Hacker News: jdelsman

New comment by jdelsman in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

jdelsman — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:51:18 +0000

How sure are we that their status page is accurate? AWS's status page often lags actual issues.

New comment by jdelsman in "Addicted to Claude Code–Help"

jdelsman — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:46:39 +0000

I have about six or seven backlogs full of tech debt, bugs, and other various enhancements that every team _wants_ to do, but we either don’t have the bandwidth or know-how to do right now.

I spend a lot of time at my org doing one of the following things:

1. figuring out how to onboard engineers and bootstrap them to do their own work to draw down their backlogs

2. show the team cool ideas to spark their interest or bring them from “I’m never using this useless crap AI” to “oh, wow, I never thought of that… fires up a terminal and creates own cool thing”

3. creating a backlog of other things people want to automate but never wrote down/thought through that Claude can do in short order for immediate value

New comment by jdelsman in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

jdelsman — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:06:25 +0000

My favorite set of tools to use with Claude Code right now: https://github.com/obra/superpowers

1. Start with the ‘brainstorm’ session where you explain your feature or the task that you're trying to complete. 2. Allow it to write up a design doc, then an implementation plan - both saved to disk - by asking you multiple clarifying questions. Feel free to use voice transcription for this because it is probably as good as typing, if not better. 3. Open up a new Claude window and then use a git worktree with the Execute Plan command. This will essentially build out in multiple steps, committing after about three tasks. What I like to do is to have it review its work after three tasks as well so that you get easier code review and have a little bit more confidence that it's doing what you want it to do.

Overall, this hasn't really failed me yet and I've been using it now for two weeks and I've used about, I don't know, somewhere in the range of 10 million tokens this week alone.

New comment by jdelsman in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

jdelsman — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:32:28 +0000

Not being detected by things like bot detection.

New comment by jdelsman in "A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs"

jdelsman — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:05:52 +0000

You will simply need a lot of GPU cores/VRAM. On my $4,000 Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 64GB of RAM, I can comfortably run deepseek-r1:32b, but a) load times can be annoying (i.e. if you are switching models for different tasks, or let them idle out) and b) you can certainly tell that it requires tuning of the context length, temperature, etc. based on what you need to do.

Compare that with the commercial models where a lot of that is done on a large scale for you.

New comment by jdelsman in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)"

jdelsman — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:36:22 +0000

Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Definitely

Willing to relocate: Not for at least 1-2 years Technologies: Kubernetes (cloud & bare metal), Terraform, AWS, Go, Python, Ruby on Rails, React/Next.js, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, nginx & Apache, various cloud/video streaming/realtime tech, and more

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/joshuadelsman

Email: j@srv.im

12+ years as a platform engineer -> SRE at a number of top-tier startups or PaaS companies. Currently seeking my next senior or staff level SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineer position from Chicago or beyond!

A few projects I'm proudest of recently:

* Successfully planned & executed a six-month migration to EKS most recently at Sprout Social using custom-built pipelines which improved overall reliability and scalability for 150-ish microservices.

* Achieved a 75% reduction in AWS costs for the Moovweb (now Edgio/Akamai) Mobile Edge CDN by optimizing Node.js runtimes for use with Kubernetes.

* Helped develop two internal Go web apps used by the AWS EC2 CSET team to assist with enterprise client support engagements and dependencies.

* A couple years ago, I was instrumental in iteratively upgrading Hotel Tonight's core API backend from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 2.3 with zero downtime, reducing endpoint response times by 45% and improving overall system performance.

Looking forward to hearing about any opportunities! Thanks!

New comment by jdelsman in "Brightline Orlando's first train: 125 mph from MCO to MIA [video]"

jdelsman — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:32:16 +0000

You can rent a Tesla from Hertz for $40-50 per day, and they are currently including the Supercharger fees (at least I didn't get charged for it the last two times I took one).

New comment by jdelsman in "Molly Holzschlag has died"

jdelsman — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:26:09 +0000

Molly was incredibly kind to me. I met her a few times at conferences, and she always seemed to be bright, quirky and impossibly energetic. I am sorry to see this happen to such a lovely person. I hope she rests in power!

New comment by jdelsman in "Go 1.16 reduces significantly reduces sizes for built executables"

jdelsman — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:20:30 +0000

If you want to run them in an environment which reduces payload size (i.e. AWS Lambda) you really do, I'm afraid. This is possibly great news for Go users on AWS :)

New comment by jdelsman in "OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming"

jdelsman — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:48:08 +0000

I use Loopback on Mac, and its never let me down! https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

New comment by jdelsman in "RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps"

jdelsman — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:08:51 +0000

Why has nobody mentioned Grindr?

New comment by jdelsman in "Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101"

jdelsman — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:44:38 +0000

Why no black banner?

AWS Route 53 experiencing outage

jdelsman — Fri, 10 May 2019 20:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://status.aws.amazon.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19882042

Points: 6

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New comment by jdelsman in "Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties"

jdelsman — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:46:14 +0000

None of that data seems to be "private" according to Grindr's privacy policy: https://www.grindr.com/privacy-policy

New comment by jdelsman in "Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?"

jdelsman — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 05:26:21 +0000

k6 by Load Impact: https://k6.io

New comment by jdelsman in "California Today: A Spreading ‘Yimby’ Movement"

jdelsman — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:17:49 +0000

I live in SF (Mission Bay) and just went to the "Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Council" meeting last night for the first time. It was _absurd_ the amount of NIMBYism being spewed from folks over 50 (who accounted for more than half of the occupants in the room, mind you...) whereas the folks nearer to my age were open to the ideas being proposed and discussed.

I knew it was bad, but I was bit taken aback.

However, I did get a little discouraged that there was a lack of people my age trying to get involved, though. People can complain all they want... but until they do, it won't change.

New comment by jdelsman in "Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts"

jdelsman — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:03:21 +0000

Heh... https://web.archive.org/web/20170626201934/http://www.mcmans...

New comment by jdelsman in "GitHub was down"

jdelsman — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:33:45 +0000

That is likely just their standard downtime message.

How to Ship Cloudflare Logs to Sumo Logic with Lambda

jdelsman — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:58:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@voxxit/how-to-ship-cloudflare-logs-to-sumo-logic-with-lambda-a119e5379f02#.odwxb05hl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13623128

Points: 1

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New comment by jdelsman in "Cops Raid San Francisco Dronemaker Lily Robotics"

jdelsman — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 03:40:56 +0000

Same should be done for Plastc: https://plastc.com/

Been promising something for almost two years, pre-orders taken, nothing delivered...