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New comment by enether in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

enether — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:31:46 +0000

The permission thing is a killer to productivity, if you're running Claude I think it's more efficient to just run in a disposable sandbox (like exe.dev[1]) or in some form of docker container with permissions you're personally ok taking the risk with on a personal machine[2]

[1] - https://exe.dev/ is a new cloud provider with some very useful agent UX [2] - I built https://github.com/stanislavkozlovski/dclaude/ for this; not perfect but gets my job done on the rare occassion I need to run the coding agent locally

Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

enether — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:51:07 +0000

Article URL: https://getkafkanated.substack.com/p/nobody-understands-kafka-costs-stanislav

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245671

Points: 1

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Bufstream Sold to CoreWeave

enether — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:48:54 +0000

Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/coreweave-acquires-bufstream

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074585

Points: 3

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Profile guided compiler optimization leads to 47% lower p99.9 in Redpanda

enether — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/supercharging-streaming-profile-guided-optimization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051707

Points: 2

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New comment by enether in "Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent"

enether — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:06:14 +0000

I have to say, it works pretty good. I tested it by creating a Kafka cluster here: https://x.com/kozlovski/status/2050943790580457646

In <15 minutes it got everything up and running - the Kafka brokers, the Kafka controllers, schema registry, Grafana. Pretty impressive

New comment by enether in "Icestream – enabling efficient streaming writes in Apache Iceberg"

enether — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:37:52 +0000

are there really no other maintenance tools that do this already? seems like a low hanging fruit?

New comment by enether in "Everything that went wrong with Claude"

enether — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:34:34 +0000

the irony of using Claude to create this lol

New comment by enether in "Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka"

enether — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:09:39 +0000

Yeah, which is why this Ursa-for-Kafka (UFK) fork can be a drop-in replacement. It holds both the classic Kafka topics with disks, and the Ursa engine topics that have higher latency.

I agree with your assessment re: latency. I've been very vocal about this ever since this type of architecture came out.

Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka

enether — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://topicpartition.io/blog/ursa-a-new-lakehouse-first-storage-engine-for-kafka

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717249

Points: 3

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New comment by enether in "EFF is leaving X"

enether — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:36:19 +0000

It could also be that the world as a whole cares less about privacy today than they did seven years ago. Without a relative measurement from a similar platform, it's a bit of an empty statement

One thing that has certainly changed is that algorithms have become more aggressive. If your content isn't performing well, it gets hidden much faster and more aggressively than before. This makes sense when you consider it from the PoV of the platforms (they have much more content to choose from)

New comment by enether in "Kafka Options Explorer"

enether — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:17:23 +0000

A very in-depth tool that acts as a easily browse-able reference to many Apache Kafka internals like configuration options, error types, the wire format (by version), config advice and version upgrade diffs.

Kafka Options Explorer

enether — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:17:23 +0000

Article URL: https://kafka-options-explorer.conduktor.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624958

Points: 1

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New comment by enether in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

enether — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:59:17 +0000

They make $8-9B a year (~90% profit margins) selling software to mainframes, which were deployed ages ago but still have to be maintained because critical COBOL business code was written on their systems - and migration is too riskly/costly.

To give you an idea:

- of the risk in regulated industries like banking: a UK bank was once fined *$62 million* for botching a mainframe migration and causing downtime. - of the difficulty and risk in non-tech industries: Australia once spent *$120 million* trying to migrate its social security system off mainframes... and failed.

Mainframes are not their only business, of course, but it's a major cash cow that's under appreciated. I, for one, didn't know that business keeps growing.

Coincidentally, I wrote about the topic of mainframes with relation to IBM's acquisition of Confluent here today: https://blog.2minutestreaming.com/p/ibm-confluent-acquisitio...

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

enether — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:20:15 +0000

exactly. i posted about the same thing today https://x.com/twitter/status/2025949280251597291

It's an accelerant, both good and bad. How that plays out in companies where the majority are below-average is a nuanced and concerning case

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

enether — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:22:38 +0000

I think it's worth it to build your own miniaturized versions of OpenClaw/claw-like agents. It's easy enough to build and the confidence of it being in a language you're familiar with, small enough surface area to limit risk, etc. seems worth it imo

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

enether — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:17:47 +0000

In a way I think handing off digital tasks to an AI bot that does it behind the scenes IS reducing technology in your life.

But has to be done carefully to not increase the scope of things being done

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

enether — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:15:55 +0000

we will need some sort of payment-block checkmark for use of social media soon enough. This claw phenomenon is opening the floodgates of spam even more than before

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

enether — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:08:49 +0000

Mm, not at all. The usual LLM doesn't have its own file system, browser, persistent memory of all actions, etc. The usual LLM experience is you open chatgpt.com and have a singular chat session.

How KIP-881 and KIP-392 Reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka

enether — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://getkafkanated.substack.com/p/how-kip-881-and-kip-392-reduce-inter

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New comment by enether in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

Bufstream Sold to CoreWeave

Profile guided compiler optimization leads to 47% lower p99.9 in Redpanda

New comment by enether in "Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent"

New comment by enether in "Icestream – enabling efficient streaming writes in Apache Iceberg"

New comment by enether in "Everything that went wrong with Claude"

New comment by enether in "Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka"

Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka

New comment by enether in "EFF is leaving X"

New comment by enether in "Kafka Options Explorer"

Kafka Options Explorer

New comment by enether in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

New comment by enether in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

How KIP-881 and KIP-392 Reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka

Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying Confluent