Hacker News: __turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__turbobrew__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:06:58 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>Compared to the USA, China seems a whole lot more peaceful.

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:36:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413661__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413661https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413661<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>I got news for you: iphone market share has been going up year over year in China.

I got even more news for you: 45% of Chinese oil imports are from middle east vassal states of the USA. And those imports are purchased in USD.

China needs the West and vice versa.

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:35:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413654__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413654https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413654<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>I don’t condone their arrests, but it was retaliatory for Canada arresting a huawei exec who had close ties to the party. One of those who was arrested alleged that the other was actively performing espionage in China. This was also confirmed by other unnamed sources.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig...

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:01:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410422__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410422https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410422<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>I don’t believe that. China’s economy and the west’s is very deeply interconnected and what is good for one is good for the other.

Also, the new generation of Chinese has grown up with western comforts and would not readily go back to pre-modernization so they are reliant on the west to trade for technology.

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:55:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410369__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410369https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410369<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>OK lets try doing this for the USA;

* I’m sure the vietnamese would disagree

* I’m sure the cubans would disagree

* I’m sure the iraqis would disagree

* I’m sure the afghanis would disagree

* I’m sure the venezuelans would disagree

* I’m sure the iranians would disagree

* I’m sure the palastinians would disagree

Should I go on? I didn’t mention all of the latin american countries the CIA fucked?

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:49:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410311__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410311https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410311<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>> There are zero Canadian automobile assemblers; they are Canadian subsidiaries of American

Toyota has massive assembly plants in Canada which net export vehicles to the USA. My rav4 hybrid was built in Woodstock Ontario.

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:44:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405271__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405271https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405271<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>As another Canadian, I wish we could stop treating China as a boogeyman. By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace (there is a name for the Chinese policy which is basically “do nothing and win” but I forget it).

I also would like to see Canada stop negotiating with the USA. If Trump says “if you aren’t going to do X, we will do Y”, Canada should just say “so be it” and move towards other trade partners. If you want to trade with us in good faith we are completely open to it, but the bipolar level of instability in trade should not be tolerated.

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:31:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405196__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405196<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>Now, I’m curious. What side wears which sunglasses?

]]>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:21:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405125__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405125https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405125<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "The August 17 outage"]]>Don't forget jitter as well. Otherwise your clients will just coordinate their retries.

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:30:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382978__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382978https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382978<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]>Most chromosome defects (trisomy) can be screened for now. NIPT is effective at 9 weeks pregnant and the technology is only going to get better.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:04:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363385__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363385https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363385<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]>Same in Canada. All assets acquired after common law or marriage are shared and split evenly in the divorce. Whoever makes more salary needs to pay alimony to the other.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:56:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363257__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363257<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"]]>> Quite frankly, I find your attitude to be annoying and downright stupid.

- Linus Torvalds

That bug report was a good read.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:46:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356479__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356479<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Cerebras CS-4"]]>By the time these gigawatt datacenters are done being built the hardware will be so far behind state of the art they may be mostly useless.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:30:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356343__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356343https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356343<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"]]>Quite a number of the smartest people I know got scalped to work at OpenAI. I don’t know anyone who went to Anthropic. Something I think which is under emphasized is that OpenAI has the human capital in addition to the financial capital advantage over Anthropic.

Over the long term I think OpenAI will produce the better experience when it comes to model quality, harness quality, and availability. I have been using codex the past few months and never looked back.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:02:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349827__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349827https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349827<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"]]>Also they are using a home baked S3 compatible storage system and longhorn for block storage: https://docs.worktree.ca/updates/post-mortems/2026-07-20

I haven’t the slightest clue why they didn’t use rook/ceph (they run on k8s) for this which not only is a very reliable block storage system, but also offers a S3 compatible API, and is proven at other cloud providers like Digital Ocean.

I wish them the best but there is no way I would put my data into there.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:50:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340159__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340159<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"]]>Note, currently worktree is just wrapping OVH as their “sovereign cloud”: https://docs.worktree.ca/sovereignty/

I was wondering when reading their sovereignty docs why I wouldn’t just use OVH as it is a French company instead of a USA based company, and lo and behold they are just reselling OVH.

I have used OVH personally and it has pretty good prices, but over aggressive DoS protection. Some of my workloads were shut down because OVH internal tools decided that what I was doing must have been a DoS.

As a Canadian I welcome a Canadian owned cloud provider, but it is a huge endeavour to build that platform up from scratch.

It does seem kind of weird that they are building both a CI system and a cloud, seems like they should pick one.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:34:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340065__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340065https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340065<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]>The analogy I have heard is that LLMs are a force multiplier, so if you were a 2x engineer before you are now a 10x engineer, and if you were a -2x engineer you are now a -10x engineer.

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:52:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274364__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274364<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]>I host a static site on S3 with cloudfront on top and my bill is usually a few dollars. It was $2.88 last month. The site could also probably handle many orders of magnitude more traffic than it currently does because cloudfront scales to that level without work needed on my side.

]]>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:40:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217805__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217805<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"]]>It has happened with tor exit nodes, so I imagine it is possible with shady unconsentual residential proxies.

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:53:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145670__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145670<![CDATA[New comment by __turbobrew__ in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"]]>Feds come to your door asking why you downloaded/distributed CSAM

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:53:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131157__turbobrew__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131157https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131157