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New comment by embik in "Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server"

embik — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Note: this does not appear to be a Kubernetes-based solution, the "pod" part just heavily sounds like it.

Don't Yell at Your LLM

embik — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://marvin.beckers.dev/blog/dont-yell-at-your-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653669

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by embik in "Plausible Community Edition"

embik — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:31:21 +0000

I seriously wonder what HN thinks is a valid business model for writing open source software. Everyone here seems to insinuate that people want to create a business and use open source as a growth hack. But how do you differentiate those from people who want to write open source (because they believe in it) and have to have a business to support their livelihood?

This is a team of eight people that tried to do everything „right“ by changing to a FOSS license (which happened four years ago) and the changes announced here sound very reasonable (changing branding and removing undocumented APIs). But all comments are dunking on them as if they haven’t even read the article.

New comment by embik in "OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT"

embik — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:34:26 +0000

Why do tech companies keep using dystopian stories as manuals? The flirty tone, the voice being awfully similar to the lead actress of Her.

Next we are getting Ex Machina?

New comment by embik in "Why are we templating YAML? (2019)"

embik — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:19:23 +0000

I am really sad that jsonnet / ksonnet never really took off. It’s a great way to template, but has a bit of a learning curve in my experience. I suspect that is why it’s niche.

If you like what is presented in this article, take a look at Grafana Tanka (https://tanka.dev).

New comment by embik in "Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups"

embik — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:26:30 +0000

My experience is that the Hoff transcends company, language and country boundaries.

New comment by embik in "I forked SteamOS for my living room PC"

embik — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:55:11 +0000

> The A/B upgrade sounds a bit overkill, you can always just pop up a live distro or install a recovery system (on an old version) in a partition in case something goes wrong.

You and I can, the overwhelming majority of computer users cannot. Valve clearly focuses on building for the average person, something that Linux distributions (as much as I love them) still don’t really do (well).

The system automatically recovering from a failed upgrade is essential in a low-maintenance OS at this point.

New comment by embik in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

embik — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:02:10 +0000

I (recently) created kubeconfig-bikeshed, a small CLI application to manage the high number of kubeconfigs (configuration/credential files to access Kubernetes clusters) that I have to deal with on a daily basis. It was also a nice learning experience with Rust, and I have to say I was much more productive with it than I was expecting to.

https://github.com/embik/kubeconfig-bikeshed

New comment by embik in "Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions"

embik — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:56:22 +0000

Not everyone can look back at a 10 year long career in the industry to draw inspiration from. Especially for junior engineers, pointing out alternatives (that feel obvious to you) would be important.

New comment by embik in "Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions"

embik — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:36:54 +0000

It would be helpful if the post not only told you what to _not_ do (especially when it is a frequently done thing) but offered any sort of alternative.

New comment by embik in "In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127"

embik — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:48:03 +0000

Joke‘s on them when the EU cracks those lockdowns wide open.

New comment by embik in "We have used too many levels of abstractions"

embik — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:28:42 +0000

Can you elaborate on that? What kind of introspection do you think the author is missing?

New comment by embik in "Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story"

embik — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:24:27 +0000

The post you are responding to is making the point that even though we have QA, dedicated jobs or even departments for these things … We, as a profession, still fail in releasing bug-free software. And that’s 100% correct.

Is that really something you are challenging? Which pieces of popular software you can think of are bug-free? And are you thinking of more than a handful?

Kubernetes API Timeline

embik — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 14:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kube-api.ninja/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37445736

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by embik in "Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters"

embik — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:26:35 +0000

> Suggesting that emergency brakes are inadequate due to one passenger failing to locate one is kinda cheap.

That’s not what I wanted to say at all - the op talked about the willingness to pull the emergency brake, but my understanding is that he was willing to but due to human error failed to find it. I didn’t mean to suggest in any way that emergency brakes are not important.

> We could also easily construe your argument as "engineers would never design a flaw"

Another thing I didn’t say. The whole original link is proof that engineers make mistakes all the time.

New comment by embik in "Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters"

embik — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:59:51 +0000

Not entirely true:

> Dittmann could not find an emergency brake in the corridor and had not noticed that there was an emergency brake handle in his own compartment.

The learning from that should maybe instead be to keep non-technical management out of engineering decisions. The Wikipedia article fails to mention there was a specific manager who pushed the new wheel design into production and then went on to have a long successful career.

New comment by embik in "Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo"

embik — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:11:02 +0000

This seems to be a very common sentiment that is not stated that clearly often, but it makes me very sad to read it.

The magic of the internet, once upon a time, was discovering content in your own time. You stumbled into that cool niche forum, found someone’s personal blog, a flash game page. It didn’t need big centralised services to be fun.

Internet users have become consumers and want to be fed content. I do not understand this sentiment at all. It feels like we are all addicted to the easy dopamine kicks of scrolling Reddit/Facebook/Twitter now.

New comment by embik in "'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored specs and performance"

embik — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:56:14 +0000

I assume that’s for professional workstations? There were complaints about the „low“ maximum RAM with previous Apple Silicon generations if I remember correctly.

New comment by embik in "Kubernetes Cordon: How It Works and When to Use It"

embik — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:45:28 +0000

Most autoscaling functionality is implemented on top of the upstream cluster-autoscaler component, and GKE documentation claims to remove nodes when pods fit onto other nodes as well[1], so it does have the same "defragging" functionality. It might not be configured aggressive enough for their liking though (but even then, GKE has a more aggressive autoscaling profile that might do the trick).

My point is that while the original post is reporting problems with autoscaling in Kubernetes without enough details to go by, cluster-autoscaler is fairly good at its job of downsizing clusters if you take the time to a) optimize its configuration and b) make sure your workloads are configured in a way that allows downsizing clusters.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/clu...

New comment by embik in "Kubernetes Cordon: How It Works and When to Use It"

embik — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:26:12 +0000

This might be true for "stock" Kubernetes, but it seems likely that the grandparent post is using cluster autoscaling (since they mention "auto-scaled up"), for which this post is not accurate.

The cluster-autoscaler component does remove nodes with low utilization and Pods fitting onto other nodes, effectively defragging the cluster. There's just plenty of reasons for it to not drain a node (as per its FAQ[1]).

But it's highly configurable, so I wonder if the grandparent post just needed some configuration changes to suit their scenario better.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...