Hacker News: dangero

New comment by dangero in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

dangero — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:16:39 +0000

The hot spare switchover idea is good. Another related idea: restore each from backup regularly.

New comment by dangero in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

dangero — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:09:47 +0000

Agree with this — the economics have completely changed. Along these lines, we all need to re-scope our personal cybersecurity.

For example, developers should no longer run dev environments on the same machine where they access passwords, messages, and emails — no external package installation on that box at all.

SaaS Password Managers — assume your vault will be stolen from whichever provider is hosting it.

Ubikeys will be more important than ever to airgap root auth credentials.

New comment by dangero in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

dangero — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:49:41 +0000

Every search query you’ve ever made is not available from any data broker and if you hear otherwise someone is lying

New comment by dangero in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

dangero — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:17:22 +0000

That assumes you live in a place where the traffic system handles all edge cases

New comment by dangero in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

dangero — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:16:23 +0000

Imagine a street where cars are moving at 2mph because of traffic. Cars can never cross unless someone yields

New comment by dangero in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

dangero — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:14:34 +0000

I wasn’t clear, but yes I meant in a car. During morning commute there are whole hours where certain roads are gridlocked leaving no space to cross. Beverly is one example of this.

There is no way to cross unless someone yields to let you through

New comment by dangero in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

dangero — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:32:26 +0000

If it results in less deaths then it seems likely to me

New comment by dangero in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

dangero — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:44:22 +0000

The problem we will encounter with self driving cars is that while they will make less mistakes than humans, they will make different mistakes.

Humans will continue to have a hard time accepting this tradeoff.

I live in LA where Waymos are now on every street. My experience is that they don’t respect human courtesy, so for example if I need to cross a lane of busy traffic, a human may brake as a courtesy to let me through. Waymos have fucked me over where a human probably would have shown some level of community and empathy.

New comment by dangero in "Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it"

dangero — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:50:23 +0000

The problem I’ve heard about small deals is that the bankers want a larger percentage. Can you comment on that aspect?

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:45:02 +0000

There is tons of public information online about it. This is a strange approach to claim that the only way to know about a topic is to become an investigative journalist making phone calls to research groups.

Most of the usable water supply annually in CA comes from the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This is also where the largest cloud seeding operations are.

People who claim cloud seeding ops only make a small impact on the usable water supply don’t understand that a small percentage shift in snowpack makes a difference between a drought and not a drought.

What I’m saying is that estimations of total cloud seeding water impact do align with the numbers needed to take the state out of a drought.

As I linked elsewhere there have been lawsuits in the past over cloud seeding causing floods.

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:52:20 +0000

Thank you. Every time I talk about cloud seeding in CA people have a strongly negative response without any facts and I'm not really sure why

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:48:19 +0000

To my point, liability concerns are listed on that pdf as a reason why Santa Clara County stopped.

Cloud seeding can definitely increase rain over California even by your logic. Clouds don't respect state boundaries.

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:34:41 +0000

Here’s a research report relating to weather modification. It references even a prior California case where a flood happened in an area utilizing cloud seeding.

https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:32:49 +0000

Applied research is active cloud seeding

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:31:57 +0000

It can affect current rainfall numbers, future rainfall, and future projections

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:30:30 +0000

Applied research is active cloud seeding

New comment by dangero in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

dangero — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:30:20 +0000

It’s important to note that rainfall in CA is not 100% natural. The state actively funds cloud seeding.

https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/gfo-23-311-advancing-precip...

Example of a recent $2.5M grant.

This information is often buried in budgets under applied research grants. I suspect they obscure this information because it could create liabilities, for example, if gov funded rain seeding creates flooding and human death are they partially responsible for this?

New comment by dangero in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

dangero — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:23:08 +0000

Yes — similarly I work in cryptocurrency and constantly try to tell people that credit cards are unbeatable for payments because of the consumer protections. Chargebacks are an insanely consumer friendly feature. Nobody ever wants to engage in that conversation.

New comment by dangero in "My boss fired me over WhatsApp while he was on vacation in Honolulu"

dangero — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:57:59 +0000

Agencies use a lot of contractors. This sounds like a part time contractor kind of gig not full time based on the details.

Not that this makes everything OK, but that would explain the weeks of silence followed by termination over whatsapp. It’s possible there were no further formal requirements to sever the relationship besides ceasing communication.

New comment by dangero in "How we rooted Copilot"

dangero — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:37:43 +0000

Sales people are specifically trained to manipulate people by asking them questions that they will say ‘yes’ to because once people start to say yes, they tend to continue to say it.