Hacker News: mzaccari

New comment by mzaccari in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

mzaccari — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:28:33 +0000

I couldn't find an explicit reference for the naming, but for anyone wondering there is a Hamilton example: https://github.com/apache/burr/tree/main/examples/multi-agen...

New comment by mzaccari in "Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring"

mzaccari — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:07:13 +0000

^ I second Envoy Gateway! It has support for HTTPRoute like all the others, but also TCPRoute, UDPRoute, TLSRoute, GRPCRoute backed by Envoy and they have worked great for me on EKS clusters I manage for work. The migration from Ingress API to Gateway API hasn’t been bad, as you can have both running side-by-side (just not using the same LB) and the EnvoyPatchPolicy has been great for making advanced changes for things not covered by the manifests

New comment by mzaccari in "Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel"

mzaccari — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:08:55 +0000

I think the op was trying to highlight this nugget in one of the thread emails[0]:

>And now, I just got an email from Linus saying "we're now talking about git rm -rf in 6.18", after previously saying we just needed a go-between.

Edit to add that LWN noted this at the end of the "The rest of the 6.17 merge window" post[1].

[0]: https://lwn.net/ml/all/5ip2wzfo32zs7uznaunpqj2bjmz3log4yrrde...

[1]: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032095/06b4e3b1b30fe2a9/

New comment by mzaccari in "Lemon OS: hobbyist Unix-like x86_64 OS"

mzaccari — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 23:31:52 +0000

I clicked on this link using a work computer, and for the first time in years I was frightened about what might show up. Not because my work might find out, but at the thought of another disturbing image that you can't unsee being burned into my mind. Thank goodness it really is a Unix-like OS.

New comment by mzaccari in "“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated"

mzaccari — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:22:31 +0000

I had tried to get into Dune many years ago, but found it hard to keep track of all that was going on. I wish I had pushed through, because I'm now enthralled by the Dune universe. I can say that the movie helped lay a foundation for me that has made the book far more enjoyable - to the point where I'm almost finished with the audiobook after only starting it last week!

New comment by mzaccari in "Terraform 1.0"

mzaccari — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:32:19 +0000

Congrats to Hashicorp for this milestone!

We've been using terraform for a couple of years now to manage our infra for dev/qa/prod, and aside from minor HCL changes we haven't had any major problems keeping up with the latest versions. Having the ability to rebuild everything (Kubernetes, DNS, MySQL, etc.) automatically has saved us more than once!

New comment by mzaccari in "Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?"

mzaccari — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:41:56 +0000

I've recently started using Terrastruct, which I've come to enjoy as I feel like I can quickly put together business logic and share it with the team without the tool getting in the way: https://terrastruct.com/

New comment by mzaccari in "What Is Nix?"

mzaccari — Thu, 21 May 2020 00:27:02 +0000

Ah my apologies - We use Bazel to build our services, and the output artifacts were then pulled into Nix and deployed as Nix packages. Bazel has _excellent_ support taking the same application code and creating Docker images from them (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker#language-rules), and the tools available for deploying containers is orders of magnitude more feature-full and higher quality than what you get with Nix today. So we no longer have Nix anywhere in our pipeline, and all of our artifacts are now deployed inside containers.

New comment by mzaccari in "What Is Nix?"

mzaccari — Thu, 21 May 2020 00:04:57 +0000

We've been using Nix for deploying a Rails app for an enterprise customer for quite a few years now. One area where it shines for us is the ability to build it on relatively recent version of Ubuntu and deploy to a (almost EOL) RHEL6 box. Bundling, assets and various other tasks take just a few minutes. We also have ~20 Go services that are also deployed via Nix, and building takes seconds.

However, it can be quite cumbersome to get a Nix expression to the point where it builds reliably for something that takes multiple steps like a Rails app, especially if you're building on macOS and deploying to Linux. It's come a _long_ way in recent years, but with Enterprise customers now embracing containerization we migrated everything to that and haven't looked back.

New comment by mzaccari in "What's your favorite technical book to read during this time of home quarantine?"

mzaccari — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:59:49 +0000

For the last few years I've had the Feynman Lectures [1,2] sitting in my queue, and I've finally gotten around to starting them in the last week. It's been a fun ride so far, and it's been nice to have the time to digest the lessons without having to run off somewhere. It's also helped to have the MIT OCW lectures as a reference [3], in which I found a book title "Quantum Mechanics and Experience" [4] that I started reading as well and so far has been the most down-to-earth introduction to Quantum Mechanics that I've found. I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp...

[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674741137/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

New comment by mzaccari in "How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)"

mzaccari — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:06:20 +0000

About 2 years ago I had a customer that required their own private mail server. I set up Mail-in-a-Box on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet, and they've been happy with it ever since.

The integration with Let's Encrypt and a relatively smooth upgrade process has made it one of the more enjoyable services I manage. I would highly recommend it.

New comment by mzaccari in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)"

mzaccari — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:48:30 +0000

Accelerated Concepts | Frontend Engineer | Tampa, FL | Onsite, Full Time

We're a small 5 person development team based in downtown Tampa, FL. We build a proprietary network device monitoring & reporting tool, called Accelerated View: https://accelerated.com/products/accelerated_view/

Our stack includes Ruby on Rails, TorqueBox, Finatra, Scala, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Druid, Hadoop and Git.

We're looking for a frontend engineer who can implement a Javascript framework like React to unify the frontend design and user experience. You will own the whole process of designing and building the customer interfaces, and because we're a small team you will have wide latitude to the direction you want it to head in.

Accelerated is a private company that was founded 7 years ago in Tampa. We have been in the black for several years now. The owners are very generous with profit share / benefits and are flexible with working environments and schedules.

The only hard requirement we have for working here is that you're the type of person who never stops learning. If you're interested, please reach out to michael.zaccari@accelerated.com.

New comment by mzaccari in "Asm.js Chess Battle"

mzaccari — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:01:57 +0000

Link to source: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/Demos/tree/master/chess

New comment by mzaccari in "Vue.js 1.0.0"

mzaccari — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 03:50:35 +0000

Excellent blog post to introduce the vue.js concepts (http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/10/25/vuejs-re-introduction/). I was able to get up and running pretty quickly with a good understanding of the tool. Thank you for putting this together.

New comment by mzaccari in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)"

mzaccari — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 18:44:16 +0000

Accelerated Concepts | Rails Developer | Downtown Tampa, FL | Full Time | Onsite

https://accelerated.com

Accelerated Concepts, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise wireless cellular network data hardware and services. We specialize in the development of solutions for primary network access, wireless 3G/4G backup connectivity, device monitoring, and centralized management. We also provide industry leading Linux based OEM platforms services from hardware design to complete solutions including management, inventory, and configuration. We are a small company with about ~30 employees, some of which are located in Brisbane, Australia.

The position is for work on our Accelerated View platform, a monitoring & reporting application that supports thousands of devices.

Our tech stack:

* Linux

* Ruby on Rails

* TorqueBox

* MySQL / Oracle

* Rust

* Git

* Jenkins (CI)

About you:

* Strong background in web application development

* Strong rspec / automated test experience

* Passionate about solving problems

* Familiar with agile methodologies

About us:

* Competitive salary

* Benefits - Medical / Dental / Vision / Life / FSA / HSA / 401k

* Remote work with VPN

* Great work environment

If you are interested please send an email to michael.zaccari [at] accelerated.com

New comment by mzaccari in "No bullshit guide to math and physics"

mzaccari — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:11:41 +0000

My mental muscle for math has definitely atrophied since graduating with an engineering degree. I’ve been looking for a nice way to exercise it, and this looks like something that can get me there.

For a more in-depth discussion of physics, I’ve found the Feynman Lectures [1,2] to be quite enjoyable. It’s a long read (I’ve only finished the first book) but it is very thorough.

[1] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ [2] http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/...

New comment by mzaccari in "Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS"

mzaccari — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:46:31 +0000

Thank you for the clarification. I corrected the title

Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS

mzaccari — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:47:03 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nasa.gov/content/station-crew-grab-themselves-a-dragon/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354889

Points: 227

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New comment by mzaccari in "SpaceX CRS-4 Launch"

mzaccari — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 08:36:40 +0000

Nice! Took me a while to find what looks like the internal shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YkCh7uOw1Y&t=22m42s

New comment by mzaccari in "The Thermodynamic Ice Bag"

mzaccari — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:41:49 +0000

The breakdown (at 4:28) for each component of the turbo pump is fascinating. They do a great job explaining how each part works and how it contributes to the pump. Thank you for linking this.