Hacker News: dtech

New comment by dtech in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

dtech — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:08:39 +0000

Their managed solution is pricey and especially the linear scaling with how much you use it is very meh. It's comparable with AWS lambda which also isn't cheap. However it's minor on a typical cloud bill.

Self-hosting is very easy in my experience, I've done it for 2 years but management wanted to move to Temporal Cloud. They have a helm chart which just works including upgrades. This does assume you have the whole k8s shebang set up and working in your company. I never had to touch is outside upgrades which took maybe 30m including validation.

New comment by dtech in "Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout"

dtech — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:57:34 +0000

Not retail ISPs, but many extensions and free VPNs route VPN traffic through the connections of those who use them.

New comment by dtech in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

dtech — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:19:08 +0000

In good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either

Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or

Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions

Both seem like pretty shitty arguments

New comment by dtech in "Where the goblins came from"

dtech — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:35:31 +0000

I wonder if a proportionally large amount of RLHF was done by Indians which causes this behavior.

New comment by dtech in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

dtech — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:56:46 +0000

Many nations/languages did not respect that rename until Turkey became an ally in the 20th century.

New comment by dtech in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

dtech — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:26:59 +0000

More than a decade ago

New comment by dtech in "Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows"

dtech — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:50:08 +0000

Or they didn't want to commit to the extra shows until demand was clear

New comment by dtech in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

dtech — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:25:09 +0000

This is fully on Apple themselves. USB consortium asked apple to use lightning for what became USB-C, but Apple didn't want to give up the ecosystem control.

New comment by dtech in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

dtech — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:38:09 +0000

That's just plain bullshit? I just checked my local second hand marketplace, and 2 year old flagship models seem to go for about 35-50% of the current equivalent newest model price.

New comment by dtech in "Swiss AI Initiative (2023)"

dtech — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:02:19 +0000

I propose every Linux post should be tagged (1991) from now on

New comment by dtech in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

dtech — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:21:51 +0000

I don't but this. The first 2 generations of iPod didn't even have USB connectors, only FireWire, which was a PITA as most PCs had a USB connection by that time but FireWire wasn't common as opposed to Mac.

New comment by dtech in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

dtech — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:17:32 +0000

It was probably very localized, where my parent worked in the late 90s every office room had at least one, so my parents also bought one for home so they could easily transfer files.

It almost dissapeares overnight once 32MB+ usb drives became common, much more convenenient.

New comment by dtech in "What the EU Battery Passport Means for Your Devices"

dtech — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:05:45 +0000

Article is vague and contradicts itself about what is covered. Likely AI slop

New comment by dtech in "Claude Opus 4.7"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:12:53 +0000

You can't draw conclusions on individuals, but at a species level bigger brain, especially compared to body size, strongly correlates with intelligence

New comment by dtech in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:25 +0000

I don't event think h265 is widely supported. On Windows you have to pay separately for it

New comment by dtech in "AI cybersecurity is not proof of work"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:44:30 +0000

The proof of halting being unsolvable usually uses a specific "adverserial" machine. In practice it's incredibly likely for the halt question to be answerable for any specific real life program.

New comment by dtech in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:33:58 +0000

That's quite a stretch, and untested in court.

At least a monkey is an unambiguous autonomous entity. A LLM is a - heck of a complicated - piece of software, and could very well be ruled a tool like any other

New comment by dtech in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:56:14 +0000

Nat64: https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/

New comment by dtech in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:51:46 +0000

ISPs in the US and Europe mostly have been offering IPv6 for a while now

New comment by dtech in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

dtech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:42:37 +0000

Apple/iOS is probably one of the biggest individual drivers of IPv6 adoption. They've been requiring that iOS apps work on IPv6-only networks for close to 10 years now