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New comment by mstump in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

mstump — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:31:05 +0000

I attempted to handle some of what you're suggesting via the plugin ecosystem utilizing a vector database for RAG, and LLMs to auto-suggest tags or related docs. None of the plugins seem to get this quite right. The extensions were pretty brittle, and limited in terms of what they could do with the open doc. I now do most of my new note creation/editing and organization through cursor and custom built agent flows. The obsidian app is now just for mobile access and sync.

New comment by mstump in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

mstump — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:48:23 +0000

Cursor is better suited for enterprise. You get centralized stats and configuration management. Managers are pushed for AI uptake, productivity and quality metrics. Cursor provides them.

New comment by mstump in "Long Covid is associated with cognitive slowing"

mstump — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:03:59 +0000

Doesn’t hurt. Be prepared for resistance though. The steroid taboo means there are very few doctors in the US that are both experienced and comfortable prescribing.

I saw massive results at 1ml per month, try pitching that. The dose is so low it rules out abuse and lowers the possibility of side effects.

New comment by mstump in "Long Covid is associated with cognitive slowing"

mstump — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:41:12 +0000

Agree. Also testosterone. I was lucky enough to have lab work before and after getting covid twice. My T numbers halved in less than a year. I was still within the “normal range” so it took some arguing with the doctors to get a prescription for a very low dose. Within 24 hours of starting, I felt like myself again. Brain fog was gone, energy was back, my mood rebounded. No negative side effects thus far. I had tried a lot prior to starting: intense therapy, ketamine, lots of exercise, losing weight, supplementation, lots of lab work. Nothing was as impactful as getting that jab.

Side note: the normal range for T is so wide that it’s meaningless.

New comment by mstump in "Ask HN: About to have a child, completely burnt out at my job, what do I do?"

mstump — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:15:14 +0000

Agreed. Go on paternity leave, it'll provide some distance and maybe some time to interview.

New comment by mstump in "The end of the manual transmission is near?"

mstump — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:52:19 +0000

F1 isn’t even about max performance, it’s about trying to maintain an element of driver skill as a factor of outcomes. It’s why they outlawed the Williams continuously variable transmission (CVT). A lot in F1 is done to maintain the suspense/excitement of a race for the TV audience.

New comment by mstump in "Why Rust is a great choice for startups"

mstump — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:16:09 +0000

This is sort of highlighted by other comments, but GC is only good at small quick requests. If you're dealing with large or slow requests it results in large or long lived allocations which causes havoc with GC. This is true for any generational GC, Java included.

Also node will only perform well if that IO is offloaded to the kernel or CPP code and behind a future via epoll etc... If it's in the actual node runtime it'll perform poorly because it'll block the thread.

New comment by mstump in "Monoliths Are the Future"

mstump — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:59:20 +0000

I call B.S.. He's conflating two things. One is a deployment infrastructure, another is an application pattern. I can deploy a monolith in k8s and I can deploy micro-services on a single server or a fleet of on-prem servers using any of the legacy dev-ops deployment automation tools. Sure k8s makes doing micro-services easier because it’s got a lot of the raw building blocks necessary to handle the CD process but in no way are the two concepts related. They’re tackling different problems. He's making the same mistake that he's criticizing others for by equating the two. What he is really describing is an organization doing a “big bang” refactor with poor planning and execution.

New comment by mstump in "Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm"

mstump — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:15:10 +0000

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned that find/replace doesn't work for notebooks in VSCode. It's by far my biggest annoyance.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/7903

Modeling Distributed Systems: Conceptual Background and Metrics

mstump — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@mattstump/modeling-complex-systems-part-1-distributions-850d3591b8f8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174664

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mstump in "The PGP Problem"

mstump — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:11:36 +0000

I was an engineer at PGP from 2004-2011 and ended up running the server team as lead engineer. I wouldn't disagree with most of the points brought up by the author, both the code base and standard has accreted over time and it's incredibly complex. There were only a couple of people on the team that really understood all the facets of either the OpenPGP or SMIME/x509 standards. It's made worse in that it was a hack on top of another system that had accreted over time (email) and that system was never intended to be secure. We had massive database of malformed or non-compliant emails from every email client since the beginning of time. The sub-packets that the author mentions were primarily used for dealing with forwarded chains of encrypted email messages where each previous message had it's own embedded mime-encoded encrypted/signed messages and attachments.

The problem is that no-one else has gone through the process of establishing a community/standard that's capable of replacing it. Each system has built their own inoperable walled garden that doesn't work with anyone else, and none of them have a user base large enough to make encryption easy and pervasive.

My own secret hope is that Apple is forced to open iMessage as a part of an anti-trust action and that acts as a catalyst for interoperability.

New comment by mstump in "Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?"

mstump — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:42:51 +0000

We’re doing something probably not to far from what you were doing. Want to talk? Mstump@vorstella.com

Autotuning Cassandra to Reduce Latencies

mstump — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 21:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://vorstella.com/blog/autotuning-cassandra-to-reduce-latencies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19314297

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mstump in "OpenCensus – Vendor-agnostic libraries to provide metrics collection and tracing"

mstump — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 01:30:00 +0000

How does the tracing API differ from the open tracing APIs? Pros/cons as compared to that standardization effort?

New comment by mstump in "Ask HN: How true is it that most founders are taking drugs like Modafanil?"

mstump — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:09:48 +0000

I wouldn't say it's super common. Of the 20-30 founders that I know well I'm the only one I'm aware of that has a nuvigil prescription. I take it because I'm a single parent of young kids and do a lot of international business; my sleep schedule is pretty screwed. I'll use it to combat a sleeping med in the AM and attempt to get back on a normal schedule.

Adderall is pretty common, but they usually take it for ADD or depression. When I see Adderall get "abused" it's usually people using it before going out drinking and not necessarily for work purposes.

New comment by mstump in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2018)"

mstump — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:29:38 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCER - Kubernetes, GoLang, Infrastructure, Dev-Ops, Docker

Infrastructure automation and AI company, seeking go and infrastructure engineers to work on our deployment, metrics pipelines and NOC infrastructure. You'd be working on some of the largest no-sql deployments in the world (>10s of thousands of servers). Must be able to pass background check.

contact@vorstella.com

New comment by mstump in "Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers"

mstump — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:21:14 +0000

Configuration comes from the environment. We store the configuration per cluster in a centralized store (C*, etcd, SimpleDB). We bake images that contain everything else.

Depending on the customer and the tech involved we'll do blue-green by doing a controlled rolling push of the config or image after it makes it through the dev/test cycle. Also depending on the type of tech we'll store actual data on network or host volumes.

New comment by mstump in "Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers"

mstump — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:16:22 +0000

Individually I charge several orders of magnitude greater than what you're quoting. I'll advise and design, do deep troubleshooting etc.. Consultants that work for me (I'm the CEO) or a large SI will do the implementation.

New comment by mstump in "Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers"

mstump — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:13:17 +0000

Very large companies, mostly banks, retailers and telecom. Some industrial IoT and a couple governments.

New comment by mstump in "Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers"

mstump — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:10:53 +0000

I do a mix of pure consulting but also managed services. I typically have a 12 hour SLA for issues, and 1 hour SLA for some customers. 24/7 support for mission critical, revenue generating systems. So no, I'm not just a talking head. It's usually me in the NOC on the hook in case things go wrong. I'm the world expert in this field, if you want things to work at scale people call me.