Hacker News: jraedisch

New comment by jraedisch in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

jraedisch — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:25:00 +0000

Divide and conquer?! Twitter could have been IT and somehow did not make it. Now we have many contenders and with Europe witnessing being cut off from American services, many are betting on growing public budgets for infrastructure projects. I paid for Mastodon(.social) for a while and somehow still think, projects funded by users should be the norm, but web B2C always had a hard stance in EU, pitching for public funds seems to remain "the winner"/most viable option in this space.

New comment by jraedisch in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

jraedisch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:23:32 +0000

If understanding correctly, Absurd (by the Pi LLM harness devs) minimizes the pure db approach as much as possible. I only just started getting into the topic myself, though.

https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd

New comment by jraedisch in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

jraedisch — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:36:49 +0000

I would like to read more about Larry Page, too.

New comment by jraedisch in "Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying"

jraedisch — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:22:18 +0000

Me too!

New comment by jraedisch in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

jraedisch — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:08:19 +0000

Stefan Munz called this “YOLO vs tight-leash” at a very entertaining agentic coding meetup in Hamburg recently.

https://bsky.app/profile/stefanmunz.bsky.social

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/de-DE/agentic-coding-meetup-ham...

New comment by jraedisch in "The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter"

jraedisch — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:35:39 +0000

The reasoning could be that this makes reliably scaling down (and thus keep making a profit) easier, starting with getting rid of SREs.

We have similar movement going on with Xing here in Hamburg, Germany (once conceived as a LinkedIn competitor).

Great names that still have a lot of momentum, but are expected by ownership to slow down.

Reminds me of Scott Galloway’s most profitable investment having been a yellow pages company. Yes, the market shrunk, but they could shrink running costs as fast or even faster.

Vanguard CEO Buckley to retire by year-end

jraedisch — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:48:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/vanguard-ceo-buckley-retire-by-year-end-2024-02-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39701409

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jraedisch in "The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)"

jraedisch — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:53:38 +0000

That would be fine. There are also many that do not like swimming.

New comment by jraedisch in "The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)"

jraedisch — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:50:19 +0000

I will vote for the party that has a believable plan. So far, at least in Hamburg, Germany, I feel it is mostly a fight amongst many for the same, very scarce resources.

New comment by jraedisch in "The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)"

jraedisch — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:34:10 +0000

I love swimming and direct access to "nature". You left out child and health care, too. I do not see how any of these are prestige goals.

New comment by jraedisch in "The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)"

jraedisch — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:46:56 +0000

So when I think “every important thing in my life is scarce”, that is just incorrect imagination? 11 billion people can live on a lake with perfect child and health care?

New comment by jraedisch in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

jraedisch — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:51:14 +0000

When discovery on Nostr was way worse I needed some way to find accounts to follow. So I built a quick Postgres based search:

https://sps.bio/?q=scifi+-bitcoin+-russia+-mastodon

Beware of spam. I did not clean the data for a while.

Retro Commander – Post-Apocalyptic Real-Time Strategy

jraedisch — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:10:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.retrocommander.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447266

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jraedisch in "Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates"

jraedisch — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:59:21 +0000

What’s your approach on evaluating an unofficial build?

New comment by jraedisch in "Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates"

jraedisch — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:33:11 +0000

Switched to iPhone since I did not want to throw away another perfectly fine phone because of lacking security updates.

Had a Nokia 8 before and would still have it if Nokia kept supporting it. Some things (e.g. Keyboard, VPN integration) were superior to my new iPhone.

New comment by jraedisch in "Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?"

jraedisch — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:12:31 +0000

Definitely. Turns out I have about two accidental flags a year.

New comment by jraedisch in "Why Britain doesn’t build"

jraedisch — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:54:58 +0000

How would you incentivize people to have children?

New comment by jraedisch in "Why Britain doesn’t build"

jraedisch — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:29:36 +0000

For people to be able to save and expand their wealth in land, land needs to remain desirable. Desire is driven by the need for housing. Need for housing stays high if the rate of new housing stays low. Thus, rate of new housing stays low. Else we would have a lot more very beautiful sky scrapers.

New comment by jraedisch in "Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks"

jraedisch — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:37:19 +0000

Of course singing more to your children is probably a good idea in general, and being sensitive on how you might (without a good reason) treat them harshly or differently, is also a good idea. But for that you need energy, and that energy will then be missing somewhere else, assuming things in general are efficient. And if they are not efficient, we should discuss why they are not.

New comment by jraedisch in "Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks"

jraedisch — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:31:44 +0000

I do not disagree. Let me rephrase: I think it is much more important to discuss how much we want to spend to raise our children or how and how much we need to work, than discussing boys vs. girls.