Hacker News: piperswe

New comment by piperswe in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

piperswe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:42:29 +0000

That would be the “Linus Sebastian misconception”

New comment by piperswe in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

piperswe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:10:13 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever _needed_ to use the Unifi mobile app. When I connect something to my network, it shows up in the Unifi controller web app ready to adopt.

New comment by piperswe in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

piperswe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:00:19 +0000

Texas charges quite high property taxes compared to many other states

New comment by piperswe in "Coreutils for Windows"

piperswe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:05:23 +0000

Isn’t Win32 also implemented as a subsystem?

New comment by piperswe in "Coreutils for Windows"

piperswe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:02:13 +0000

Then in this hypothetical world you could mount \\0010-somehost.win.site1.mycorp.local\Share01 to /Share01 rather than T:

New comment by piperswe in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

piperswe — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:22:08 +0000

I feel like you could probably have the AI write a script that uses the API to do the same thing, except this time you have code you can test rather than relying on the probabilistic machine every time you do a trade.

New comment by piperswe in "Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC"

piperswe — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:56:14 +0000

I'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV?

New comment by piperswe in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

piperswe — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:32:22 +0000

But those libraries have to pay each time they loan those digital goods. It's not the old "pay once loan until it's dust" model they use for physical goods.

New comment by piperswe in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

piperswe — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:31:53 +0000

A lot of it ends up bundled to run in a browser though, and doesn't end up running in Node.js

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:18:19 +0000

Thank you, I picked it myself :)

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:18:03 +0000

I don't have a particularly good idea of how much others were using it, unfortunately.

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:43:13 +0000

I can't see or reply to the original comment since it's been nuked, but I can infer what it was saying.

I actually started studying part-time for a mathematics degree earlier this year, and I don't plan on stopping that now. Having a degree does open doors at more traditional companies and government jobs, and it would also make immigration to another country sometime in the future a lot more straightforward. There are definitely benefits, even though I'm established in my career!

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:39:26 +0000

I'm honored you're responding! I've received a few leads from this comment that I'm chatting with, and it's been a major morale boost for me.

At this point in my life and the economy I'm not particularly looking for such early-stage startups like Magnetic (especially w/ relocation to SF), but thanks for giving me the heads up!

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:36:26 +0000

I had OpenCode doing most of my substantial code changes for me, once I figured out what the code changes had to be. (so, it saved me typing but not thinking) I also vibe-coded (really slop-forked TBH, that's the Cloudflare way after all) an internal tool that our team used. I definitely was not a small user of our AI tools, though I know that there are others with significantly more.

New comment by piperswe in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:13:21 +0000

Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site

Willing to relocate: To California, Massachusetts, Canada, or Europe for the right opportunity

Technologies: Go (Golang), Rust, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQLite, NixOS, Cloudflare (everything, the whole Cloudflare Developer Platform - I would call myself an expert at this, as I've dogfooded most new developer platform products as they released), Kubernetes

CV: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf

Email: [anything]@piperswe.me

I just got laid off by Cloudflare, looking for a position doing infrastructure & backend work. I spent my time at Cloudflare working on the Waiting Room, Health Checks, and Load Balancing products, three distributed systems which crunch global data to make decisions globally. I'm happy to move down-stack as well (e.g. to systems programming, especially in Rust).

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:46:32 +0000

oh indeed it is! thanks for the heads up!

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:51:11 +0000

CV link: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf

New comment by piperswe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

piperswe — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:46:53 +0000

Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at @piperswe.me :/

I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…

New comment by piperswe in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

piperswe — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:16:14 +0000

It's stored in Wallet so you can access it through the Wallet shortcut (double-press power button), when you open it the screen automatically brightens, and it's a perfectly clear QR code rather than a picture so it'll be easier to scan.

New comment by piperswe in "We stopped hiring engineers for coding ability"

piperswe — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:31:34 +0000

Not surprising for an "AI" company to be on-board the hype train