Hacker News: askbjoernhansen

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

askbjoernhansen — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:11:08 +0000

Nice to see el pulpo magnifico's camp be spotless on the mini-map in the blog post.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:56:51 +0000

The author clearly hasn't worked for a big company. An $8m mistake? Meh, not great, but it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Seen worse.

Oh, it was $8m over several years? That's a couple of projects that didn't pan out, or a small team that wasn't firing on all cylinders for a stretch.

Nobody got fired because there was nothing unusual to fire anyone for.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

askbjoernhansen — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:47:01 +0000

You must be using some flavor that doesn't have systemd, at least. Or a Linux from a decade ago.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited"

askbjoernhansen — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:07:27 +0000

Probably for a day or two as various indexes and caches are rebuilt in the background, and then not.

I use 26.x on an "original" 8GB M1 MacBook Air and it's as fine as it ever was.

(I also have a MBP, various Mac Mini's and other desktops, so it's not that I'm just used to everything being slow).

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:29:19 +0000

Lots of apps gives you other options for how to process the image data.

I've had a bunch of "high-end" digital SLRs and they (and the software processing the raw files) do plenty computational processing as well.

I completely agree that all else being equal it's possible to get photos with better technical quality from a big sensor, big lens, big raw file; but this article is more an example of "if you take sloppy photos with your phone camera you get sloppy photos".

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source"

askbjoernhansen — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:53:58 +0000

Look at the contribution history, basically all active contributors work for Synadia: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/graphs/contributors

That's not a healthy / functioning open source community. Less than 30 people have made more than 10 commits; most of the 160 were "drive by" who fixed a single small thing.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wrong date and time"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:04:34 +0000

`t1` comes from your computer, so since I told OP they were looking at the wrong thing I have to point you out did as well. :-)

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wrong date and time"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:08:25 +0000

It doesn't really tell you that, not yet. You didn't wait long enough for chronyd to decide.

All your output here shows is that all the servers are equally reachable since you started chronyd (very recently, except the NIST server) and the Facebook server had the most similar time to what is on your system.

For the aaplimg service, you'd be better off using the general hostname than a specific server that appears to be on a different continent than you.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wrong date and time"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000

You are mixing up the 'reference time' and the bits of the NTP packet you are supposed to use to actually set the time. The reference time is not it.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

askbjoernhansen — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:49:40 +0000

If only there was a way to figure out what the website address is, maybe they indeed would have "advertised this information" ...

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

askbjoernhansen — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:20:53 +0000

I know it's unlikely to be you, but if you know anyone concerned about someone who had access to their phone tracking them (or other malfeasence), Apple published a "Personal Safety User Guide":

https://help.apple.com/pdf/personal-safety/en_US/personal-sa...

(also a web version: https://support.apple.com/guide/personal-safety/welcome/web )

(and yes, it covers AirTags).

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules"

askbjoernhansen — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:25:22 +0000

If Cloudflare was an email provider everyone would be blocking them for sending too much spam and not caring about it.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Apple News No Longer Supports RSS"

askbjoernhansen — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 08:23:11 +0000

Apple Maps seems to have comparable detail to OSM for that location ... https://maps.apple.com/?ll=44.39273,-110.55472&spn=0.003043,...

Or what do you see that the rest of us don't? :-)

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Apple News No Longer Supports RSS"

askbjoernhansen — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 08:09:43 +0000

Opening it in Chrome (or with curl...) I got a (HTML) redirect to https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/27/coast-to-c...

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database"

askbjoernhansen — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:55:25 +0000

We load millions of rows per second and use a handful (or more?) of materialized views to build appropriate summaries. Various clients make queries to the "raw data" and the views and it all works fine, basically.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Ask HN: What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?"

askbjoernhansen — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:11:30 +0000

The DNS server (https://github.com/abh/geodns) for the NTP Pool (https://www.ntppool.org/en/) does close to a hundred billion queries a month across a bunch of tiny virtual machines around the world. The steady state load is about 30k qps, but with frequent brief spikes to many times that.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit"

askbjoernhansen — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 06:41:58 +0000

Not at all accurate, assuming the "real CDN" is well run.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

askbjoernhansen — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:38:10 +0000

Cloudflare got taken over by the government? That’s surely a surprise to everyone and big news...

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Leap second 2017 status"

askbjoernhansen — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 06:18:16 +0000

Of course it tracks what time each server is serving (and other meta data). That's how the system knows that many servers didn't advertise the leap second when they should have (at which time it's too late for the NTP Pool to do anything useful about it).

Reportedly several national time sources (not NIST) managed to not announce the leap second, too.

New comment by askbjoernhansen in "Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug"

askbjoernhansen — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:40:18 +0000

It wasn't midnight anywhere with CDMA service when the leap second happened.