Hacker News: travoc

New comment by travoc in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

travoc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:46:23 +0000

Increased demand will not drive down energy costs.

New comment by travoc in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

travoc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:48:09 +0000

AdGuard DNS servers are excellent.

New comment by travoc in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

travoc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:55:15 +0000

So nobody can ever hire someone better at particular skills than they are? Oh boy.

New comment by travoc in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

travoc — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:03:25 +0000

"luckily all my projects are now EOL as I am retired."

I doubt that everything you ever worked on is end-of-life. Some of it is still out there...

New comment by travoc in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

travoc — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:22:20 +0000

Your short form comment is in violation of EU Directive 20.29A. Agents have been dispatched to your home to collect your devices.

New comment by travoc in "Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns"

travoc — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:17:13 +0000

Which transit effort did they derail in Nashville? There was nothing on the horizon.

New comment by travoc in "iPhone Pocket"

travoc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:22:39 +0000

Who is “we?” Why are you preventing women from having pockets? I’m certainly not.

New comment by travoc in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

travoc — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:49:54 +0000

ASUS routers with Merlin firmware work well in a mesh configuration.

New comment by travoc in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

travoc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:12:13 +0000

What does that have to do with H1B engineers, who typically end up writing crud apps for banks?.

New comment by travoc in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

travoc — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:40:21 +0000

Who else is going to pretend to rewrite my ancient CRUD apps?

New comment by travoc in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

travoc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:13:10 +0000

Wikipedia eventually failed.

New comment by travoc in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

travoc — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:26:47 +0000

FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.

New comment by travoc in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

travoc — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:33:36 +0000

The middle of the lane is where cars drip years of oil and coolant.

New comment by travoc in "Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions"

travoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:48:19 +0000

It’s the whole “forced to take them by the government” that scares them. Ridiculous, since governments have always been trustworthy.

New comment by travoc in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

travoc — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:23:22 +0000

Really? I turned off the crypto buttons once several years ago and it’s been just fine since.

New comment by travoc in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

travoc — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:18:32 +0000

Most P2P tools work in a way where you cannot download without simultaneously uploading.

New comment by travoc in "The New York Stock Exchange to Launch NYSE Texas"

travoc — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:39:28 +0000

It’s cute that you think stock exchanges are only used by people who live in that city.

New comment by travoc in "An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1"

travoc — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:57:58 +0000

It's ok, they'll know it when they see it. Keep trying.

New comment by travoc in "Apple squandered the Holy Grail"

travoc — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:52:43 +0000

You cannot install any apps on an iOS device without registering and logging in with an AppleID, which requires both an email address and a telephone number.

New comment by travoc in "YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally"

travoc — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:29:06 +0000

I'm happy to be a freeloader on YouTube, and any other public website. Including this one.