Hacker News: xer0x

New comment by xer0x in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

xer0x — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:23:43 +0000

Odd, I saw this bubble up on social media this week as a tinfoil hat curiosity. I don't know what's real anymore.

New comment by xer0x in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

xer0x — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:03:37 +0000

Nailed it. It's been ~5 years, and the odds of coordinating with the US grow smaller by the month.

New comment by xer0x in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

xer0x — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:38:23 +0000

Congratulations Oxide, it's inspirational to see curiosity, conviction and rigor pay off.

New comment by xer0x in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

xer0x — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:57:52 +0000

Not related to SSH, but does the eieio.games website make anyone else's monitor flicker? When the website is fullscreen it overwhelms something. I thought my monitor's backlight was going.

New comment by xer0x in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

xer0x — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:11:59 +0000

Cloudflare making sites unavailable?

New comment by xer0x in "Leaving Intel"

xer0x — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:41:26 +0000

Hats off to Brendan!

New comment by xer0x in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

xer0x — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:54:29 +0000

Amen.

New comment by xer0x in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

xer0x — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:06:54 +0000

Wow, they are still down 12 hours later. :/

New comment by xer0x in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

xer0x — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:11:31 +0000

Thanks that's great to know! I've got one to tinker with.

New comment by xer0x in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

xer0x — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:01:27 +0000

The Rubygems take over drama continues!

New comment by xer0x in "The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare"

xer0x — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:14:06 +0000

Awesome! Great job.

I read this as first QUIC CDN, and thought that can't be true. Dug a little deeper and learned that Media over QUIC is it's own thing. Looks pretty cool.

New comment by xer0x in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

xer0x — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:48:57 +0000

Don't worry, this will help us consume the new truth easier.

New comment by xer0x in "AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]"

xer0x — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:50:01 +0000

There is a "post-invocation phase" for tidying up. It's not long, and it's enough for things like Datadog's metrics plugin to send off some numbers. Yet it will fail, if you have too many metrics. It's fuzzy.

New comment by xer0x in "The Claude Bliss Attractor"

xer0x — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:00:38 +0000

Claude's increasing euphoria as a conversation goes can mislead me. I'll be exploring trade offs, and I'll introduce some novel ideas. Claude will use such enthusiasm that it will convince me that we're onto something. I'll be excited, and feed the idea back to a new conversation with Claude. It'll remind me that the idea makes risky trade offs, and would be better solved by with a simple solution. Try it out.

New comment by xer0x in "Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26"

xer0x — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:47:22 +0000

Half expected to see this on Daring fireball

New comment by xer0x in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

xer0x — Sat, 17 May 2025 00:35:42 +0000

Thank you for mentioning this!

New comment by xer0x in "Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation"

xer0x — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:11:55 +0000

I am still stunned how eager they were to ignore this problem.

New comment by xer0x in "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)"

xer0x — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:05:06 +0000

The author doesn't mention it, but many people who never played E.T. read articles in videogame magazines about this game was amongst the things that killed the videogame industry in the 80s. (Oh, see dang's post for tons of related links)

New comment by xer0x in "Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF"

xer0x — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:22:14 +0000

What took them so long?

New comment by xer0x in "A MiniGolf game for Palm OS"

xer0x — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 01:19:49 +0000

Wow, I can't believe this! That looks awesome!