Hacker News: mad_vill

New comment by mad_vill in "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"

mad_vill — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:56:37 +0000

Oh wow. Being pretty new to meta and seeing the anthropic announcement I was thinking to myself “wow that sounds a lot like sapling”.

I guess that is the case.

New comment by mad_vill in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

mad_vill — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:31:32 +0000

Happy to see this trending, I probably share this in my company's slack once a month.

New comment by mad_vill in "You might not need WebSockets"

mad_vill — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:05:30 +0000

For all the other comments, parent is probably talking about forward proxies and to their point many forward/enterprise proxies have configurations which cause websockets to break and it is a pain to debug this if you have many enterprise customers.

New comment by mad_vill in "MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs"

mad_vill — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:41:30 +0000

There are many cases where users are behind a forward proxy for security/compliance reasons. Most applications need to support these types of users.

New comment by mad_vill in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

mad_vill — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:23:47 +0000

cluster-api in a nutshell

New comment by mad_vill in "Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes"

mad_vill — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:28:30 +0000

Same. Typically call it “hung” but maybe stating certmanager is on strike will get the point across better.

But sigh does it really get to the state of the kubernetes ecosystem. All these projects need to be operated, can’t just set it and forget it.

New comment by mad_vill in "Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud"

mad_vill — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 03:32:45 +0000

Curious if oxide is considering a 1-2U product.

Feel like there is a larger potential customer base there but it also seems like they would lose the edge they built by owning the full rack. (I.e. integrating with customer TORs and network fabric is a nightmare.)

New comment by mad_vill in "The hater's guide to Kubernetes"

mad_vill — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:48:44 +0000

“Automatic recovery”

That’s a joke.

New comment by mad_vill in "Moore's Scofflaws"

mad_vill — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:45:29 +0000

I am really curious if part of the reason why oxide is leaning into racksize is that joyent has scared them from attempting a 1U/2U solution.

New comment by mad_vill in "Weaveworks is shutting down"

mad_vill — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:47:34 +0000

they did more than just CICD but I see your point.

New comment by mad_vill in "Weaveworks is shutting down"

mad_vill — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:38:11 +0000

I feel like the next generation of this type of company is smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side. But the main revenue driver is consultancy.

Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.

New comment by mad_vill in "Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack"

mad_vill — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:17:25 +0000

oh wow ... can't wait to waste a bunch of time trying to get this running in hyper-v.

New comment by mad_vill in "It's not always DNS, unless it is"

mad_vill — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:12:52 +0000

Sounds more like a kubernetes problem than a dns problem.

I hate coredns. Everything running inside of a kubernetes cluster should just be querying the kubernetes endpoints api for these IPs directly and using the node dnsservers for external hosts.

New comment by mad_vill in "Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are"

mad_vill — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:38:12 +0000

Bingo. Design for incompetence. There are few codebases in this world that don't need incompetent people to contribute to them. (This is typically driven by business incentives)

If you get to work on one of those codebases ... good for you. The rest of us are just trying to gatekeep piles of shit from getting in while being pushed by management to open the flood gates.

New comment by mad_vill in "The Cloud Computer"

mad_vill — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:44:03 +0000

iirc azure stack hci is only 1U and 2U configurations, not a full 32U rack.

New comment by mad_vill in "K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes"

mad_vill — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:27:59 +0000

If you want to get an HA k3s cluster going quickly on your cloud-provider of choice: https://github.com/cluster-api-provider-k3s/cluster-api-k3s

New comment by mad_vill in "FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization"

mad_vill — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:08:38 +0000

Well I notice that alias from the propolis repo :).

Thanks for the heads up. Will probably ditch this effort.

Really want to play around with some of the oxide stuffs but it’s hard with illumos not supporting nested virt.

New comment by mad_vill in "FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization"

mad_vill — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:26:00 +0000

It’s funny this article popped up. I have been trying to get the oxide vmm working on freebsd in my spare time.

Too bad I don’t know nearly enough about rust, bhyve, openbsd or illumos to ever come close to get this working.

New comment by mad_vill in "Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps"

mad_vill — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:01:47 +0000

Looks really cool!

New comment by mad_vill in "Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me"

mad_vill — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:44:35 +0000

well put. it was already a headache trying to unblock devs that went down terrible stack overflow copy/paste rabbit holes ... gpt4 only 10x that mess.