Hacker News: Ozzie_osman

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:10:19 +0000

I mean yes, for a single DB it's large, but if you're thinking about sharding you're probably in the tens of TBs, and if you're a company offering sharding you've prob sharded larger workloads.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:12:19 +0000

I like the mix of management/leadership/structure. I do think leadership is an important aspect, and leaders who are uncompromising can have a big impact.

It's funny we both land on Google as a main example. I had this quote "I’m going to pick on Google a little bit here, but I do love that company. I think there’s a lot it can improve on, but it’s still one of my favorite and least “evil” large tech companies.", and honestly and sadly, I don't even know if I'd agree with the latter part of that statement anymore.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:13:18 +0000

Just dropping in to thank you for writing this book and raising awareness around it. A lot of builders are really disillusioned by how "corruptible" the tech industry has been.

I wrote a blog post called "Revenue Model is More Important than Culture" (it made the #1 spot on HackerNews a few years ago) arguing that the way to avoid that corruption is by making sure the business model is immune to it, but having read your thoughts, I'd say your argument (structure being the dominant term) is even stronger.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:22 +0000

  We sharded over 20 TB that we know about.

This is probably a typo, right? 20TB isn't that big. I would imagine they've sharded a lot more than that

When AI Does the Work, Who's Accountable?

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://somehowmanage.com/2026/06/03/when-ai-does-the-work-who-owns-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400050

Points: 2

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New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

Ozzie_osman — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:53:10 +0000

The ironic thing is I know several legitimate humans who have lost access to their accounts years/months ago, and have been dealing with support hell trying to get access back.

Maybe they should have hacked themselves.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:55:52 +0000

It's not just domain expertise. Sustainbly great work is done by people with expertise _and_ ownership/accountability.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The dead economy theory"

Ozzie_osman — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:49:59 +0000

The Ouoroboros (serpent) eats its own tail, feeling satisfied and full in the short-term but ultimately, there is nothing left to eat.

The farmer, rather than feeding his livestock so they can keep producing milk/eggs/etc, decides to greedily eat all the corn himself.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:53:05 +0000

This is a racket and should be illegal.

Trusted Publishing for NPM Packages

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204361

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:40:23 +0000

Grafana had a very similar incident: https://grafana.com/blog/grafana-labs-security-update-latest...

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:31:28 +0000

If the team is here, would love to understand how it compares to something like Amplitude's agent analytics (https://amplitude.com/ai-agents).

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:04:52 +0000

Surprised to see no mention of Chinese cars, which are currently taking over the rest of the globe (EVs, REVs, hybrids). For half the price of a US or European car, you get a car with a lot more bells and whistles, which of course, include multiple large screens inside, software that controls everything (seat positions, lights, etc), LED matrix lighting on the front, and an app to control the car remotely.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:23:52 +0000

I think the antidote is ownership. Every part of a company or product needs some person or small group that owns it, understands it, and feels ownership over its long-term health. They review or decide what level of review changes to it can take.

So much of what makes high-functioning teams work is a sense of ownership and stewardship, and what makes low-functioning teams break is a lack thereof. Someone with pride, drive, and a high standard feeling responsible for a particular area or thing.

In the past, that ownership could be individual or collective, but with AI and a lot more lane-crossing, ownership should tend toward smaller groups (or individuals).

A developer can design, but a designer needs to review it. A designer can code, but the owner of the code must review it.

This might feel like gatekeeping, but it's the only way.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

Ozzie_osman — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:53:23 +0000

"Private Equity"

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:23:55 +0000

Well, there's a good way and a bad way to do this. Embedded AI (vs standalone AI) can do a lot of interesting things. For example, a good teacher will watch students and identify when someone is struggling (or thriving), and carefully offer to help, vs just waiting for students to approach them and aka questions.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:28:14 +0000

This resonates. I know that if I don't exercise on the 2-3 hour window right after I wake up, it'll be near impossible to do anything physically taxing that day.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:26:40 +0000

Agreed that the upload queue solves this problem, but, one thing about the current system is it lets people choose where on the continuum they want to be depending on their risk/reward profile.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

Ozzie_osman — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:34 +0000

I met my manager when I joined once, then every 6 or 12 months for performance review (which was aggregated feedback from my peers that he took 2 minutes to talk through: "looks like you're doing fine, if you need anything, my EA can schedule more time").

PMs and Engineers made the prioritization decisions.

If someone was severely underperforming, it'd probably take at least 6 months to notice.

Projects would get shut down with very little notice (though I guess that's been a Google constant).

Within two years they had added 3-4 more layers though, after realizing the managers were, after all, needed.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

Ozzie_osman — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:42:15 +0000

They did, I actually worked there at the time, my manager had 140 directs. It obviously didn't work.

But this time it will work. Because, AI, of course.