Hacker News: killing_time

Explosive battery blaze in South Korea 'paralyzes' vital government services

killing_time — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/asia/south-korea-fire-data-center-daejeon-intl-hnk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397948

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by killing_time in "Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media"

killing_time — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:43:21 +0000

It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button.

Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter.

There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some reason you're exploring a different server and find someone there you want to follow. In that case you still click the follow button but have to provide _your_ username@server string which triggers the necessary back-and-forth to get the follow relationship set up.

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

killing_time — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:44:44 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2021/facebook-didnt-know-why-half-of-messengers-voice-traffic-comes-from-cambodia-heres-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198319

Points: 147

# Comments: 75

Jabel – use Javac 12 syntax when targeting Java 8

killing_time — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bsideup/jabel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20858008

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by killing_time in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)"

killing_time — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:38:27 +0000

Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires

We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :)

Hiring at mid to senior levels in lots of key disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack and frontend, designers, product, iOS & Android. We are growing in all of our European offices - in particular, London and Barcelona.

Our tech stack includes Java and Python for backend microservices, JS (React) for frontend, and we're deploying with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS. If you're experienced in these technologies, you'll find interesting challenges to work on and solve, as part of a great team.

I've been here for a year (one year today!) and am really enjoying the breadth and depth of the work, the quality of the people, and the amount of care that the company takes to give us a comfortable and productive working environment.

You can see our current open roles and apply at http://grnh.se/jitlcd1 - or ping me an email at richard (.) north [at] skyscanner.net for a referral. I'd be very happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can.

New comment by killing_time in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

killing_time — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:59:48 +0000

How about Cloudburst?

UK tech industry not immune to Brexit, trade group warns

killing_time — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/24/uk-tech-industry-not-immune-to-brexit-trade-group-warns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13469476

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by killing_time in "Headless Chrome is coming soon"

killing_time — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 06:03:03 +0000

I use the Chrome and Firefox docker-selenium containers in Testcontainers [1][2], my project for running containers to support JUnit tests.

I created this after numerous issues with PhantomJS compatibility and debuggability; Testcontainers instead uses the real browsers, and also offers automatic video recording of test sessions and VNC access for debugging.

Headless chrome support sounds like a good step forward, but if visibility into what's going on is limited then I feel there's going to be some way to go. Perhaps chrome remote debugging support?

[1]: http://testcontainers.viewdocs.io/testcontainers-java/ [2]: https://rnorth.org/26/better-junit-selenium-testing-with-doc...

New comment by killing_time in "Show HN: Testcontainers, Docker support for JUnit integrated tests"

killing_time — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:59:21 +0000

Developer here! This library arose out of frustration with running Java tests that had some kind of non-Java dependencies - e.g. databases and web browsers for UI testing. Testcontainers lets you add Docker containers to your tests, linked to the lifecycle of the test rather than having to be externally managed from the outside. I've found it useful, and hope others do too.

A few blog posts outline some of the ways the library can be used:

* JUnit integration testing with Docker and Testcontainers [1]

* Fun with Disque, Java and Spinach [2]

* Better JUnit Selenium testing with Docker and Testcontainers [3]

[1] https://rnorth.org/24/junit-integration-testing-with-docker-...

[2] https://rnorth.org/25/fun-with-disque-java-and-spinach

[3] https://rnorth.org/26/better-junit-selenium-testing-with-doc...

Show HN: Testcontainers, Docker support for JUnit integrated tests

killing_time — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:33:00 +0000

Article URL: http://testcontainers.viewdocs.io/testcontainers-java/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11060692

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Better JUnit Selenium Testing with Docker and Testcontainers

killing_time — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:45:57 +0000

Article URL: https://rnorth.org/26/better-junit-selenium-testing-with-docker-and-testcontainers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896033

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fun with Disque, Java and Spinach

killing_time — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://rnorth.org/25/fun-with-disque-java-and-spinach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833084

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

JUnit integration testing with Docker and Testcontainers

killing_time — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 08:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://rnorth.org/24/junit-integration-testing-with-docker-and-testcontainers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821409

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by killing_time in "Keybase.io"

killing_time — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:06:45 +0000

I'd be really grateful for one if you still have any up for grabs. My email address is in my profile. Thanks in advance

New comment by killing_time in "GWT just got a new look"

killing_time — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:46:11 +0000

Yeah - the very earliest preview versions of Meteor had this obvious gap where reads and writes were basically a free for all. However, it's changed a lot since then. As a development crutch the aptly-named 'insecure' package is installed by default (which maintains the free for all), but you're expected to remove it and able to apply fine-grained control to which clients can C/R/U/D which data.

These two steps of the Meteor tutorial probably describe it best: https://www.meteor.com/try/10 https://www.meteor.com/try/11

New comment by killing_time in "GWT just got a new look"

killing_time — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:01:34 +0000

Specifically about this issue, see the section about the MongoDB oplog further down in the article. This removes the polling interval/overhead, so should significantly improve performance and responsiveness.

New comment by killing_time in "Native Web Apps"

killing_time — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:45:38 +0000

Argh, please, no.

Over time I know the term 'native' has been used for many things, but I'm pretty sure the most recent peak in usage started with the iPhone SDK, where it meant 'apps which aren't based on a web browser'. Since then, I've wanted _so much_ for web technologies to become the best platform for making apps, but the hard truth is, they're not. With 16 years more web experience than iOS, I'd still rather shoot myself than use web technologies to make an app with the same UX quality, maintainability, and development time I can achieve natively.

I'm pretty sure the native vs hybrid argument has been settled - for now, though I'm always keen to see new developments.

Seeing software vendors and articles like this pushing to use the term native to describe _the very thing which is not native_ seems a little sad and desperate at best, and an attempt to confuse at worst.

New comment by killing_time in "Servers are fun: Ansible"

killing_time — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:55:25 +0000

For testing ansible playbooks/roles in a vagrant VM, I find a simpler way is to use Vagrant's built-in support for Ansible as a provisioner.

This way, launching your test VM is just a `vagrant up` and running ansible against it (repeatedly, if needed) is `vagrant provision`. No need to pass inventory/key parameters at the shell this way - Vagrant calls Ansible with the right settings.

One thing that's easy to miss is to make Ansible use sudo when running against the Vagrant VM, since the vagrant user by convention has passwordless sudo rights (ansible.sudo = true in the Vagrantfile).

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/ansible.html is a helpful reference doc.

New comment by killing_time in "Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL"

killing_time — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:31:06 +0000

The use case which this really excites me about is automated testing from the GUI level. If the performance is good enough, this would be really useful for restoring DB state in between tests.

New comment by killing_time in "Ninja – full stack web framework for Java"

killing_time — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:27:36 +0000

This looks pretty neat. I can't believe I'd not heard of it before.

From a quick skim of the docs it feels like it could be the successor to Play v1 I was looking for. Opinionated and full stack, yet pure Java and built on existing, familiar, frameworks so that the average client or developer can feel a bit more comfortable.

I'm looking forward to trying this out!