is being in Europe a strict requirement or candidates within CET +/- 2h but outside Europe are welcome to apply?

New comment by sah2ed in "Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?"

sah2ed — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:31:19 +0000

Remote Rocketship is paid :(

New comment by sah2ed in "Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?"

sah2ed — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:54:23 +0000

Please tell me how.

New comment by sah2ed in "Render nuked my entire account with no notice"

sah2ed — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:13:53 +0000

Perhaps your IP is on some kind of blacklist (due to past activities of the previously assigned owner of that IP)?

Might be worth investigating.

New comment by sah2ed in "Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback"

sah2ed — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:18:25 +0000

Yes.

Musl 1.2.4 Released–Supports DNS Transport over TCP (openwall.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813978

New comment by sah2ed in "Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs"

sah2ed — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:02:58 +0000

Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10004678

New comment by sah2ed in "GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers"

sah2ed — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:10:54 +0000

Heaven Banning is hypothetical, it's not real. At least not yet.

If you look closer at the date in the screen shot of a NYT article in your link, you'll see that the date was deliberately chosen to be in the future (i.e. August 8, 2024).

New comment by sah2ed in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"

sah2ed — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:01:13 +0000

Would be nice if you could ask the DDG team to cite the links you provided as footnotes to your claim "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US, and 18 other markets ..." in TFA.

New comment by sah2ed in "Comparison site for digital analytics tools"

sah2ed — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:41:16 +0000

Agree. They definitely need to add Umami [1]. They appeared on the frontpage nearly 3 years ago [2].

1: https://umami.is/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329

New comment by sah2ed in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

sah2ed — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:37:16 +0000

That's because of something called the institutional imperative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287430

New comment by sah2ed in "Ask HN: If I enter account or order in a phone tree, why am I asked again?"

sah2ed — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:15:28 +0000

> I'm really interested in this problem.

Ah, the good ol' institutional imperative :-).

Start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287430

New comment by sah2ed in "Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from"

sah2ed — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:05:48 +0000

Yes, and they even had a showing on HN recently [0].

https://www.workspaces.xyz/

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265223

New comment by sah2ed in "Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease"

sah2ed — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:19 +0000

> There must be some other side of Pinterest that I've never seen, where it performs a useful function for its users?

Lots of female users use Pinterest for organizing pins for a wedding. Essentially, they are great as a wedding checklist planner.

New comment by sah2ed in "Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock"

sah2ed — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 10:20:34 +0000

> But they aren’t more successful through the blog platform, instead by providing website foundation most companies use to create company websites, e-commerce websites and, a few of them, blogs.

The blog platform provided the very foundation for their success because once people found out how easy it was, relative to the competition[0], to stand up an online presence using WordPress, you could "convert" the blog into an e-commerce website or a CMS or anything you can think of that needs to spit out HTML/CSS/JS, via the use of free/paid WordPress plugins.

[0] WordPress' competition included a wide variety of product categories apart from Movable Type, which used to be the dominant open source blogging platform. From dedicated CMS products like Joomla or Drupal or Plone, to dedicated e-commerce products like OsCommerce. WordPress fit nicely in the middle of these product categories due to its vibrant plugin community and focus on ease of use (at the cost of security), which is part of why it became popular.