Hacker News: godber

New comment by godber in "RepRapMicron"

godber — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:13:47 +0000

Thank god, in 18 months we can start making our own RAM.

New comment by godber in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

godber — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:12:18 +0000

Tokens are also a scarce resource for some of us:

> THE SCARCE RESOURCE: HUMAN TIME AND ATTENTION

This workflow may not be accessible to token poor teams. Though I’m not all the way through the post, so I don’t know if token scarcity is even acknowledged.

New comment by godber in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

godber — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:20:46 +0000

Have they axed it yet?

New comment by godber in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

godber — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:26:23 +0000

I think a solution to this could be for the government to require the companies to provide the original scans and OCR results to the government for safe keeping until copyright expires.

Clearly that makes assumptions about the function of government and the complacency of copyright holders.

New comment by godber in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

godber — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:15:16 +0000

Let me know when they offer to pay me to watch it.

New comment by godber in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

godber — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:35:50 +0000

Holy smokes that explains so much. Amazon’s review/feedback mechanism is completely worthless with commingled inventory. No wonder it seemed ineffective.

New comment by godber in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

godber — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:32:35 +0000

“the cost of trying ideas had collapsed”

This is a critical observation of the vibocene.

New comment by godber in "Ephemeral infrastructure: Why short-lived is a good thing"

godber — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:01:59 +0000

Nice post, one more thing to keep in mind with your StatefulSets is how long the service running in the pod takes to come back up. Many will scan the on disk state for integrity and perform recovery tasks. These can take a while and mean the overall service is in a degraded state.

Manage these things and any stateful distributed service can run easily in Kubernetes.

New comment by godber in "A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?"

godber — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:35:02 +0000

This makes a completely valid point when you constrain the meaning of Big Data to “the largest dataset one can fit on a single computer”.

Podman Desktop AI Labs

godber — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:06:01 +0000

Article URL: https://podman-desktop.io/docs/ai-lab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681449

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by godber in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

godber — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:01:43 +0000

Good find, I think those would be books written in English published by German publishers. The blog post discusses how ISBNs are allocated ... specifically the ones you picture are published by Springer, which is a German company that publishes in the English language.

Considering a specific example: "Forecasting Catastrophic Events in Technology, Nature and Medicine". The website's use of "Group 978-3: German language" is a bit of a misnomer, if they had said "Group 978-3: German issued" or "German publisher" it would be clearer to users.

New comment by godber in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

godber — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:58:17 +0000

This is really exceptional work, and still works on my ten year old iPad. Great job!

New comment by godber in "So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?"

godber — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:41:48 +0000

Yes, that sucks.

New comment by godber in "So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?"

godber — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:41:51 +0000

Using helmfile (yet another layer of abstraction on top of helm) lets you get diffs between current and new releases. And it’s all templated so could be dynamic.

New comment by godber in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel"

godber — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:42:58 +0000

The info on that page seems a bit contradictory, but maybe I need more coffee.

New comment by godber in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

godber — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:39:29 +0000

This claims to bypass the telematics functionality:

https://www.autoharnesshouse.com/69018.html

> Note for customers retaining OEM headunit: This adapter can also be used for those wishing to remove/disable the OEM Subaru Telematics functions. This is done to eliminate the tracking cabability that Subaru has built into these vehicles. If this is you, we will need to add an additional part to this adapter to re-enable the bluetooth microphone. Please purchase the option 2 adapter near the bottom of this page for this situation.

New comment by godber in "Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world"

godber — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:22:02 +0000

There's an even more recent post

https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/facebooks-semi-sec...

New comment by godber in "We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines"

godber — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:20:23 +0000

This is exceptionally cool work. I’d love to see it running.

New comment by godber in "Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive"

godber — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:00:17 +0000

I would definitely approach this problem by having the LLM write code to scrape the page. That would address the cost and accuracy problems. And also give you testable code.

New comment by godber in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

godber — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 01:35:15 +0000

OpenSearch really appears to have a significant amount of development momentum. It is functionally equivalent with Elasticsearch. There would be no incentive for AWS to do this. After ES broke their compatibility with OpenSearch they also broke compatibility with their own older versions. This forced users to choose in order to move forward with anything. I don’t know how it worked out for others but I’ve converted hundreds of ES clusters to OS and switched all development to OpenSearch because they started gaining momentum and didn’t make decisions that were actively hostile to their users.

Edit: As long as OpenSearch doesn’t start breaking the self hosted use case, I don’t see any reason to consider Elasticsearch again. In fact, ES would have to offer up a significant advantage to overcome the bother.