Hacker News: pigbearpig

New comment by pigbearpig in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

pigbearpig — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:23:09 +0000

Yeah, /plan is the only way I can work with them now. Too much "helpful" crap I didn't ask for. Having nightmares of former coworkers who would want to refactor 80% of the code base for a 3 line change. AI doesn't subscribe to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

New comment by pigbearpig in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

pigbearpig — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:20:45 +0000

It's situational.

The blame on how the tool was used and whether this was negligence. If I hit someone with my car because I was looking at my phone, it's not the tools fault. If I hit someone because my brakes failed due to a manufacturing defect, sure blame the tool.

In this situation, the author didn't understand the API key they created. They also likely told the AI it could do a bunch of things (I have claude code ask me before doing anything except read/plan). So I'm sure he turned off some guardrails.

He expects an API to offer an "are you sure?" - it's an API.

He's blaming everyone but himself.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

pigbearpig — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:04:25 +0000

Give me a break. The problem is the Waymo that is blocking a lane sideways and is not pulling forward out of the way of the ambulance, a move that even the worst human drivers would likely know to do.

It does no good to pretend there aren't problems with self-driving cars or make excuses.

It's not about the other entities.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

pigbearpig — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:17:48 +0000

"Maybe, or maybe FL180 is a nice clean line for class A airspace. No need to bother transcontinental flights for a local issue."

Way more plauible

New comment by pigbearpig in "An Update on Heroku"

pigbearpig — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:41:21 +0000

It was 16 years...

New comment by pigbearpig in "An Update on Heroku"

pigbearpig — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:40:51 +0000

Huh? I'm no fan of Salesforce, but they bought Heroku in 2010. That's not "just letting it die."

New comment by pigbearpig in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

pigbearpig — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:07:08 +0000

Even blog post is generous. This is an ad.

New comment by pigbearpig in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

pigbearpig — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:55:47 +0000

You might want to harden that those outbound firewall rules as another step. Did the Umami container need the ability to initiate connections? If not, that would eliminate the ability to do the outbound scans.

Also could prevent something to exfiltrate sensitive data.

New comment by pigbearpig in "We should all be using dependency cooldowns"

pigbearpig — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:56:22 +0000

Probably, because researchers/vendors/maintainers aren't going to catch everything, but you have less exposure too.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

pigbearpig — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:50:22 +0000

Perhaps they don't have the funds to implement that feature.

New comment by pigbearpig in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

pigbearpig — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:56:49 +0000

Yes, that's likely much cheaper than loading up an aircraft carrier with a bunch of Mustangs and Silverados. They're still likely bound to some sort of lowest bidder for contracts. It's also likely to be more economical than having the person find their own transport and reimbursing them.

New comment by pigbearpig in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

pigbearpig — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:40:54 +0000

It's a pretty robust logistics system. The tour lengths are 2-3 years. If your job demanded that you relocate to another continent for 3 years I think we'd all expect some relocation assistance.

New comment by pigbearpig in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

pigbearpig — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:35:04 +0000

I was so happy to read that part of the statement. A refreshing bit of common sense.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

pigbearpig — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:19:48 +0000

That's the reader's fault then. I see the blog post as the counter to the insane resume-building over-engineered architecture you see at a lot of non-tech companies. Oh, you need a cache for our 25-user internal web application? Let's put an front a redis cluster with elastisearch using an LLM to publish cache invalidation with Kafka.

New comment by pigbearpig in "The bloat of edge-case first libraries"

pigbearpig — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:30:36 +0000

The author does acknowledge that in the "How it Should Be" section.

New comment by pigbearpig in "The Enterprise Experience"

pigbearpig — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:09:34 +0000

It took me a while to realize that there is no getting ahead. Something else is always waiting, so better for my health to prioritize and make those whose job it is to prioritize actually make the hard decisions they're paid to make.

New comment by pigbearpig in ".gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean"

pigbearpig — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:46:59 +0000

Interesting. Makes sense for open source. In the workplace for those using common IDEs things like .vscode or .idea can definitely help with consistency or shared project setup. Each has docs which mention which files should or shouldn't be committed. Personally, I just use gitignore.io to generate the file based on my company's tooling and call it good enough.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

pigbearpig — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:27:46 +0000

Seems like a lot, especially after checking "disable telemetry"

New comment by pigbearpig in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

pigbearpig — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:55:31 +0000

There are pictures of them in the report.

New comment by pigbearpig in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

pigbearpig — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:13:31 +0000

Right...the GBU-57 having been placed into service in 2011 was surely created to destroy 65-year old bunker designs.