Hacker News: Puts

New comment by Puts in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

Puts — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:20:49 +0000

> Only most?!

What if AI developed sarcasm without us knowing… xD

New comment by Puts in "The Graffiti Question"

Puts — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:52:58 +0000

To anyone here who expresses harsh feelings towards graffiti — here is a picture of the Berlin Wall:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall#/media/File%3ABerl...

Guess which side is which. :-) I know what side I would have rather lived on at least.

New comment by Puts in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"

Puts — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:54:48 +0000

Helsinki did the same thing but storing the energy in water instead of sand: https://helsinkismart.fi/worlds-largest-cavern-thermal-energ...

New comment by Puts in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

Puts — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:20:01 +0000

My experience after 20 years in the hosting industry is that customers in general have more downtime due to self-inflicted over-engineered replication, or split brain errors than actual hardware failures. One server is the simplest and most reliable setup, and if you have backup and automated provisioning you can just re-deploy your entire environment in less than the time it takes to debug a complex multi-server setup.

I'm not saying everybody should do this. There are of-course a lot of services that can't afford even a minute of downtime. But there is also a lot of companies that would benefit from a simpler setup.

New comment by Puts in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

Puts — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:51:56 +0000

I'm surprised no-one seem to have called for a boycott of Github because of Microsoft's involvement with the genocide in Gaza yet.

New comment by Puts in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

Puts — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:47:31 +0000

You hear this over and over again that Europe is over-regulated and this is why tech-companies don't succeed here. I would say this is utter bullshit. If you look at the acquisitions made by the tech-giants it just that anything that is going to be successful is instantly bought up by these companies.

People probably don't know how little Google for example builds in-house with everything from Analytics to Gmail being of European origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

New comment by Puts in "ToS;DR"

Puts — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:43:31 +0000

GDPR partly covers this since it's stated that the user must get information about how personal data is used in a clear and easy readable form. But I guess, there's some wiggle room how to interpret that. The law actually suggest that the industry could come up with symbols – like on food packaging. Your website could have a bunch of standardized icons in the footer to inform you how data is used, but since we don't have that it seems like the industry didn't like that idea of transparency.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks DOGE, Musk and Tesla [video]

Puts — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-f3qZVcWM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321656

Points: 9

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New comment by Puts in "European Cloud Computing Platforms"

Puts — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:47:28 +0000

"for most commercial organizations"

Most commercial organizations are not "internet" companies. They can run their business on a single VPS. Even e-commerce sites with several million euro turnover can run their Magento instance on a single VPS. Or industries manufacturing things can still run their inventory software or ERP stuff on some cheap VPS.

New comment by Puts in "Great read on bias in the hiring process"

Puts — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:17:05 +0000

These kinds of questions would fry my brain. I seriously wouldn't know how to respond to such stupid open-ended questions.

> Can you share an instance where you had to learn new tools or technologies quickly?

If you work with technology it's your fucking job to learn new things every single day?

> Can you tell me about a situation when you made a mistake?

You make fucking mistakes daily, but unless you are a retarded moron you just learn, adjust and move on?

> Can you give me an example of when a major change forced you to re-plan an ongoing project?

Have this person ever worked on a project? Not a single project have ever gone according to plan EVER in the history of humanity!!! But you fucking deal with it because that's what you are getting paid to do!

New comment by Puts in "Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data"

Puts — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:23:21 +0000

Similar things have happened before:

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-engineer-leaked-private-encryptio...

"An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to various AWS environments."

New comment by Puts in "Hundreds in US climate agency fired in latest cuts"

Puts — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:57:56 +0000

I don't think anybody is against optimizing government agenesis and their spending. People question the motives behind it. This is clearly done with ideological intentions, because Elon and Trump thinks that the big government in itself is a problem – as all fascists do. When you remove all government agencies and replace them with corporate interest you get what Mussolini called Corporatism but what we now know as fascism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

New comment by Puts in "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay"

Puts — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:37:55 +0000

It’s funny that AI needs that much auto-tune.

New comment by Puts in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts"

Puts — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:23:01 +0000

This would mean that they would have access to everything stored in Keychain too if you have that synced with iCloud… Which I believe probably most people have. So they will essentially have access to millions of peoples email accounts then.

New comment by Puts in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

Puts — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:29:51 +0000

The point with a syn flood is to try to saturate the OS limit for open sockets. From an attackers perspective the whole point of a syn flood is to do a DOS without needing much bandwidth.

My experience form 15 years working in the hosting industry is that volumetric attacks are extremely rare but customers that turn to Cloudflare as a solution are more often than not DDOS-ing them self because of bad configured systems, but their junior developers lack any networking troubleshooting skills.

New comment by Puts in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

Puts — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:07:35 +0000

Most (D)DOS attacks are just either UDP floods or SYN floods that iptables will handle without any problem. Sometimes what people think are DDOS is just their application DDOSing themself because they are doing recursive calls to some back-end micro-service.

If it was actually a traffic based DDOS someone still needs to pay for that bandwidth which would be too expansive for most companies anyway - even if it kept your site running.

But you can sell a lot of services to incompetent people.

New comment by Puts in "Global variables are not the problem"

Puts — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:13:55 +0000

I think the author forgot the most useful use case for globals, and that is variables that has to do with the context the program is running under such as command line arguments and environment variables (properly validated and if needed escaped).

New comment by Puts in "Tech takes the Pareto principle too far"

Puts — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:19:07 +0000

What if we come to a point where even the investors don't care if you can finish a product at all? If the pitch is good enough and they think you can bring in more investors down the road, they will get back their money at a higher evaluation anyway. This would actually explain why so many startups fail – nobody cared for them to succeed anyway, because the initial investors got rich even without there being a product.

New comment by Puts in "Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?"

Puts — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:18:42 +0000

Politics did not belong here at a time when CEOs for tech companies cared about creating new tech. But if tech company CEOs buy of politicians and romanticises nazism and facism publicly then suddenly tech becomes political and then it belongs here.

New comment by Puts in "Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools"

Puts — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:25:36 +0000

Have you ever met any person who says bullying is a good thing? I have not, yet it appears in any group of people large enough. So obviously people rationalise it somehow. How do you think they rationalise it to themself then?

Bullying is always wrong according to everyone, but that person being bullied is always the exception. “If they could just act in another way we wouldn’t be “forced” to do this to him/her.”