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New comment by lazyant in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

lazyant — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:08:16 +0000

I've seen ads using famous people (as in a Prime Minister) to sell whatever faking the whole thing, how is that even legal

New comment by lazyant in "I Changed My License"

lazyant — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:25:54 +0000

maybe?

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International

New comment by lazyant in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

lazyant — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:48:56 +0000

I believe the opposite of this statement to be true

New comment by lazyant in "Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels"

lazyant — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:18:13 +0000

I guess I don't understand what's going on. Solver says in 1-2 to raise 85% of hands to 6 as SM. Then the response by BB is to raise to 18 with 98% of hands!?

New comment by lazyant in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

lazyant — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:38:00 +0000

I lost rows in a busy table until I changed to PRAGMA synchronous = FULL

New comment by lazyant in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

lazyant — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:44:36 +0000

> the site can now pretty easily handle 12 requests per second.

Right prod architecture (nginx -> gunicorn -> django, with nginx serving static assets), decent PRAGMAs for sqlite3 and caching for generic content should improve the RPS one or two orders of magnitude.

New comment by lazyant in "Mark Cuban: fight inequality by giving all workers company stock"

lazyant — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:26:42 +0000

Mincome: https://humanrights.ca/story/manitobas-mincome-experiment

New comment by lazyant in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

lazyant — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:25:38 +0000

# Upload backup to S3 # Sometimes the backup gets OOM killed and so it stays locked, do an unlock.

An standard S3 upload like "aws s3 cp" doing OOM is surprising (to me)

New comment by lazyant in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

lazyant — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:25:51 +0000

My prejudice is that there are only a few countries in the world (US, Canada, Australia, Mexico, possibly others I don't have experience with) where coming as an immigrant they take you in and you can be considered from that country.

New comment by lazyant in "The Vespa at 80"

lazyant — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:02:09 +0000

> "The first ads for the Vespa featured a woman," said Sarra. "You could call it a kind of feminist design." Well, a big feature of the Vespa design is that, unlike other motorcycles, women (or Scottish men) can ride them with skirts. Surely that helped with their initial popularity.

New comment by lazyant in "Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test"

lazyant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:15:54 +0000

Documentary or docudrama but yes it's great. Important lessons like focusing only in the next rock.

New comment by lazyant in "The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends"

lazyant — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:25:10 +0000

you still need filter phone/remote interviews to select which candidates to have for on-site interviews, and this article centers on this initial interview being broken

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...