Hacker News: zwily

New comment by zwily in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

zwily — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:02:33 +0000

And UC professors are begging them to unwind that and go back to ACT/SAT.

New comment by zwily in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

zwily — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:43:55 +0000

Every year since the first iPhone came out. It's sort of superstition at this point. Not sure what would happen if I broke the streak.

New comment by zwily in "Codex Resets"

zwily — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:36:42 +0000

It did once. That's all I know of though. Nothing like Codex.

New comment by zwily in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

zwily — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:29:27 +0000

Yes but they've also said they want to get it permanently on the subscription plan.

New comment by zwily in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

zwily — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:52:33 +0000

Kessler is much less of a problem at their altitude (480km). Debris has too much drag and would get pulled down too quick to have a sustained Kessler situation. It's possible, but very very unlikely at that altitude.

New comment by zwily in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

zwily — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:31:20 +0000

Have a friend just graduated in cybersecurity. He’s going into the military with it.

New comment by zwily in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

zwily — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:27:20 +0000

That’s my point. For whatever reason, npm isn’t doing it. All npm users adding a minimum package age is kind of like doing it as a collective, without npm’s help.

New comment by zwily in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

zwily — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:19 +0000

Even if everyone used it, the security scanners would still have time to do their static analysis of new packages. Basically, all the clients implementing a delay would create a de facto quarantine status for new packages so they can be examined before everyone starts installing them. (Why npm doesn't just implement that themselves, I do not know.)

New comment by zwily in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

zwily — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:28:18 +0000

Are you telling me that the “report spam” button actually does something??!?!?!!!

New comment by zwily in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

zwily — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:22:18 +0000

That is a big yikes, but definitely not the norm. Most school districts switched from using SSN as their SIS identifier decades ago.

New comment by zwily in "What if database branching was easy?"

zwily — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:48:25 +0000

Planetscale has better performance and uptime. But the branching keeps me going back to neon…

Yes planetscale can branch too, but it takes longer and you pay individually for each branch

New comment by zwily in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

zwily — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:20:58 +0000

Weird. Works great in cities for me. It’s been more than fancy cruise control for awhile.

New comment by zwily in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

zwily — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:25:05 +0000

But Starlink satellites are low enough that we don’t worry too much about Kessler Syndrome at that altitude, right?

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

zwily — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Those threat researchers and their autonomous agents caught this axios release.

New comment by zwily in "Put the zip code first"

zwily — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:57:01 +0000

I'd be fine if it autofilled one city from the zip code, which for me is always wrong. I can tab to the field and type in the correct city. Don't even need a drop-down with the possible cities. And if I don't fix it, it doesn't really matter for USPS. They just care that the ZIP is correct.

New comment by zwily in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

zwily — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:13:35 +0000

My daughter one day told me that her Tesla said it needed oil maintenance. I scoffed and tried to mansplain to her how EVs don’t need oil. Then I checked the car, and sure enough, it was asking for oil. One of the contained oil systems had sprung a leak. That’s on a 6 year old Tesla Model X.

New comment by zwily in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

zwily — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:55:26 +0000

You don’t have to take your shoes off anymore!

New comment by zwily in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

zwily — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:46:52 +0000

Starlink satellites aren't geostationary.

New comment by zwily in "The untold impact of cancellation"

zwily — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:12:06 +0000

The reason is listed in the second half of the block you quoted.

New comment by zwily in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

zwily — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:30:44 +0000

Read up on time dilation and special relativity. Time absolutely does pass slower for you as you accelerate.