Hacker News: zachrip

New comment by zachrip in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zachrip — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:39:40 +0000

That is a way to approximate it, though I'd be curious to know the semantics compared to xhr - would they both show the same value at the same network lifecycle of a given byte?

New comment by zachrip in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zachrip — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:57:26 +0000

Fetch has also lacked support for features that xhr has had for over a decade now. For example upload progress. It's slowly catching up though, upload progress is the only thing I'd choose xhr for.

New comment by zachrip in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

zachrip — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:51:23 +0000

This is a pretty widely known acronym

New comment by zachrip in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

zachrip — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:14:55 +0000

Oauth with mcp is more than just traditional oauth. It allows dynamic client registration among other things, so any mcp client can connect to any mcp server without the developers on either side having to issue client ids, secrets, etc. Obviously a cli could use DCR as well, but afaik nobody really does that, and again, your cli doesn't run in claude or chatgpt.

New comment by zachrip in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

zachrip — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:58:52 +0000

Can you clarify what you mean?

New comment by zachrip in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"

zachrip — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:42:02 +0000

I actually think the title is misleading. I'm not sure actual existing deployments are affected? Seemingly just new ones are not working?

New comment by zachrip in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"

zachrip — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:41:41 +0000

I've been using railway a while now, and I've basically never paid them but I would. It's even better than heroku. Super easy to use.

New comment by zachrip in "Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly"

zachrip — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:16:05 +0000

Is the code in the eval also turned into wasm first then? Does this work as a JIT for wasm?

New comment by zachrip in "Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly"

zachrip — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:26:51 +0000

Would like to see the eval version - the dialogue version just seems like normal code with extra steps?

New comment by zachrip in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

zachrip — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:15:25 +0000

Can you give a real world example?

New comment by zachrip in "How I fell in love with Erlang"

zachrip — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:58:06 +0000

64 bit ints are a thing in JS for a while now

New comment by zachrip in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"

zachrip — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:10:06 +0000

Why do they obfuscate if they're just going to provide the mappings?

New comment by zachrip in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"

zachrip — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:04:08 +0000

I'm low vision and I have to zoom to 175% on HN to read comfortably, this is basically the only site I do to this extreme.

New comment by zachrip in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

zachrip — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 02:32:56 +0000

They're also working on mRNA treatments, there is the LUNA study currently underway. Unfortunately I have a rare variant that isn't covered by this treatment. I'm hopeful but alas I live my life like treatment isn't coming because it's probably not.

New comment by zachrip in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

zachrip — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:53:19 +0000

I was prescribed vit a palmitate, lutein, and DHA. The vit prescribed was a high dose, like 10k iu per day. I cut back on that dose, I'm going blind but I also need to consider my general health. I have ushers syndrome, not md, but it's a retinal disease (retinitis pigmentosa).

To be clear, this is prescribed as a "we can't do anything else for you" thing, since there is no cure for RP. This may or may not actually help.

New comment by zachrip in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

zachrip — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:55:40 +0000

Heroku's pricing model made me shy away even from using them for small stuff. Why get comfortable on a stack that disincentivizes success?

New comment by zachrip in "Structured Procrastination (1995)"

zachrip — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:20:26 +0000

They did mention their adhd diagnosis..

New comment by zachrip in "Benefits of choosing email over messaging"

zachrip — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:21:41 +0000

The worst part is that I pay for the privilege!

New comment by zachrip in "Benefits of choosing email over messaging"

zachrip — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:04:34 +0000

Gmail is dogsh*t at search. It's so bad. I can search the EXACT word I want and not a single email will come up, or it will bring up the most irrelevant emails.

New comment by zachrip in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

zachrip — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:19:58 +0000

When I found out I am going blind, I traveled around Europe solo for a summer and I found myself at La Sagrada Familia...once inside I almost cried because the light was so beautiful. And finding a special spot to just sit and enjoy an espresso on a sunny day with it in the background is blissful. I'm not religious at all, but many of the nicest buildings throughout my travels were places of worship.