Hacker News: nrki

New comment by nrki in "Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers"

nrki — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:05:56 +0000

Huh? LI is standard on like every internet router there is.

New comment by nrki in "Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s"

nrki — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:29:33 +0000

Very neat tool. Thank you for your efforts!

I am wondering how state replication works on the backend. The design mentions using crdt and a gossip proto, but I'm not sure what is actually implemented as it is a tad vague. I haven't dug into the code so forgive me if it is obvious or explained elsewhere.

New comment by nrki in "I found a backdoor into my bed"

nrki — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:48:59 +0000

Love the part about the CEO being a Musk sycophant. Right down to the similar language in tweets: "Some of SF got poor sleep. We must fix this."

New comment by nrki in "California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires"

nrki — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:00:10 +0000

Most rural houses in Australia are built this way. They still burn down.

I don't think anyone really understands how intense wildfires can get when fanned by wind. It will destroy almost anything.

See: Black Saturday bushfires, Australia.

> "it really made no difference whether the houses were brick or timber. In fact, with the speed of the fire front some timber houses fared better than brick as it moved too fast for the houses to catch, but the bricks exploded from the sudden change in temperature."

> "When you have a fire front coming through at 800C it'll melt your window seals and aluminum window frames. The glass will fall out then everything is on fire.

New comment by nrki in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

nrki — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:42:41 +0000

Immich is amazing, truly great software, and it's oss

New comment by nrki in "Removing half a ton of HEU from Kazakhstan (2014)"

nrki — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:48:19 +0000

Not really, Uranium itself isn't dangerous or even that scarce.

Super-enriched Uranium, however _is_ super rare, expensive and desirable.

New comment by nrki in "Removing half a ton of HEU from Kazakhstan (2014)"

nrki — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:46:58 +0000

> Oppie, a scientist at the peak of his field, willingly handed over the most powerful weapon known to humanity to... a person with a less-than-stellar moral code: President Truman

As opposed to ...

- not handing it over? Prison, then they figure it out anyway.

- handing it to someone else during wartime? Prison or a firing squad, then they figure it out anyway.

New comment by nrki in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nrki — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 23:48:35 +0000

Well, this thread was about setting a boundary of 9-5...would people go to a startup expecting that?

So...definitely for larger orgs, where "emergency availability" would be a big red flag, unless one explicitly opted into a (compensated) on call rota.

I guess one can make an exception for very early career, but again this was about setting a 9-5 boundary

New comment by nrki in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nrki — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:15:44 +0000

Symptom of an organization that doesn't plan and instead of budgeting for 1.3x employees for outside hours support, budgets for ~0.9x and extracts the rest with "expectation".

New comment by nrki in "Hetzner Cloud Expands to Singapore"

nrki — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:23:01 +0000

APAC transit costs :shrug:

New comment by nrki in "Please don't mention AI again"

nrki — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:13:03 +0000

Or just Australian.

New comment by nrki in "My laptop is faster than your Elastic cluster"

nrki — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:47:49 +0000

Someone should tell REA about this!

New comment by nrki in "Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs"

nrki — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:07:59 +0000

"Technically true" == true

"Always a driver in the car" != driverless

You often see waymos cruising around sans driver. That's real driverless.

New comment by nrki in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

nrki — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:33:31 +0000

The Circle's "completely transparent" vibes.

French airline’s ‘dodgy flight plan' set system meltdown in motion

nrki — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/airport-delays-flights-uk-air-traffic-control-b2400927.html?page=3#post-1299588

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314887

Points: 3

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New comment by nrki in "South Korea's biggest telco says 5G has failed to deliver"

nrki — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 03:18:57 +0000

Many, small, cells _is_ 5G :)

New comment by nrki in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)"

nrki — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:42:17 +0000

It's £5.99 or £0.01 if you buy two

New comment by nrki in "Ask HN: (How much) do you get paid for being on call?"

nrki — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:47:33 +0000

Our team, led by me and some others, negotiated hard when asked to go on call, that being a material change to our employment contracts at the time.

We ended up with a generous $ stipend per on-call shift, as a % of salary, as well as time off in lieu.

As generous as it sounds, it was an equitable solution in the end, given that we were supporting a multi-million dollar platform that was not fully stable at the time.

A lot has been said by other companies like "your salary should cover that", but I say nuts to that. On-call should be something people actively want to go on. It should be equitable, not forced.

New comment by nrki in "This site is no longer solar powered for now"

nrki — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:30:22 +0000

Really lucky this didn't start a forest fire.

New comment by nrki in "Jamie Dimon warns panic will overtake markets as U.S. approaches debt default"

nrki — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:29:06 +0000

The US is one of very few (<2, inclusive) countries that has this "debt ceiling" malarkey. It's a political tool in the US, that's ita only purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_limit