Hacker News: klooney

New comment by klooney in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

klooney — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:16:08 +0000

Sometimes the only way you can get basic engineering practices done like "have tests", "have a build system", "run the tests and the builds automatically", "insist that the above work" without management freaking out is to pay someone a lot of money.

New comment by klooney in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

klooney — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:26:03 +0000

You need regional state, or you're still back hauling to the db with all the lag.

New comment by klooney in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

klooney — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:08:53 +0000

Central Computer too

New comment by klooney in "Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:57:40 +0000

I saw a Cybercab on the 280 today, it looked kind of cool but kind of weird, too. I wonder if it'll be the same thing physically.

New comment by klooney in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:50:14 +0000

> Modernity is about not doing what your family says

The flip side is that rich and modern people feel lonely and sad that they don't have strong social bonds.

New comment by klooney in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:49:22 +0000

Sailing. Good to focus your eyes on something not glowing, the cold and wet makes you feel really alive. There's a bottomless pit of cheap old boats and maintenance to learn about- or if you like buying toys, the sky is the limit.

I like racing dingies, adds a social aspect, but ymmv.

New comment by klooney in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

klooney — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:57:02 +0000

The EU has been a huge free rider on defense and pharma spending from the US, they're going to have a rough time reorganizing their economies.

New comment by klooney in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

klooney — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:05:00 +0000

What do you need to get serviced every year? Do the tires wear out that fast?

New comment by klooney in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

klooney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:07 +0000

He's a longtime OpenOffice/LibreOffice and now, I guess, CollabraOffice contributor.

New comment by klooney in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klooney — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:33:54 +0000

You can bomb a pipeline too

New comment by klooney in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klooney — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:28:40 +0000

> US is way more impacted by fertilizer disruption than China is.

China is also a big food importer, they'll feel it eventually

New comment by klooney in "Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses"

klooney — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:56:26 +0000

Until the security team requires a password on the yubikey tap

New comment by klooney in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

klooney — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:19:31 +0000

> Potential Conflict of Interest: The government relies, in part, on third-party firms to vet cloud technology, but those firms are hired and paid by the company being assessed.

Hah. First time looking at FedRAMP?

The real reason for this, of course, is accounting, it moves it off of the government's books.

New comment by klooney in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

klooney — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:07:11 +0000

I love https://github.com/lucagrulla/cw , it's like tail for cloudwatch. It's super fast.

New comment by klooney in "Java 26 is here"

klooney — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:41:59 +0000

There's so much Java development in the Bay

New comment by klooney in "Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against allying with US against Tehran"

klooney — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:33:06 +0000

It's good advice, the US doesn't want to be there in six months, let alone six years.

New comment by klooney in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

klooney — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:10:32 +0000

https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-updat...

They've started bombing the oil in infrastructure

New comment by klooney in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

klooney — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:44:57 +0000

Is this WITCH companies?

New comment by klooney in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

klooney — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:39:55 +0000

I hate the credentialism. What a bummer of a place to end up.

New comment by klooney in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

klooney — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:20:40 +0000

> Experts will naturally use these systems more productively, because they know how to coerce models into the correct conditional distributions which light up the right techniques.

How much can you patch over with the models doing their own metacognition?