Hacker News: mlhpdx

New comment by mlhpdx in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

mlhpdx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:20:42 +0000

I dug up my original AWS account confirmation email from 2006 a while (years) back. Now I need to go find it again to see if I was earlier.

Making rate limiting on AWS API Gateway work

mlhpdx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://warrenparad.net/articles/exceeding-the-aws-rate-limiting-cloudfront-usage-plans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694098

Points: 2

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New comment by mlhpdx in "Don't use IaC To deploy your application code"

mlhpdx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:19:51 +0000

We have a moderately complex set of services we deploy with some separation of application code and infrastructure. No application code that runs on VMs is deployed as part of the infrastructure IaC - that’s all loaded once the “empty” infra is in place. The grey area is around non-VM compute like Lambda and Step Functions, which can be a part of the infra templates.

The way these services work requires an initial set of code to create the resources, and while it would be possible to send a “no-op” payload for the infrastructure deployment and then update it with real application code later, that seems pedantic (to us).

Maybe someday that changes, but for now it isn’t at all burdensome and we’ve been very successful with this approach.

UDP-Based SDK and API Bridge for Momento Cache

mlhpdx — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:03:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/proxylity/examples/tree/main/momento-udp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556398

Points: 3

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Bridge UDP to Supabase Edge Functions

mlhpdx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:23:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/proxylity/examples/blob/main/supabase-udp/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529598

Points: 2

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New comment by mlhpdx in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

mlhpdx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:58:43 +0000

Run it over WireGuard? I have this setup — cloud hosted private DNS protected by NOISE/ChaCha20. Only my devices can use it, because only they are configured as peers.

New comment by mlhpdx in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

mlhpdx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:56:34 +0000

Does that mean running your own DNS in the cloud is a better answer? This is what I do.

New comment by mlhpdx in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

mlhpdx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:02:17 +0000

What would they run on these days? I mean other than my old Gateway 2000 dual Pentium Pro with 32MB of RAM and dual booting BeOS and NT4?

New comment by mlhpdx in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mlhpdx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:42:37 +0000

Yes — talking and hearing/reading about it. I don’t fault folks for being excited when first getting into ut, but it’s rare to hear anything new said. And what is new is increasingly niche and unlikely to have any application to what I do.

New comment by mlhpdx in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

mlhpdx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:24:42 +0000

If you read the history you’ll see the appropriate word is “restarted” the EV revolution. It was on and off again in a slow march to the point that allowed Tesla to exist. I’m not diminishing the role Tesla played, but it has to be taken in context. They stood on shoulders.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

mlhpdx — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:33:56 +0000

It’s simply satire, not “truth”.

The statement doesn’t claim any fact: it’s a hypotheical not unlike a “based on real events” movie/book/etc that never quotes or attributes specific actions to a subject.

And that’s why Atlassian is very likely to lose over and over as they appeal (but never say never these days in the US).

New comment by mlhpdx in "A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas"

mlhpdx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:19:39 +0000

American raised by a Brit here, and I was literally just doing this during lunch out. I consider the upside down fork just plain torture.

New comment by mlhpdx in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

mlhpdx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:35:49 +0000

This was one of the projects students did when I helped teach APCS to high schoolers as a TEALS volunteer (FracCalc).

Some of the implementations went way overboard and it was so much fun to watch and to play a part.

Even as a “seasoned” developer I learned some tidbits talking through the ways to do (and not do) certain parts. When to store input raw vs processed, etc.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

mlhpdx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:10:54 +0000

That paragraph doesn’t make it clear (to me) that it’s a snapshot with incremental updates. If that’s what it is. Sorry if my obtuse read offended. I just figured it was edge cached HTML, and less likely it was actually broken.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

mlhpdx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:15:54 +0000

Static web content and dynamic data?

> The archive currently spans from 2006-10 to 2026-03-16 23:55 UTC, with 47,358,772 items committed.

That’s more than 5 minutes ago by a day or two. No big deal, but a little bit depressing this is still how we do things in 2026.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

mlhpdx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:45:45 +0000

yes, yes. I have seen that abomination. Not class legal. lol

New comment by mlhpdx in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

mlhpdx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:44:17 +0000

Indeed. The really interesting bit is that the power required is high enough that the wind can be used to cover distances far greater than a fuel tank. And, given their weight nuclear reactors don’t fly (as much as due to the kind of ships they’re in, granted).

New comment by mlhpdx in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

mlhpdx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:19:15 +0000

That's not LinkedIn, it's British.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

mlhpdx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:39:14 +0000

I’m not sure it’s mentioned anywhere here, but it’s likely that this boat will set the world’s record for speed around the globe — if it circumnavigates, and it is hard to imagine it won’t.

I’m not sure why, but I find that fascinating. No other boat, motor or nuclear reactor, can go around the world as fast as a modern sailboat.

New comment by mlhpdx in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

mlhpdx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:35:55 +0000

in those wonderful little square boats the reason for tipping the hull was to reduce the amount of weight it surface and dragged through the water. It was still floating, being held above the bottom by buoyancy,so definitely not flying.