Hacker News: trvrprkr

New comment by trvrprkr in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

trvrprkr — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:16:08 +0000

The Moon.

New comment by trvrprkr in "How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method"

trvrprkr — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:12:22 +0000

Grinding out your goals in a 48-hour vision quest-esque process like this, especially for someone early career or facing larger questions about trajectory, seems odd. Five years is an infinite amount of time for some people and especially so with pace of change and uncertainty these days.

I suppose this might work for some, but it comes off as excessively performative and not actually practical.

New comment by trvrprkr in "NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years"

trvrprkr — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:08:43 +0000

> badly disrupted

Embracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind.

New comment by trvrprkr in "HE.net problem"

trvrprkr — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:02:10 +0000

Hurricane Electric (HE) provides, among other things, DNS services. When a domain is placed in `clientHold`, as has happened to HE due to a spurious phishing report, it causes the domain to no longer resolve. So the DNS records for HE and all of HE's customers are gradually becoming unresolvable as caches expire.

New comment by trvrprkr in "Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam"

trvrprkr — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:58:46 +0000

This is pretty wildly inaccurate specifically in Project Farm's case. Most "consumable" parts of tests, like bolts, are swapped out from test to test. From what I've seen he's pretty transparent when that's not the case.

He also explicitly buys all products with his own money (some by way of viewers contributing, of course) and products are sourced from what folks in the comments are asking for.

New comment by trvrprkr in "No hello – please don't just say hello in chat"

trvrprkr — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:17:07 +0000

A huge benefit of many (most?) chat apps is that communication can be async. If it requires a live conversation, then respectfully it probably warrants scheduling time.

The author is arguing that the “udp approach” to these conversations is less intrusive, and also alleviates doubt/anxiety about the nature of the conversation.

New comment by trvrprkr in "80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again"

trvrprkr — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:59:16 +0000

Interesting idea. But what you're describing is absolutely not "ransomware."

New comment by trvrprkr in "Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from"

trvrprkr — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:53:20 +0000

> The biggest problem was that the company became the arbiter of what was offensive and what was not.

Companies already have to do this and they have done this for a long time. There are undoubtedly offensive words, phrases, and actions which a company actively discourages or will not tolerate.

The problem is that society progresses in disjointed ways, and common vernacular often lags far behind that as well. Instead of waiting for the overwhelming majority of people to understand that some words which once were perceived as neutral actually carry a darker, less-desirable connotation, Twitter (and others) are working to get ahead of that.

Sure, the lines may be blurry now, but that's no reason to claim that companies weren't arbiters of offensive words or actions in the past.

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page

trvrprkr — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:55:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economagic.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18047689

Points: 4

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Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic

trvrprkr — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:07:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/07/23/material-formed-crab-shells-and-trees-could-replace-flexible-plastic-packaging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644125

Points: 2

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New comment by trvrprkr in "Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser"

trvrprkr — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:48:34 +0000

Username: tpdc

Thank you for the offer, even if you don’t get to me.

New comment by trvrprkr in "Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website"

trvrprkr — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:18:53 +0000

Sometimes links will go through a number of other things (url shortener, analytics, so on) before hitting the final URL.

New comment by trvrprkr in "Five Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)"

trvrprkr — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:36:41 +0000

See also: "Is truncating the Y-axis dishonest?" https://twitter.com/rshotton/status/865951825463312385

New comment by trvrprkr in "UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014)"

trvrprkr — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 01:36:34 +0000

Please add (2014) to the title.

New comment by trvrprkr in "Ask HN: Weird, curious or bizzarre subreddits that you would like to suggest"

trvrprkr — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:03:26 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator

A bot-only subreddit where the bots post content based on Markov chains. There are bots for many of the more popular subreddits so, essentially, each bot has a "personality" that reflects a specific subreddit.

New comment by trvrprkr in "“... it's my fault that Google shut down Google Reader”"

trvrprkr — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 02:19:45 +0000

I wonder how many other people in the hierarchy of that product (or really, any other that met a similar fate) would cast the blame on themselves. Especially with the legacy that Google Reader has left.

That said, I wonder the details of why it was discontinued (the gritty details available to the final decision makers) and whether those same people who blame themselves today might still have decided to discontinue it had they had the total picture.

New comment by trvrprkr in "Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?"

trvrprkr — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:26:40 +0000

Unfortunately kfreebsd will not be an official Debian 8 release architecture: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00...

New comment by trvrprkr in "Personal Security Tools"

trvrprkr — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:50:01 +0000

Author here. I was definitely going for a neutral tone with phrases like those to make it less mundane/more human.

This feedback is great, and it reminds me how delicate phrasing can be and how differently things might be interpreted.

I'm going to polish it up and lighten the tone quite a bit. Thanks!

New comment by trvrprkr in "Inspecting Yosemite's Icons"

trvrprkr — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 03:08:27 +0000

That's likely the Dropbox Finder item. This is where it appears by default when installing Dropbox. I'd guess that Dropbox Finder assets aren't completely compatible with Yosemite yet.

T-Mobile's 'Music Freedom' is a great feature – and a huge problem

trvrprkr — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:22:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/18/5822996/t-mobile-music-freedom-net-neutrality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914079

Points: 5

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