Hacker News: jerrycat101

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Blink and you'll miss it: dogs may send humans subtle eye signals"

jerrycat101 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:59:07 +0000

you want us to pay to read whatever you posted?

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Ask HN: What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch?"

jerrycat101 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:40:25 +0000

and i bet the company pays a ton for licensing money for this thing..

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Ask HN: How could a startup stand a chance when Reddit won't even let you post?"

jerrycat101 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:33:02 +0000

You have to slowly engage with the community and use it or a regular but even then you are not supposed to self promote. What you can do is ask for peoples opinion of your app.

Ask HN: What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch?

jerrycat101 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:31:25 +0000

I recently inherited an old phone and call centre system at work It runs on Elastix/CentOS, a custom windows app, MySQL, GSM gateways with analogue devices and static ips, with almost no documentation at all.

The strange thing is, it works really well. The problem is that nobody fully understands every dependency anymore and changing the wrong thing could affect a large part of the company so for now am documenting everything, improving the backups virtualising it and isolating it before attempting replacment.

Has anyone else inherited a critical system that everyone was afraid to touch?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902652

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"

jerrycat101 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:56:11 +0000

thanks for the explanation! Much appreciated

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"

jerrycat101 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:46:04 +0000

what do you mean? how can you do this?

New comment by jerrycat101 in "FAANG Simulator"

jerrycat101 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:23:11 +0000

RAT RACE #2 · ACQUIRED sold the company at 49 · walked away with $3.88M · peak burnout 88%

https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

jerrycat101 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:58:10 +0000

wait are we as drivers required to have a camera? I mean its a good thing to have a camera but no idea how you set it up to record automatically.

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT"

jerrycat101 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:11:47 +0000

Fable 5 is using ALL my tokens. it IS CRAZY how much it consumes. i got to 100% after i made it do some research online with 5 agents. Just be aware of that. Dont make it do research

New comment by jerrycat101 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

jerrycat101 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:06:26 +0000

i still dont understand how the cyber security industry doesnt become huge with AI attacks and everything nowadays...

New comment by jerrycat101 in "Grok 4.5 arriving tomorrow"

jerrycat101 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:04:33 +0000

is it going to be any good?