Hacker News: dwedge

New comment by dwedge in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

dwedge — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:40:17 +0000

The British government cleared a large chunk of 5 years of the NHS (hospital) waiting list by, in part, just removing people from it if they'd been waiting too long.

The headlines feel similar

New comment by dwedge in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:51:17 +0000

This problem doesn't go away with postgres. It's totally anecdotal but this is one thing that I've noticed different in mysql shops and postgres shops - with mysql there is usually at least one person on staff who knows MySQL DBA and scaling pretty well, with postgres it's rarely the case to have someone who knows the internals well - like you said, the person capable of maintaining it when it goes wrong.

You could argue it's because postgres requires less poking though I would say you don't need the DBA for when things go right.

Of course most people are just handing the management off to the cloud and that's potentially why, but it doesn't cover everything

New comment by dwedge in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:32:54 +0000

It happens in every profile. Only one has the play store and is rarely used, doesn't run in the background

New comment by dwedge in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:46:12 +0000

9. I left it with 70% battery for 5 hours and came home and it was red hot and dead. In a city with no reception issues.

New comment by dwedge in "GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:45:20 +0000

A member of the NSA also provided the ECDSA P-256 curve seeds but totally can't remember why

New comment by dwedge in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:38:56 +0000

I ran Graphene without a Sim card for 2 months and as soon as I added a Sim card (with of course, difficult to vet networking) the phone is always hot and the battery life reduced by half. Might be a coincidence but also made me rethink how I feel about Graphene

New comment by dwedge in "The Amazon tax"

dwedge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:53:41 +0000

I still use Amazon despite them being burned because they seem slightly more reliable than other places, but only slightly and my goodwill to them is completely burned. Yesterday they delivered a package to a parcel locker 150 miles away, which is a double screw up because it was supposed to be to the door. They've also made it really difficult to see where a package will be shipped from (and so whether or not you'll pay import taxes).

But I'm close. My purchases through them are down probably somewhere around 80%. My girlfriend never really used Amazon and doesn't see the appeal at all - telling someone "it used to be good" makes you wonder what you're doing.

Even AWS has burned me and clients enough times that we pretty much don't use them anymore - an idea that was unthinkable a decade ago.

The other thing is that the more they burn this goodwill the more they'll be tempted to increase ad revenue, and the more the goodwill will disappear.

New comment by dwedge in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

dwedge — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:26:42 +0000

I love the irony of you checking them out for more information in response to a comment of them being worried about who reads their data. Nothing wrong with it, just make me chuckle

New comment by dwedge in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

dwedge — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:51:08 +0000

I was under the impression that to backup the encrypted whatsapp you need to enable your own encryption key, which presumably makes it more secure but of course that's trusting Meta's implementation

New comment by dwedge in "Incident with Github.com"

dwedge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:31:38 +0000

Especially now with LLMs. My hand coded github activity is through the roof the last two years just because of a job change, but I assume everyone's activity is up in the last 2 years for other reasons and if it meant anything in the past it definitely doesn't now

New comment by dwedge in "How to ship a database every day"

dwedge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:22:30 +0000

This might seem like bait but I assure you it isn't - I reach for MySQL by default over postgres - but why did you choose MySQL for the state database? In terms of HA and synchronous clustering it's a good solution but unless I'm misreading it seems like you only use it for a key value store and for an append only log, neither of which are necessarily the problems you think "MySQL" for.

Given what seems to be a pretty fashionable stack (kubernetes, using etcd directly, cloud first, IaC and custom database technology) I'm interested what a company like that reaches for MySQL. Was the MySQL cluster already deployed for other reasons?

New comment by dwedge in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

dwedge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:02:29 +0000

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'd waste a weekend setting up but what do you actually do with the decrypted traffic? What do you inject? I know you said it's personal but maybe some basic ideas.

Do you find any websites or services that fail because of cert pinning or similar? Why do you restrict dns caching to periodic intervals, just for external privacy?

In terms of the speed I doubt the time to decrypt and encrypt tls is noticeable in modern times, especially given how slow websites have become. It's not like a load balanced website behind cloudflare isn't already doing this 3 times

New comment by dwedge in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

dwedge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:32:39 +0000

This was even more annoying when they started including whatsapp backups in your quota and sent a load of people over quota. And as far as I know there's no alternative for whatsapp backups apart from plugging in a USB cable and hoping Whatsapp don't change the method between now and when you need to restore it

New comment by dwedge in "Asus Bike Booster"

dwedge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:00:45 +0000

Any sources for the whole EU not having speed limits on roads, restricting ebikes to roads only or not having restrictions on power?

New comment by dwedge in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

dwedge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:30:06 +0000

Yeah someone else posted the same link. I replied with my tail between my legs admitting I didn't know scorched had two definitions (only one being destroyed by fire) and I was downvoted to -3 so deleted it.

New comment by dwedge in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

dwedge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:29:02 +0000

Not here, also in Europe, and also not in most of the satellite images they are talking about. They are mostly talking about heat damage, low rivers, and dry patches of land.

New comment by dwedge in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

dwedge — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:23:17 +0000

The headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.

New comment by dwedge in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

dwedge — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:24:00 +0000

The timing is great because I was going through that section of the CKA this morning. The only question I have is how guaranteed is the top right section? It seems to rely on the Linux scheduler, could you not have cpu steal from other pods if every other pod is trying to over allocate?

New comment by dwedge in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

dwedge — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:24:11 +0000

Just give me the prompt

New comment by dwedge in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

dwedge — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:08:08 +0000

I don't think you need to find time to be bored, the times have always been there and we didn't search them out before. Just don't mask them with multitasking.

Waiting for a bus, waiting in line at a post office, waiting for your wife to get ready for bed. Those moments are still there and if you don't pull your phone out the boredom is still there