Hacker News: kolanos

New comment by kolanos in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

kolanos — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:34:22 +0000

It's an LLM flooding the zone.

New comment by kolanos in "Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective"

kolanos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:23:57 +0000

Agree. I've been delving deep into Rust for some personal projects, and while there are some sharp edges (that likely won't go away) the tooling, ecosystem and general ergonomics more than make up for it. Hoping I'm not in the minority of relative newcomers and that the language continues to thrive.

New comment by kolanos in "John C. Dvorak has died"

kolanos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:31:06 +0000

About a decade ago I heard John complaining on No Agenda about a sound card mixer problem he was having in Linux. I had the same model card so I emailed offering some debugging advice. He responded almost immediately and we went back and forth trying things. If memory serves it was a config issue with pulseaudio. It was the highlight of my week.

New comment by kolanos in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

kolanos — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:40:39 +0000

$1.7-billion isn't a mundane detail Michael!

New comment by kolanos in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

kolanos — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:38:55 +0000

This team could have stopped here and still had something interesting (albeit not novel) to show. But the hype cycle was too tempting.

New comment by kolanos in "Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'"

kolanos — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:26:48 +0000

This archive link is not working for me.

New comment by kolanos in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

kolanos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:34:38 +0000

We must have joined around the same time, 17498. Funny to call us late when this would have been July 2008, or ~3 months after public launch.

Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located

kolanos — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-location-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603022

Points: 3

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New comment by kolanos in "Wiz joins Google"

kolanos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:52:18 +0000

Didn't this happen a year ago? [0] Or did this deal just take a year?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518

New comment by kolanos in "Show HN: Talkatui – WWE style live commentary for your AI coding sessions"

kolanos — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:01:57 +0000

Was kind of expecting Jim Ross and Bobby Heenan's voices, but that would likely get you sued. Fun nonetheless.

New comment by kolanos in "An Update on Heroku"

kolanos — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:12:38 +0000

For a little context. Salesforce changed their enterprise structure, effectively doubling their prices and my guess is many of their larger customers fled the platform. The enterprise pricing organized dynos into blocks and without notice they doubled the minimum block unit you could have. As a result, you ended up paying for dynos you weren't even using because they were now rounding up, sometimes by thousands of dollars worth of dyno blocks. So if you thought Heroku was expensive before, now it just didn't make any financial sense at all. For the other PaaS out there: don't do this.

New comment by kolanos in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

kolanos — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:11:09 +0000

RISC is good.

New comment by kolanos in "Apple Creator Studio"

kolanos — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:19:44 +0000

Does this mean Keynote and Pages are now paid products? Aren't they included with Mac OS?

New comment by kolanos in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

kolanos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:30:53 +0000

996 is a work schedule that derives its name from its requirement that workers clock in from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week, resulting in employees working 12 hours per day and 72 hours per week.

New comment by kolanos in "Show HN: BustAPI – A Python framework with a Rust core claiming 50x Flask speed"

kolanos — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:05:37 +0000

> (Benchmarks run on PyPy 3.11, Intel i5-8365U, 8 Cores, 100 connections)

Why not benchmark Flask/FastAPI with 8 workers instead of 4 for a more apples-to-apples comparison?

New comment by kolanos in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

kolanos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:45:37 +0000

China currently only holds about 2% of U.S. debt. What is the risk exactly?

New comment by kolanos in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

kolanos — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:30:05 +0000

Found this in their roadmap [0]:

> Managed ECS-EC2 clusters in preview

> AWS has a long standing issue with the ECS agent randomly disconnecting, resulting in orphaned EC2 instances which can cause traffic or deployment degradation.

> We have attempted to solve this a few ways in the past, but there were still critical edge cases falling through.

> So we bit the bullet, and developed a robust, full featured ECS cluster management solution to solve this problem once and for all.

> It's currently in private preview. To get early access before we roll it out to everyone, contact support.

I found elsewhere in the Flight control docs where they recommend ECs+EC2. While I'm not surprised to hear about issues with ECS+EC2, given the reported issues above I don't know if I'd recommend it in my docs. Fargate is a far better option for most use cases, at least in my experience. Unless you need specialized instance types, like GPU workloads.

[0]: https://roadmap.flightcontrol.dev/changelog

New comment by kolanos in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

kolanos — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:19:52 +0000

Just reading over the docs, you'll need a lot more GCP services than Cloud Run to encompass what Flightcontrol is managing for you. The Cloud Run analog is Fargate. Which is only the container orchestration piece.

New comment by kolanos in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

kolanos — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:15:01 +0000

Please provide links for the docs to this, as this was a misconception I had about Dooku as well.

New comment by kolanos in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

kolanos — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:06:13 +0000

Looks like you can use your own Dockerfile or a container registry. Suspect nixpacks are just a recommended starting point for people looking to get up and running quickly.