<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: ultrafez</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ultrafez</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:58:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ultrafez" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Debounce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen the term "request coalescing" used to refer to a technique to minimise the impact of cache stampedes. Protects your backend systems from huge spikes in traffic caused by a cache entry expiring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:18:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826486</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are many types of request that cannot be made with client-side JS alone, but for those that can, the ability to send those requests client-side would be handy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613579</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdotally, I've heard the term "doomscrolling" being used by a reasonable number of different people in different circles to refer to passively consuming "bitesize" content (e.g. social media, short text posts or short videos) for extended periods of time, regardless of content.<p>If you look at the definitions on Urban Dictionary[1], the ones from 2020/2021 are in the same vein as what you've described and what Wikipedia says, but more recent 2024/2025 definitions generalise the concept and lose the "negative news" element.<p>Always fascinating how language evolves and how quickly the meaning of words can change.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doomscrolling" rel="nofollow">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doomscrollin...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242042</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is very cool - I haven't seen anything like it before. I've spent about half an hour noseying at places I've lived or considered living, fascinating. The view of changing house prices is something that I haven't seen presented in this way either.<p>Thanks for building it and thanks for sharing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976911</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "We're bringing Pebble back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What model are you using now that fixes the issues you experienced on your 735xt?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:27:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877132</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "The success and failure of Ninja (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're conflating the Ninja Creami with Ninja's smoothie makers and blenders - they are separate product lines</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:21:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272785</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Show HN: rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is the project named spinup or rallyup? The HN post title differs from the GitHub repo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:06:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051196</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People might not buy a game if they don't think they'll get a fair play experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:39:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008557</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The poke feature is back! It was re-introduced this year some time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:24:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987023</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It also seems reminiscent of KSQL - consuming multiple input topics, and producing output to a topic defined using a query written in a SQL-like language that defines how the inputs are combined and filtered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904129</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "An Introduction to CSS-Doodle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta point - this page has one of the nicer "snap" scrolling mechanisms I've seen on Mac with a touchpad - scrolling still feels natural, but when I let go it snaps to a single slide. Scrolling with momentum seems to work naturally too. Can't comment on keyboard or mouse scroll wheel navigation though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715808</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strange. It shouldn't alert you unless the AirTags aren't connected to their own phones - do they leave their phones behind when going for a walk?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 12:46:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354634</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Warn HN: The AI That Plugs Your Product on Reddit in Conversations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This objectively makes the world a worse place. I challenge you to come up with any ethical angle that supports your work on this product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237891</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement:<p>> As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unnecessary as you can easily build a similar system yourself by simply combining [tool A] with [tool B] and [tool C]. It's so simple!<p>I'm not disagreeing with your point, but it misses the point that often the benefit of using a particular product is that you <i>don't have to build it yourself</i>, not to mention the other benefits you could get from using the exact same system as somebody else (e.g. sharing Postman collections).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:50:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789451</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "My Youtube earnings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some of the cost might come from buying a computer suitable for video editing, which I can imagine could be a couple of thousand dollars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226134</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Paper Airplane Designs (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The thing I'm most impressed and surprised about is that archive.org runs a Windows 3.1 emulator in the page, so you can actually use the program. I fully expected it to just be information about the program, perhaps with some screenshots. Modern browser tech is amazing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32140332</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32140332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32140332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "A Chrome extension for bionic reading on any website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Capitalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 14:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479722</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Have I Been Facebooked?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>haveibeenpwned.com does not use the k-anonymity method that you've described when searching for phone numbers: <a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/#other-things:~:text=There's%20no%20k%2Danonymity%20implementation%20for%20phone%20numbers%20at%20this%20point%20in%20time" rel="nofollow">https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:23:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712105</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A fun problem on a Mac is that if you're using APFS for your filesystem, if it fills up, you can't delete any files. It's caught me out a handful of times, and each time, the only way to recover is to reboot, and thankfully I've had more free disk space after a reboot.<p>I'm not going to try to understand the logic as to why APFS requires free space in order to delete files (via any method, including dd)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:06:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26594447</link><dc:creator>ultrafez</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26594447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26594447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ultrafez in "Centering in CSS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced Tim Toady) is a Perl programming motto.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to_do_it" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...</a></p>
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