Hacker News: brianwawok

New comment by brianwawok in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

brianwawok — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:04:08 +0000

Can it summarize this entire hacker news post out of existence?

New comment by brianwawok in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

brianwawok — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:18:24 +0000

It sometimes makes financial sense to own your own servers

New comment by brianwawok in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

brianwawok — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:37:49 +0000

In the short term the math is usually bad. Can be a 20, 30, 40 year payback on insulation. For the builder? It’s almost for sure a loss unless he can play the green card. For any individual owner? They are likely to leave before they recoup a project like this. Appraisals on houses are price per square foot with a bedroom and bathroom modifier. Until people start pricing in energy efficiency in homes, say a price multiple of 0.8 to 1.2 based on the efficiency of the home? It’s going to be hard to math out. Which yes is sad.

New comment by brianwawok in "Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April"

brianwawok — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:23:39 +0000

Appreciating assets!

New comment by brianwawok in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

brianwawok — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:31:12 +0000

And oddly enough plenty the other way.

New comment by brianwawok in "DoorDash Tasks"

brianwawok — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:47:04 +0000

Ignoring the easy second line, the answer to the first line is: we have two political parties in the US. What if neither are doing what the voters want?

New comment by brianwawok in "Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move"

brianwawok — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:25:28 +0000

Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT according to the article?

New comment by brianwawok in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

brianwawok — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:05:07 +0000

I don’t think Python is the main language of AI.

New comment by brianwawok in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

brianwawok — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:04:07 +0000

I have shifted as much as I can python to go when I don’t code. It’s just faster and the compiler catches more errors, win win,

New comment by brianwawok in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

brianwawok — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:10:41 +0000

Alternately, have a small team where you trust everyone.

New comment by brianwawok in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

brianwawok — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:25:01 +0000

How much riding does it take to hold 25mph? 12 months of solid riding? (This is being generous, many people will never hold this speed)

How much riding does it take to twist your arm 30 degrees?

You don’t see a difference?

New comment by brianwawok in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

brianwawok — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:24:07 +0000

Elderly on a basically unlicensed motorcycle is a good recipe for injury. Pretty sure the stats look bad for this group especially

New comment by brianwawok in "Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%"

brianwawok — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:21:21 +0000

Mmm oatmeal. Breakfast of champions. I usually do it for about 330 days a year. Take a month off every once in a while..

New comment by brianwawok in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

brianwawok — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:42:04 +0000

If tokens and beef came from the same limited “credit pool”, I would for sure be vegan so I could work more tokens

New comment by brianwawok in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

brianwawok — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:26:13 +0000

I mean it’s IBM. On average, 70% of their decisions are bad ones. Not sure I’d pay a single bit of attention to what they do.

New comment by brianwawok in "Claude Code Is the Inflection Point"

brianwawok — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:38:08 +0000

Security as in sending code to a random Datacenter, or security as in security holes? Because the latter has gotten a lot better with good workflows. The former is hard without self hosting

New comment by brianwawok in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

brianwawok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:19:41 +0000

My log bill for Google cloud log would be like 30k. For splunk I like 80k. I self host for 1.5k per month. Spend maybe an hour a month? Easiest money I ever made.

New comment by brianwawok in "GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster"

brianwawok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:09:07 +0000

Try Claude and you can get x^2 performance. OpenAI is sweating

New comment by brianwawok in "Margin Call"

brianwawok — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:14:11 +0000

Nah. They won’t even know it’s a problem to solve.

New comment by brianwawok in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

brianwawok — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:42:54 +0000

But if you are too small for celery, it seems a hard sell to buy a premium message queue?

My top problem with my celery setup has always been visibility. AI and I spent and afternoon setting up a Prometheus / grafana server, and wiring celery into it. Has been a game changer. When things go crazy in prod, I can usually single it down to a specific task for a specific user. Has made my troubleshooting go from days to minutes. The actual queue and execute part has always been easy / worked well.