Hacker News: da02

New comment by da02 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

da02 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:24:14 +0000

Other than the price increases, any issues with Hetzner? Any alternatives you would recommend?

New comment by da02 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

da02 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:11:49 +0000

I just gave up on reading respectable news outlet like NY Times. I decided to just get it from "fringe" Youtube channels: Danny Haiphong, Dialogue Works with Nima, The Jimmy Dore Show. Recently, former CIA analyst, Larry Johnson, worked with Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali to vet a source saying Iran has 1 or 2 nuclear weapons. Let's see how long it will take the NY Times to avoid/deny/confirm that story.

New comment by da02 in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

da02 — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:13:21 +0000

> Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment where your access to information is limited to what Google’s synthetic text extruders deem relevant.

They mentioned AOL. Remember back when AOL bought Time Warner in a "merger of equals", but it really wasn't. Then this fear AOL will become your telephone company because AOL Instant Messenger was so popular? Then, MSFT won the browser wars and disbanded the IE team and came up with a whole .Net strategy to takeover the Web. Then came Firefox, Google, Web 2.0, etc. I remember Dave Winer writing how Google was making real stuff while Netscape was doing mostly hacks.

David is now Goliath. So I am all for Google taking over the Web. They will go bankrupt doing it. They couldn't even make Google+ a thing. What was that anyway? I lack a Ph.d to understand that thing.

A few startups there, a bunch of open e-commerce standards here, and bunch of market value gone after the AI bubble... Google (and many others) are going against Artists who can Code. Who knows what delights will come.

New comment by da02 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

da02 — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:25:48 +0000

What was the most stressful part of that job?

New comment by da02 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

da02 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:15:22 +0000

How do you deal with the few minutes of downtime when you do kernel/OS/software upgrades?

New comment by da02 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

da02 — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:16:43 +0000

How does AMC stay in business after all these years?

Disagreeing with Google, Postgres, Future Problems – Mike Stonebraker [video]

da02 — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPObBOwIrHk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990433

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by da02 in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

da02 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:20:17 +0000

What would you buy if you were Apple and there were post-bubble/fire-sale prices on equipment and/or companies?

New comment by da02 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

da02 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:23:37 +0000

What did you think of G+? I never understood it, but what would you have done now differently than Google with G+ (using your hindsight and battle scars)?

Computer Science Is a Trap for Smart People [video]

da02 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMn9hNerqZ8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837460

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

You bought your Nissan, so why are features still locked behind restrictions? [video]

da02 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:30:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/osml_SGSTlk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808396

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by da02 in "Do you even need a database?"

da02 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:39:48 +0000

Retail customers or B2B? What was stopping you from starting a similar business, but different product category?

New comment by da02 in "Do you even need a database?"

da02 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:53:03 +0000

Sounds like a tough business. The profit margins must have been razor thin.

New comment by da02 in "Do you even need a database?"

da02 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:40:19 +0000

What type of product or service were they selling?

New comment by da02 in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

da02 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:55:20 +0000

What was the home country of the acquiring company? UAE? Argentina?

New comment by da02 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

da02 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:32:35 +0000

Did he come from an old-money wealthy family? How did he find the time and money to be an unofficial cultural archivist?

New comment by da02 in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

da02 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:48:12 +0000

Which brands do you usually recommend for desktop/laptop related accessories?

New comment by da02 in "In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC"

da02 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:24:59 +0000

What are some novel processes or technologies you see becoming more important in the next 5-10 years?

New comment by da02 in "Why Cloudflare rule order matters?"

da02 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:32:17 +0000

What is the most stressful part of your job? Crazy customers or CEOs?

New comment by da02 in "Facebook is cooked"

da02 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:47:47 +0000

The first half of the last paragraph is a warning: Get schools to stop using Facebook. If they are showing that kind of content to a grown hetero-woman, I'd hate to wonder what they show to everyone else.

I never signed up to that site because I thought sooner or later Google or some startup would just clone it, lower the ad count, improve censorship, and run it at near break-even. Especially since you don't have to save every single post created for eternity.