Hacker News: themark

New comment by themark in "San Francisco Graffiti"

themark — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:23:15 +0000

I scrolled pretty far and didnt see Borf in there. Was that Web 2.0 ?

New comment by themark in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

themark — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:50:51 +0000

“…and the fluctuation stabilized in the failing state.”

Sounds like the ops team had one hell of a day.

New comment by themark in "Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding"

themark — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:31:06 +0000

Do a kickflip!

New comment by themark in "McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover"

themark — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:32:01 +0000

“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“

What fresh hell is this?

New comment by themark in "An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens"

themark — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:56:42 +0000

It seems like the lack of operations during US holidays would be a big oversight.

New comment by themark in "A crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup"

themark — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:56:49 +0000

I wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.

New comment by themark in "How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B?"

themark — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:10:55 +0000

Because when you are at a rock concert and you want something light to drink, it is cooler to ask the bar tender for Liquid Death rather than a Perrier.

New comment by themark in "Homes need to be built for better internet"

themark — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:32:49 +0000

This. They wanted to drill a hole in my place to run a line from the pole. The line would go right past a window. It just seemed unprofessional.

New comment by themark in "US and UK Military Contractors Created Plan for Global Censorship in 2018"

themark — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:55:04 +0000

I agree. If true, this appears to represent an enormous hack against vulnerabilities in humans. It should not be suppressed.

New comment by themark in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars"

themark — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:04:24 +0000

Yeah. I went through a rigorous exercise with sales last year to try to get a good estimate on what it would cost to run the database for a year for our application. They said it would be around 150k.

I threw all of their configuration advice out the window and run all extra small at 1 minute idle. No issues for my use case and we paid 17k for the year.

I have to expect that snow will change their pricing model soon.

New comment by themark in "Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth"

themark — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:35:11 +0000

I had their Sonic Nurse facemask during covid. It was a kool thing.

New comment by themark in "Open Letter To Nature Medicine – Call to retract "Proximal Origin" paper"

themark — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:52:55 +0000

Technically it is Nature Medicine. Nature rejected the paper.

New comment by themark in "Ring Car Cam Requires OBD-II for Power"

themark — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:02:31 +0000

Seems like a good way to collect a lot of car data.

Ring Car Cam Requires OBD-II for Power

themark — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://ring.com/products/car-cam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34283796

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by themark in "Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]"

themark — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:16:19 +0000

These are already exciting, but the music really takes it to the next level.

New comment by themark in "California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires"

themark — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:05:35 +0000

and a shit job of managing wildfires.

New comment by themark in "CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality"

themark — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:36:25 +0000

It mentions system testing; i read here that testing could only be done according to criteria provided by the vendor.

https://www.scribd.com/document/596142725/Fulton-Pa-Sues-Dom...

New comment by themark in "The Nevada national security site pt 1"

themark — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:42:21 +0000

Fascinating. It seems we are keeping a site on standby so that it can “perform an underground nuclear test within 24 to 36 months.”

I hope that is a competitive timeline.

New comment by themark in "How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device"

themark — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:42:37 +0000

Article says airplane mode just turns off access to baseband.

I thought the whole point of airplane mode was to prevent interference by eliminating radio signals.

New comment by themark in "Peer review reduces strength of claims of a wildlife market origin of Covid"

themark — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:28:00 +0000

The title of the study: "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Yet: "the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there."

What was the purpose of the study?