Hacker News: encoderer

New comment by encoderer in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

encoderer — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:34:31 +0000

In American cities, as long as you don’t look like a bum, hotel lobbies are usually accessible.

New comment by encoderer in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

encoderer — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:09:45 +0000

I think nurses in the Bay Area make like 200k a year

New comment by encoderer in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

encoderer — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:41:29 +0000

this sounds like an absolutely wholesome story where multiple strangers donate their attention and time to help somebody who was not a victim in any way but just merely lost.

I wouldn't want my wife lost in Compton either but if the good guys outnumbered the bad guys by Inf% then it must not really be that bad. What would happen if it were Kinshasa instead of Compton.

New comment by encoderer in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

encoderer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:39:18 +0000

This looks solid! We are also going for a single-executable (typescript/bun in our case), but we are specifically going after agent monitoring in the first version. We think people shouldn't have to send all of their agent conversations to a vendor like DataDog or Sentry.

New comment by encoderer in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

encoderer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0000

It doesn't take very long (because compute and storage are separate in most of them) but good lord does it get expensive. Every time you click that upgrade button you are doubling your cost. It's really painful when you have a spiky workload that is performing fine like 95% of the time but you are watching the p99 and need to double the cost of a very expensive infra component, only to improve the experience of the heaviest 4% of your workload. This is to say nothing of the gambit you then have to play with reservations/prepays.

New comment by encoderer in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

encoderer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:04:13 +0000

Definitely encroaching.

Our last product (SaaS observability) uses Clickhouse.

Our next product (self-hosted observability) uses DuckDB.

New comment by encoderer in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

encoderer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:21:43 +0000

my kids are not teenagers yet, what am I missing? the iPad I let them use has child safety enabled and it seems to do exactly what the comment above you is suggesting.

New comment by encoderer in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

encoderer — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:21:27 +0000

No it doesn’t track. In his example, observing license plates is perfectly legal without a warrant. Looking in your phone is not. These are not at all alike.

New comment by encoderer in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

encoderer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:04:21 +0000

The most likely conclusion is that she was fired. To quit before your equity cliff things would have to be so terribly bad that you fear you are committing a crime to stay. After 11 months you feel like you’ve already earned that money.

New comment by encoderer in "The SpaceX Sham"

encoderer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:27:52 +0000

All you had to do was put in an order with your broker (robinhood, E*Trade, etc). Some brokers did not get much allocation (Schwab) but this was not a hard stock to get at $135.

New comment by encoderer in "What Happened to Talenti?"

encoderer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:01:38 +0000

Putting 2 servings of ice cream in a thick plastic jar was always a dumb gimmick.

New comment by encoderer in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

encoderer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:05:20 +0000

Borrows from Business Operating System (BOS) - in use for decades.

New comment by encoderer in "DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"

encoderer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:09:10 +0000

Yes, you nailed it. Old data is important sometimes, like when a problem has been identified and investigated, but most workloads are looking at the current state of the system. So we keep the hot data cached locally (not nas/ebs) and s3 is always the source of truth. DuckDB over parquet files on a local ssd is fast enough you don’t need a traditional database.

We are using DuckLake with a “lakehouse” architecture for the observability agent.

New comment by encoderer in "DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"

encoderer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:18:15 +0000

At Cronitor we use ClickHouse, but we're leaving it behind for our next product and building directly on Parquet and DuckDB.

We think the future of observability in the AI age is self-hosted directly on NVMe backed by cheap and limitless object storage. I don't want to send customer conversations and agent thoughts to a giant multi-tenant borg SaaS database like Sentry or BetterStack.

New comment by encoderer in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

encoderer — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:07:21 +0000

Flew into CDG two days ago. US citizens. Passport control did not take fingerprints from any of us.

New comment by encoderer in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

encoderer — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:11:33 +0000

You might just be taking people too literally.

I've heard the same thing -- if they take a job they will lose money. What they really mean is that if they take a job (trade time for money), they will lose some of the pension they have already earned. This is a real economic loss (even if they might have a few more bucks at the end of the week) to say nothing of their lost time.

New comment by encoderer in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

encoderer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:08:40 +0000

You seem to be using family income and not household income for 1970.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

New comment by encoderer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

encoderer — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:15:53 +0000

This is a great addition to the neighborhood!

New comment by encoderer in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

encoderer — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:55:32 +0000

That’s a charitable read. Remember she also thought that New York would “lose millions” if Amazon put their hq2 there. Just because she’s in congress you can’t assume she understands how building a business works.

Taking your interpretation at face value I would add that yes we call it “capitalism” not “laborism”.

New comment by encoderer in "Love systemd timers"

encoderer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:50:07 +0000

I setup a few systemd timers last year and created https://systemd.guru to play with different options in OnCalendar expressions.