<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tomschlick</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomschlick</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:27:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tomschlick" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Railway Is Having a Major Outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They started on GCP and have been migrating to their own "Metal" DC doing exactly what you're describing. But GCP is still their overflow given how rapidly they are growing and holds some amount of networking that routes to their DC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201886</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Poisoning the data has been around for at least a decade now. I used to work for a very large pricing analytics company that would track product pricing for Fortune 500 manufacturers.<p>We found on several occasions that some shady retailers would find the CIDR of the manufacturers corp networks and comply with the MAP policies on pricing if traffic came from them. Then when our bot went through with obviously generic AWS / Proxy ips we would see a much lower price that broke their agreement. That one was a fun realization for the manufacturers as to the level of shadiness some retailers would go through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:18:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843001</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then change it through amendments.<p>However you likely wont be able to because not enough people agree with you to do so. Our constitution was made to be specifically hard to change unless a vast majority agreed. That's a feature, not a bug. If a change can't be agreed upon at the national level it should stay at the state / local level.<p>> It should, however, cause people who voted for this (hypothetically dead or disabled or otherwise incapacitated) politician to see themselves as the piles of shit they are.<p>Case in point, it protects us from reactionary changes based on vitriol like this instead of substance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 01:45:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122326</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure the safety part of it is something that should be verified before launch. But when they are launching multiple of these things and the variables are all mostly the same you don't need to do the same analysis over and over again.<p>A prime example is the environmental impact stuff. They have already done that multiple times. Nothing really changed. If it succeed and doesn't blow up the impact is X, if it blows up the impact is Y. Yet these approvals take weeks and months.<p>There are also multiple agencies that put their foot down. Famously fish and wildlife was worried starship would crash in the water and hit a shark/whale. No seriously. <a href="https://youtu.be/kS8G5D9fg3g?t=21" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/kS8G5D9fg3g?t=21</a><p>Then there is the story that at Vandenburg air base, they had to strap a seal to a board and play rocket noises through headphones to see if it was distressed. Keep in mind Vandenburg has been a military rocket launch site for decades. But only now when its SpaceX do these agencies put up road blocks.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvJP5wfN4k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvJP5wfN4k</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41829535</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41829535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41829535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does Walmart/CostCo/BestBuy/Kroger/etc not do this exact thing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770211</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Laravel already has multiple ways to deploy (other than rolling your own):<p>Laravel Forge - Deploys a VPS on your own AWS/DigitalOcean/Hetzner/etc - <a href="https://forge.laravel.com/" rel="nofollow">https://forge.laravel.com/</a><p>Laravel Vapor - Deploys a serverless function on your AWS account to run your app/cron/queues <a href="https://vapor.laravel.com" rel="nofollow">https://vapor.laravel.com</a><p>Laravel Cloud - Differs because it doesn't run on your infrastructure, so less time to setup/configure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457151</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this is generating CVE numbers for resume clout.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:48:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303361</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "US chip factory workers say a struggle to survive on wages as industry booms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unrelated to this specific plant, but it doesn't help that the government put all kinds of stipulations and pork into the CHIPS act that requires certain demographics of people hired, investments in unrelated things, etc. <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/" rel="nofollow">https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...</a><p>If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips for critical applications, we need to cut that crap out and focus on efficiency and quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163397</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087881</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Microsoft laid off a DEI team, DEI is 'no longer business critical'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively own almost 20% of MSFT shares so they probably had a very large influence.<p><a href="https://www.techopedia.com/largest-microsoft-shareholders" rel="nofollow">https://www.techopedia.com/largest-microsoft-shareholders</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987850</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is always going to be false positives. Even more so with a tech/privacy minded userbase which uses ad blockers, disables JS, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814574</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some like it colder when they sleep. For instance I tend to keep mine at 69-71F depending on the time of year at night on my upstairs climate zone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764144</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> in their peak can't handle 26 Celsius<p>Why would any athlete or group want to risk the chance of not being able to sleep well if they are too hot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763526</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Pro-tip if you ever want cheaper Adobe subscriptions is to cancel your sub and they’ll send you repeat offers at lower prices up to 60% off<p>I have found the same to be true with SiriusXM radio as well. You can ask the chat bot to cancel your account when a promo runs out and it will take you back down from $19/mo to like $6/mo. I setup a calendar item so I know when the promo is going to expire and do this. It's a PITA but it only takes 5 minutes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40708218</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40708218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40708218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not discrimination to say "the message you just sent is green because it went over SMS (and now RCS) and we can't verify the E2E encryption, deliverability, etc like we can with iMessage".</p>
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<p>Yeah we prefer to keep our messages out of the hands of Facebook</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659911</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or just have your magic link include a "Confirm Login" button once it loads that sends a POST so automated clients don't cause issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 16:52:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380504</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what your password manager is, but 1Password supports them and its a pretty smooth experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:33:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169175</link><dc:creator>tomschlick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomschlick in "Visualizing malicious IP addresses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Are these because the bad guys are in there or just because of the population size?<p>Yes</p>
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<p>Cue the Team America theme song</p>
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