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The Therac-25 software radiation disaster

bithavoc — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:11:11 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651502

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by bithavoc in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

bithavoc — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:30:23 +0000

Today I learned aerial drone is not the only type of drone there is.

New comment by bithavoc in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

bithavoc — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:28:48 +0000

so OpenAI[0] designed a Ferrari?

[0] https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

New comment by bithavoc in "White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations"

bithavoc — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:47:08 +0000

You’re not providing a conclusion. Please finish your thought…

New comment by bithavoc in "White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations"

bithavoc — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:05:45 +0000

exactly, there’s no conclusion, it’s been almost three decades.

It’s nice to have a different ruling party every few years and not just every three decades like in Venezuela(so far).

Maybe Venezuelas want to give their oil to another 3rd-party that is not Iran, Cuba, Russia or China for a change.

New comment by bithavoc in "White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations"

bithavoc — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:19:37 +0000

The US has seen six governments since Woodstock ‘99, alternating the ruling party almost perfectly every four years: Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump again.

Venezuela has seen only two presidents in 26 years, Chavez and Maduro, and both belong to the same ruling party.

New comment by bithavoc in "Tailscale Down"

bithavoc — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:08 +0000

with Tailscale Lock you have a lot more control, you can also self-host your coordinator server which is an alternative even mentioned in the service docs[0]

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock

New comment by bithavoc in "Deploying Temporal on AWS ECS with Terraform"

bithavoc — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:10:07 +0000

yes, one word: IAM

New comment by bithavoc in "Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region"

bithavoc — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:28:46 +0000

does DynamoDB run on EC2? if I read it right, EC2 depends on DynamoDB.

New comment by bithavoc in "iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max"

bithavoc — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:21:22 +0000

> Worth the upgrade? 100 percent.

First time I noticed such claim in an iPhone announcement.

New comment by bithavoc in "Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation"

bithavoc — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:18:59 +0000

agree, also I believe box.com was smaller than Dropbox and it seems like they’re still alive, it’s crazy to me.

New comment by bithavoc in "Joyent ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook 10y before AWS"

bithavoc — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:11:11 +0000

This post feels written by AI, but something caught my attention.

> But they made one technical choice that would haunt them forever.

> They built it on Solaris. Developers wanted Linux.

Recently I’ve seen how TrueNAS Core(FreeBSD-based) is being replaced by TrueNAS Scale(Linux-based)[0] and they ended up with an unarguably better product.

Meanwhile Oxide picked Solaris over Linux[1].

I vaguely remember what it was like to work with Joyner Public Cloud, but it was all an abstraction over APIs just like the Oxide rack, but in terms of GTM speed, it seems like Joyent lost some momentum trying to replicate what AWS found in Linux coming from Xen.

Oxide knows what they’re doing and they have some smart folks over there, however, I still consider a bold move not to pick Linux these days.

[0] https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-scale-anno...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180706

New comment by bithavoc in "Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks"

bithavoc — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:26:27 +0000

that’s cool, I’m working on branded artifact delivery. Docker, Go, NPM, Pypi repos delivered on free custom sub-domains. Vultr BGP services doing the trick so far.

New comment by bithavoc in "Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks"

bithavoc — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:06:25 +0000

me too, what are you building?

New comment by bithavoc in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

bithavoc — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:08:11 +0000

Rust can cross-compile, yes, but is not as seamless. For example, Rust can not cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux without external support like MinGW.

Go can cross-compile from Linux to Windows, Darwin and FreeBSD without requiring any external tooling.

New comment by bithavoc in "Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth"

bithavoc — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:19:09 +0000

Zitadel is switching its license from Apache to AGPL3, that’s at least one difference. The license change caught my attention because I also use Zitadel, this project is MIT.

[0] https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-v3-announcement

New comment by bithavoc in "The WinRAR approach"

bithavoc — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:38:46 +0000

Pulumi is sorta like this, very generous free tier, so DevOps fall in love with it easily.

New comment by bithavoc in "Making Postgres Distributed with FoundationDB"

bithavoc — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:23:59 +0000

This is interesting, it would be like YugabyteDB but on top of FoundationDB.

New comment by bithavoc in "Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?"

bithavoc — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:33:24 +0000

I use Pulumi native package for Kubernetes, no more YAML, only instances of Typescript classes.

New comment by bithavoc in "We Moved Off Next.js"

bithavoc — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:45:24 +0000

the sentiment against Next.js seems to be building up. funny, this page didn’t mention Vercel once so this is all about the framework itself. I will continue using Next.js for the time being, but if I come across an alternative that doesn’t imply changing React for something else, I would consider it. I just can’t find any viable alternatives and React Router alone is not going to cut it for me.