Hacker News: eluusive

New comment by eluusive in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

eluusive — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:41:41 +0000

The new "cloud" UI is wful. Who thought this was a good idea? I hate MacOS Tahoe.

New comment by eluusive in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

eluusive — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:17:28 +0000

I migrated off Patreon awhile back. It's extremely clunky, and the service charge is pretty high comparatively.

New comment by eluusive in "Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH"

eluusive — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:06:00 +0000

I'm so glad I left my previous job. As an SRE, I had to use about 10 tools regularly, and they all had 2 minute timeouts with "SSO" + 2fa. I literally spent about 30 minutes out of every hour just logging in to shit.

The security team wouldn't budge things up to 1 day even.

When you have 2 or 3 factors on every tool -- even things like prometheus. It gets excessive.

New comment by eluusive in "Cagire: Live Coding in Forth"

eluusive — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:23:28 +0000

This is super cool. I've been thinking about doing something like this for awhile as a retirement project.

New comment by eluusive in "Can AI Learn Its Own Rules? We Tested It"

eluusive — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:31:54 +0000

An experiment in having Claude self-update its own Constitution. The results are surprising.

Can AI Learn Its Own Rules? We Tested It

eluusive — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://shablag.substack.com/p/can-ai-learn-its-own-rules-we-tested

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828804

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by eluusive in "Why many engineers value startup equity at $0"

eluusive — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:51:10 +0000

Fully agree. Although, I think reform of the system is beneficial both to investors and employees. I've seen investors lose significant amounts of money due to structuring things the way they have been insisting upon.

New comment by eluusive in "Why many engineers value startup equity at $0"

eluusive — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:32:40 +0000

An essay on why many engineers rationally value private-company equity at $0, focusing on information asymmetry, liquidity constraints, and incentive shifts in venture-backed startups.

Why many engineers value startup equity at $0

eluusive — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://shablag.substack.com/p/why-smart-engineers-value-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781329

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by eluusive in "What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?"

eluusive — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:09:12 +0000

This is basically NATS.io

New comment by eluusive in "Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source"

eluusive — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:08:33 +0000

The NATS project originally came out of CloudFoundry, and gnatsd later out of Apcera. I worked for Apcera while we were maintaining gnatsd. Docker and Kubernetes basically put that company out of business -- the founder went and started Synadia which was focused on NATS instead of container orchestration.

I think nats is a great technology for a number of use cases. It's unfortunate that it's so hard to find the resources to support and maintain open source software while paying developer salaries.

Derek put a ton of work, effort, and money into NATS.

It's a sad story to me; I don't know what the answer is to these sorts of "tragedy of the commons" type issues are.

New comment by eluusive in "An underrated idea: the priority view"

eluusive — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:34:25 +0000

This happened with both myself and my sister. Thankfully, I dropped out and started attending community college where I could proceed at my own pace. I don’t think a lot of parents are aware of this option.

New comment by eluusive in "An underrated idea: the priority view"

eluusive — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:31:42 +0000

OTOH, maybe politicians shouldn’t be trying to meddle in the wellbeing of individuals beyond providing access to infrastructure and policing?

New comment by eluusive in "An underrated idea: the priority view"

eluusive — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:30:22 +0000

Seems fine until you do this kind of stuff over “identity groups.” This view taken beyond an individual level seems to be the cause of the current negative social situation.

New comment by eluusive in "Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around"

eluusive — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:24:43 +0000

I doubt that. It's likely both; as with most things in nature.

New comment by eluusive in "XMPP, a comeback story"

eluusive — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:36:23 +0000

Until spam becomes a problem on XMPP... And then we're back to the same problems as email.

I'm working with some people to build out Stamp which is federated in a similar way to XMPP but attaches small cryptopayments to keep undue about of spam off the network.

Take a look: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

New comment by eluusive in "Exec suing AWS: “I wouldn't want my worst enemy working there”"

eluusive — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:33:02 +0000

"White boy" is both ageist and sexist. She's projecting; at least a some.

New comment by eluusive in "Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died"

eluusive — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 01:24:50 +0000

I agree with this sentiment. People are currently attempting to do it at scale in a de-centralized way.

Stamp is pay-to-post, and the proceeds go back to the entire community.

https://web.stampchat.io/#/forum

New comment by eluusive in "EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]"

eluusive — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:51:20 +0000

Yeah, I discuss that in the whitepaper for the protocol. You might find it interesting, and it's not terribly long.

New comment by eluusive in "EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]"

eluusive — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:18:24 +0000

This is definitely coming down the pipe. I think it's extremely imported to come up with an alternative to the existing centralized systems; which I believe primarily exist in order to mitigate spam.

Some people have been working on an interesting solution called StampChat which has a similar topology to email, but the messages are encrypted by default and the spam mitigation is done via sending tokens to the recipient (ala Hal Finney's RPoW) idea.

It's still a prototype, but there is one deployment over here: https://web.stampchat.io

The whitepaper on the protocol is here: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

There's a faucet here if anyone is interested https://faucet.lotuslounge.org/

We're not doing an ICO or anything, happy to give out more tokens out.