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Silicon Valley's Answer to Declining Male Fertility? Sperm Racing

Nelkins — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:36:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/magazine/sperm-racing-silicon-valley.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193158

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by Nelkins in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

Nelkins — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:08:56 +0000

> Get even a single NO and you're done.

Why do you think that's true? SOC2 isn't pass/fail, you receive a report on your business. You can have gaping security holes and be SOC2 "certified." It's just that your SOC2 audit will reflect that.

New comment by Nelkins in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

Nelkins — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:07:34 +0000

Even though I agree SOC2 in practice is of dubious security value, I do think you can lose out on sales if you don't have it. I recently had to choose among a bevy of headless CRM options for a client, and they were adamant that whatever platform we used _had_ to be SOC2 compliant. This narrowed the field significantly and ultimately we went with Strapi solely because of this requirement. I see this come up all the time.

Tools like Vanta (and I'm sure others, Drata maybe, I haven't used them) make SOC2 compliance pretty "easy" in the sense that it's often a mechanical process that doesn't require too much thought. At least for me, it usually involves being in a Slack channel with an auditor, and they're advising you on all the things to do (they want you to "win"/pass, although there is no real pass fail), and then you just need to check the boxes in Vanta.

New comment by Nelkins in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

Nelkins — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:50:41 +0000

Wow, this is pretty surprising, I was under the impression that this is the leading PG backup/recovery tool.

Anybody know how WAL-G and Barman compare?

https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman

New comment by Nelkins in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

Nelkins — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:18:22 +0000

Got it, thank you!

New comment by Nelkins in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

Nelkins — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:39 +0000

When you say "power router," what product are you referencing specifically? I'm trying to search online to find a similar product but I don't think I'm finding the right thing.

New comment by Nelkins in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

Nelkins — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:48:18 +0000

Various investigations have found it to be one of the most token efficient statically typed programming languages

https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...

New comment by Nelkins in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

Nelkins — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:29:16 +0000

Don't know about anyone else, but the first thing I do with these types of libraries to check out the Accordion component and see if it slides out with a nice animation. This has become my litmus test for how well designed a component library is.

New comment by Nelkins in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

Nelkins — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:58:58 +0000

There's a real dearth of blog posts explaining how to use quadlets for the local dev experience, and actually most guides I've seen seem to recommend using podman/Docker compose. Do you use quadlets for local dev and testing?

New comment by Nelkins in "Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s"

Nelkins — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:51:19 +0000

Does this do any level of server hardening for you when you point it at a server?

New comment by Nelkins in ".NET 10"

Nelkins — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:03:53 +0000

There's an open source one by Samsung that is excellent, never had any issues with it: https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg

New comment by Nelkins in "Why I love OCaml (2023)"

Nelkins — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:46:57 +0000

There are libraries that simulate a lot of these things (e.g. https://github.com/G-Research/TypeEquality for GADTs). You're absolutely right that it's not as first class as in OCaml, but the tools are there if you want them.

New comment by Nelkins in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

Nelkins — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:25:34 +0000

Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed) We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include: - Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis

- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms

- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems

- Architecture design for real estate search engines

- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products

We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.

Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability

If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...

If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!

Looking forward to connecting!

Nelknet.Cdktf: Typed F# Computation Expression API over Terraform Cdktf

Nelkins — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:43:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nelknet/Nelknet.Cdktf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45735210

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Nelkins in "Litestream v0.5.0"

Nelkins — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:15:17 +0000

I'm curious about the same, but also am wondering if there can be an automatic election of a new primary through the use of conditional writes (or as Fly.io say, CASAAS: Compare-and-Swap as a Service).

New comment by Nelkins in "I Built an Event-Sourcing Database Engine: Meet Genesis DB"

Nelkins — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:29:12 +0000

There's also https://github.com/message-db/message-db

Admittedly, these options seem to not be quite as user friendly as OP's solution.

New comment by Nelkins in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

Nelkins — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:27:30 +0000

I would love to have an eInk tablet that I can watch videos on (color not required). I frequently watch educational YouTube videos before bed, but I’d prefer to have something that isn’t beaming light into my eyes. Does something like this exist on the market today, or do I need to wait until this product gets released?

New comment by Nelkins in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

Nelkins — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:08:17 +0000

I can’t wait until this is available in more rural areas of NY. I would love to be able to take this thing to/from a bar where there’s no public transport and very low density of Uber/Lyft.

New comment by Nelkins in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

Nelkins — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:49:02 +0000

Whoops, that probably means that you've already submitted your information. There's only one unique constraint on the email field.