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New comment by _rwo in "Hetzner price adjustment of server products effective 15 June 2026"

_rwo — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:07:46 +0000

_no god! please no!!! nooooooo_

can AI collapse already please so I can buy some ram? thx

New comment by _rwo in "22% Layoff at ClickUp"

_rwo — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:18:35 +0000

only 100x? why not go beyond 1000x?

I swear, the tech world is in the state of some global AI psychosis

New comment by _rwo in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

_rwo — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:10:19 +0000

> it smells very LLM~y

Every Time I See This Header

Followed By Another Header

I just know it's been LLMed xd also if you click around this page it's pretty obvious

New comment by _rwo in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

_rwo — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:08:06 +0000

> But I’m not reviewing that code (...)

That's the spirit, I always say - _others_ will deal with AI slop during code review. Eventually they will get tired and start 'reviewing' this AI stuff with AI - so it's a win win. Right?

New comment by _rwo in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

_rwo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:57:41 +0000

that sounds nice, thanks for sharing The Numbers! :D

New comment by _rwo in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

_rwo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:41:39 +0000

nice write-up! I wonder tho - did the optimization really affect CI wall time? In my experience such micro optimization rarely move the needle - it obviously matters because a lot jobs are running in parallel, but did it in the end improved dev experience? (honest question, just curious)

New comment by _rwo in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

_rwo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:03:48 +0000

Memory unlocked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM

New comment by _rwo in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

_rwo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:58:26 +0000

The only way this title could be any better is this: Github Actions is slowly KILLING engineering teams /s

Said that - every CI sucks one way or another, Github actions is just good enough to fire up a simple job/automation which seems to be majority of use cases anyway?

I think fully production CI pipelines will always be complicated in one way or another (proper catching alone is a challenge on it's own); I really need to check out woodpeckerci (drone ci fork) tho as I had good memories about droneci, but possibly it because I was younger back then xd

New comment by _rwo in "The Codex App"

_rwo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:45:03 +0000

seems like I need to update my toolset for the 3rd time this week

New comment by _rwo in "Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up"

_rwo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:10:45 +0000

Oh yeah, Oracle; if you want to see where contributions come die see mysql-operator - ton of stuff broken, pull request fixes (like most obvious, no-brain bugfixes) slurped into bugs.mysql.com oblivion never seeing the light of day

New comment by _rwo in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

_rwo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:24:46 +0000

same; I think codex with gpt5 changed things for me; then opus 4.5 turned out to be also useful (yet quite pricey)

New comment by _rwo in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

_rwo — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:26:01 +0000

1. Work in sh-tty and buggy codebases to begin with

2. Then you can't see the AI slop in mountains of existing spaghetti

3. Profit

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New comment by _rwo in "Have Taken Up Farming"

_rwo — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:24:10 +0000

If you're (speaking in general) going through such extremes - working 16h/day then farming and 'discovering' god - I would suggest looking into therapy; simply to regain balance; I also had a period in my life in my 30s where I tried to overcompensate, correct the life course so to speak

overall I don't believe neither extreme is healthy; doing A, then doing 2x the opposite of A because you realize A was not really good for you in the long term

but I'm glad it so far worked out for the author

New comment by _rwo in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

_rwo — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:54:50 +0000

> So something like pgBouncer together with transactional queries

FYI - it's already supported by cloudnativepg [1]

I was playing with this operator recently and I'm truly impressed - it's a piece of art when it comes to postgres automation; alongside with barman [2] it does everything I need and more

[1] https://cloudnative-pg.io/docs/1.28/connection_pooling [2] https://cloudnative-pg.io/plugin-barman-cloud/

New comment by _rwo in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

_rwo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:57:03 +0000

I love synology; bought one around 2018, runs nicely until this day; received last DSM 7.3 update so will be supported until 2028 but I will probably keep it running until it dies as I don't expose it to The Evil Internet anyway

does everything and more I need it to (backups, photos, storage, jellyfin, various media servers, torrents etc.)

New comment by _rwo in "AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]"

_rwo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:48:56 +0000

> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin (...)

in my experience you always need a "Devops team" to operate all that cloud stuff; so to paraphrase - suddenly you're spending $400k on three devops to operate $500k cloud

I think The Promise behind the cloud was you just pay for the service and not worry about it, but in practice you need some team to maintain it

New comment by _rwo in "I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts"

_rwo — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:06:58 +0000

> And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle

aw yeah; recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experimental CSS properties which broke a default button behavior across all major browsers (not even making this up).

Velocity goes up because you produce _so much code so quickly_, most of which seems to be working; managers are happy, developers are happy, people picking up the slack - not so much.

I obviously use LLMs to some extent during daily work, but going full-on blind mode on autopilot gotta crash the ship at some point.

New comment by _rwo in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

_rwo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:25:53 +0000

don't bother; this company is in constant hiring mode; you can check previous "who is hiring" threads to confirm; random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228613

New comment by _rwo in "OpenAI is good at unminifying code"

_rwo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:43:36 +0000

LLMs are great for self-contained boring tasks; recently I have started to refactor ruby tests with a simple prompt (getting rid of various rspec syntax in favor of more explicit notation at cost of code duplication - so kinda like unminifying things I guess) - works _ridiculously_ good as well

New comment by _rwo in "Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives"

_rwo — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:10:20 +0000

Typesense has been a godsend; amazing piece of tech and on top of that fairly easy to operate even in HA mode; if you can fit your dataset in memory I really recommend giving it a try