Hacker News: nunez

New comment by nunez in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

nunez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:23:47 +0000

There was no second product. vSphere was in a league of its own.

New comment by nunez in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

nunez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:15:59 +0000

OpenShift Virt is way more than Kubevirt.

New comment by nunez in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

nunez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:57:01 +0000

And metal instances are MEGA slow to start and stop.

New comment by nunez in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

nunez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:56:17 +0000

Kubernetes + Kata would have helped with scaling here, I think.

New comment by nunez in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

nunez — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:20:16 +0000

Or maybe people are forced to use it whether they like it or not? Come on.

New comment by nunez in "But yak shaving is fun (2019)"

nunez — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:50:24 +0000

Agreed. (Controlled) yak shaving is a requirement for juniors IMO

New comment by nunez in "But yak shaving is fun (2019)"

nunez — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:48:45 +0000

My dotfiles in a nutshell.

- I want to add a shell function that invoked Claude in a VM via Lima using API keys stored in 1Pass

- But that means I need a way of templating the YAML file that will define Claude's VM and a reliable way of syncing state between it and my machine

- I could use a templating language like Jinja or Starlark, but that's another dependency for a relatively simple job

- Also, what if I want to use Pi or opencode someday?

- So I spent more time than I care to admit hacking a Bash function that replaces template variables in Lima YAML files that doesn't throw a cow when you throw in single or double quotes.

(I got my Claude VM function thing working, and it works really well!)

New comment by nunez in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

nunez — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:38:04 +0000

I got 100% Human on Pangram, so either they did the work to have their AI service pass this test, or...they actually wrote it.

New comment by nunez in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

nunez — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:40:59 +0000

Not the poster, but I highly recommend checking out your company's data center if you can (and if your company has one). Nothing like seeing where your apps or data actually land (and the physical security put in place to protect them)

You'll especially be in luck if your company is an old and has a mainframe or two. Those are incredible to behold. Masterful engineering.

New comment by nunez in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

nunez — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:43:51 +0000

This is exactly the move. Work and life should be separate. No work stuff on your personal devices; no personal stuff on your work devices. This way, you can be your best self in both worlds.

New comment by nunez in "How to earn a billion dollars"

nunez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:12:54 +0000

It's incredibly naïve at face value.

New comment by nunez in "How to earn a billion dollars"

nunez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:05:31 +0000

Why do many Americans feel like they need SUVs? Or huge 3000+ sq. ft. houses? Or five-star luxury vacations to impoverished countries where they barely have to lift a finger?

My take: they don't; nobody does. But when you aren't successful and don't have a lot, and when "success" is marketed to you as "big SUV; fancy big ass house; private jet; fancy vacations", you get trained into think you need much more than you actually do to be happy.

New comment by nunez in "How to earn a billion dollars"

nunez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:56:50 +0000

Black drivers used to make pretty good money many years ago, but Uber + market externalities redesigned their systems to "fix" that (mostly through decreasing payouts and high car rental costs)

Most of the drivers providing that service split their time between Uber, Lyft and traditional corporate black car service.

Lots of posts on this topic in the UberDrivers subreddit.

New comment by nunez in "How to earn a billion dollars"

nunez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:54:47 +0000

Counterpoint: I scheduled an Uber once to take me to the airport. They arrived earlier than the requested time and left when I met them at the time I requested because they waited too long. This was on Uber Black, their professional driver level service.

Counterpoint: It is increasingly impossible to get to a human at Uber when you need support, as most of their support channels are gated by LLMs and self-service support workflows.

New comment by nunez in "AI coding at home without going broke"

nunez — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:03:19 +0000

> The second is to skip the hardware and rent those same open source models from a provider at API rates. For most people this is the right call. You avoid putting thousands of dollars on one GPU setup while configurations are still in flux, you skip the work of squeezing long running performance out of an open model, and you can switch to whatever is cheaper or better next month without reselling a box. Something like OpenRouter makes the move close to a one line change.

This will probably become the only option as the companies that publish open weights stop doing that. Very very few people have enough hardware to train/fine-tune at home.

New comment by nunez in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

nunez — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:00:01 +0000

Thanks for doing that!

New comment by nunez in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

nunez — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:59:20 +0000

Yes, and I have that enabled all day, but red light is much more pleasant to look at at night and helps induce sleep: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/bedroom-environment/is-red-l...

New comment by nunez in "The Future of Email"

nunez — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:21:39 +0000

Same; I was preparing for the "exciting new AI" announcement.

New comment by nunez in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

nunez — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:46:20 +0000

Claude typically recommends .env files for storing secrets. You use one to store a refresh token for the Gmail API or IMAP connection details. Your agent uses an MCP server you configured during a session, but the MCP server has been compromised and directs the agent to do nasty stuff with env dotfiles.

New comment by nunez in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

nunez — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:48:15 +0000

I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode".

It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red.

It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes.

I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable.

Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health