Hacker News: pbreit

New comment by pbreit in "Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx"

pbreit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:26:03 +0000

Instead of tunneling, why aren't there easier ways to develop and deploy to publicly accessible servers (for mere mortals)?

New comment by pbreit in "Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx"

pbreit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:25:06 +0000

sish does get a mention: "Some only require a plain SSH client but rely on a specific SSH server, like sish.:

New comment by pbreit in "Bill Draper has died"

pbreit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:23:18 +0000

Have we heard of any of those nonprofits? Have any of them made a dent in anything? Why are people so mesmerized by nonprofits?

New comment by pbreit in "Bill Draper has died"

pbreit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:21:34 +0000

This take is ill-informed. He's just saying you can't get hung up on your previous investments, decisions, etc. Keep moving forward. A16Z folks are very human, terrific at what they do and good people.

New comment by pbreit in "Python Workers are now generally available"

pbreit — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:48:17 +0000

It always seemed so strange to me that "native" http clients were so lousy or many cases even non-existent considering that that's half of development these days.

New comment by pbreit in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

pbreit — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:22:54 +0000

How do I get this more persistent?

New comment by pbreit in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

pbreit — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:15:03 +0000

No reason given?

New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

pbreit — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:43:39 +0000

Copying others better and faster. I would say this is right up their alley.

New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

pbreit — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:41:35 +0000

Even a business spend provider: https://router.com

New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

pbreit — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:40:50 +0000

The other thing is, aren't the models mostly indistinguishable at this point?

New comment by pbreit in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

pbreit — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Shouldn't this all be easily doable via (auto-)prompting? Surely I don't need to "install" anything?

New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

pbreit — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:46:40 +0000

This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend

New comment by pbreit in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

pbreit — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:29:08 +0000

Just remember, for 99.9% of us, work accomplishments are meaningless.

New comment by pbreit in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

pbreit — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:20:43 +0000

I dunno. I think the main takeaway here is that you can do 80-95% of your stuff in Postgres and eschew all the unnecessary, unproven stores.

New comment by pbreit in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

pbreit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:36:23 +0000

Agree. Couldn't care less. There are some neat aspects to "rare books" but overall quite insignificant.

New comment by pbreit in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"

pbreit — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:58:51 +0000

Has Firefox not had containers until now????

New comment by pbreit in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

pbreit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:52:15 +0000

That's ridiculous. All he espouses is that all of this stuff is going to happen and so you might was well do it right (with Palantir).

New comment by pbreit in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

pbreit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:49:48 +0000

This seems ridiculously short-sighted and backwards.

New comment by pbreit in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"

pbreit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:27:45 +0000

Bidet?

New comment by pbreit in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"

pbreit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:26:58 +0000

I try to avoid hating but that's pretty rough.