Hacker News: 0xEFF

New comment by 0xEFF in "LLMs are making me dumber"

0xEFF — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:36:24 +0000

I do the same as GP on a regular 2 hour drive up I-5 I take.

The vetting process is the same as if I were driving up I-5 with a gear head friend of mine having a conversation with them as we go.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"

0xEFF — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:00:59 +0000

It literally says spy cam in the product title.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

0xEFF — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:00:37 +0000

No company reflects “we’re family” in contracts or compensation packages. That fact alone tells us the message is and always has been bullshit.

New comment by 0xEFF in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

0xEFF — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:05:07 +0000

I think it’s reasonable that 95% of people would choose generational wealth for their families given the opportunity.

New comment by 0xEFF in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

0xEFF — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:01:13 +0000

Is it really unquestionable?

New comment by 0xEFF in "Ask HN: How to survive indefinite DDoS attack?"

0xEFF — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:02:16 +0000

Even so, the suggestion is a good one. Modern proxies have gotten much better at handling auth and processing the traffic as the GP describes. Service meshes have these features built in now when a few years ago we had to roll our own solutions with haproxy or nginx.

New comment by 0xEFF in "The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop"

0xEFF — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:04:14 +0000

A bank is a bad example. The only thing we use bank websites for is to check our transactions and transfer money.

My business checking account has started offering partner promotions from the transfer screen and I’m tempted to switch to another bank because of it. Their developers and designers were tasked with delivering that component. At the same time they took away their mobile app and mobile check deposit because it was not secured properly.

Most bank websites and apps are examples of teams and organizations focusing on the wrong thing in my opinion.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Generative AI could make search harder to trust"

0xEFF — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:12:15 +0000

See for yourself, 4.0 is clearly improved over 3.5.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7"

0xEFF — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:13:59 +0000

Every access and id token issued by oidc already has an issued at (iat) and expiration (exp) fields.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

0xEFF — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:20:53 +0000

Splunk has delivered this level of innovation and quality since 2007 when I first used it.

We used Splunk to associate a change request ticket number all the way through the change control process to the Puppet log output tagging each change to the original business purpose.

It was like magic for auditors back then and I rarely see that depth of tracing automated changes to business purpose in the field today, though we get close with gitops.

New comment by 0xEFF in "So, you want to deploy on the edge?"

0xEFF — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:41:55 +0000

It’s historically been abbreviated AAA “triple A” for Access, Authentication, and Authorization. Each being a separate system, VPN’s and Firewalls traditionally controlling access for example.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Discord is not documentation"

0xEFF — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:41:00 +0000

RedHat has traditionally.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Discord is not documentation"

0xEFF — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:39:59 +0000

The platform slack with over 10,000 users uses linen. It’s good. Wonder how long it will last though.

New comment by 0xEFF in "What makes developers productive?"

0xEFF — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 19:56:31 +0000

There are loads of startups offering platforms as a service for about half the cost per year of one devops engineer.

New comment by 0xEFF in "What makes developers productive?"

0xEFF — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 19:41:15 +0000

No, the best organizations have a happy path laid out for org chosen tools and a platform that supports adding in “non standard” tools / libraries by individuals and teams as needed, with a defined path toward those additions become the new golden path standard.

New comment by 0xEFF in "How I run my servers (2022)"

0xEFF — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:55:18 +0000

Edit: the term service principal is current and isn’t specific to Kerberos

https://istio.io/latest/docs/concepts/security/#principals

New comment by 0xEFF in "Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots"

0xEFF — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 04:05:26 +0000

Not at L6. Scarface is right, most of the time the org just knows something is wrong and they don’t know what it is exactly or how to fix it. Sometimes they don’t even know something is very wrong, while working on a defining problem 1 the L6 also identifies related problem 2 the org thought was minor but is actually major.

None of this is specified, there are no specs to execute up front. Much of it is defining the spec yourself and collaborating with the rest of the org to find out if other people agree with the spec.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage"

0xEFF — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:42:16 +0000

This is a good analogy. For more context in the past 5 years working with customers in the Bay Area I’ve not encountered one who mentioned linkerd let alone ran it in production.

More than half those companies ran istio in production at large scales.

New comment by 0xEFF in "Software engineers hate code"

0xEFF — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 19:16:46 +0000

The sweet spot is for someone with deep experience to lay down the skeletal structure of the tests, rpc, infra, lifecycle, etc… then hand it off to a broader team who could learn the intention behind the decisions.

New comment by 0xEFF in "How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries"

0xEFF — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 23:30:58 +0000

Why are discussions of web development and JavaScript unique in that we can’t discuss alternative methods and trade offs without the discussion devolving into personal attacks and defensiveness?