Hacker News: infomaniac

New comment by infomaniac in "Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland"

infomaniac — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:39:06 +0000

Let's hope the investors have a break (through)

New comment by infomaniac in "Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code"

infomaniac — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:21:12 +0000

It shows.

They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right?

Right?!

New comment by infomaniac in "Charles Proxy"

infomaniac — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:45:10 +0000

Fantastic software that I've used for over a decade. Interacted with Karl a few years ago about Adobe's AMF format; very generous with his time. I was surprised to learn that it's over 20 years old! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proxy

New comment by infomaniac in "If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?"

infomaniac — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 04:30:08 +0000

> Amazon does not use relational databases

This is false, at least in my very thin exposure to the company: I interviewed for a team last year which was maintaining EC2 SSH keys using MySQL.

New comment by infomaniac in "Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?"

infomaniac — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:01:09 +0000

Can you elaborate on how you're storing this data?

New comment by infomaniac in "What I tell people new to on-call"

infomaniac — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:02:53 +0000

Worked for an eCom store for 3 years, was on-call 24/7 for most of it due to understaffing. In this context, every second of downtime was actual money being lost. CEO drilled in the gravity of each outage.

Took me a good few months after changing jobs to not get crazy anxiety every time my phone rang.

After working in a much healthier on-call setup later in my career supporting a large SaaS, I actually really like it. High stakes produce quick learnings.

Not for everyone, but everyone should try it (and be compensated FFS).

We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go

infomaniac — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:13:39 +0000

Article URL: https://coder.com/blog/delivering-5x-faster-throughput-in-coder-2-12-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586757

Points: 226

# Comments: 129

Loki 3.0 release: Bloom filters, native OpenTelemetry support, and more

infomaniac — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/grafana-loki-3.0-release-all-the-new-features/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993147

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by infomaniac in "Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?"

infomaniac — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:38:31 +0000

Galaxy brain business model: shame the app developers and offer a tool to help them fix their mistakes.

New comment by infomaniac in "Google Cloud Renaming Ingress and Egress SKUs"

infomaniac — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:15:49 +0000

Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be monopolized.

New comment by infomaniac in "In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk"

infomaniac — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:34:15 +0000

memcached has recently gained the ability to spill to disk: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore

we recently implemented this to grow our caches to >50TB

New comment by infomaniac in "An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa"

infomaniac — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:46:55 +0000

Nothing interesting to add, just an anecdote. As someone based in a semi-rural part of South Africa, this dual cable break was a huge PITA for a few days. Latencies went through the roof; remote work was made very difficult.

New comment by infomaniac in "Africa’s Richest City Is Crumbling Under Chaos and Corruption"

infomaniac — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:18:35 +0000

Joburg native here, moved away about 12 years ago.

I still have people there, and every time I go visit its in an even worse state of disrepair; quite upsetting.

New comment by infomaniac in "SVB Collapse in Plain English"

infomaniac — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:44:38 +0000

I found it very useful, thanks!

New comment by infomaniac in "Stack Overflow is a cacheless, 9-server on-prem monolith"

infomaniac — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:22:26 +0000

This is addressed in one of the linked tweets.

New comment by infomaniac in "Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating"

infomaniac — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:18:06 +0000

Very accurate! Just 10 points off my chess.com rating.

Although, there was an unfortunate bug... I couldn't promote a pawn, and that severely impacted the endgame. I'm on mobile Brave, and attempting to promote presumably tried to bring up some modal, but instead it just glitched.

New comment by infomaniac in "Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale"

infomaniac — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:06:58 +0000

It replaces no other projects. Continuous profiling solves a different problem to Mimir, Cortex, and Tempo. Mimir and Cortex are for metrics, Tempo is for distributed tracing, Phlare is for collecting profiling samples over time.

Profiling is a layer below tracing and metrics in that it requires very minimal and generic instrumentation (of the runtime), while the others require specific instrumentation (of the application).

Profiles like CPU, heap allocs, goroutines, etc are collected on a continual basis, allowing you to see at any time how your application was making use of its runtime resources.

How to autoscale Grafana Loki queries using KEDA

infomaniac — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:31:37 +0000

Article URL: https://grafana.com/blog/2022/10/20/how-to-autoscale-grafana-loki-queries-using-keda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33326979

Points: 40

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Strace to JSON parser

infomaniac — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dannykopping/b3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133602

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

South Africa introduces first e-police station

infomaniac — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:14:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.techcentral.co.za/sas-first-e-police-station-launched/54014/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8971804

Points: 2

# Comments: 1