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New comment by dpedu in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

dpedu — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:02:44 +0000

Gitea and the self-hosted version of Coder.com. It's the perfect development stack. I can have consistent (and infinite!) development environments no matter which computer I sit down at to work on a project.

New comment by dpedu in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

dpedu — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:22:09 +0000

I understand this is snark, but if you think about it, this is already implemented in electrical infrastructure. If I use too much power, the circuit breaker trips to protect me and protect the electrical grid. OP is about a billing breaker, but the parallels should be obvious.

If the CEO of the electric company didn't mandate circuit breakers, he should go to jail.

New comment by dpedu in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

dpedu — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:40:57 +0000

I'm surprised this isn't law. Should it be?

New comment by dpedu in "Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors"

dpedu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:16:32 +0000

> Reactor 1 runs at 50% output as a preventative measure, EDF says

> Reactor 5 was already offline for maintenance and reactor 6 remains fully operational, EDF says

> EDF expects quick restart after cleanup as no new jellyfish are arriving, an engineer says

This seems like a graceful degradation, not an outright failure or closure.

New comment by dpedu in "Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer"

dpedu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:32:12 +0000

That's pretty interesting, I've never heard of this! I've done something somewhat similar when visiting the Isle of Man.

For the unfamiliar, the Isle of Man hosts a world-renown motorsport race, mainly motorcycles, widely considered the most dangerous and deadly race in the world. Average of 2 to 3 fatalities per year.

It's a rather small and relatively sparsely populated island, but for the weeks of the race, the population absolutely explodes as visitors come from all over the world.

The local government runs a program called Homestay, which encourages residents to rent out their properties or spare rooms, etc, to tourists. And I stayed in one such Homestay. I think I paid 25 pounds a night to stay for about 2 weeks, in the 4th largest town on the island.

It's a great deal, my hosts were amazing, and it's a much better experience than a hotel if you care about learning about the island. I met their entire family and they shared "local knowledge" of interesting spots to check out.

New comment by dpedu in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

dpedu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:50:54 +0000

350x is only about 10-20 years of improvement, using CPU FLOPS as the benchmark.

John Henry in the Age of AI

dpedu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://davepedu.com/blog/2026/08/06/john-henry-in-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209798

Points: 1

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New comment by dpedu in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

dpedu — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:33:05 +0000

Digitizing books, even if it means the destruction of the original, means more people end up having access to the knowledge within, and is a good thing. Full stop.

New comment by dpedu in "John C. Dvorak has died"

dpedu — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:21:20 +0000

Trump is the symptom; the "disease" is whatever causes people to want him running the country over some traditional politician.

New comment by dpedu in "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal"

dpedu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:47:07 +0000

What remains of this computer? Diagrams? Code? Anything that would let us take a closer look at how it works?

New comment by dpedu in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

dpedu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:52:15 +0000

I've been re-building my NAS and decided on NFS on top of ZFS. However, my goals are slightly different than the author: I'm using a low-power cpu/motherboard, and I've built 2 distinct systems that can fail over as a form of high availability. I've actually written some custom software to handle the failover and data replication. In my testing, clients see writes block for just a couple second during failover. Would anyone be interested in a writeup about this?

New comment by dpedu in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

dpedu — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:32:07 +0000

I'm totally on board with the idea that ORMs create a variety of inefficiencies, pain points, and make it really easy to create bad queries or querying strategies. But I use them anyways because the convenience of mapping a row to a code object makes writing programs feel fast and simple. And if you know how ORMs can cause problems and how to watch out for them, you can still get a lot of mileage out of them.

That being said, what's the closest alternative that satisfies this - "mapping rows to a code object" - that doesn't suffer the same problems as an ORM? A middle ground between an ORM (like SQLAlchemy, for example) and "your rows are returned as a key/value dictionary where the column names are keys" type approach like Python's DB-API's DictCursor or PHP's mysqli_fetch_assoc. Is there a middle ground here?

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:13:32 +0000

Developers having a troubled relationship with documentation isn't new.

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:07:34 +0000

This is an argument for returning to living in caves and hunting mammoths for fear that our modern civilization becomes unavailable for a day or two.

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:02:15 +0000

Both articles use 2017 as the turning point date. TTS is a lot older than that. It's not difficult to find data to fit the desired point if you choose a narrow enough time range. Or location selectivity - both of those are just about the United States.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-ra...

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:54:50 +0000

I don't buy it. Literacy rates have been increasing even after the invention of text to speech.

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:52:18 +0000

https://anthropicisdown.com/

New comment by dpedu in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

dpedu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:48:03 +0000

I don't understand this comment. At worst, we're just back to the baseline - working without AI help.

New comment by dpedu in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

dpedu — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:16:45 +0000

And Group Replication

New comment by dpedu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

dpedu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:25:41 +0000

Location: USA, East coast

Remote: Yes, only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, Go, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AI/ML on Kubernetes, AWS (S3, EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, others), MySQL/Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Jenkins. Site Reliability. Limited exposure to many more such as Kafka, FoundationDB, Cloudflare.

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hncontact@davepedu.com

I've done just about everything Silicon Valley has to offer; working for tiny, unprofitable startups, larger startups pre, post, and through IPO and acquisition, as well as giants with 100,000+ employees.