Hacker News: Thaxll

New comment by Thaxll in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

Thaxll — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:20:46 +0000

Don't run k8s on bare metal if you don't have a good platform team though. Using a cloud provider ( eks / aks / gke ) is trivial and "problem" free.

I've never had DNS problems going down, the only thing I've seen is app that would create too many iptables entries when flooding request dns ( app problem ).

New comment by Thaxll in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

Thaxll — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:24:46 +0000

k8s is not a pain, I would never return to something like Pupet / Ansible / etc ... to deploy bare ec2 instances, it's just re-inventing the wheel badly.

Just use ECS / Fargate with an ALB in front if you need a simpler use case.

New comment by Thaxll in "Iroh 1.0"

Thaxll — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:09:25 +0000

I don't understand the problem its trying to solve in the first place, IP works just fine, such as DNS.

There is already IPv6 and quic, you need vendor and major software to have any traction in that field.

New comment by Thaxll in "Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency"

Thaxll — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:34:27 +0000

Another vibe coded, dead in 6 month Rust project.

People that trully need performance are not going to use a random server that has 0 support/ track record.

New comment by Thaxll in "Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)"

Thaxll — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:47:25 +0000

This is what games do with ECS.

New comment by Thaxll in "My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month"

Thaxll — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:14:11 +0000

Low memory usage.

New comment by Thaxll in "AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study"

Thaxll — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:12:25 +0000

AI will never convince a jury though.

New comment by Thaxll in "Dav2d"

Thaxll — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:34:54 +0000

It is much slower than 5%, there were other independent tests that put it around 20%.

New comment by Thaxll in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

Thaxll — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:22:58 +0000

OVH is a cloud provider, and a large one. It is by far the largest EU provider.

New comment by Thaxll in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

Thaxll — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:45:23 +0000

In web dev there is little creativity because everything has been done and there is a library / service to solve every problems, none of that exists in major games. Try Claude in your frontend/backend service, then try that in a game client.

New comment by Thaxll in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

Thaxll — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:28:29 +0000

I started using SQLite for a home project after years of reading about it, I was shocked at the poor type system coming from Postgres. It is really inferior, not sure why it gets so much praise.

https://sqlite.org/datatype3.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype.html

Working with date/time feels like using a 30years old database, nothing is enforced at insert. Really someone needs to explain why so many people like it.

New comment by Thaxll in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

Thaxll — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:22:59 +0000

Major studio pay the same as in tech for the base salary, the big difference is in bonus/stock.

New comment by Thaxll in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

Thaxll — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:20:03 +0000

All those solutions based on PG are missing the point, you need a good SDK so that devs can create those workflow without re-inventing the wheel: error, retries, observability, idempotency ect ...

PG is just a detail of implementation, you need a good library to build reliable flows.

New comment by Thaxll in "Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C"

Thaxll — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:11 +0000

Rust is in the same boat, ebpf is C.

New comment by Thaxll in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

Thaxll — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:28:50 +0000

I don't see any reasons to use Rust when your team successfully shipped and is confortable with C#/Java/Go ect ...

New comment by Thaxll in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

Thaxll — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:08:31 +0000

"services that your organization relies on, that have high uptime requirements, that are critical to your business"

Kind of funny when your Rust service runs on Kubernetes.

New comment by Thaxll in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

Thaxll — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:06:32 +0000

The benchmarks are completely off, and a recent version of Ubuntu with sane config would easily beat Freebsd.

New comment by Thaxll in "Map of Metal"

Thaxll — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:54:47 +0000

Not sure why there is Swedish death metal when Melodic Death exists.

New comment by Thaxll in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

Thaxll — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:19:37 +0000

Once again, thanks Martin-Baker, 4 lives saved.

New comment by Thaxll in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

Thaxll — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:21:56 +0000

Do you think any compagny would want to release some very sensitive / secret sauce code?