Hacker News: blerb795

New comment by blerb795 in "Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B"

blerb795 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:03:37 +0000

yikes. did not realize their trajectory has been so downwards since 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtable#History

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

blerb795 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743636

Points: 2

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New comment by blerb795 in "Perspective Server"

blerb795 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:36:00 +0000

""" macOS menu bar app that exposes Apple's on-device Foundation Models as an OpenAI-compatible local API. Zero cloud. Zero dependencies. """

Perspective Server

blerb795 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Techopolis/Perspective-Server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216652

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by blerb795 in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

blerb795 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:28:23 +0000

To some degree, they do -- under SEC rules (Exchange Act §12(g)), private companies with >$10M in assets and 2,000+ shareholders (or 500+ non-accredited investors) have to start public-style reporting. I assume there's some clever accounting to ensure they're not at the 2,000 shareholder cap (perhaps double-trigger RSUs don't count as being a shareholder yet?)

New comment by blerb795 in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

blerb795 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:24:20 +0000

The costs of using Databricks are anything but low, though.

New comment by blerb795 in "Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33"

blerb795 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:52:19 +0000

I can't speak to their specific policies, but employees are often prohibited from trading in derivatives on company stock (and are regardless subject to open trading windows, which sometimes do not open until after the lockup has expired)

New comment by blerb795 in "PlanetScale for Postgres"

blerb795 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:12:39 +0000

Is there some compliance reason or otherwise that you need one physical database per tenant, and can't just colocate multiple logical databases/schemas on one PlanetScale database?

New comment by blerb795 in "How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy"

blerb795 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:18:14 +0000

The linked page specifically mentions that these ZDR APIs are not impacted.

> This does not impact API customers who are using Zero Data Retention endpoints under our ZDR amendment.

New comment by blerb795 in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"

blerb795 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:58:40 +0000

No need for the friends to be involved -- she resigned prior the the bankruptcy filing so she can participate in the bidding process personally

New comment by blerb795 in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

blerb795 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:46:40 +0000

I don't believe this is true, but you do have to give one of the iMessage groups a name to make it independent from another group. If you imagine that primary key for a group is its name, and the default name for a group is its participants, this does kind of make sense.

New comment by blerb795 in "Avoid ISP Routers (2024)"

blerb795 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:18:47 +0000

It can be fiber speeds! I had symmetric gigabit with MonkeyBrains for 3 years. It just depend on the size of their install; I was in a relatively large apartment complex so they invested more in bigger(?) antennas.

New comment by blerb795 in "United Airlines Jet Loses Wheel in Repeat of March Incident"

blerb795 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:28:40 +0000

That doesn't sound exactly correct per the definitions I'm familiar with -- a multi-engine plane with a failure will not safely climb at V1, that's what V2 defines (the speed at which an engine-out aircraft can climb at 200ft/s, with at least 35ft of altitude at the end of the runway). Vr should be when the pilot begins rotation unless an engine is out; I don't believe there's any guidance to wait until V2.

New comment by blerb795 in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

blerb795 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:15:14 +0000

Many cross-platform applications which store metadata in xattrs on Unix-based systems will use ADS for the same purpose.

E.g. Dropbox, which syncs some extended attributes (and uses some for internal metadata), seems to store them in the ADS on Windows.

New comment by blerb795 in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

blerb795 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:11:18 +0000

> When Apple finally got rid of it

Oh, they're not gone -- still very much part of APFS. You can read the contents of the resource fork for a file at path `$FILE` by reading `$FILE/..namedfork/rsrc`

The resource fork is still how custom icons for files and directories are implemented! (Look for a hidden file called `Icon\r` inside any directory with a custom icon, and you can dump its resource fork to a `.icns` file that Preview can open)

New comment by blerb795 in "Waymo the Leapfrog"

blerb795 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:16:25 +0000

This feels a little pedantic; I assume the commenter means that Tesla relies exclusively on vision, whereas Waymo additionally has sensors (i.e. lidar)

New comment by blerb795 in "Why I love Laravel (2022)"

blerb795 — Tue, 21 May 2024 07:02:46 +0000

> Another small frustration for me is all the huge adjectives being used

wow you weren't kidding -- the docs [0] for each of the "packages" could easily be confused with AI-generated text written as a joke

[0] https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/octane

New comment by blerb795 in "An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles"

blerb795 — Thu, 09 May 2024 05:51:30 +0000

I built one of these as I couldn't find anything online satisfying this niche! I always want to charge my phone while on the couch but hated unsightly cables hanging around the armrest or underneath. Plus, it gave me a convenient spot to put my surround speakers without needing to wall mount.

It's a reasonably easy project for someone with little woodworking experience.

Who's on Call? Learn to Sync Pagerduty with Slack

blerb795 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:52:24 +0000

Article URL: https://stack.convex.dev/pagerduty-slack-sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453943

Points: 7

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tailout: Spawn an exit node for your tailnet anywhere

blerb795 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:16:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cterence/tailout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567211

Points: 4

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