Hacker News: bak3y

New comment by bak3y in "I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It"

bak3y — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:24:11 +0000

Exactly what I came to say, alerts need tuning if you're having to check your monitoring tools by hand.

New comment by bak3y in "DARPA's new X-76"

bak3y — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:06:17 +0000

There's no magic wand fix to healthcare, it and the related insurance industry are incredibly busted.

What I am dead certain of though is that involving the government in it will be worse, not better.

New comment by bak3y in "DARPA’s new X-76"

bak3y — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:37:53 +0000

hopefully we never will - the last thing I want the government MORE involved in is healthcare

New comment by bak3y in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

bak3y — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:11:47 +0000

That's because it is. That was human prompted.

New comment by bak3y in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

bak3y — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:11:39 +0000

Yes, surely the German government telling it's people what to do has never gotten them in trouble in the past...

New comment by bak3y in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

bak3y — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:37:29 +0000

And they were able to get there because they made good games.

New comment by bak3y in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

bak3y — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:12:02 +0000

Opening a 20k LOC PR is an actively hostile move worthy of an appropriate response.

Closed > will not review > make more atomic changes.

New comment by bak3y in "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?"

bak3y — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:32:10 +0000

Just out here raw-dogging the internet...

New comment by bak3y in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

bak3y — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:14 +0000

Presence in the DB allows for downstream fraud, even by accident. If that DB is the source of truth for SS payouts elsewhere, clean up the data. There's no reason for it to be there.

New comment by bak3y in "Docker-compose.yml as a universal infrastructure interface"

bak3y — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:54:16 +0000

Spoken like someone who's never done Linux sysadmin at scale.

New comment by bak3y in "How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?"

bak3y — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:49:07 +0000

I've always heard that adding another 9 adds another 3 zeros to the cost.

New comment by bak3y in "Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification"

bak3y — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:51:06 +0000

He's also been sued by Mitchell - multiple times now I think?

New comment by bak3y in "Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games"

bak3y — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:58:46 +0000

But you could find a group you enjoyed playing with and learn from them. I spent hundreds of hours in a UT2k4 server in Team Arena Mode warmup just practicing air rockets, shock combos, and flick lightning gun headshots. RIP UT2k4

New comment by bak3y in "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal"

bak3y — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:04:19 +0000

Why is it so hard to believe that a giant software project was mismanaged? Not like anyone has ever seen that before.

New comment by bak3y in "A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle"

bak3y — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:09:14 +0000

I'd much rather use Ansible to configure a fleet of identical systems (either all at once or over time) than SSH and configure by hand thanks.

New comment by bak3y in "The HTTP crash course nobody asked for"

bak3y — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:15:56 +0000

So HTTP is the old school Star Wars fans pretending the prequels don't exist?

New comment by bak3y in "We are still early with the cloud"

bak3y — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:20:21 +0000

As a former sysadmin who had part of his career in that paradigm, I never again want to wait until 10:30 PM to run manual production deployments handed to me by a developer and hoping their documentation was correct.

Give me CI/CD pipelines deploying containers to a k8s cluster during the day.

New comment by bak3y in "Splunk IP suit against Cribl"

bak3y — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:56:34 +0000

Just coming back around to this, we also used Splunk consultants for their SIEM solution and the first one we got wasn't very good, but the second was amazing (I wish we could have hired her directly).

The guy we had help us tune our clusters after I rebuilt them all was also very good. Fortunately I'd done most everything by the books and we overkilled the nodes with hardware (we had some older hypervisor nodes lying around I stole for Splunk).

New comment by bak3y in "We are still early with the cloud"

bak3y — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:42:09 +0000

And you're glossing over the pain points that drove the industry to coin DevOps - those times when the zip didn't contain everything it needed to run in production properly and the admin guy had to call the dev multiple times in the middle of the night because their app didn't start properly on deployment. Or the install/startup procedure wasn't documented properly. Or it changed and the document didn't get updated. Or there was a new, required environment variable that didn't get mentioned in documentation anywhere. Or a new, required library was on the dev's local workstation and not on the server. etc etc

New comment by bak3y in "We are still early with the cloud"

bak3y — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:36:58 +0000

And implement them poorly and then wish for an admin guy or SRE when things go sideways at 3AM and production is down.