Hacker News: discordianfish

New comment by discordianfish in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

discordianfish — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:36:22 +0000

I’ve been around long enough to remember people saying that VMs are useless waste of resources with dubious claims about isolation, cloud is just someone else’s computer, containers are pointless and now it’s AI. There is a astonishing amount of conservatism in the hacker scene..

New comment by discordianfish in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

discordianfish — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:42:39 +0000

The agent is free to maintain a fork of the project. Would be actually quite interesting to see how this turns out.

New comment by discordianfish in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

discordianfish — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:03:22 +0000

Indeed, nothing about the root issues are particular surprising but why they missed a critical service panicing across their fleet is not bubbling up.

My best guess is too many alerts firing without a clear hierarchy and possibilities to seprate cause from effect. It's a typical challenge but I wish they would shed some light on that. And its a bit concerning that improving observability is not part of their follow up steps.

New comment by discordianfish in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

discordianfish — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:09:01 +0000

It's for listening to your prometheus metrics: http://promaudio.5pi.de/

Build Securely with GitHub Actions and ECR Using OpenID Connect

discordianfish — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://5pi.de/2024/aws-gh-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315104

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Build Securely with GitHub Actions and ECR Using OpenID Connect

discordianfish — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:45:33 +0000

Article URL: https://5pi.de/2024/aws-gh-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289923

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Network issues in AWS us-west-2?

discordianfish — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:55:29 +0000

We are seeing some network issues in MTR in the first hops after the NAT GW. Seems to be particular heavy in one AZ but the other one we're using seems to be also affected. Anyone else?

``` 1. ip-10-64-0-84.us-west-2.compute.internal 0.0% 257 0.3 0.3 0.3 3.7 0.2 2. ec2-44-233-117-41.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com 0.0% 257 8.2 14.0 0.8 116.3 23.8 3. 240.0.64.7 0.0% 257 0.6 4.7 0.5 580.8 40.1 240.0.64.5 4. 240.0.64.16 0.0% 257 0.5 0.5 0.4 9.6 0.6 ```

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37855991

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by discordianfish in "Ask HN: Cannot Deploy to Fly.io"

discordianfish — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:53:13 +0000

I was about to ask if someone has network issues on AWS us-west-2. MTR here seems to point to some latency issues there..

New comment by discordianfish in "New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour"

discordianfish — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:37:03 +0000

This will make you end up missing crucial trace elements if not replaced somehow

New comment by discordianfish in "27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)"

discordianfish — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:19:14 +0000

I can second that. Had the Gemini. Never used it much because everything was awkward about it, from the lack of software/firmware to the keyboard until two years later the battery expanded and was bending the case. Not only refused planetcomputers to replace it for free, the only option they gave me was paying £125.00 and sending it in. I've asked if they can send me a replacement battery so I can do it myself but they refused, pointing out safety issues with mailing a battery - while asking me to send the Gemini with the swollen battery to them.

New comment by discordianfish in "Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics"

discordianfish — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:41:24 +0000

To be clear, this is not the Auschwitz museum. Point still stands.

New comment by discordianfish in "Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics"

discordianfish — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:40:10 +0000

No, it was widely know. I'm sure you didn't intent this but this 'excuse' is the talking point of neonazis here in Germany to deflect guilt and relativize what happened.

New comment by discordianfish in "AI camera with no lens"

discordianfish — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:32:25 +0000

These ideas are what we should be worried about, not the paperclip thing.

New comment by discordianfish in "OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO"

discordianfish — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:42:17 +0000

Call it playing devil's advocate here but given all the scam around "SomethingGPT" I find it reasonable to assume they try to trademark it mainly to prevent this.

New comment by discordianfish in "Ask HN: Co-founding US C-Corp from Germany"

discordianfish — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:48:48 +0000

Thank you very much for the input! We have zero revenue yet but reaching out to our first potential customers. Creating a e.g German UG is an option, but I've heard[1] converting this into a C-Corp or anything a US VC would want to invest in is very painful as well.

1: https://richventures.com/posts/how-i-would-start-my-next-sta...

Ask HN: Co-founding US C-Corp from Germany

discordianfish — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:31:37 +0000

Hi,

I'm from Germany and consider founding a US C-Corp via Stripe Atlas from Germany with my co-founder being Italian living in Canada currently. I'd be CTO, he CEO.

Unfortunately all the legal stuff seems to be way more annoying than I expected.. And I expected it to be a PITA already..

From what I've learned to avoid Germany considering this a "Controlled foreign corporation" and having to pay corporate tax in both US and Germany would be creating a holding in Germany, then a subsidary of the C-Corp. And even then I couldn't have board meetings from Germany (including online)..

Similar issues might arise for my co-founder, at least if he moves back to the US (IIRC Canada has a agreement with the US around these things).

Now I'm wondering, is there a way around? What are other people in similar situations are doing? Is there any option we can wait to deal with the complex subsidary structures until we actually have some revenue and resources to pay someone to help with that?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502545

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by discordianfish in "Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another"

discordianfish — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:38:12 +0000

I always thought that roasting beans is it's own science. Isn't 'beans roasted with heat gun' quite a weakest link in this pipeline to great coffee?

New comment by discordianfish in "Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python"

discordianfish — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:55:43 +0000

"Sign up to save" is a quite common pattern these days and what I would suggest they are doing here as well.

New comment by discordianfish in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

discordianfish — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:03:54 +0000

(Micro)service names should be descriptive and stick to doing what they are named after. If you need to change the scope, it's an change to the overall architecture and changing the name and good way to communicate that. If a employee reads the name they know what its suppose to do.

Company and product names (including e.g open source projects) are different. You want to be able to change your scope depending on customer demand without having to rebrand.

New comment by discordianfish in "Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?"

discordianfish — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:34:32 +0000

> No one should be running that without personally verifying each line.

Do you also verify each line of software you install? If you trust the author of certain software, why do you mistrust their install script?