Hacker News: fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fh973Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:13:07 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"]]>A Mercedes VLE maybe? It ticks all the boxes incl premium price.

]]>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:45:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50398932fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50398932https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50398932<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"]]>In-tree is a maintenance and CI disaster. Openstack kept them in-tree and it has a huge cost both for the project (code reviews) and the vendors (required to keep a CI running, glacial progress due to lack of code reviewers).

]]>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:32:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138184fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138184<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"]]>Built by Google and... Redhat!

]]>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:29:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138161fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138161https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138161<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"]]>QUOBYTE | Santa Clara, CA and Berlin, Germany | Full-time / Remote | ONSITE | https://www.quobyte.com/

At Quobyte we are working on a highly scalable and fault-tolerant software storage system built around a parallel file system core. Our customers use us for large scale AI and HPC clusters in the enterprise and research, k8s and OpenStack infrastructures, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products. There are Quobyte clusters which span tens of thousands of machines and slurp 100s of GB/s!

Under the hood, we have built a full-stack fault-tolerant parallel file system, with everything from kernel development over our own replicated database system design to distributed algorithms (Paxos!) and performance. In short: lots of real-world challenging and fun problems!

We work as a highly efficient engineering team, ship frequently, do code reviews, and have lots of unit and integration testing. If you’re passionate about systems, we might be the right place for you!

Berlin, Germany (onsite, please apply only if you already are in the EU):

* Software Engineer (with a passion for Systems, 60-100k EUR)

* QA Engineer (creative testing, test automation, release engineering, 60-100k EUR)

* Infrastructure Engineer (engineering and corporate infrastructure, 50-90k)

* Customer Success Engineer (50-90k)

For detailed job descriptions please and application process, please visit https://www.quobyte.com/company/careers or write to work at quobyte.com.

]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:02:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924972fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924972<![CDATA[Secretive gambling industry exposed in leak]]>Article URL: https://www.ftm.eu/articles/curacao-secretive-gambling-industry-exposed-in-leak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812941

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:54:28 +0000https://www.ftm.eu/articles/curacao-secretive-gambling-industry-exposed-in-leakfh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812941<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"]]>Please remind us which exciting features Android graced us with in the last say 3 years?

]]>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:11:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765896fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765896https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765896<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"]]>QUOBYTE | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | ONSITE (Germany) | https://www.quobyte.com/

At Quobyte we are working on a highly scalable and fault-tolerant software storage system built around a parallel file system core. Our customers use us for large scale AI and HPC clusters in the enterprise and research, k8s and OpenStack infrastructures, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products. There are Quobyte clusters which span tens of thousands of machines and slurp 100s of GB/s!

Under the hood, we have built a full-stack fault-tolerant parallel file system, with everything from kernel development over our own replicated database system design to distributed algorithms (Paxos!) and performance. In short: lots of real-world challenging and fun problems!

We work as a highly efficient engineering team, ship frequently, do code reviews, and have lots of unit and integration testing. If you’re passionate about systems, we might be the right place for you!

Berlin, Germany (Onsite):

* Software Engineer (with a passion for Systems, 60-100k EUR) * Infrastructure Engineer (engineering and corporate infrastructure, 50-90k) * Customer Success Engineer (50-90k)

For detailed job descriptions please and application process, please visit https://www.quobyte.com/company/careers or write to work at quobyte.com.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:53:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523712fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523712https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523712<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"]]>Or just ignores them, if it doesn't serve the lobby groups, like for example the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD).

]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:57:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425057fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425057<![CDATA[MG risks their cars becoming a rolling pirate copy]]>Article URL: https://table.media/en/china/talk-of-the-town/software-licenses-mg-risks-becoming-a-rolling-pirate-copy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013203

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:47:41 +0000https://table.media/en/china/talk-of-the-town/software-licenses-mg-risks-becoming-a-rolling-pirate-copyfh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013203https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013203<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"]]>Valetudo is an API proxy to control robots via an associated app in order to avoid vendor clouds.

It is not a robot firmware and has no role here.

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:39:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756970fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756970https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756970<![CDATA[FAQ: The Secure Boot Disaster]]>Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/guide/FAQ-The-secure-boot-disaster-9751994.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495538

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:52:08 +0000https://www.heise.de/en/guide/FAQ-The-secure-boot-disaster-9751994.htmlfh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495538https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495538<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"]]>Balance presumably.

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 08:53:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276988fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276988https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276988<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it"]]>FUSE is not slow. Our distributed file system pipes over 70 GB/a through a single mount point.

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:11:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251007fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251007https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251007<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Lunar Flyby"]]>The missing piece of information: the moon is not perfectly sphere shaped, the bulge has more mass, and is attracted by the earth more.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:37:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685766fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685766https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685766<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"]]>Hacker News Post - Who is hiring?

QUOBYTE | Santa Clara, CA and Berlin, Germany | Full-time / Remote | ONSITE | https://www.quobyte.com/

At Quobyte we are working on a highly scalable and fault-tolerant software storage system built around a parallel file system core. Our customers use us for large scale AI and HPC clusters in the enterprise and research, k8s and OpenStack infrastructures, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products. There are Quobyte clusters which span tens of thousands of machines and slurp 100s of GB/s!

Under the hood, we have built a full-stack fault-tolerant parallel file system, with everything from kernel development over our own replicated database system design to distributed algorithms (Paxos!) and performance. In short: lots of real-world challenging and fun problems!

We work as a highly efficient engineering team, ship frequently, do code reviews, and have lots of unit and integration testing. If you’re passionate about systems, we might be the right place for you!

Berlin, Germany:

* Infrastructure/Support Engineer (40-80k EUR)

For detailed job descriptions please and application process, please visit https://www.quobyte.com/company/careers or write to work at quobyte.com.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:26:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604638fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604638https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604638<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"]]>Gmail and likely others have been scanning at least emails for child pornography since the 2010s.

]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:05:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532210fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532210<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"]]>No mass surveillance of Americans it is.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:20:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204475fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204475https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204475<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Flying Around the World in under 80 Days"]]>Sorry, but that's just ignorance. It's an UAV, it's not registered, has no type certificate. He doesn't even seem to be aware of airspaces.

So no, it's not legal in many ways.

]]>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:39:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882291fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882291<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Sparse File LRU Cache"]]>Most compressible file formats are already compressed, and with compression you lose efficient non-sequential IO.

]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:19:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844762fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844762<![CDATA[New comment by fh973 in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"]]>VR?

]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:16:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762118fh973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762118