<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: amtamt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amtamt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:23:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=amtamt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Overall this feels a good thing for public, even if the author is money oriented, because this will hopefully make even more details public.<p>I personally have no qualms about one criminal extorted by another, specially if their fued is making world better for everyone.</p>
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<p>"disclosing them to relevant authorities" would not bring the message to those affected by such carelessness. I would think "Disclosing them to the public" brings more awareness in the public, and though might be illegal, serves better for public good.
Legal is not always just or moral.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641090</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "SSH has no Host header"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since 2020, based on hostname, routing is possible to different ssh backends<p><a href="https://www.haproxy.com/blog/route-ssh-connections-with-haproxy" rel="nofollow">https://www.haproxy.com/blog/route-ssh-connections-with-hapr...</a><p>from the blog<p>> Did you know that you can proxy SSH connections through HAProxy and route based on hostname?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:31:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452734</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even two wrong, but countering, inputs can sometimes provide right answer, so the rational above has some merit.<p>But if I interpret the question with line of thinking "should I anticipate right/ full answers <i>despite</i> incorrect/ incomplete inputs?" I think Baggage was pointing out the problem in the logic why such questions should arise.<p>I would expect the question to be phrased "under what circumstances the machine with provide wrong outputs?", and would have hoped for Babbage (or may be anyone) explaining many ways how things could go wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442613</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.<p>I guess many of us quality for british parliament.</p>
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<p>Then we are back to... if this is a complete re-write, why not a new name for new code?<p>I guess it's futile to argue in this circular logic when full picture is not considered and argument are being put forward only for the sake of winning argument. Have a good $time_of_day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278387</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "No right to relicense this project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One would say<p><i>this guy's forked MIT'd version 0</i> will be as real and valid as version 6 of original chardet.<p>instead of<p>> Your fork of version 6 is just as real and valid as the MIT'd version 7!<p>Supporting for a decade is not a basis for unilateral takeover. In last 3 months there seem to be at least 3 other active contributors, any many dozens in past, who share the copyright on parts (ownership)<p>> nobody is entitled to this guy's pip account or GitHub account just because he rewrote the library<p>this guy's also not entitled to takeover what is communal, exactly in the same manner.<p>Someone answered it long ago in quite some details. Feel free to have a look:
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/11455485" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/a/11455485</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:36:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276268</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "No right to relicense this project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just one question, why maintainer is hell bent on using existing name and removing LGPL and not create an entirely new project by new name and new license (after all this is completely new code... right)?<p>First reason would be use the "name recall", and second guess would be to do another rug-pull to re-licence under some other conditions.<p>> It's owned by the maintainer<p>This is completely in-correct. GPL and variants (FOSS, not OSS) were meant to make software free of "any ownership".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:36:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274724</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "No right to relicense this project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Say a community builds a hall with an <i>explicit intent of community use only</i>, led by single person or a group, and then a person/ a group is appointed as <i>a caretaker</i>. Caretaker of the community hall decides  <i>unilaterally</i> to convert the hall into a business convention center, razing old building to ground and rebuilding, disregarding community wishes, to make hall business friendly. How would you react to this situation? Caretaker has the ownership of the community assets, including the ground on which the hall is standing?<p>my understanding of the situation is:<p>Is the caretaker paying from his own pocket to maintain the hall? no<p>Is the caretaker paying from his own pocket for community usage of the hall? no<p>Is the caretaker spending time to maintain the community hall? yes<p>Is caretaker obliged to spend time on community hall? no<p>Is caretaker free to stop spending time on community hall? yes.<p>Is caretaker free to raze current hall, build new hall on same ground for new purposes <i>WITH community agreement</i>? YES<p>Is caretaker free to raze current hall, build new hall on same ground for new purposes <i>WITHOUT community agreement</i> (even if paying all the bill)? NO<p>Is caretaker free to build another <i>similar hall someplace else</i>? YES<p>Reasoning of your comment is of someone who is hell bent on staking claims on community resources (like big companies) without having slightest concern of the wishes or well-being of the community. Not sure of the commenter's motive either, given the new account with just two comments, supporting such blatant disregard of basic human decency.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273051</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "No right to relicense this project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Maintainers</i> must not be able to change the license that <i>original author</i> chose, and based on which contributors made contributions. When one stepped up to be maintainer, it was a <i>trustee</i> role, not owner role.<p>It should be perfectly ok (by maintainer or anyone for that mater) to be inspired from a community project and build something from scratch hand-crafting/ AI sloping, as long as the <i>imitation</i> is given a new name/ identity.<p>What rubbed me off personally was maintainer saying "pin your dependncies to version 6.0.0 or 5.x.x", as if maintainer owns the project. <i>maintainer</i> role is more akin to <i>serve</i> the community, not <i>rule</i>.<p>If it is completely new, why not start a new project with new name? No one will object. And of course leave the old project behind to whoever is willing to maintain it.
And if the new name project is better, people will follow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264733</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There's also a worrying underlying assumption being made here that the answers your LLM will give you are accurate and trustworthy.<p>I first hand saw in, AWS devDays, an AI giving SIWINCH as "root-cause" of Apache error in a containerized process is in EKS for a backend FCGI process connection error.
It has been extremely hard since that demo to trust any AI for system level debugging.</p>
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<p>but one weighs half a million ton ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:39:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634078</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "Netflix Migrates to Amazon Aurora: 75% Performance Boost and 28% Cost Reduction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why Griffiths Waite website does not have netflix in "we have helped" customers list?</p>
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<p>While this is a sound theoritical advice, the real world has changed a lot.
Parents and elder siblings are not the only people kids interact with. For every parent mindful of dangers of unsupervised internet access, there are many parents who give unrestricted access to tiktok (and rest of the internet) because everyone other person does that, and then kids share.<p>Businesses don't care for the careful minority when they know such advices will be shared, silencing those who really care.<p>Even the feature name "parental control" is chosen to induce guilt in parents.</p>
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<p>>> Kernighan's Law - Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.<p>Now question is..<p>is AI providing solutions smarter than the developer using it might have produced?<p>And perhaps more importantly, How much time it takes AI to write code and human to debug it, even if both are producing equally smart solutions.</p>
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<p>Way back in 90's, when I arrived on an Indian Railway station about 10 minutes before the train's scheduled time, I was pleasantly surprised to find the train at the platform.<p>Only when I checked the passenger reservation list, I found this was train from yesterday, late by 23:50 hours.<p>(for the curious... No, I could not get my reserved birth and had to travel on unreserved ticket, but at least I reached destination on my planned time.)</p>
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<p>Don't miss DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge introduction, a related change: <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45#making-automation-easier-with-a-new-dns-challenge-type" rel="nofollow">https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45#making-auto...</a><p>It's not final yet, but interesting development.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:08:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282888</link><dc:creator>amtamt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amtamt in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I wrote this because everyone is talking about Claude Code right now and it's all over my timeline.<p>Feels more like peer pressure induced post, than evaluating a tool critically for pros and cons.<p>> Claude Code has this effect where you KNOW it's good but can't quite say WHY.<p>Definitely gives the "vibe" of social media's infinite scroll induced dopamine rush.<p>Overall, this post just seems to be enforcing the idea that "fuzzy understanding of business domain will be enough to get a mature product using some AI, and the AI will somehow magically figure out most non-functional requirements and missing details of business domain". Thing is that figuring out "most non-functional requirements and missing details of business domain" is where most of the blood and sweat goes.</p>
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<p>> have pretty-much mastered all areas and layers of the stack (infra and cloud, databases, backend, network, front-end and even a bit of mobile...)<p>Congratulations!!
You could try consultancy, training others, writing books/ blogs.</p>
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<p>Absolutely recommend k3s.
Start with a single node and keep on scaling as customer base increases.</p>
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