Hacker News: mweibel

New comment by mweibel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mweibel — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:13:31 +0000

Working on a bread recipe community where you can share and iterate on bread recipes. It's out of personal interest to be able to record my bread recipes and thought it might be interesting for others too.

However, I worked on it for the past ~5 years on and off (well, mostly off) and rewrote it too many times. Now finally close to releasing, bought a domain and setting up all the last remaining things.

EU Commission awards €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers

mweibel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:40:49 +0000

Article URL: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850377

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What canceled my Go context?

mweibel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:00:56 +0000

Article URL: https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244882

Points: 110

# Comments: 66

Why etcd breaks at scale in Kubernetes

mweibel — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:18:26 +0000

Article URL: https://learnkube.com/etcd-breaks-at-scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164145

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: Security Analysis of Password Managers

mweibel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:30:42 +0000

Article URL: https://zkae.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045399

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Microsoft announces new European digital commitments

mweibel — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845131

Points: 19

# Comments: 9

New comment by mweibel in "My sourdough starter has twins"

mweibel — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:03:29 +0000

sourness is depending on quite a lot of factors - amount of water in starter, how long you proof, temperature etc.

I also prefer less sour breads and since I started using a stiff starter it's much better than more liquid ones. I still haven't found the perfect recipe yet but it is possible.

A good intro into the difference of starters is at the bread code: https://www.the-sourdough-framework.com/Sourdoughstartertype...

New comment by mweibel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mweibel — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:53:44 +0000

Helio https://helio.exchange | Senior Go Engineer | Switzerland Zurich, On-Site Hybrid | Full Time (80-100%) | CHF 100-130k + equity and benefits

We are a Swiss startup based in Zurich and build the first carbon-aware cloud by increasing the utilization rates of data centers worldwide. We're focusing currently on the 3D render market (providing compute for rendering 3D animations) but will expand to further areas as we grow. We have a core product with scheduling and billing included where you'll mainly work on.

We're looking for a Senior Go Engineer and develop our core and render product further. We utilize various cloud providers and work with Kubernetes and Cluster API. You'll mainly develop Go code and deploy and monitor it on our production cluster (you build it you run it).

Tech Stack:

  - Go
  - gRPC
  - NATS
  - Kubernetes (including custom operators)
  - Cluster-API, ArgoCD (GitOps), Argo Workflows
  - Windows and Linux containers
  - Prometheus (Cortex)
  - PostgreSQL
  - GitLab CI/CD, GitHub

More details here: https://helio.exchange/jobs/senior-go-engineer

To apply, please email to jobs@helio.exchange. Traditional CVs or Cover letters are unnecessary.

Interview process: We review your profile and reply with a small questionnaire, have a short 30min interview with the Founders, Connect with our team (getting to know them plus technical fit interview) and then join us with a flexible starting date.

New comment by mweibel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)"

mweibel — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:24:30 +0000

hi, we have a couple of job offers which offer remote. The Senior Cloud Engineer role is on-site/hybrid at the moment though. We're too small to sponsor visa or offer relocation, unfortunately.

New comment by mweibel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)"

mweibel — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:25:11 +0000

Helio https://helio.exchange | Senior Cloud Engineer | Switzerland Zurich, On-Site Hybrid | Full Time (80-100%) | CHF 100-130k + equity and benefits

Join us as a Senior Cloud Engineer and develop our core and render product further. We utilize various cloud providers and work with Kubernetes and Cluster API. You'll mainly develop Go code and deploy and monitor it on our production cluster. You'll work closely with our Growth team and contribute to the ongoing success of our projects. We are a small team looking to expand to accelerate our growth.

Tech Stack:

  - Go
  - Kubernetes (including custom operators)
  - Cluster-API, ArgoCD (GitOps), Argo Workflows
  - Windows and Linux containers
  - Prometheus (Cortex)
  - PostgreSQL

More details here: https://helio.exchange/jobs/senior-cloud-engineer

To apply, please email to jobs@helio.exchange. Traditional CVs or Cover letters are unnecessary.

Interview process: We review your profile, have a short 30min interview with the Founders, Connect with our team (getting to know them plus technical fit interview) and then join us with a flexible starting date.

We're looking also for:

  - Senior Fullstack Software Engineer (Remote)
  - Windows Software Engineer 3D Tools (Remote)
  - and others, check out https://helio.exchange/jobs for more.

New comment by mweibel in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

mweibel — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 07:52:18 +0000

I never really had issues with lack of sleep until I became father 1.5 years ago. Child has issues with sleep since the start and while it recently got a bit better, in those 1.5 years I can count the number of times I got 8 hours uninterrupted sleep on one, maybe two hands.

On the worst days I could eat double my normal food intake and was still hungry. Working and concentration is quite hard, more coffee intake is the case. Complex thoughts are increasingly difficult (e.g. improving software architecture takes much more time than I was used to).

I do wonder what happens when sleep is back to normal. Are some effects staying or will eventually everything go back to how it used to be before?

Deploying Kubernetes with Cluster API

mweibel — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://helio.exchange/blog/deploying-kubernetes-with-cluster-api

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429733

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by mweibel in "The ecosystem of the Go programming language"

mweibel — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:08:31 +0000

you could use an `else` clause for the scope:

  if foo, err := doThing(bar); err != nil {
    // handle error  
  } else {
    // handle foo
  }

but most don't use that form and just do the call outside:

  foo, err := doThing(bar)
  if err != nil {
    // handle error  
  }

Moving forward with the Go generics design draft

mweibel — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/iAD0NBz3DYw/m/VcXSK55XAwAJ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305277

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Deconstructing Kubernetes Networking

mweibel — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://eevans.co/blog/deconstructing-kubernetes-networking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24068890

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mweibel in "Boston bans use of facial recognition technology"

mweibel — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 07:46:39 +0000

it's in the second paragraph of the article:

    The city council unanimously voted on Wednesday to ban
    the use of the technology and prohibit any city 
    official from obtaining facial surveillance 
    by asking for it through third parties.

New comment by mweibel in "Strapi – Open-source Node.js Headless CMS"

mweibel — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:58:15 +0000

Usually headless means that serving the content is done only through an API while creating content (and -types) is done using an admin interface.

If you look at the docs of Strapi you see that this is the case for Strapi as well.

New comment by mweibel in "OK Soda"

mweibel — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:59:27 +0000

also in Switzerland. It's a brand by Valora (Kiosk, Brezelkönig, Ditsch, ...)

New comment by mweibel in "PHP 7.4"

mweibel — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:12:44 +0000

maybe? I wouldn't know.

"strongly typed mainstream high level language" does not say anything about that, hence my question.

New comment by mweibel in "PHP 7.4"

mweibel — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:12:02 +0000

sure, there are pros/cons in all languages. My question was specificly to the sentence about "strongly typed mainstream high level language" - as there are many languages who fit that definition.