Hacker News: insomniacity

New comment by insomniacity in "SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything"

insomniacity — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:40:46 +0000

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New comment by insomniacity in "Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack"

insomniacity — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:01:55 +0000

> They have subsidiaries numbering in the dozens, so there is no way to unify IT norms and standards.

That is their choice though - they could setup a technology services subsidiary, and then provide IT services to the other subsidiaries, transparently to the end users in those subsidiaries.

New comment by insomniacity in "Googler... ex-Googler"

insomniacity — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:47:01 +0000

> decent amount of start up funding in the form of a grant

This is fascinating? What was it in absolute terms, or relative to your base salary?

Did you have to have a viable startup idea and it was paid to the incorporated company? Or was it just extra cash in your personal bank account?

Did you do that, or did you just get another job?

Amazon pushes back some RTO dates due to insufficient office space

insomniacity — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:07:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/amazons-rto-delays-highlight-why-workers-get-so-mad-about-mandates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42484838

Points: 6

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New comment by insomniacity in "Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object"

insomniacity — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:38:19 +0000

Good point - plus the conditional writes recently announced. Did anyone else implement that?

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?"

insomniacity — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:42:50 +0000

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?"

insomniacity — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:02:23 +0000

So the goal would be to eventually move that graph into running code and query it. But it’s never going to be large - easily fit in memory.

Obsidian is PKM right? Does it have the idea of labels on the edges?

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?"

insomniacity — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:57:05 +0000

Tacking on a related question - what software should one use to interactively create/update/see a small graph?

Thinking specifically about a graph of knowledge, so will be an iterative process.

Just looking for anything more than a text editor really!

New comment by insomniacity in "Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use"

insomniacity — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:18:08 +0000

Not exactly - https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/8369

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: Why is it so hard for devices to determine WiFi network health?"

insomniacity — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:53:09 +0000

I like this way of putting it. I find a LOT of technology questions and problems can be easily answered once you have a good understanding of the layers of the stack, whether that’s OSI, Kubernetes, or a large enterprise cloud platform on top of AWS.

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?"

insomniacity — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:31:45 +0000

Say you're a small or solopreneur company, and you don't have any enterprise customers yet.

What do you put on a features/pricing page to help you start finding out what your enterprise customers might actually want? (Not the generic stuff like SSO and audits, but specific to your product/market).

Just a generic "Don't see the features you need? Email us!"?

New comment by insomniacity in "Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police"

insomniacity — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:45:14 +0000

> as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted

When I was a kid Star Trek Voyager broadcast on a Sunday night, and it was the last thing on a weekend before bed. So I had exactly the same issue with the end credits music, just more frequent!

New comment by insomniacity in "How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket"

insomniacity — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:14:51 +0000

And this is why you pad the bucket name with random chars.

New comment by insomniacity in "I Ran a Background Check on a Startup"

insomniacity — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:27:55 +0000

This is Clipboard Health (YC W17), right?

New comment by insomniacity in "Amazon's Silent Sacking"

insomniacity — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:56:44 +0000

What are they going to do - fire you?

New comment by insomniacity in "Booking.com users angry at firm's response to hacks"

insomniacity — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:41:21 +0000

Does Confirmation of Payee even exist outside the UK? Even if it did exist within other countries, I highly doubt there is international integration.

New comment by insomniacity in "Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought"

insomniacity — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:47:26 +0000

> The old public key’s certificate revealed it was issued on April 5th, 2016, and expired on April 4th, 2021, and its thumbprint matched the thumbprint of the key Microsoft listed in their latest blog post, named “Thumbprint of acquired signing key”

Am I reading this right? The key was expired? And still in use??

New comment by insomniacity in "Show HN: I made Hazumi, a modern HN reader for iOS"

insomniacity — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:34:07 +0000

The AI summary is hard for me to visualise/validate. How about exposing it free for the top story of the day?

New comment by insomniacity in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

insomniacity — Sun, 21 May 2023 13:23:21 +0000

So if anything with OAuth is tied to Google, how would you survive losing your Google account?

New comment by insomniacity in "The transition from logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy"

insomniacity — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:38:17 +0000

I’ve wanted to build something very similar for quite a while. Mind dropping me an email?

ic@fastmail-co-uk