Hacker News: falconertc

New comment by falconertc in "Download responsibly"

falconertc — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:15:02 +0000

Seems to me like the better action would be to implement rate-limiting, rather than complain when people use your resource in ways you don't expect. This is a solved problem.

New comment by falconertc in "Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?"

falconertc — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:21:35 +0000

> In the software world, how would you sell a competitor to the cat command?

It's called bat, and it's a great enhancement. I think the author lost me here.

New comment by falconertc in "Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault"

falconertc — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:07:48 +0000

I can't believe we're going to forever have to live with people who don't speak English as a first language having their written work assumed to be done by AI. It's pretty disappointing.

New comment by falconertc in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

falconertc — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:48:56 +0000

When the next best option is "serialize", suddenly stringify doesn't seem so bad. I would prefer a silly-sounding but immediately clear function to a more abstract concept.

New comment by falconertc in "Making Postgres slower"

falconertc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:16:12 +0000

Great read, and an interesting warning sign about overly-controllable configuration files. If there's no conceivable good reason to to much of this, then the ability to do so becomes bad design that fails to protect your users.

New comment by falconertc in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

falconertc — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:04:20 +0000

Sounds like this is not for you then. I think a lot of people have had different experiences with it than you have

New comment by falconertc in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

falconertc — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:30:33 +0000

Bisect is a very cool feature that I used once over 5 years ago. The collection of git tools that I use often is very small. I've found that the more experienced I got with git, the less I found myself in scenarios where I needed git's more complex tools.

New comment by falconertc in "Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table"

falconertc — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:33:49 +0000

We survived the age of StackOverflow. I don't see why LLM's will be the death of critical thinking where all else has failed so far.

New comment by falconertc in "Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore"

falconertc — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:57:42 +0000

Tools like direnv gets .env files out of repo paths and improves things a lot. You can integrate secrets management in code, but with that there's still no getting away with the assumption that some kind of auth mechanism exists in your env

New comment by falconertc in "Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

falconertc — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:00:37 +0000

I think the joy of working at this scale makes up for that for a lot of people. There are plenty of low-stress, low-impact companies that someone that's bigtech-approved can go to

New comment by falconertc in "Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes"

falconertc — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:54:31 +0000

Saying it's targeted at beginners because it supports MacOS shows a lot of disconnection with what many DevOps people use these days. The year of the linux desktop has yet to arrive, and Mac is king for people in IT (at least in the US)

New comment by falconertc in "Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes"

falconertc — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:53:12 +0000

What? I love seeing this. I want to see how to get it quickly via package manager.

New comment by falconertc in "How I write code using Cursor"

falconertc — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:44:06 +0000

You didn't also factor in the time to learn Pandoc (and to relearn it if you haven't used it lately). This is also just one of many daily use cases for these tools. The time it takes to know how to use a dozen tools like this adds up when an LLM can just do them all.

New comment by falconertc in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

falconertc — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:39:42 +0000

I might be misremembering but I think slosh was the failure cause for one of the three failed Falcon 1 flights. It was number 11 out of a pre-flight list of top 10 most likely failure scenarios. Definitely a difficult problem.

New comment by falconertc in "iPhone 16 is much easier to repair"

falconertc — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:05:48 +0000

No company does things out of the kindness of their own heart. That's just not how enterprise is designed to work, and it is a mistake to ever assume otherwise. Regulation needs to always be the driving force for something like this.

New comment by falconertc in "What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?"

falconertc — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:10:44 +0000

To socialize with the people at your table, surely? Not do socialize with the waiter?

New comment by falconertc in "What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?"

falconertc — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:09:45 +0000

You're right, you are old-fashioned. I love order by phone. Any amount of time I'm sitting at a table trying to get a waiter to notice me and come by just feels like agony. Let me tell you exactly what I want, exactly when I want it.

New comment by falconertc in "Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide"

falconertc — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:25:23 +0000

Part of this is a consequence of Amazon's hesitance towards shutting down old features. They are getting better at this lately, but S3 remains an example of a system with too many ways of doing things simply because they don't want to take the step of eliminating legacy functionality.

New comment by falconertc in "Manual 'Till It Hurts"

falconertc — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:03:46 +0000

Maybe his project simply has expectations beyond being a static website from 1995

New comment by falconertc in "Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations"

falconertc — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:22:36 +0000

People don't use Slack in this way though. I've worked at several organizations where the freshest documentation we had was in Slack. The truest FAQ is when someone actually asks a dev a question in a Slack channel, and not the questions they anticipated being asked when writing documentation. Capturing this in a meaningful way would be highly valuable, and maybe all that takes is feeding it to a RAG based LLM