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New comment by djb_hackernews in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

djb_hackernews — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:46:37 +0000

err, this is an odd response given that this assessment has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked every time it is offered up.

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

djb_hackernews — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:08:38 +0000

When an SVP asks you to do something in a mass email, it's very much optional. Dave Treadwell is an SVP, his org is likely in the 10's of thousands, there is no way to even have a mandatory meeting for that many people.

My SVP asks me to do things all the time, indirectly. I do probably 5% of them.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

djb_hackernews — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:06:48 +0000

I live in an old house.

The front bump out leaks when we get driving rain. I installed some flashing but that wasn't enough, it's still leaking. So I'm working on that so I can close up the big hole in the ceiling some day.

The prior owners filled in the old coal chute with literal bags of cement sort of artistically placed in the hole in the brick foundation. So I'm trying to figure out what masonry tools and skills I'll need to close it up proper.

I'd like to build my kids a playhouse of some sort, sketching out some designs for that.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Writing code is cheap now"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:19:44 +0000

Curious if your mental model is similar or how you see them being different.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Writing code is cheap now"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:37:47 +0000

Are you familiar with the cathedral vs the bazaar?

New comment by djb_hackernews in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

djb_hackernews — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:53:46 +0000

You have a misunderstanding of what LLMs are good at.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:20:24 +0000

It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:01:23 +0000

you don't think that's where we are headed?

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

djb_hackernews — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:41:01 +0000

I work at a large software company, senior engineers here are essentially technical leads for a team or a subsystem. They are my equals when it comes to level, often getting paid a lot more than me for high performers.

I'm here to help the team make decisions, but I delegate as much of the opinion having to my senior engineers. To have an opinion they need a bunch of inputs, sometimes getting those inputs isn't as natural as the technical inputs, that's where I come in.

Senior engineers are still involved in cross cutting technical concerns but for any work that is bounded by our team I'd be working with them scope out the work as requirements or use cases we give to mid level or early career engineers on the team to disambiguate with the senior engineer as a consult/negotiate.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

djb_hackernews — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:14:06 +0000

I am an EM that manages several senior engineers currently. I find it super common for senior engineers to get promoted mostly on technical merit, we end up thinking the rest "can be coached". Or it's coaching to the next level. Here are some areas I coach them on:

- influencing without authority. Managing up. Leadership.

- getting work prioritized

- providing useful performance feedback (promos etc)

- coaching and giving feedback to early career engineers

- communicating ideas effectively

- developing 1YP+ plans for their areas.

- idk, there are a lot, senior engineers are rarely "complete"

New comment by djb_hackernews in "What has Docker become?"

djb_hackernews — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:06:01 +0000

for the record, cpuguy83 was in the trenches at docker circa 2013, it was like him a handful of other people working on docker when it went viral, he has an extremely insiders perspective, I'd trust what he says.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado"

djb_hackernews — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:45:24 +0000

Uh...What?

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs"

djb_hackernews — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:26:44 +0000

This topic is interesting. I am on the condo board in a 20 unit association, mostly attached townhomes. The biggest issue is the person in the "owners" unit, the one with the most invested, not playing ball with the other units.

That said if anyone has tips on good condo management companies in the Boston area, let me know!

New comment by djb_hackernews in "WHO List of Essential Medicines"

djb_hackernews — Thu, 13 May 2021 14:32:53 +0000

Interesting. Are you using it prophylactically? Is this common in The Netherlands?

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:12:29 +0000

Tell that to the lawyers who are paid lots of money to be risk adverse. As others point out, the law operates on precedent, no lawyer wants their decision to be the one that makes their employer a test piece.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references"

djb_hackernews — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:02:16 +0000

I'm going to blow your mind...

The "mastering" process of audio mixing historically starts with the input of "slave" tapes...

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers"

djb_hackernews — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:57:24 +0000

I just assume someone with a water sports fetish is about to get a dick pic.

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages"

djb_hackernews — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:38:25 +0000

Is anyone aware of a chaos tool that isn't a SaaS (free or not) and doesn't require using Spinnaker like the current Netflix chaos tool does?

New comment by djb_hackernews in "Cubans overwhelmingly ratify new socialist constitution"

djb_hackernews — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:51:59 +0000

> Also it's frankly weird how the last capitalist era there is basically enshrined in their culture

No, I think your first list perfectly enshrines the effects of modern day capitalism on modern day Cuba...

> garbage EVERYWHERE, many toilets have to ration toiled paper (!), not to mention, no incentive to clean the bathrooms, many restaurants had bland flavors due to the inability to order specialty food items and spices and only work with the bulk items the government gives you

Ask HN: Best way to put a database on the web?

djb_hackernews — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:33:17 +0000

I have some data that is currently in an xlsx. I'd like to put this data on the web, as is, so that it is queryable by anyone via a UI. ie someone visits mydatabase.com and they can perform ad hoc queries (SQL, some slick UI, whatever works) on the data.

The data is not big, it's a single sheet with about 20 columns and less than a million rows (however the xlsx file is too large to import in to google drive sheets, and attempts to save as csv have failed). I don't care if it is SQL, cloud based, some other service. I'm not concerned about cost. I don't need authentication or authorization or anything. I'm optimizing for just getting the data out there and ease of querying. I would like to be able to see visitor analytics if possible.

Before I go writing a webapp to do this, there must be something off the shelf?

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