Hacker News: dmacedo

New comment by dmacedo in "Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower [video]"

dmacedo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:57:36 +0000

I initially submitted without comment, but just want to also say:

This is a looong conversation between Kelsey and Gergely, but I feel it's worth watching (whatever that means coming from someone you don't know).

There's plenty of really valuable insights into both Kelsey's mindset and attitude, which I really appreciated and connected with, from the path taken, to things probably all learn in our careers.

And absolutely loved the arch of the conversation, the value for us later in our careers is likely towards the last half of the video, but it does make me really appreciate the storytelling I feel we should all share with our peers and our younger colleagues.

Hope you are fortunate enough to have or can find the time to enjoy this, I really enjoy the "exit plan".

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower [video]

dmacedo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:48:41 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467534

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by dmacedo in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

dmacedo — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:02:03 +0000

Perhaps you should wait to make that case, we're starting to see ramifications from USAID cuts as the worse one, but there's also health and nutrition effects from Medicaid/SNAP reductions, and whatever in the world is happening on immigration and detention with insane ICE behaviour, plus second order effects from abortion and public health changes.

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

dmacedo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:55:53 +0000

Trying to solve my own problem of drowning in meetings and scattered tools, turning things into actionable items.

It sits on top of what I already use and gives me a unified "What do I need to do (now/today)?" view.

Trying to auto-capture action items from meeting transcriptions and other inbound, and routing quick thoughts to the right tool with a couple of keystrokes, helping me prioritise my day so I'm not spending energy on too much organising (or through lack of organising getting distracted).

I wanted something that watched my inputs and keep my GTD loop running, especially when back-to-back meetings and context-switching make it really hard (or impossible) to stay on top of things I need to do!

Might also augment it with LLM for some support of task breakdown, but only as human-in-loop assistance.

Not thinking this could ever turn into a product since it's so custom.

New comment by dmacedo in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

dmacedo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:20:12 +0000

It was, and and the same with ReTweets (RT) and #hashtags, some of us were even there since the SMS days and witnessed that formal adoption

New comment by dmacedo in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

dmacedo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:37 +0000

Some countries don't allow dual citizenship, which means you'd no longer be a citizen of your country of origin, you know, where your family might live.

I have plenty of friends who otherwise would apply, and ILR should be sufficient in a democratic government following social and political contracts.

New comment by dmacedo in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

dmacedo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:09:21 +0000

Not American here, but I'm aware of both privacy in mixed forms (privacy act 1974, HIPAA, COPPA, and CCPA in California); as well as anonimity in First Amendment et al since there's case law (IANAL) demonstrating the requirement of anonimity to avoid persecution of free speech.

All of these have limitations and exceptions in a complex legal system. But to issue a blanket statement like the comment above is no really correct - just trying to make a point, I guess

New comment by dmacedo in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

dmacedo — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:22:34 +0000

What a weird way of phrasing that. The whole point of ethics in multiple disciplines is to try and study the principles of humanity in the society we've formed. The areas of philosophy, medicine, justice, and religion are filled with centuries of discussions trying to argue and explain a lot of these matters.

But the philosopher of the Internet of today, instead of curiosity of reasoning and arguing for what should change in deontology, and why; sums it up as "ethicists forbid...".

I'd really like to understand your views better on what should change and why...

Especially when there's plenty of ignoring of ethics in today's world!

Who Wants a Browser?

dmacedo — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:50:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chrismdp.com/who-wants-a-browser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706097

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dmacedo in "The Dismantling of the Forest Service"

dmacedo — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:37:17 +0000

How big of an Internet Troll do you have to be, to leave comments that have very clear Historical Artefacts and regulation demonstrating this?

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/jacksons-messag...

New comment by dmacedo in "OpenEuroLLM"

dmacedo — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:21 +0000

This should probably link to the actual press release since its more of an announcement of something forming rather than a release of any models, code, whitepapers, etc.

https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release

New comment by dmacedo in "Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?"

dmacedo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:23:21 +0000

I would echo this and share with the parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo

Also Russell Barkley has since fully retired though has been very active in diaseminating what's happening in (good and bad) research, plus other lectures on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0tLWu7ljYVFPiZQfHjTMsA

New comment by dmacedo in "I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source"

dmacedo — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:20:02 +0000

I believe this is a better approach for scale.

Make it a local or company-wide identification of FOSS packages, and a way for those individuals, teams, and businesses to score them by importance or criticality (or needs of the FOSS project if they are aware).

New comment by dmacedo in "Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution"

dmacedo — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:14:11 +0000

Having just worked with some of the Thread folks at M&S, thought I'd reach out and say hello. Seems like it was an awesome team! (=

New comment by dmacedo in "Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)"

dmacedo — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:05:25 +0000

Not that I've used this extensively, but months would likely increase to quarters.

And if you're estimating something to the lengths of months, you're already into project management territory size, rather than broken down to development/delivery sizes... The amount of unknown unknowns and other uncertainty certainly warrant happily estimating years length, surely.

Also #NoEstimates (=

New comment by dmacedo in "Crypto bot borrows $200M in a flash loan to secure just $3 of profit"

dmacedo — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:30:30 +0000

Of course there's a need for a lender, even at a microsecond transaction you do need funds to perform arbitrage, it's not just all theoretical funds - there's backing to them.

Else let's all just pretend trade on a real market until it collapses and just make sure they come a-knockin' on some non-existent firm...

Plus my conjecture, from my understanding, is the flash loan terms incentivise fast payback, whilst still retaining some fixed profit.

Akin to a credit card which has an effective 0% rate of you pay back within a certain time frame, but raises to 30% monthly after that.

I'd be happy to provide you with a flash loan at 0.001% fixed rate of profit for me/cost for you for the first 5mins and scare you with a 30% rate calculated every minute after that. For some pre-validated huge sum I know your business can be liable for, of course.

Which allows capital scarce firms to leverage these micro-loans on fast arbitrage opportunity where they should take any transaction that provides anything larger than that 0.001% in transacted profit. And let's them compete with larger firms on optimising pricing.

New comment by dmacedo in "Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request"

dmacedo — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:26:17 +0000

Majority of times I've seen this being solved with shopping cart items being copied from the main product table by SKU with the current price.

There is a TTL on the shopping cart itself. However, that meant for a period of time you had a frozen cost per-line-item in a shopping cart.

New comment by dmacedo in "iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe"

dmacedo — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:19:43 +0000

Latest moves seem to imply Apple might want a slice of the Ad network pie. So I wouldn't bet on capitalistic ideals/incentives not overtaking idealistic consumer protections.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...

New comment by dmacedo in "Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission"

dmacedo — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:16:49 +0000

Since you might know - as I've seen the references on social media for this exact occurrence - is this referenced somewhere in T&Cs?

New comment by dmacedo in "Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California"

dmacedo — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:58:38 +0000

The article mentions "Transcendentalism", the above comment's author seems to have researched, and offered their opinion on the matter. Seems like an appropriate comment, and a worthwhile discussion of what the transcendental ethos imply, coupled with what drives the behaviours that are antithetical to those goals, which leads to the historical moments the article refers to.