Hacker News: than

New comment by than in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

than — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:59:39 +0000

Missed opportunity to call the successor `whodat`

New comment by than in "Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation"

than — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:14:34 +0000

We’ve been using https://MJML.io and Handlebars and owning the rendering on our end. It’s been a breeze.

New comment by than in "Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims"

than — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:55:28 +0000

If you're interested in prions and some heavy science, I would highly recommend reading the research blogs of Eric and Sonia.

http://www.cureffi.org/ and http://www.prionalliance.org/blog/

> Wife-husband team Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel are on a very personal mission to find a cure to prion diseases. When Sonia was diagnosed as a genetic carrier of a rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), she and Eric quit their regular jobs and began studying molecular biology to learn as much as they could.

Theirs is an incredible story so far. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...

New comment by than in "Introducing Multi-Leg Options Strategies"

than — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:39:55 +0000

Yes! And the results have been outstanding! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...

New comment by than in "Pinboard Acquires Delicious"

than — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:44:51 +0000

It's more like the Polish Acquisition.

New comment by than in "Thousands of Low-Income Americans 'Donate' Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers"

than — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:16:55 +0000

Radiolab had a fascinating segment on US blood banks and how cutthroat the blood economy can be. In many cases, your local blood bank might be arbitraging blood from different areas of the country.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/308780-blood-banks/

New comment by than in "Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded"

than — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:46:21 +0000

Nobody goes there anymore.

New comment by than in "How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools"

than — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:08:37 +0000

Reading the post, it just seemed like an interesting and feasible challenge, as well as a learning opportunity — not an ideological purity test.

If you use Waze, hackers can stalk you

than — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:19:19 +0000

Article URL: http://fusion.net/story/293157/waze-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574753

Points: 9

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New comment by than in "Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens"

than — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:51:34 +0000

Real bugs don't have fancy websites. http://heartbleed.com

New comment by than in "New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor"

than — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:42:54 +0000

It's so amazing that it works! (Donor here as well.) I would love to see the support system expanded. Even with the recipient's insurance footing the bill for the surgery, there's still a significant burden on donors to be able to provide the time off to do the transplant in many cases.

I'm starting with my own state to help find ways to lower that threshold for potential donors here: https://www.change.org/p/minnesota-state-house-give-minnesot...

New comment by than in "Trap Streets"

than — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:00:12 +0000

My new favorite trap is the MOUNTWEAZEL, a lexicographical trap street embedded in dictionaries to catch infringers.

Good episode of the The Allusionist podcast: http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/mountweazel

New comment by than in "Capabilities and Services"

than — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:30:10 +0000

No up-selling travel insurance? They're leaving money on the launchpad.

New comment by than in "Harvey's Casino Bomb"

than — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:25:08 +0000

How did he arm the darn thing without setting it off?

New comment by than in "Opening the Instapaper API"

than — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:34:06 +0000

This is perfect timing. I've had a back-burnered project waiting for a response from the API folks.

New comment by than in "FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities"

than — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:29:27 +0000

Not to mention the tell-tale flight paths: http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/newscut/files/20...

via http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/05/mysterious-plane-ha...

New comment by than in "Periscope by Twitter"

than — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:30:31 +0000

White Bear

New comment by than in "Bill Watterson talks"

than — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:46:09 +0000

Exactly as much good as Bill Watterson wanted it to.

New comment by than in "Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime"

than — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:40:11 +0000

This looks great.

Here's the best Sublime replacement icon I've found: http://dewith.com/2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/

New comment by than in "Bill Watterson talks"

than — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:28:46 +0000

It's in the form of a book, which is a companion to an exhibition of his work at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449460364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...