Hacker News: perbu

New comment by perbu in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

perbu — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:33:30 +0000

Software is changing. It would be a good time to invest rather than to focus on the bottom line. Their revenue is up.

I’m not surprised.

New comment by perbu in "The agents are coming for the web and the web isn't ready"

perbu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:48 +0000

I think it could be streamed if compression is off.

New comment by perbu in "The agents are coming for the web and the web isn't ready"

perbu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:57:03 +0000

Just so I understand what you are asking about. You have a ESI chunk which is a cache miss and the backend is fetching it, but you want the delivery of this specific chunked to have a streaming delivery?

The agents are coming for the web and the web isn't ready

perbu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:36:26 +0000

Article URL: https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/the-agents-are-coming-for-the-web-and-the-web-isnt-ready

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736463

Points: 11

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New comment by perbu in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

perbu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:26:00 +0000

Intel has been making pretty good progress on efficiency the last year and efficiency is the name of the game, you basically can't do performance without it.

I think Intel will rise again.

New comment by perbu in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

perbu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:11:11 +0000

First and foremost, China isn't energy-limited like the US is. A modern grid, lost of cheap power coming online every day. The worlds most advance ultra-high voltage transport links are tying the deserts in the west to the cities in the south.

It probably sucks for you if the proposed powerline goes through your house, but the need of the many come first.

Having cheap and plentiful power is a huge market advantage. It was one of the factors driving Norway out of poverty 100 years ago.

New comment by perbu in "Extinct Media Museum Tokyo"

perbu — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:40:15 +0000

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct

Somewhat tangential...

I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective.

There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my favorite was printing QR codes on microfilm and then storing the film in an abandoned coal mine on Svalbard. The first frames on each roll with come with source code and instructions on how to decode the data.

FWIW; my recommendation was 3-way replicated object storage, until more stable form of storage presents itself and becomes reasonable.

New comment by perbu in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

perbu — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:00:05 +0000

We got it.

I can't say it has helped much, though. Fable is still completely useless for securing code. Opus does an OK job, though.

New comment by perbu in "Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'"

perbu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:46:36 +0000

The Chinese lifted themselves put of poverty. The state just stopped keeping them down.

The people deserve the credit. Not the state.

New comment by perbu in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

perbu — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:46:30 +0000

The question wasn't if Zuck has been successful, it was if Meta has succeeded at anything new. When was the last time Meta made something original, brought to market and had success with it?

New comment by perbu in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

perbu — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:05:34 +0000

They can’t follow instructions at all. They are a year behind Claude.

New comment by perbu in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

perbu — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:18:18 +0000

fwiw; I had unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline as a post-COVID induced histamine intolerance with a few bonus attributes. High amounts of histamine would accumulate in my mast cells then get released in 3-5am, undermining sleep and also inhibiting serotonin.

It took me about four years to fully understand my condition. Hope you figure out what is bothering you. The body is incredibly complex.

New comment by perbu in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

perbu — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:57:30 +0000

I worked on an OSS project and we had a volunteer working from Tobago. His computer wasn't working properly so we sent him a new one.

It got smashed by customs. Literally.

New comment by perbu in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

perbu — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:11:38 +0000

For me, the appeal of local compute is first and foremost confidentiality and having the possibility to run my 200K documents through an LLM just to see what happen without having to consider the cost.

New comment by perbu in "Does Postgres Scale?"

perbu — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:50:41 +0000

This post conflates scalability and performance. PostgreSQL is fast on smallish systems, but try adding more CPU cores and you'll see performance gains will not be linear at all. Modern server can ship with 256 or more cores and a single instance of PostgreSQL will struggle to take advantage of these.

4-8 cores is no problem at all, though.

New comment by perbu in "An Update on GitHub Availability"

perbu — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:36:42 +0000

fwiw, I've had good luck scaling git, specially doing clones, in the HTTP layer, using Varnish. this was CI bringing Github Enterprise to it's knees.

New comment by perbu in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

perbu — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:50:59 +0000

We had a SCSI zip-drive at our uni and it was a brilliant way to drag megabytes of content home. Even though I had amazing internet (2Mbit shared by 100+ ppl), the zip drive would still be a good way of getting stuff home.

Then I got to experience the click of death and the internet connection was bumped to 100Mbit and I didn't need to replace my zip drive.

New comment by perbu in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

perbu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:12:35 +0000

You have to deal with a lot more stuff. You have to order/pay for a server (capex), mount it somewhere, wire up lights-out-mgmt and recovery and do a few more tasks that the provider has already done.

Then, say if the motherboard gives up, you have to do quite a bit of work to get it replaced, you might be down for hours or maybe days.

For a single server I don't think it makes sense. For 8 servers, maybe. Depends on the opportunity cost.

New comment by perbu in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

perbu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:50:53 +0000

MoE is excellent for the unified memory inference hardware like DGX Sparc, Apple Studio, etc. Large memory size means you can have quite a few B's and the smaller experts keeps those tokens flowing fast.

New comment by perbu in "Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache"

perbu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:35:46 +0000

https://github.com/varnish/varnish/issues/33

It should be fixed fairly quick.