Hacker News: lsowen

New comment by lsowen in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

lsowen — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:21:46 +0000

Have you tried the FUTO keyboard? I actually find I prefer it to gboard now.

https://keyboard.futo.org/

New comment by lsowen in "We Built Every Employee at Ramp Their Own AI Coworker"

lsowen — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:48:58 +0000

Super interesting approach to build a custom productivity suite. Anyone else done anything similar or know of projects to build something like this?

We Built Every Employee at Ramp Their Own AI Coworker

lsowen — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sebgoddijn/status/2042285915435937816

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729761

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Delve accused of misleading customers with 'fake compliance'

lsowen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:01:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/delve-accused-of-misleading-customers-with-fake-compliance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483241

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lsowen in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

lsowen — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:46:15 +0000

Passkeys _may_ be synced, but that isn't guaranteed. For example a "device bound passkey" isn't synced.

New comment by lsowen in "Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router"

lsowen — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:32:28 +0000

I use a similar model to this extensively.

1. Hotels where you have to pay a "connection fee" you only have to pay once

2. I travel with a chromecast that can connect to my private network

3. I run wireguard, so all my traffic back is automatically encrypted

4. I can position this to get a better wifi signal, "boosting" the signal (via my private network) for all my devices

New comment by lsowen in "Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe"

lsowen — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:56:50 +0000

And also didn't know how to work thr radio? Surely autoland doesn't disable communication

New comment by lsowen in "Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API"

lsowen — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:59:43 +0000

Only the GET requests are metered. An anti-bot/anti-AI scraper measure?

New comment by lsowen in "Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works"

lsowen — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:52:41 +0000

Generative pretrained transformer, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

New comment by lsowen in "Software 3.0 vs. AI Agentic Mesh: Why McKinsey Got It Wrong"

lsowen — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:56:44 +0000

I'm not sure I agree with Karpathy's "the next wave of programming languages will be natural language", but I'm even more concerned about The Big 3 consulting firms message of how businesses _must_ integrate AI into _everything_ or perish.

Software 3.0 vs. AI Agentic Mesh: Why McKinsey Got It Wrong

lsowen — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:53:57 +0000

Article URL: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/software-30-vs-ai-agentic-mesh-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422167

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lsowen in "Grayjay Desktop App"

lsowen — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:02:15 +0000

FYI, the FAQ link in the footer (https://grayjay.app/faq) appears to be broken (throws a 404)

New comment by lsowen in "Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine"

lsowen — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:05:16 +0000

Has anyone tried openobserve (https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve)? How does it compare/contrast to Quickwit as an "Elasticsearch for logs" replacement?

New comment by lsowen in "What the interns have wrought, 2024 edition"

lsowen — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:12:22 +0000

The purpose for internship programs generally are to grow the interns skills and establish a talent pipeline, _not_ for their immediate "code lift".

Unless you think that AI is going to completely replace developers, then there will remain value in having interns.

New comment by lsowen in "Access Control Lists Being Removed from LakeFS Open Source"

lsowen — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:47:50 +0000

The situation is not as dire as it first appeared. While the messaging wasn't handled very well, where everything is settling out is good, with pluggable auth and an open source reference implementation: https://lakefs.io/blog/why-moving-acls-out-of-core-lakefs/

New comment by lsowen in "Access Control Lists Being Removed from LakeFS Open Source"

lsowen — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:56:58 +0000

I'm also wondering the same thing. It has a bunch of very nice capabilities, but taking away such a basic piece of functionality to push people towards the paid options is very concerning.

New comment by lsowen in "Access Control Lists Being Removed from LakeFS Open Source"

lsowen — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:40:23 +0000

Received an email from treeverse.io today:

>You might have noticed in our documentation that Access Control Lists (ACLs) will be deprecated in an upcoming release of lakeFS OSS, scheduled for this quarter. Future versions will support only single-user access.

> While I believe this change won't impact your current use case, I wanted to reach out proactively. If you foresee any challenges with transitioning to the single-user model, please let me know. I'm more than happy to arrange a meeting to discuss and find a solution that ensures you can continue using lakeFS without disruption.

> Simultaneously, we will be adding new features to lakeFS OSS as part of this release (stay tuned!). These features will enhance the platform, though they will not focus on user management.

> Feel free to contact me if you have any concerns or would like to discuss this further.

Super annoying that such a basic feature is being removed. But they are happy to sell you a version with the same capabilities!

Access Control Lists Being Removed from LakeFS Open Source

lsowen — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:39:07 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/security/access-control-lists.html#access-control-lists-acls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41061786

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by lsowen in "The Birth of Parquet"

lsowen — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:35:38 +0000

It might be rare, but it _can_ happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIclqha014

New comment by lsowen in "Show HN: Manage on-prem servers from my smartphone"

lsowen — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:38:50 +0000

I think they likely meant "trawling": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling. (ie casting a net and "fishing" for open ssh)