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New comment by eb0la in "Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod"

eb0la — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:03:46 +0000

Be careful about the culture. Higher management had a massive panic because "AI stopped working" in a product we make. They started an all-hands meeting. Everything worked except the AI responses. Turns out we just ran out of credits. The bad part is we told everybody we would run out of credits in less that 3 days. Nobody cared until we had production outage. Now procurement is complaining about token usage.

New comment by eb0la in "The most unlikely school bag"

eb0la — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:17:24 +0000

Before reading the article I was surprised to find them similar to old german Sout backpacks. They are really sturdy and durable: your kid needs just one of them for all primary school (grundschule). They are explensive (not so much considering 3-6 years of continuous abuse by kids), but when the kid gets tired of it, some people put them on sale. I have one that I know was resold at least 2 times and it still in perfect shape... Great for airport travel, btw.

New comment by eb0la in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

eb0la — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:07:48 +0000

Right now it is impossible to order cost-optimized servers in Falkstein, Nuremberg, or Helsinki. No matter if it is x86 or ARM.

Looks like they had to buy _a lot_ of new servers and it was very expensive.

New comment by eb0la in "Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

eb0la — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:59:45 +0000

It was a great opportunity to name a unix tool "mcfly" or just "Marty" for time manipulation. Better luck next time, I guess.

New comment by eb0la in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

eb0la — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:57:59 +0000

Reminder: always travel with a spare phone with a broken screen just in case.

New comment by eb0la in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

eb0la — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:27:47 +0000

Keeping your sanity in tech is underrated.

New comment by eb0la in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

eb0la — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:33:42 +0000

This reminds me of Nortel Command Console back in 2000-2005!

I worked for a telco company that had a lot of Nortel Passport devices (does anyone know what Frame Relay is?). We started changing the network from Nortel to Cisco. Cisco used telnet (later SSH), but Nortel people were extremelly reluctant to switch.

Turns out the Nortel network managment system (nortel nms) had a very interesting feature: you could open the command console to connect to one of the passport devices... or you could connect to a device group (or all the network) and run the same command in all devices.

This was great for auditing which version had every single device in the network... or for changing access-lists globally.

New comment by eb0la in "Show HN: My friend and his AI homies wrote SGI Indy emulator in Rust"

eb0la — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:28:11 +0000

I wonder what's the output of running 'hinv' on Irix.

I need to recover my old Irix CDs and find out.

New comment by eb0la in "Advice for tracking down a listening device?"

eb0la — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:12 +0000

Probably the police wants to gather some evidence. The easiest way to block a wifi tap is to change the wifi password... or wifi name. Both things will be noticed by the eavesdropper because they will block the device *but* it is an easy way to block it asap.

What I would do:

1 - Get an old android phone. 2 - Configure the phone to act as an access point with the same wifi name and password. 3 - Change the wifi password or name in the router. 4 - Change wifi passwords in laptop, etc... (I know, it is a pain). 4 - Activate the phone access point. 5 - * IF * the listening device connects to the phone AP wifi, you know there's a wifi tap. You can connect the phone to your home wifi later... and it will look transparent to the stalker.

Best of luck with this situation.

New comment by eb0la in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

eb0la — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:28:19 +0000

MySQL or Postgres are the DB of choice if you want a managed database in the cloud.

Probably Postgres is there because you can use it as a queue (https://livebook.manning.com/book/just-use-postgres/chapter-...)

New comment by eb0la in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

eb0la — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:48:30 +0000

I cannot dísclose muy current compensation due to an NDA: salaries are company propietary information.

I am unable to dísclose that information.

New comment by eb0la in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

eb0la — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:50:52 +0000

I would pay if I can use Clip Studio Paint without lag. In fact, I will try another time this easter. If works, I will need to donate.

New comment by eb0la in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

eb0la — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:28:57 +0000

One of the reasons behind the dollar strength is that the US has a huge population.

Even if the central bank might does a bad job and make a mess of the economy, the activity of 350 million people is hard to ignore.

Is it enough to _fully_ sustain the US dollar?

Who knows, but at least there is a floor, even if everybody stopped using US dollars for international trade.

New comment by eb0la in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

eb0la — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:15:25 +0000

Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud. They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.

New comment by eb0la in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

eb0la — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:56:12 +0000

If you have to walk the dog and know in advance it will stop or start raining in 20 minutes....

New comment by eb0la in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

eb0la — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:32:20 +0000

For me the only reason to keep windows 11 is Clip Studio Paint doesn't work yet in Linux... I use it mostly on my Android tablet BUT I want to have an alternative in case something is easier on a computer

New comment by eb0la in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

eb0la — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:26:08 +0000

But in the other hand you don't have to worry about mass shootings. You can freely walk (mostly) wherever you want without risking your life (that is not normal in most of the world). And you're not going bankrupt because of a minor/medium medical condition.

Europe is a _very_ different place.

Not everything here is so bad.

New comment by eb0la in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

eb0la — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:23:11 +0000

Politicians use it a lot. Because media and journalist started using it.

New comment by eb0la in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

eb0la — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:22:17 +0000

Until now nobody thought it was a problem. At least not a big one. The EU made some moves to define a "cloud computing" platform for Europe, and very little people paid attention because business-wise it was very difficult to compete with US corporations that have vast amounts of money in cash and find easy to get funding.

But now there are some (small) alternatives.

LIDL has its own cloud for retail.

And I believe T-Systems sells some cloud computing for goverments based on OpenStack...

Small steps, but steps.

New comment by eb0la in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

eb0la — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:17:29 +0000

In Spain you need to be ENS-certified (esquema nacional de seguridad) in order to provide services to the goverment. Nowadays it is similar / aligned to NIS2 certification.

But you need to certify more than just apps. Processes are more important than apps.