Hacker News: bob778

New comment by bob778 in "Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147"

bob778 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:28:02 +0000

It’s, by definition, not a war crime. Military brass bands are eligible targets as are unarmed naval ships.

New comment by bob778 in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bob778 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:16:50 +0000

$200k is more for FedRAMP or PROTECTED+, but I think you’d be able to create a “compliance” addon for $20k quite successfully.

New comment by bob778 in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

bob778 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:51:18 +0000

Which ones are a good example of how things could be?

New comment by bob778 in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

bob778 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:21:34 +0000

OneDrive supports automatic syncing of photos from iOS to the Mac.

New comment by bob778 in "[dead]"

bob778 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:25:38 +0000

Beyond the other comments denouncing it as AI slop, it’s fundamentally wrong. GMV aka marketplace thru-revenue is strictly defined by accounting standards and most tax offices (including the IRS and ATO). It’s not something you just decide to have. One of the core principles of it is that the consumer is aware that the revenue will flow through (eg, if buying something on Etsy/Amazon, that is obvious while others like Uber are more contentious). Using a different model provider is unlikely to pass the test.

This would’ve been a fascinating article if written by an accounting expert but is unfortunately just slop.

New comment by bob778 in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

bob778 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:26:33 +0000

Those days are long, long gone (15 years ago) for most of the US/UK/EU/Australia and parts f Asia. You require government ID to purchase which gets tied to the IMEI.

New comment by bob778 in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

bob778 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:20:12 +0000

I want to like Zoo but the rendering engine is so buggy currently that it’s not really usable for more than simple shapes. The text-to-CAD feature they highlight is slow and error-prone, so much so that they explicitly use a “prebuilt” version in the tutorial, and each time I tried it, it gave tool errors or took so long I just did it manually.

New comment by bob778 in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

bob778 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:52:59 +0000

It’s the symbol to the left of the URL > Show Certificate. They even make it available on iOS Safari (Page Info > Connection Security Details), but if it’s expired, you’ll know by the big red warning page.

New comment by bob778 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bob778 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:51:05 +0000

Not quite - while you can reduce oxygen levels, they have to be kept within 4pp so at worst, will make you light headed. Many athletes train at the same levels though so it’s easy to overcome.

New comment by bob778 in "The Enterprise Experience"

bob778 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:24:22 +0000

Gartner claims 25% of the Fortune 500 are currently working to move back to on-prem for the majority of their applications. It’s not sexy so doesn’t appear in tech news as much but it’s happening

New comment by bob778 in "The Enterprise Experience"

bob778 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:12:23 +0000

I’ve worked in a lot of enterprises on “tiny projects” but never on something that only went to 5 users. In one role I was the sole maintainer of a “small internal tool”…that had 1,000 daily users logging 5 hours/day each.

New comment by bob778 in "Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI"

bob778 — Sat, 17 May 2025 10:20:01 +0000

How much effort was spent automating this to fix 112 instances across Uber’s code base? I assume code reviews would catch any new issues so this seems like overkill for a small one-off task?

New comment by bob778 in "Visiting Us"

bob778 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:55:32 +0000

Epic is used extensively in the UK, Europe and Australia so to say it’s a regional thing seems odd? They’re speculated to be one of the largest privately held companies in the world.

New comment by bob778 in "Data centers contain 90% crap data"

bob778 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:12:18 +0000

There’s a whole concept of records management in enterprises that manages the disposal of data. It’s far more complex than just purge dates as there’s often regulatory requirements and legal discovery issues so <2% of data is actually disposed due to perceived risk.

For personal data, the concept would be simpler but still has requirements like say tax records need to be kept 7 years.

New comment by bob778 in "Exploring Alternatives to UUIDv4; Enter ULIDs"

bob778 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:33:21 +0000

They didn’t want to make a breaking change but didn’t:

1. Use UUIDv7, which has the same sortability without breaking the ID format, or

2. Repackage the ULIDs to maintain consistency

And then broke pagination with this change?

How was this ever approved by a change control board? Or do they not have one?

New comment by bob778 in "Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data"

bob778 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:31:25 +0000

From just reading the README, the example is not valid JSON. Is that intentional?

Otherwise it seems like a prompt building tool, or am I missing something here?

New comment by bob778 in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

bob778 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:50:17 +0000

There’s so many countries this could be: Australia, USA, UK, Italy, Estonia.. it’s almost a national pass time

New comment by bob778 in "Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking"

bob778 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 02:08:24 +0000

Native Australian English speaker here: I would 100% interpret that as they camped on the beach because that’s an option at some places here. Goes to show how it’s cultural I guess.

New comment by bob778 in "Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack"

bob778 — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:16:24 +0000

No, it is a variant of the 737 so using the certification is correct. They weren’t trying to avoid additional certification, it just wasn’t required as it’s a variation of an existing type

New comment by bob778 in "Real-world ranges for Teslas 50-60% of EPA Range"

bob778 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:52:26 +0000

Most ICE cars show remaining fuel as a distance now, in addition to the fuel gauge (although some now hide the gauge behind several digital menus). No GPS required though, just a tachometer and fuel-burn sensor, and they're required to be accurate to within 2% by law.