Hacker News: timbray

New comment by timbray in "Declining America"

timbray — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:15:27 +0000

My pieces usually get flagged. Presumably I have annoyed some of the wrong people.

New comment by timbray in "Life During Class Wartime"

timbray — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:54:51 +0000

I'm highly unconvinced of the proposition that most homeless are severely mentally ill; the data I've seen doesn't support it. That's some of it, and also addiction. But a lot of them just can't make the rent.

Agree on the underbuilding.

New comment by timbray in "Life During Class Wartime"

timbray — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:39:05 +0000

I'd like to see a few links to support your assertions in the first paragraph because, with respect, I have not seen evidence which supports them.

On the other hand, multiple jurisdictions have run trials of UBI (universal basic income) and unless I misread the reportage, the results have been good.

New comment by timbray in "Life During Class Wartime"

timbray — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:33:22 +0000

Well, healthcare is an increasing piece of government spending all over the world, and the population is aging, so politics and policy aside, that number is going to go up.

Password Manager Angst

timbray — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:35:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/09/Password-Manager-Angst

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724567

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck

timbray — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review-isnt-the-bottleneck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314196

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by timbray in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

timbray — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:04:23 +0000

+1 on Newsblur. I use it every day and it has flaws but nothing that really gets in my way.

New comment by timbray in "RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode"

timbray — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:01:06 +0000

The tests for the go code at https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839 are in effect test vectors.

New comment by timbray in "Corrected UTF-8 (2022)"

timbray — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:03:36 +0000

Yeah, for example it's how Java stores strings to this day. But I think it's more or less never transmitted over the Network.

New comment by timbray in "Corrected UTF-8 (2022)"

timbray — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:29:42 +0000

Relevant: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-15.html - IETF approved and will have an RFC number in a few weeks.

Tl;dr: Since we're kinda stuck with Uncorrected UTF-8, here are the "characters" you shouldn't use. Includes a bunch of stuff the OP mentioned.

June 2025 C2PA News

timbray — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:22:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/17/More-C2PA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320099

Points: 20

# Comments: 0

New comment by timbray in "Parable of the Sofa"

timbray — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:46:38 +0000

That crossed my mind when I saw the piece show up on HN. But I think they're already running more or less at capacity.

New comment by timbray in "Parable of the Sofa"

timbray — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:28:16 +0000

You're right, but I didn't realize that till later. Except for the original "Parable of the Sower" was from Jesus not Olivia. But I also thought of Olivia's first.

New comment by timbray in "Parable of the Sofa"

timbray — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:18:24 +0000

A high-quality leather sofa these days is closer to $15K than $1500, ouch.

Making Redis into a high-durability database

timbray — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:04:42 +0000

Article URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40212578

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by timbray in "Meta.ai Oh My"

timbray — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:01:46 +0000

I dunno, my Wikipedia entry is about right.

New comment by timbray in "Mourning Google"

timbray — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:28:32 +0000

Wow, didn't know about that, thanks. But the query has to be "timbray" not tim bray

Sustainable member-owned co-operative Mastodon instance

timbray — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:52:55 +0000

Article URL: https://cosocial.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35495846

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by timbray in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

timbray — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:41:43 +0000

Got me jobs, helped me hire other people, got me a ticket to some of the big technology debates and then helped me win one or two. Gave me a place to write cat obituaries and heavy-metal reviews. Launched Feb 27, 2003 (20 years last month) and I haven't regretted it for a microsecond.

[https://tbray.org/ongoing/]

Watching TV is too expensive and complicated, needs an Automator

timbray — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:15:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/03/Streamplex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35025835

Points: 3

# Comments: 2