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New comment by lazyant in "Do the Hardest Thing"

lazyant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:50:12 +0000

https://www.thisisdefinition.com/insights/where-theres-muck-...

New comment by lazyant in "Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI"

lazyant — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:20:18 +0000

> The interns we hired are extremely qualified and AI-native. wtf is "AI-native" ? couldn't he say "familiar with AI tooling?"

New comment by lazyant in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

lazyant — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:23:04 +0000

Instead of trying to get the actual SOC 2 attestation, do a version of the homework that would get you there; basically writing documentation. The output would be documents describing different procedures or existing infra (disaster recovery, network diagrams etc) and a master spreadsheet with the "soc 2" questions (that you pick) and answers, a "security questionnaire" and this is what you send to companies when they insist.

Note in security-speak the keyword is "mitigation" (you don't have x but you mitigate that by y)

New comment by lazyant in "I am building a cloud"

lazyant — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:15:02 +0000

if your app runs on a single VM, then run it on a VM (two VMs behind LB for extra reliability)

New comment by lazyant in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

lazyant — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:08:36 +0000

Would a hot tub session (say at 100 - 105 F) be comparable or yield similar results?

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

lazyant — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://sadservers.com/advent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102347

Points: 365

# Comments: 131

New comment by lazyant in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

lazyant — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:58:39 +0000

Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) account for over 7% of Medicare spending, or approximately $46.6 billion annually.

New comment by lazyant in "Angel Investors, a Field Guide"

lazyant — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:51:24 +0000

related, story of the startup https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-sell-an-ea...

New comment by lazyant in "AI Broke Interviews"

lazyant — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:02:47 +0000

I agree that estimation questions (not "brain teasers" as coming up with the clever solution) are good. Developers should be able to think in orders of magnitude.

New comment by lazyant in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

lazyant — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:18:49 +0000

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/publications.htm...

New comment by lazyant in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

lazyant — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:34:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

New comment by lazyant in "Why I code as a CTO"

lazyant — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:52:46 +0000

The new SEO fad is CEOs and CTOs writing articles trying to look like a regular guy.

Also the "C" in CTO means Chief, as in main manager (of managers); if you have no direct report you are not a manager, let alone a "chief" one; call yourself Founder/Distinguished Engineer

New comment by lazyant in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

lazyant — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:04:55 +0000

yes, the previous AWS incident to this one iirc ec2 instances were not reachable from AWS console (IAM issue?) but they kept running and working

New comment by lazyant in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

lazyant — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:01:08 +0000

> The wall was actually as likely to end five months from when they visited it, as it was to end 500 years from then.

I don't think this is correct; as in something that has been there for say hundreds of years had more probability to be there in a hundred years than something that has been there for a month.

New comment by lazyant in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

lazyant — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:48:14 +0000

'make your manager look good'

New comment by lazyant in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

lazyant — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:33:07 +0000

their treatment of Israel-Palestine

New comment by lazyant in "Atlassian CEO promises AI everywhere, clearer views of what your devs are up to"

lazyant — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:09:11 +0000

this will surely turn around the 10% of devs who don't hate Jira yet

New comment by lazyant in "High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)"

lazyant — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:03:34 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rinconada,_Peru at 5,100 m (16,700 ft) is the highest town in the world. Locals play soccer on the street after working all day at the mines, visitors need oxygen tanks.

New comment by lazyant in "Tarsnap is cozy"

lazyant — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:50:57 +0000

you are comparing data storage to a backup solution, not the target market

New comment by lazyant in "What Is Complexity in Chess?"

lazyant — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:44:45 +0000

One chess engine I saw long ago used a small depth (maybe even 1!) but with the exception of consecutive captures to avoid the biggest case for this issue (pawn promotion as well iirc)