Hacker News: clone1018

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

clone1018 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:00:56 +0000

Steam says its unavailable on Mac's with Apple Silicon processors, is that right?

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

clone1018 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:10:48 +0000

CLASSIC.COM | Software Engineer (Elixir) | Remote (Eastern Timezone) | Full Time | https://www.classic.com

We are building CLASSIC.COM a comprehensive platform for classic, collectible, and rare automobiles. As a leader in our vertical, our platform serves millions of users, and we are seeking two Software Engineers to help take our systems to the next level.

The Software Engineer (Elixir) will work in our Experience Team, which builds the complete experience for our customers. You'll use Phoenix + LiveView to build fast, modern, and efficient user experiences, and help continue to roll out Elixir to the rest of the organization. For more details or to apply, reach out to me at luke @ the company domain.

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Both roles are full remote, we do have flexibility regarding country, however there may be some countries we're not equipped to hire in. Though these roles are full time, we're also available to do contract type roles if necessary. Not interested in any recruitment help.

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

clone1018 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:21:01 +0000

CLASSIC.COM | 2 Roles: Software Engineer (Python) / Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) | Remote (Eastern Timezone) | Full Time | https://www.classic.com

The Software Engineer (Python) will work in our Acquisition Team, which is responsible for connecting with 3rd party auction houses, dealers, and venues to bring their inventory into our system and performing additional enrichment to build our database of over a million classic cars. More details: https://www.classic.com/insights/now-hiring-software-enginee...

The Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) will work in our Experience Team, which builds the complete experience for our customers. You'll use Phoenix + LiveView to build fast, modern, and efficient user experiences, and help continue to roll out Elixir to the rest of the organization. More details: https://www.classic.com/insights/now-hiring-senior-software-...

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New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

clone1018 — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:19:58 +0000

Really like your web design!

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

clone1018 — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:17:42 +0000

I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go through with documents this product would be extremely useful. I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with their usual format, therefor making it a less risky product to try?

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

clone1018 — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:05:53 +0000

Timely posting! I've been inspired by some recent... large gaps in data at work (silent analytics processing failures) to build a service called QueryCanary. It's a surprisingly powerful but simple tool that lets you define scheduled SQL checks to run against your database, and then checks those results for anomalies, variances, and other issues.

Really hoping to get some early feedback on this tool, I've been using it for two production sites for about a week now and I've already discovered (at work) that we've had the 2nd largest user signup day, and that we deployed a change that inaccurately tracked a specific metric. Check it out at https://querycanary.com

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

clone1018 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:09:39 +0000

Thank you! Learned something new.

New comment by clone1018 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

clone1018 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:58:18 +0000

I'm working on a workflow automation tool that lets devs write workflows in simple yaml files, and then deploy them to the cloud _or_ on premise. Each workflow is a set of actions and a trigger that can transform data, make api calls, run AI models, or really anything (via docker!). Each step relies on the output of the last step, and the workflow framework is engineering to be declarative, testable, and versioned. Similar to GitHub actions, but for *anything*. Think webhook to slack, email to support ticket, nightly aws backup & restore, mirror a file each night, etc.

New comment by clone1018 in "Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner"

clone1018 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:25:32 +0000

I was able to do it pretty easily with a mobile app, should be just as easy on desktop. You could even register custom “pages” for various parts of the desktop app.

https://github.com/Glimesh/glimesh_app/blob/main/lib/track.d...

New comment by clone1018 in "Flexbox Froggy"

clone1018 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:59:41 +0000

Fun stuff, got through all the levels but the difficulty only really scales on the last level!

New comment by clone1018 in "NTP Implementation in Elixir"

clone1018 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:28:38 +0000

Really enjoy working with bits & bytes in Elixir. The syntax looks weird at first but pattern matching against an incoming message via individual bytes is very nice. I've found the gen_tcp / gen_udp stuff's documentation to be a little hard to grok as most of it only gives deep in the Erlang modules but once you "get it" you really get it. It plays very nicely with GenServer's too for super reliable, fault tolerant, tcp/udp acceptor clients. Thanks for the article, this will be a good resource for everyone to learn more about gen_tcp/udp directly!

New comment by clone1018 in "Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG"

clone1018 — Thu, 11 May 2023 01:05:47 +0000

Unsure why, but the arrow examples you have there show up as unicode code blocks for me in Firefox on a Mac. Probably one of the reasons not to use them like that!

New comment by clone1018 in "deb.nodesource.com certificate is expired"

clone1018 — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:38:12 +0000

We use it for our prod deploy pipeline to package the final image. Normal PRs are working because we cache the Ubuntu image, but prod deploys are fresh :(

Sooner or later, SSL expirations will come for you!

New comment by clone1018 in "Things that improved between Elasticsearch 1 and 7"

clone1018 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:19:28 +0000

I've had really poor experiences so far from Elastic.co. Their core ElasticSearch offering seems to be on the backburner while they focus on "App Search" and other unrelated products like their APM offering. This leads to pretty sub-par knowledge and support for the ElasticSearch product. Even simple things like paginating results is an unknown, and you really have to pay deep into their ecosystem to get real implementation support.

Oddly enough too, due to the way their cloud hosting infrastructure works it seems they double dip into bandwidth pricing that should otherwise be free (eg AWS => AWS). It's also treated less as a "Software" as a service, and more a "platform" as a service, so you are left ultimately with the responsibility of managing, maintaining, and updating your Elastic cluster, without any ability to SSH into the servers its running on.

Then there's the unprofessionalism of laying off your account manager during a client call, or telling your client that you're sorry their ElasticSearch infrastructure is down, but they can't really help you unless you're on their "Sapphire Extreme Plan" [sic]...

Even if OpenSearch is just a cog in Amazon's offering, at least it's of a known quantity.

New comment by clone1018 in "Elastic.co lays off 13% of team"

clone1018 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:56:44 +0000

It's interesting to think about how much these types of articles help lead to the panic of a recession that ends up making a recession happen.

Elastic.co lays off 13% of team

clone1018 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:33:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-email-to-elastic-employees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809631

Points: 97

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New comment by clone1018 in "Halligan Bar"

clone1018 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:53:25 +0000

As a volunteer firefighter in Pennsylvania the halligan is generally the tool I reach for when doing interior operations. Besides the obvious uses of breaking a door in / breaking glass, it actually can be used for near anything. Searching for a victim, poking small holes in the wall to check for fire extension, using it as a ladder to get out of a tall window, etc. I haven't found much personal use in carrying an axe in, but a common set of tools is called "irons" which is your halligan and a flat head axe.

For forcible entry the halligan is _the_ tool to use, check out how quickly it can pop a lock when combined with a flat head axe and a k-tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCAcCuLKE4

Exterior is a completely different story, where the pike pole or pike pole + multitool really shines. You'll use it to check the roof for stability, poke holes to find extension, and after cutting a hole using it to open up the roof and poking your way through the drywall / insulation.

Bunch of very interesting tools (both conventional and unconventional) that firefighters use can be found here: http://www.vententersearch.com/tips.htm

New comment by clone1018 in "My favorite Erlang Program (2013)"

clone1018 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:57:11 +0000

Looks like the website is actually a thin layer of JavaScript that converts the blog post from markdown, injects it as HTML, and then renders the comments below it. Without JS the site is just a hidden textarea.

New comment by clone1018 in "Ffmpeg Buddy"

clone1018 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:42:08 +0000

I ended up making something similar (except in reverse) for the x264 options you can pass in: http://axxim.net/~clone1018/tools/x264.html

New comment by clone1018 in "Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release"

clone1018 — Wed, 18 May 2022 14:59:24 +0000

Highlights blog post here: https://www.erlang.org/blog/my-otp-25-highlights/