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New comment by teeray in "Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts"

teeray — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:22:46 +0000

> the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts.

There is definitely cursed pirates treasure on that island

New comment by teeray in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

teeray — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:31:13 +0000

> There are hundreds of ways that different websites ask you to pick dates

Ugh, date pickers. So many of these violently throw up when I try to do the obvious thing: type in the damn date. Instead they force me to click through their inane menu, as if the designer wanted to force me into a showcase of their work. Let your power users type. Just call your user’s attention back to the field if they accidentally typed 03/142/026.

New comment by teeray in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

teeray — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:40:18 +0000

> What is gained by “unmasking” Satoshi other than satisfying one’s curiosity?

Those sweet, sweet clicks, and the eyeballs they bring along with them, of course

New comment by teeray in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

teeray — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:00:55 +0000

I’ve been learning Gregg Shorthand (Anniversary) since the start of the year. It’s a fun challenge even if it feels fantastically obsolete at this point with transcription models getting better and better every day. I’ve always liked paper-and-pen notes, so the idea of basically learning analog Vim was appealing :)

New comment by teeray in "A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA"

teeray — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:16:38 +0000

I just learned about Postcrossing from a small bookshop owner in Iceland! I was buying some postage to send some postcards back to family in the US. We talked about how fun the format is (and challenging! You don’t have a lot of room!).

New comment by teeray in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

teeray — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:13:51 +0000

Today, you get the more streamlined experience of push, 3 clicks to restart CI & container build, push 1000 yamls, click to restart the build again, cry when it all fails.

New comment by teeray in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

teeray — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:31:00 +0000

If your ticket was in the form of a piece of music that you had to perform on your violin to gain entry, would you feel the same way? Keep in mind, it’s only in the last 15 years that playing the violin in this world became commonplace and only in the past 5 that these performances became required to access common goods and services. Violins also still cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

New comment by teeray in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

teeray — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:12:38 +0000

The same could be said about a Roulette wheel set before a seasoned gambler

New comment by teeray in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

teeray — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:16:04 +0000

Usually this results in approvals to approve the approval to approve making the change. Everyone signed off on a tower of tax forms about the change, no way it can fail now! It failed? We need another layer of approvals before changes can be made!

New comment by teeray in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

teeray — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:26:19 +0000

“Rebuild” is also a four-letter word though at this stage too. The customer has a panel of knob-and-tube wiring and aluminum paper-wrapped wire in the house. They want a new hot tub. They don’t want some electrician telling them they need to completely rewire their house first at huge expense, such that they cannot afford the hot tub anymore. They’ll just throw the electrician out and get some kid in a pickup truck (“You’re Absolutely Right Handyman LLC”) to run a lamp cord to their new hot tub. Once the house burns to the ground, the new owners will wire their new construction correctly.

New comment by teeray in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

teeray — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:57:08 +0000

That feels like something that could suffer from frequency analysis.

New comment by teeray in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

teeray — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:55:36 +0000

It’s simple, reliable, and effective. Shortwave receivers can be made fairly compact. They’re also very prevalent in most countries (every ham transciever), so there’s nothing suspicious to pack. People find numbers stations interesting, so they are often streamed online. One time pads have their logistical shortcomings, but are still the best encryption possible. The OTP can be compromised in known, visible ways, where a phone has myriad invisible ways to be compromised.

New comment by teeray in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

teeray — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:47:10 +0000

> Looking around, and especially forward, it would be military tech, e.g. [1], and its supply chain, e.g. [2]

Only viable if you’re okay with the ethical implications of funding war.

New comment by teeray in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

teeray — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:15:41 +0000

If your debts are also denominated in USD, their value will be fixed relative to your cash assets. This assumes a fixed rate, of course, but a 30 year fixed is common in the US and makes up a substantial portion of most folks’ debt.

New comment by teeray in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

teeray — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:11:09 +0000

Companies love externalizing the costs of making efficient software onto consumers, who need to purchase more powerful computing hardware.

New comment by teeray in "The future of version control"

teeray — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:37:08 +0000

> Conventional rebase creates a fictional history where your commits happened on top of the latest main

This is not fiction though. If someone added a param to the functions you’re modifying on your branch, rebasing forces you to resolve that conflict and makes the dependency on that explicit and obvious.

New comment by teeray in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

teeray — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:04:35 +0000

It’s always amazing going to these stores and seeing the support they provide for frequent “how do I computer?” questions. To me, this is like going to the water department because you need a new faucet on the kitchen sink. We make no such distinctions about who fixes what for purveyors of Internet services though.

New comment by teeray in "Chuck Norris has died"

teeray — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:22:00 +0000

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-2-oV5vk8q/?igsh=MWFtZmR5MHl...

EDIT: acknowledged. fake.

New comment by teeray in "Chuck Norris has died"

teeray — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:08:53 +0000

Jokes aside, this octogenarian was living his golden years enviably. He was summiting peaks last fall, doing 500 lb barbell curls, and still sparring in his birthday video just 10 days ago. We’ve all gotta go sometime, but the way Chuck Norris went out was the way I’d want to go—able to do it all right up until the end. He was a lot of folks’ childhood hero, but that title is freshly renewed in my eyes. I have new inspiration in my fitness endeavors going forward.

New comment by teeray in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

teeray — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:42:18 +0000

You can, but then you lose the power of a collective and have to manage a lawsuit yourself. If you are being represented as part of a group, then you should have means to direct that representation.