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New comment by khazit in "OpenAI Mulls Significant Cuts to What It Charges for Tokens"

khazit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:20:38 +0000

OpenAI Mulls Significant Cuts to What It Charges for Tokens

khazit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-considers-drastic-price-cuts-anticipating-war-for-users-with-anthropic-9b8c178e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495872

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

MCP is prompt engineering all over again

khazit — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:45:35 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/blog/mcp-is-prompt-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082428

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Alert-driven monitoring

khazit — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:02:23 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997056

Points: 128

# Comments: 45

We Built a Metric Simulator

khazit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:01:10 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/blog/metric-simulator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832224

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Linux kernel doesn't care about your disk health

khazit — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:04:22 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/blog/linux-kernel-doesnt-care-disk-health

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737899

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Lightweight is a metric, not an adjective

khazit — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:41:44 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/blog/lightweight-is-metric

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344119

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by khazit in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

khazit — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:59:09 +0000

We dismissed using journalctl at the very start. We’ve had similar experiences with other CLI tools: the moment you start embedding them inside a program, you introduce a whole new class of problems. What if journalctl exits? What if it outputs an error? What if it hangs? On top of that, you have to manage the subprocess lifecycle yourself. It’s not as easy as it may seem.

You can also argue that sd_journal (the C API) exists for this exact reason, rather than shelling out to journalctl. These are technical trade-offs, doesn't mean we're fuckups

New comment by khazit in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

khazit — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:42:26 +0000

There is an existing pure Go library [1] written by someone else. The issue is that we weren’t confident we could ship a reliable parser. We even included an excerpt from the systemd documentation, which didn’t exactly reassure us:

> Note that the actual implementation in the systemd codebase is the only ultimately authoritative description of the format, so if this document and the code disagree, the code is right

This required a lot of extra effort and hoop-jumping, but at least it’s on our side rather than something users have to deal with at deploy time.

[1]: https://github.com/Velocidex/go-journalctl

New comment by khazit in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

khazit — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:53:46 +0000

The macOS bit wasn’t about trying to get systemd logs on mac. The issue was that the build itself fails because libsystemd-dev isn’t available. We (naively) expected journal support to be something that we can detect and handle at runtime.

New comment by khazit in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

khazit — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Of course you still need one binary per CPU architecture. But when you rely on a dynamic link, you need to build from the same architecture as the target system. At that point cross-compiling stops being reliable.

Go is portable, until it isn't

khazit — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:17:42 +0000

Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180911

Points: 155

# Comments: 134

New comment by khazit in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

khazit — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:31:23 +0000

In case you don't already know, there are Github-hosted runners that run Windows arm64 [1]

Also, it's not what you're asking, but self-hosted runners are a security nightmare if you don't have the hardware to completely isolate them from your local network.

[1] https://github.com/actions/partner-runner-images/blob/main/i...

OpenAI plans to become profitable in 2030

khazit — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/openai-cash-burn-rate-annual-losses-2028-profitable-2030-financial-documents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915329

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by khazit in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

khazit — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:56:24 +0000

That’s not actually a bug (maybe the message need to be more verbose). The agent is running, but it doesn’t yet know what data to collect. You’ll need to finish the setup in the UI by choosing what metrics/logs you want. Once you do that, the error will go away and the agent will start collecting data

New comment by khazit in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

khazit — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:52:22 +0000

I’m still working on Simple Observability:

https://simpleobservability.com

I built it because I needed two things:

- A super easy-to-install monitoring tool that doesn’t require bash scripts or config files

- A mobile-friendly, UX-first interface where I can check everything from my phone

It’s now pretty feature complete. I can see a full picture of all the servers and VPS I run straight from my phone.

Setup is one command, no config files, and everything else happens in the UI. There’s a catalog of predefined alert rules, and creating new ones is easier than anything else I’ve used.

There’s a free tier if anyone wants to try it!

New comment by khazit in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

khazit — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:07:24 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I'll make sure to add screenshots.

For the alerts it is configurable pretty quickly (you just select what you want to monitor, a threshold value, and a notification channel). But I’ll look into having some sensible defaults built in so it works out of the box

New comment by khazit in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

khazit — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:53:35 +0000

I'm working on Simple Observability[0], a platform for monitoring servers (metrics and logs). Think of it as a super simple alternative to the Prometheus + Grafana + Loki stack, designed for teams who just want to know “is my server healthy?” without setting up and maintaining a full observability pipeline.

It uses a lightweight, open-source agent[1] that collects data and pushes it to the backend, so it works behind firewalls and doesn’t require any open ports or scraping setup. The goal is to get useful monitoring and alerting with minimal effort: one command install and a UI-based configuration.

[0] https://simpleobservability.com

[1] https://github.com/Simple-Observability/simob-agent

New comment by khazit in "Intel may scrap next-gen node without major customer [pdf]"

khazit — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:55:06 +0000

From the 10-Q filing: "We are focused on the continued development of Intel 14A, the next generation node beyond Intel 18A and Intel 18A-P, and on securing a significant external customer for such node. However, if we are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect that it will not be economical to develop and manufacture Intel 14A and successor leading-edge nodes on a go-forward basis. In such event, we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes and various of our manufacturing expansion projects"

Intel may scrap next-gen node without major customer [pdf]

khazit — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings/content/0000050863-25-000109/0000050863-25-000109.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682138

Points: 3

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