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jzebedee··on America Needs Tough Grading
https://archive.is/YmsDf
jzebedee··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Please do. I'd be curious what a secure-by-default self hosted resolver would look like.
jzebedee··on Why are there no good dinosaur films?
A similar feat to The Phantom Edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit

jzebedee··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
Thanks, I read it as saying that people weren't being deported to concentration camps over minor crimes or traffic offenses. I'm certainly not disagreeing with you about our descent into fascism.
jzebedee··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
Out of the hundreds initially deported to El Salvador, "only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations." [1]

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-el-salvador-deporte...

jzebedee··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
Editorializing what, exactly? The rule of law?

"what they were doing" is attempting to illegally abduct someone. The comptroller's "impeding" was a demand to see the one thing that would make their request a legal arrest.

Instead, they arrested the comptroller without even a pretense of the law.

jzebedee··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
I'm scratching my head at the "Personal Support-Raising" section. It sounds like you're asking your workers to fund their own salary. How does that work?
jzebedee··on White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices
The combined requirements of govt purchasing must carry the mark and major US surveillance tech manufacturers like Amazon are leading the rollout, makes this seem less like a cybersecurity concern and more of a protectionist carve out.
jzebedee··on Crystal Ball Trading Game
Anna's Archive looks like it has ebook copies in several languages.
jzebedee··on Akon's Cryptocurrency City in Senegal Has Evaporated
Paywall free: https://archive.is/sV4Sx
jzebedee··on Show HN: JSON-qs – JSON in query strings, human-readable, compact
Is there an example where passing full JSON objects as a query string would be the right solution?
jzebedee··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I love responses like this because they highlight how allowing broken systems to persist can so thoroughly warp their purpose. Did anyone go to law school and specialize in immigration because they felt called to be "the modern equivalent of the overseer on the plantation?" Probably not.

But if you want to sample the kind of vitriol that somebody living with the precarity of a H-1B "employer controls your life" environment, here's a paragraph of it to chew on.

jzebedee··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
As someone who actually had to build on Gemini, it was so indefensibly broken that I couldn't believe Google really went to production with it. Model performance changes from day to day and production is completely unstable as Google will randomly decide to tweak things like safety filtering with no notice. It's also just plain buggy, as the agent scaffolding on top of Gemini will randomly fail or break their own internal parsing, generating garbage output for API consumers.

Trying to build an actual product on top of it was an exercise in futility. Docs are flatly wrong, supposed features are vaporware (discovery engine querying, anybody?), and support is nonexistent. The only thing Google came back with was throwing more vendors at us and promising that bug fixes were "coming soon".

With all the funded engagements and credits they've handed out, it's at the point where Google is paying us to use Gemini and it's _still_ not worth the money.

jzebedee··on GitHub Actions Outage
All of Azure Central US is having issues. [1]

[1] https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

jzebedee··on The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
Isn't this the whole premise of Khan Academy?
jzebedee··on Storing Scraped Data in an SQLite Database on GitHub
It's used to download the previous day's database from the release for computing the diff. actions/download-artifact would only work for artifacts created during the current run, i.e., today's database.
jzebedee··on Storing Scraped Data in an SQLite Database on GitHub
That's exactly what I did for scraping the USCIS processing time daily: https://github.com/jzebedee/uscis
jzebedee··on Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves
At these scales, the difference between intentional fraud vs. incompetence or negligence is meaningless. Millions of dollars purportedly for charity are being laundered tax-free and enriching someone else.
jzebedee··on Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?
LLVM IR and codegen tooling are both solutions to performance, not expressivity. The ergonomics of a language that will never go to production are irrelevant.
jzebedee··on Companies need AI services revenues, not cost savings
https://archive.is/BxY2q
jzebedee··on Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD
The study did run and conclude: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05155696
jzebedee··on Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
I'm not familiar enough with either him or culture war dynamics to know what you mean by this.
jzebedee··on Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash
It was ultimately a mundane bug, but the amounts taken that were able to slip past are the real lede.

> casino manager Nicholas Weeks explained that it is possible to insert two receipts into TICO machines. That was a feature, not a bug, and allowed gamblers to redeem two receipts and be paid the aggregate amount.

> But a software glitch meant that the machines would return one of those tickets and allow it to be re-used – the barcode it bore was not recognized as having been paid.

jzebedee··on Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent
Yes, but just for you.
jzebedee··on Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent
They made that change a while ago. When I first logged in and saw it, so began the illustrious Taco Bell food service career of Frank Offerman, known to his friends as "F. Off".
jzebedee··on Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies
This is a fantastic project. Thank you for releasing it!

Do you have a plan to expand with new features and are you looking for contribution?

Will the database be updated automatically?

jzebedee··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
This is a satire account, if the recent tweets and inclusion of TC didn't tip it already.
jzebedee··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
It's not illegal to play games that you already purchased and own. Piracy is just a convenient scapegoat to hobble emulation.
jzebedee··on Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off 900 people
The title could stand to be de-corporatized. Sony laid off 8% globally or about 900 people.
jzebedee··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
The most bizarre thing is that this is a known issue that folks have asked them for ways to mitigate, to no avail. The reddit thread even links to an extremely weird dialogue where Netlify's response boils down to, "if you're hosting a small site that gets DDoS'd, don't."

https://answers.netlify.com/t/limit-bandwidth-to-avoid-high-...

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