Hacker News: mads_quist

PagerDuty Appoints John DiLullo as CEO

mads_quist — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:46:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pagerduty.com/newsroom/pagerduty-john-dilullo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104653

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mads_quist in "If I could make my own GitHub"

mads_quist — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:15:17 +0000

Very nice thoughts that I've not thought of before. I especially like the fact to have PRs and issues offline. That was a nice read having my first of May beer.

New comment by mads_quist in "Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack"

mads_quist — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:23:38 +0000

Although I absolutely understand the frustration expressed by the author, I find the notion that SaaS companies are somehow 'evil' because they optimize for the 80/20 rule a bit arrogant. Anyone working in SaaS - or really in any business- understands that you need to prioritize. In the end, your obligation as a company, regardless of your product, is to generate profits. And that's absolutely OK.

New comment by mads_quist in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

mads_quist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:35:07 +0000

Nice.

New comment by mads_quist in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

mads_quist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:32:54 +0000

Sure, it's really basic of course.

New comment by mads_quist in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

mads_quist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:17:35 +0000

You add "hidden" inputs to your HTML form that are named like "First Name" or "Family Name". Bots will fill them out. You will either expect them to be empty or you fill by JavaScript with sth you expect. It's of course reverse-engineerable, but does the trick.

New comment by mads_quist in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

mads_quist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:13:59 +0000

A good old Honey Pot helped us at All Quiet "a lot" with those attacks. Basically all attacks are remediated by this. No need for Cloudflare etc.

New comment by mads_quist in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

mads_quist — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:24:18 +0000

I am not hiring but I wanted to say that I stopped scrolling down your page on your website when I saw this "perspective" thing you do. It's weird, but in a good way so now I am writing this comment.

The math behind enterprise SaaS pricing

mads_quist — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://incidentmanagement.substack.com/p/what-is-value-based-saas-pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587742

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mads_quist in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

mads_quist — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:58:56 +0000

I mean, great, but which CTO gave greenlight to such a weird architectural choice. Sorry for the rant!

New comment by mads_quist in "Migrating to the EU"

mads_quist — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:26:32 +0000

If you need an on-call / incident management platform like PagerDuty or incident.io All Quiet offers EU based Hosting and is operated from Germany:

→ https://allquiet.app

New comment by mads_quist in "No, your six-year-old cannot paint this"

mads_quist — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:51:32 +0000

Abstract art and LLMs

No, your six-year-old cannot paint this

mads_quist — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:51:32 +0000

Article URL: https://beller-it.de/blog/20260309-abstract-art-and-llms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309908

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mads_quist in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

mads_quist — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:32:04 +0000

AI made programming A LOT MORE FUN for me.

What I never enjoyed was looking up the cumbersome details of a framework, a programming language or an API. It's really BORING to figure out that tool X calls paging params page and pageSize while Y offset and limit. Many other examples can be added. For me, I feel at home in so many new programming languages and frameworks that I can really ship ideas. AI really helps with all the boring stuff.

New comment by mads_quist in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

mads_quist — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:28:04 +0000

Yes

New comment by mads_quist in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

mads_quist — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:27:49 +0000

Jesus, this piece reads like it's from 2024. Oh, it's from 2024.

New comment by mads_quist in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

mads_quist — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:54:19 +0000

What else is there to say than that xCode is a f... nightmare. Android studio is not really better though.

Native app development is an evil necessity.

New comment by mads_quist in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

mads_quist — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:47:56 +0000

I want to do game programming again like it's 1999. No more `npm i` or "accept all cookies" :/ rant off :)

New comment by mads_quist in "US Tech Force"

mads_quist — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:10:48 +0000

Is this backed by YC?

New comment by mads_quist in "DNS"

mads_quist — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:51:05 +0000

GoDaddy has acknowledged the issue. https://status.godaddy.com/