Hacker News: tristanperry

New comment by tristanperry in "Where the goblins came from"

tristanperry — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:40:52 +0000

> is basically hacking around a load of text files telling their trillion dollar wonder machine it absolutely must stop talking to customers about goblins, gremlins and ogres?

I wonder how the developer(s) felt, who had to push that PR.

New comment by tristanperry in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

tristanperry — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:16:18 +0000

My theory is a state-sponsored actor targeting some of these services, but maybe that's just too 'tinfoil hat' of me, who knows.

New comment by tristanperry in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

tristanperry — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:25:43 +0000

I assume you're joking, but as an FYI, Rebecca Heineman died:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-desig...

New comment by tristanperry in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

tristanperry — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:12:48 +0000

ChatGPT and Claude are down as a result, too.

Y'know, along with most other SAAS services.

New comment by tristanperry in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

tristanperry — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:53:44 +0000

Yes exactly - and they still have aging hardware, only 1Gb Ethernet and have recently nerfed H.265 support.

New comment by tristanperry in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

tristanperry — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:52:48 +0000

Too little, too late. I finished my 48TB Unraid build a couple of weeks ago :)

If Synology want me back as a customer, they also need to get modern CPUs, 2.5Gb or 10Gb Ethernet and reverse course on H.265 too.

UK man imprisoned for 4 months after walking up to cops with 6" Master Sword

tristanperry — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/uk-man-imprisoned-for-4-months-after-walking-up-to-cops-wielding-6-inch-master-sword/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868323

Points: 17

# Comments: 30

New comment by tristanperry in "Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites"

tristanperry — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:07:37 +0000

Hi Matthew, Cloudflare just charged my card $235 with no prior warning (for a service I intended to cancel when I received the renewal reminder). I did not receive any renewal reminders, no advance notice of payment, no invoice. Nothing.

Is this normal operating behaviour for Cloudflare? This seems like very very bad anti-consumer behaviour?

New comment by tristanperry in "The hustle never ends and I'm so over it"

tristanperry — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:17:41 +0000

A great essay, and it explains exactly why I left software development (as a career working for someone else).

Too much of what I call emergency-led management.

New comment by tristanperry in "Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors"

tristanperry — Sun, 21 May 2023 19:40:42 +0000

Their own summary is here: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A

Paul Hibbert (a UK tech YouTuber) was also hacked in a similar way, and he dived into info on that here: https://youtu.be/0NdZrrzp7UE

New comment by tristanperry in "How normal am I?"

tristanperry — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:48:08 +0000

Interesting for sure. The first time I done it, I had a beauty score of 5. I then put glasses on and got better lighting, and got up to a 7.

It kept saying my age was 18-20, but I'm 32.

Finally it kept predicting my BMI as 30+, even though it's 22.5.

So it was interesting, and a pretty cool tech demonstration, but it wasn't too accurate for me.

New comment by tristanperry in "Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place"

tristanperry — Fri, 13 May 2022 19:51:06 +0000

I'd be stunned if the Nasdaq above 11,800 (i.e. it's current level).

There seems to be too many economic headwinds. I think today was a short term relief rally, not the turning point of one month's sell-offs.

New comment by tristanperry in "The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering"

tristanperry — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:30:16 +0000

It is 'yet another' standard yes, but it's worth pointing out that Matter was jointly launched by the ZigBee Alliance (who now call themselves the Connectivity Standards Alliance).

So it's not exactly a rival to ZigBee at least.

Z-Wave are going a different direction though, and I wouldn't be surprised if Z-Wave slips into obscurity over the next decade.

New comment by tristanperry in "The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering"

tristanperry — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:17:50 +0000

Agreed, Caseta are worth their price premium IMO.

The only downside is that they aren't available in the UK, but that's not uncommon for non-mainstream smart home products.

New comment by tristanperry in "The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering"

tristanperry — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:15:41 +0000

(Disclosure: I have a smart home blog and YouTube channel)

A nice write-up. Insteon have (had?) some great products, so this is a shame. I do think that Matter will improve things a little, but we'll see - owning hardware from a bankrupt company naturally isn't great if the device breaks down...

LIFX (one of the most popular smart lights, aside from Philips Hue) have been having various troubles recently too:

https://www.smarthomepoint.com/is-lifx-in-business/

They are keen to stress that this is only affecting their owner, but in reality many LIFX customers have recently had issues with support tickets and warranty claims going unanswered.

The only good news is that LIFX support local control, meaning that HomeAssistant and Hubitat can still control them even if LIFX's cloud servers get switched off.

Nonetheless, reports of LIFX and Insteon struggling/disappearing is never encouraging. Especially when combined with recent (negative) subscription changes by Wyze and Wink.

Netflix Share Price on Track for Biggest Fall in Nearly a Decade

tristanperry — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-stock-price-plunges-premarket-after-subscriber-loss-11650449002

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31096770

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tristanperry in "My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story"

tristanperry — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:51:17 +0000

Great article, thanks for posting. I've been on a smart home journey myself, but I'm still currently relying on Alexa for most integration and a Hue Bridge. It works well for the 30-40 devices I currently have.

I totally agree that Home Assistant is probably the way forward for many power users, but it doesn't quite feel beginner-friendly enough yet (although the HA devs do seem to be making some great improvements in this area).

I'm still undecided on Matter and Thread. Both are naturally great technologies, but I can't see Google/Nest opening up to Amazon/Ring and vice versa. Not in any meaningful way, at least. My hunch is that Matter will help smaller smart home companies, but not make much difference for the pre-existing 'walled gardens' that the market has. I hope that I'm wrong though.

(Disclaimer: I blog and do YouTube videos as Smart Home Point, but I mainly cover consumer friendly products - and hence I haven't delved into Home Assistant too much)

Reddit Is Down

tristanperry — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/7wbh4fz04ykc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293612

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by tristanperry in "BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen"

tristanperry — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:17:07 +0000

That's what multiple newspapers including The Times are reporting, yes.

Since Boris' job is on the line, he's apparently panicking and due to roll out a series of popularist policies next week.

New comment by tristanperry in "DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same"

tristanperry — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:38:03 +0000

That's an annoying blog. I was half way through reading when a full page "enter your email address" pop-up appeared. I closed it, and was sent to the top of the page again. (Samsung S20, Chrome).