<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pbnjay</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbnjay</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:41:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pbnjay" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah that's all I could tell at the time. Things were still snappy enough at my low usage, so I just assumed it was my older hardware being a bear. But it was definitely bumping up my power draw unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Fun to see the emulation heading up the stack, I wish my employer could afford some real oxide racks!<p>About 4 months ago, I booted helios + omicron on bare metal on a server in my homelab (following the YouTube here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwXtS0-r1uQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwXtS0-r1uQ</a>). Performance wasn't great on my old hardware (32cores, dual Xeon 2.6ghz, 256gb DDR4), and it used like 30% CPU while idle, but it was fun poking around and playing with the software while I could.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097923</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enrollment123 | <a href="https://e123insurtech.com" rel="nofollow">https://e123insurtech.com</a> | Staff Platform Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time<p>We are SaaS platform that connects Insurance Carriers, Agencies and Agents, and enables sales to consumers.<p>My team is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to keep things running smoothly and help our engineers modernize and build new products.<p>We are responsible for:<p><pre><code>    - security for PCI and HIPAA data
    - AWS infrastructure that serves millions of people every month
    - developer tools and infrastructure to allow our teams to deliver
    - data engineering and operational support
    - automation, monitoring, and on-call rotations (especially during Open Enrollment!)
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Our stacks include:<p><pre><code>    (70% --) SQL Server + ColdFusion
    (25% ++) Postgres + node/typescript
    (5%) Airflow + python
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It's not a flashy product or stack I'll admit, but we have a lot of opportunities to improve the product and a lot of growth potential to expand our impact. Happy to tell you more!<p>If you're interested, email me at jjay+orangesite@enrollment123.com with your honest, hand-written resume. I don't want some super polished AI bullshit, show me your real experience! The interview process is hopefully short and sweet: 1) meet with me for a quick intro to ensure we'll be a good mutual fit, 2) advance to a technical interview with the team, then 3) a last culture + company info session so you have all the info to make a decision.<p>Sorry, given our industry and size, you must be in the US and able to work without visa sponsorship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524406</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Re: the slight wobble, you should be able to find some inexpensive thin-sheet backing board at a hardware store. Use small ribbed tacking nails or glue around the edges to attach it at the back, and it should help stabilize and prevent racking.</p>
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<p>Um a lot of US zip codes map to multiple cities. Some even to multiple states. If you build a picker for city/state this works fine but your premise is easily refuted if you look at the data!<p>Zip codes map to postal routes, not polygons</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292722</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For anyone reading this later, I got my data export and deleted my account and got a pro-rated refund. So double whammy!</p>
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<p>I cancelled my subscription yesterday but it was going to last through March 11. Got my data export today so I just went ahead with deleting my account (figuring the next 10 days was a sunk cost).<p>I just got a pro-rated refund of $6.78 for the remainder of the term, so FYI if you want to stick it to them even more!</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204377">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204377</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>I had kept my Plus subscription just because I was lazy, and it was inexpensive and convenient… but this turn definitely helped me get off the fence. I am exporting and deleting my data now, and the cancellation is already done.</p>
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<p>I feel like excluding French toast is a serious faux pas here!<p>Breakfast burritos are also at least as important as quiche (as in, neither are as tasty without addins - just like omelettes).</p>
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<p>FYI this is not true in the US. Zip codes identify postal routes not locations</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631325</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m building an ETL tool that “just works” and gets out of the way. I can write shell scripts and python to do this stuff but honestly I just want to drop my files/API results into a GUI tool and have it combine things for me. Landing page is at <a href="https://eetle.com" rel="nofollow">https://eetle.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:25:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421296</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Go 1.25 Release Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes I was very excited to see the new json encoding changes land, can’t wait to try them out! The new omitempty and map key marshalling in particular will help clean up some of my ugly code.</p>
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<p>Dropping the kids off at the pool is a euphemism for a bodily function that diuretics like coffee help with…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780297</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Show HN: lambda-nat-proxy – Serverless proxy using Lambda and UDP NAT punching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably gets pretty costly if you’re running a lot of data through it. Now if you could implement a Tailscale DERP server in a lambda that would be pretty amazing: <a href="https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers" rel="nofollow">https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339533</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the redundancy of multiple locations, I think even cutting power it would be difficult to cause an extended outage.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://dorianmonnier.fr/posts/2024-12-26-tailscale-localapi/">https://dorianmonnier.fr/posts/2024-12-26-tailscale-localapi/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516189">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516189</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://dorianmonnier.fr/posts/2024-12-26-tailscale-localapi/</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Callosum – A smarter OpenAPI editor/client]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A couple years ago I was really frustrated by Postman, it couldn't do basic JSON schema validation, and didn't interoperate well with the OpenAPI spec I had to use for serverless deployments. On top of that, they started requiring an account and cloud sync, and other things I just wasn't comfortable with.<p>So what's an engineer to do? Build yet another API Client of course! [0]
It's still fairly rough and crashes more often than I like, but it's basically at the point that I've switched most of my usage so I figured I would rip off the bandaid and do a Show HN.<p>Short list of some of the (IMHO) cool features that you can't do in Postman:<p>* Generate JSON Schema from request/response data.<p>* Generate request content template from JSON Schema.<p>* Reusable Schema components (Analyze->Extract Schemas menu)<p>* Basic field and JSON validation (so much more to do here!)<p>* Embeddable environment and encrypted variables [1] in the OpenAPI document.<p>* From scratch, run a MITM proxy and record API requests, then automatically generate an OpenAPI spec.<p>* Deep linking w/o a web server.<p>There's a short youtube playlist of some of these features, but I need to spend some time demoing the rest of them. What is most interesting to folks?<p>I would love to integrate better with the API doc generation tools but need to figure out how that would look. Speakeasy/Redocly/etc are some great projects and I don't want to reinvent the wheels there.<p>I would also seriously appreciate some tough love/feedback to make this even better. I'm sure someone smarter than me can pick apart the variable encryption (I broke rule #1 of cryptography and rolled my own, but I couldn't find a similar use case)<p>[0]: <a href="https://callosum.dev/posts/why-build-another-api-client.html" rel="nofollow">https://callosum.dev/posts/why-build-another-api-client.html</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://callosum.dev/docs/variable-encryption.html" rel="nofollow">https://callosum.dev/docs/variable-encryption.html</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494502">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494502</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://callosum.dev</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a variety of Shelly 1 devices in my house, one of which is on the oldschool Garage Door opener (with a reed switch for open/close tracking) - Very inexpensive, flexible for other applications, and works with HA etc.<p><a href="https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-1-gen3" rel="nofollow">https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-1-gen3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151770</link><dc:creator>pbnjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbnjay in "Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would be trivial to show the results live though, especially for atomic values:
<a href="https://go.dev/play/p/PRzzO_skWoJ" rel="nofollow">https://go.dev/play/p/PRzzO_skWoJ</a></p>
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<p>Isn't it even simpler in Go? No channels necessary, Each goroutine gets an index or slice, and writes the results to a shared array.<p>All you need is the goroutines to report when done via a WaitGroup.</p>
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