<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lbotos</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lbotos</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:55:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lbotos" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "A faster way to calculate the day of the week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Im in the US and I’d say the week starts on monday but calendar interfaces display a sunday first.<p><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2026&country=9" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2026&country=9</a><p>Toggle the calendars here and you’ll see it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:18:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373599</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fair enough -- dunno what domains telegram uses</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:58:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899474</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you misunderstood -- OP is running op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect t.me.<p>They updated op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect telegram.me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:42:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899309</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh?<p>“Get off your high horse” is the phrase I flipped because I was grandstanding.<p>What phrase are you referencing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:57:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644272</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wanted more control and no UI. The commercial ones do that -- I think this was like $150 more than the "samsung smart ui" one... Never seeing a smart TV interface was worth that for me. YMMV.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:03:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637675</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll get on my high horse and say you can get solid "DID/Commercial" TVs for not that much more: <a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1788343-REG/samsung_qm43c_qmc_43_4k_smart.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1788343-REG/samsung_q...</a><p>I got this a few months ago -- 4k, solid brightness, and ok color.<p>Is it the OMG BEST? no. But I <i>Disabled</i> wifi, and even the channel display.<p>I use it with an apple TV with CEC on the TV -- I turn on the apple tv, TV turns on straight to apple interface. I turn off from the apple remote, TV turns off.<p>It's effectively "an apple TV" -- I'm happy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:55:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637576</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Never Give Them Your Face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I.....<p>love the idea, but if you aren't from a Shengen country you can't get into Shengen countries without a fingerprint scan and a face photo at the airport:<p><a href="https://travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/data-held-by-ees" rel="nofollow">https://travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/data-held-by-ees</a><p>No way to opt out of the scan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630841</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Git is not designed to handle 1000s of clones and merges to a single repo in minute scale even.<p>Sure, you are right. Git allows you to keep distributed state and eventually reconcile that.<p>Customers are trying to do that at absurd human scales right now without AI. Git itself is a bottleneck for large enterprises with large repositories and large CI configurations.<p>It may be hard to believe but it’s true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:52:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107550</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wholeheartedly disagree.<p>Git has always been one of the biggest perf bottlenecks inside of the product.<p>First for any scaled deploy we recommended NFS. We were young and dumb and it was too slow. (We’ve all been there)<p>Then we went to an RPC model with gitaly and even unwrapped some of the git calls inside of that to speed it up.<p>Just a few months ago we had a large customer with thousands of devs and a large monorepo ground their deployments to a halt because of a cloning strategy change that introduced an accidental 10x in git calls. Git itself was the bottleneck because it’s not designed for this scale and speed.<p>For enterprises where thousands of developers are contributing code via git to a centralized system of record, who are firing off 1000s of CI jobs Git is absolutely a bottleneck.<p>Now with LLM technologies we should easily expect a 5-20x code volume increase on the conservative side. Git is being stretched to its perf limits.<p>(Source: see my profile)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107402</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>aphyr may have some NSFW photos on the site IIRC which may have got the domain swept up with the new UK laws.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:23:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779412</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you own property? Does it flood? Do you live in a place where a rapidly forming storm may cause flooding?<p>I was weather-status neutral until I bought a house that has flooding challenges. Knowing that enough rain that could trigger flooding helps me avoid surprise cleanups and property damage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116336</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "You Can Just Buy Far-UVC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels like v2 of this will be “ducted” in that it lives next to your air handler and comes on when you are circulating air.<p>(Like a reef tank sterilizer)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621154</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the article talked about how the sendgrid accounts are real, and presume compromised.<p>I suspect that once the sendgrid account is compromised, they then send out these phishing emails, hoping to compromise _other_ sendgrid accounts to look for password overlap and/or keep the flow going.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558952</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you envision this working without the "opposing party" poisoning the vote to get a weaker opponent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558916</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "I canceled my book deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% right. I buy lots of Japanese cookbooks secondhand. I found an Okinawa cook book for $8. When I received it, it was clear the author was just a content farmer pumping out various recipe books with copied online recipes. Once I looked up their name I saw hundreds of books across cooking baking etc. there was no way they even tried all of the recipes.<p>So yes, review and “narrative voice” will be more valuable than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:30:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448558</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came here to fight you but there are some low end boxes with lots of ram and disk for pretty cheap!<p>Found this as an example: <a href="https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-bytehosting-is-here-with-big-ram-vps-systems-at-cheap-prices/" rel="nofollow">https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-bytehosting-is-here-...</a></p>
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<p>Eng Director here: 100% True. And I'll take it a step further:<p>> Ask this: “How does a project go from an idea to a ticket? Specifically, at what stage are engineers brought into the conversation; when the problem is identified, or after the solution has already been decided?”<p>The root of this question is great. The way it's phrased would be a flag for me.<p>I'd coach someone to ask it this way: "Can you tell me about how bugs and feature requests go from known to implemented/deployed? I want to know how it maps to my previous experiences/workflows"<p>This is the same question effectively. You will get your answer, and can ask a clarifying follow up if needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391951</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can also vouch for this ansible script. I just updated a very outdated homeserver, postgres, and switched from nginx to traefik, and it was extremely painless. I was dreading it, but it worked amazingly. I donated to the author yesterday because of how well it went.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:28:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377949</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don’t know anyone in your life that “talks big game?<p>Or someone else that “can’t get their stuff together?”<p>A lot of people never even “move”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:21:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353593</link><dc:creator>lbotos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lbotos in "I wish people were more public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Read GP again.<p>> There are some out there who would love fans of Ruby on Rails to suffer because of its association with DHH.<p>This isn’t about DHH spouting whatever he is spouting.<p>It’s about people trying to convince others to not associate with Rails because of DHH.</p>
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