Hacker News: GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:10:06 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | US | Remote OK

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.

I'm particularly selling my skills in PKI/TLS. My clients are rapidly moving to MTLS for all service-to-service authentication and even for browser-to-service authentication for internal tools.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

GauntletWizard — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:38:30 +0000

Complicated legal structures, and favorable treatment by a government who uses it as a form of cultural diplomacy. The tldr is that there's a nonprofit that owns the company that operates as Ikea, while there's some concessions made to a for-profit that owns the IKEA branding.

https://www.europeanceo.com/business-and-management/ikea-com...

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:31:25 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | US | Remote OK

I'm particularly selling my skills in PKI/TLS. My clients are rapidly moving to MTLS for all service-to-service authentication and even for browser-to-service authentication for internal tools.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)"

GauntletWizard — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:02:39 +0000

That's because they understand how creepy it is. But you can find plenty of pieces about what great things it's doing for local municipalities, who have comparably small budgets, and read between the lines.

https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-expands...

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)"

GauntletWizard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:58:14 +0000

They're increasingly turning to contracts with Comcast and AT+T so that even if you don't have them on the network, they can phone home on the neighbor's wifi.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025"

GauntletWizard — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:57:59 +0000

Lobbying groups are two-faced all of the time. Not just "some of the time that is a lot", but all of the time. Lobbying groups basically never do in private what they say they do in public, and it is more common than any other type of lobbying group that a lobbying group is working directly against its front-page public relations and name.

For a recent local to me example, an organization called "Lake Washington Working Families"[1] lobbies against bringing in a new food wholesaler in a food desert. Every word in the name is a lie; they are not based in lake Washington, or even Washington at all. They do not represent families and especially not working families. They represent a specific, powerful Union; I do not begrudge them representing the interests of their union members, but I do begrudge the outright lies that they are using to do so.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1slg7v8/a_dive_int...

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:55:19 +0000

SEEKING WORK | US | Remote OK

I'm particularly selling my skills in PKI/TLS. My clients are rapidly moving to MTLS for all service-to-service authentication and even for browser-to-service authentication for internal tools.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:07:51 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | US | Remote OK

I'm particularly selling my skills in PKI/TLS. My clients are rapidly moving to MTLS for all service-to-service authentication and even for browser-to-service authentication for internal tools.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

GauntletWizard — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:03:19 +0000

There's another recommendation that I haven't tried, but I've played a bunch of https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors and can recommend it.

I wish there were one for MOO2, though. With some modern rebalancing...

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets"

GauntletWizard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:40:01 +0000

Because the true name of the feature is VisualSourceSafe actions. It's all over the code of the runner if you take a second to look, and the runner, like the rest of the feature, is of typical early 2000s Microsoft quality, which is to say, none at all.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

GauntletWizard — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:06:15 +0000

I completely agree - The efficiency gains are purely from a selfish standpoint.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

GauntletWizard — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:54:08 +0000

The LLM presents a perverse incentive here - It is used for perceived efficiency gains, most of which would be consumed by the act of rewriting and redrafting. The alienness of the thoughts in the document is also non-condusive to this; Reading a long document about something you think you know but did not write is exhausting and mentally painful - This is why code review has such relatively poor results.

Quite frankly, while having an LLM draft and rewriting it would be okay, I do not believe it is reasonable to expect that to ever happen. It will be either like high school paper plagarism (Just change around some of the sentences and rephrase it bro), or it will simply not even get that much. It is unreasonable with what we know about human psychology to expect that "Human-Rewrites of LLM drafts", at the level that the human contributes something, are maintainable and scalable; Most people psychologically can't put in that effort.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

GauntletWizard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:21:05 +0000

I really like this approach. I worked on this problem (create a nice background for an image) for a couple weeks many years ago while organizing my desktop wallpaper collection, and never came up with a good answer. Unfortunately, I think that it's been "solved" in the tiktok era; an enlarged and blurred version of the image is used to fill the background space.

The blurred mirror is inoffensive to almost everyone, and yet it always strikes me as gauche. Easy to ignore and yet I feel that it adds a lot of useless visual noise.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

GauntletWizard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:51:10 +0000

The problem with being unfree and alive, is one day you suddenly aren't, and you know exactly why and yet still have no idea of the specifics.

The general trend of more freedom==greater lifespan and more healthy children is very clear, but muddying the waters is a favorite tactic of those who'd exploit the lack of freedom for their own benefit.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database"

GauntletWizard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:39:02 +0000

Who cares if it works in places that won't play nice? They're digging their own grave if they don't publish, and only hurting themselves. The nice thing about massively distributed systems is that they can be as reliable as the people who depend on them need them to be, with the relevant authorities having the option to be as real or as clowny as they want to be.

That said, I would never respect the DNS TTL of such a scheme, for my own use cases. I'd query each of them once an hour, latch the last response forever, and delay propagation of a new response for a full week that it stayed stable before serving the new record.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:45:41 +0000

SEEKING WORK | US | Remote OK

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

GauntletWizard — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:40:50 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | US | Remote OK

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

GauntletWizard — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:38:36 +0000

As someone who lives in an RV and has done some marine electrical, I was disappointed to see zero mention of those uses. North America uses NEMA 6-50, NEMA 14-50, NEMA L6-30 and L17-30 for RV and marine uses.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all"

GauntletWizard — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:04:28 +0000

I have no problem supplying my real name online - it's trivially attached to this account via my resume, and I use this account name all over. I also have several other account names, some disposable and some not.

There are plenty of reasons to be anonymous online. There's plenty of reasons not to be. I kind of wish that the government would launch a series of public political debate forums that required real ID, not that I think they would actually be valuable places for debate, but the technical challenges would be worthwhile to solve and the ability to publicly register debate positions would be incredibly useful for nailing politicians down.

The problem comes when the government tries to regulate one form or another, because strongly authenticated, pseudonymous, and anonymous forums all have their place in debate, and there's reasons for both public and private entities to host all three.

New comment by GauntletWizard in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

GauntletWizard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:30:34 +0000

Absolutely, America does seize domains with the assistance of local authorities[1] for crimes that are in prosecution. You may disagree with the reasoning for these crimes, or disagree that they are crimes at all, but US censorship works as a part of the legal system with well defined due process and remedies.

This is classic whataboutism compared to the outright corporateocracy of la liga's blocking and seizure.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-law-enforcement-assists-bu...