hmhrex's comments

On: The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)

[hmhrex]

Thanks for sharing this one! I've been trying to collect more video game ones for 500ME because I find them to be highly entertaining.

On: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

[hmhrex]

I will be adding this one to https://500mile.email ! What a great story.

On: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

[hmhrex]

Thanks for mentioning! I would love more submissions! I have a few stories in my backlog to read and vet, but not enough. I'll be going through this thread and adding more that haven't been added yet.

On: Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

[hmhrex]

Hey thanks for linking my site! I was wondering where the extra traffic was coming from :)

If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

Also, I have been slacking a little with the newsletter because of life events. Since there have been several sign ups since this post, I'll be more active in getting the weekly newsletter out.

Thanks for looking!

[Nekhrimah → hmhrex]

> If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

Worthy, but no where near as circulated!

[smrq → Nekhrimah]

That's terrific. I was worried that it was going to end at the terse OP, but the follow-up post has just the kind of play-by-play details that I can't get enough of in debugging stories.

[hmhrex → Nekhrimah]

Oh wow. That’s a good one! Will add that one.

[IggleSniggle → hmhrex]

Hey I'm enjoying your site! It would be cool if there was a way to just get the stories. For example, Twitter is no longer capable of loading tweet replies on my machine for whatever hilarious reason, and so I could only read the teaser for the Twitter link.

Anyway, I understand that's probably not the kind of site you had in mind. Thanks for the cool site!

[hmhrex → IggleSniggle]

Thanks for the suggestion! Maybe I should add archive links from The Internet Archive for stories in case links die. In the case of tweets, I’d probably need to screenshot them or something.

[Zecc → hmhrex]

In case you've missed it, someone else linked to https://www.managementpro.com/my-car-wont-start-after-i-buy-...

[nzealand → hmhrex]

https://100parkingtickets.com/

[hmhrex → nzealand]

This is a great story. Thanks for sharing!

On: VCs love to talk about AI, but aren’t writing as many checks as you might think

[hmhrex]

The crucial part of building tools with AI though is how quickly it becomes obsolete by new models. A little different than other tools.

[qeternity → hmhrex]

I don’t believe this to be true in the vast majority of tasks in which AI will be deployed. These tasks typically have boolean outcomes. A more sophisticated model isn’t better than a less sophisticated one that does the job.

And most AI is not and will not be the headline grabbing things we see today.

On: Berty: Privacy-first messaging app

[hmhrex]

Signal works on desktop nicely, but you still need the mobile app on a smart phone in order for it to work.

[LoganDark → hmhrex]

I'm still looking for one that doesn't require a mobile phone at all. Let me know if you find one. :)

I love Discord, but you know... Discord isn't really... anything privacy at all.

[kornhole → LoganDark]

Matrix and XMPP are a couple E2EE decentralized protocols that can work only on desktop and do not require a phone or phone number.

On: Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access

[hmhrex]

This hollr idea is cool. I feel like just having your own instance of this would be enough as a product.

On: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

[hmhrex]

Awesome! I'm digging this. I also like how the features are tiered. You might want to make a chart showing what features are under what tier, but it's not overly confusing.

[fstopmick → hmhrex]

I'm super on the fence about my pricing page, to be honest. Would you rather have just a standard three-tier Personal / Startup / Enterprise plan (3 choices), instead of granular control that confronts you with a $numberOfFeatures choices?

On: Classic Bug Reports (2015)

[hmhrex]

I made a similar site that is a curated list of absurd software bugs called https://500mile.email

I love reading stories like this, so I'm open to more suggestions!

On: Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

[hmhrex]

Thanks for linking that essay. It's a good read. I especially liked the Sarah/Exec conversation. Will definitely keep this one saved for later.