Hacker News: johann8384

New comment by johann8384 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

johann8384 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:22:27 +0000

We can keep our amateur radio antennas pointed at the ISS for their entire pass. This would be harder but feels doable. We have directional wifi antennas on AZ/EL rotators to track drones and extend their range.

New comment by johann8384 in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

johann8384 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:03:07 +0000

Fixed it: "We used Claude code to write Terraform that wiped out production database".

New comment by johann8384 in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

johann8384 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:44:06 +0000

It would be extra counterproductive since you can print your own boarding pass.

New comment by johann8384 in "Kubernetes Was Overkill. We Moved to Docker Compose and Saved 60 Hours"

johann8384 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:39:26 +0000

Yeah, that's pretty basic day one stuff. It doesn't sound like they should be running production services.

New comment by johann8384 in "Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything"

johann8384 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:26:49 +0000

I have markdown files in ~/.claude/guides that I refer to, my subagents have instructions about, and my claude.md in several projects reference them when relevant.

This seems like it wouldn't accomplish much more than those methods. It knows my stack preferences, what I want commit messages to look like, etc.

New comment by johann8384 in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

johann8384 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:27:13 +0000

Oh good. My OrangePi is safe.

New comment by johann8384 in "Everyone should be using Claude Code more"

johann8384 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:39:48 +0000

But, it isn't running locally. It uses tools locally but the LLM is still shipping the output of those tools to Anthropic and running the inference there.

A compromise to this would be Bedrock but that still ships the data to Amazon to execute the LLM on their processors.

New comment by johann8384 in "Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia"

johann8384 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:39:40 +0000

But this wasn't a new emergency number.

New comment by johann8384 in "A Sad Collapse in Student Preparation at UC San Diego Was Inevitable"

johann8384 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:22:53 +0000

What was the driver for the change in admissions testing? Was the SAT or ACT considered bad? Or were too many students getting low scores?

New comment by johann8384 in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

johann8384 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:19:03 +0000

Yes, in fact, lots of the area that is warehouses to the south, and where the larger run way to the east and some buffer zone to the east used to be neighborhoods and they were bought and torn down to make room around the airport.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Louisville/comments/1983ko2/what_ha...

New comment by johann8384 in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

johann8384 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:16:59 +0000

Not a UPS Factory (whatever that means).

Grade A Auto Parts on Melton Ave was the initial damaged building. I don't have the name of the chemical place handy.

Med Command setup at River City Metals.

New comment by johann8384 in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

johann8384 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:11:25 +0000

It's a few blocks of fire. I was on Tanker 4565 standing by as a backfill for units on scene. It's no where near "All of Louisville", that's a ridiculous thing to say.

New comment by johann8384 in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

johann8384 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:10:18 +0000

It was around 250k gallons of fuel. Our CAD notes on the initial dispatch said 250k, one press briefing said 280k, and then it was changed to 220k which I think is the actual number.

New comment by johann8384 in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

johann8384 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:07:37 +0000

It's not even a mile wide here. The widest spot I measured just east of the falls was 0.75, at Utica it is 0.34 and at Westport it's 0.39.

New comment by johann8384 in "Self-hosting email like it's 1984"

johann8384 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:49:46 +0000

Isn't that what DMARC is for?

New comment by johann8384 in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

johann8384 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:43:15 +0000

Well, yeah, the pictures they included with the articles is a sim farm with devices available on a TOR site the same way you lease space on a server with EC2.

So, it maybe could have been used to initiate a TDoS attack if someone rented the capacity but that's not what it was there for. They caught a subcontractor and they want us to think they caught a kingpin.

New comment by johann8384 in "Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects"

johann8384 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:45:08 +0000

I've got dozens of various OrangePi models and I use them for a wide range of projects like drones, sdr receivers, home automation nodes, etc.

I'm sorry you have this experience but it's definitely not typical.

New comment by johann8384 in "Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request"

johann8384 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:05:52 +0000

This lines up with my experience, sometimes it is as simple as "Your way is fine, but we did it this other way over here, and over here, should we make it consistent, even if it is consistent but not as good" or as you pointed out, looking for footguns. I also like the supervillian model of "Show this to an average 5 year old and see what obvious flaw they point out".

New comment by johann8384 in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

johann8384 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:42:58 +0000

How is this different than the docker container I am running now? I must be missing a detail or two.

New comment by johann8384 in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

johann8384 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:24:54 +0000

With $3MM you could just stop working and live in many other nice enough places without ever having to work again.