Hacker News: prologic

New comment by prologic in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

prologic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:31:10 +0000

LOL

New comment by prologic in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

prologic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:06:40 +0000

Not quite. A token. bucket alone would not prevent a retry storm if you have a chain of services A -> B -> C -> D with a failure in D, you'd end up still having A, B & C all performing retries as they cascade through the chain, albeit (yes) at your configured rate-limits (using token bucket), but you'd still end up with an amplification effect.

New comment by prologic in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

prologic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:04:39 +0000

So, effectively if A → B → C → D and D is failing, C may retry D, but B and A are discouraged from retrying the whole chain.

This is quite slever. I also really like the concept of an "Error Budget", inspired by SRE and SLO(s) no doubt :)

New comment by prologic in "Show HN: Webhook Proxy – Fail-safe logging and 1-click retries for webhooks"

prologic — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:12:46 +0000

No details? Signin/Signup CTA(S), that's it?

New comment by prologic in "Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity"

prologic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:51:52 +0000

I find it quite amusing that Microsoft has Copilot and now puts Copilot in literally *EVERYTHING* they can think of, then at the same time, they offer you access to Anthropic's own models through Copilot I guess MAI models (Phi?) aren't good enough?

New comment by prologic in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

prologic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:42:42 +0000

First, OpenAI runs around screaming and yelling for OSS (and Chinese) models to be regulated and banned. Then Anthropic yells and screams the sky(net) is falling and going to kill us all, let's regulate and ensure AI has built in kill switches. And... Now Microsoft's turn. The rivalry is honestly becoming a joke. Can these big-tech corps grow the f*k up and play nicely in the sandpit?

New comment by prologic in "The Frontier Act Is Congress' Best AI Regulation Bill Yet"

prologic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:24:11 +0000

I work in a highly regulated industry (banking), and I can tell you from first-hand experience that regulations like this that basically amount to 3rd-party licensed verification and auditing don't really stop bad things from happening, or the company at-large (especially the larger and more complex it becomes) from activities that years later end up as non-compliance issues, only for the company to get served a fine that is basically "the cost of doing business".

New comment by prologic in "Let's make quality the norm again"

prologic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:33:53 +0000

Not to mention, it would raise the cost of Software as a Service businesses as the cost of building and maintaining software goes up, as well as the technical expertise to maintain those systems. That would have a flow-on effect of reduced market as low-medium income folks are effectively priced out of the market, no long paying for "cloud services, and so on... It would be a disaster.

New comment by prologic in "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"

prologic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:02:19 +0000

One alternative worth looking at is S2: https://github.com/mojatter/s2

New comment by prologic in "A list of 1,325 AI assisted repositories, mined from GitHub"

prologic — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:06:07 +0000

And does that work? Can you genuinely tell whether a human has reviewed Ai-assisted/generated code?

New comment by prologic in "A list of 1,325 AI assisted repositories, mined from GitHub"

prologic — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:42:26 +0000

What is the point collecting this data? I feel like this is like "A list of N,NNN repositories using IDE(s)" Hmmm I don't get it?

New comment by prologic in "Why is privacy so hard?"

prologic — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:32:22 +0000

Because good privacy is not profitable.

New comment by prologic in "Apple is no longer thinking different"

prologic — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:59:23 +0000

I mean the thing is, I'm finding it quite difficult to pay for Apple products anymore. The new Apple iPhone Duo is a whopping A$3,500 here in Australia! I kid you not. Who has that kind of money to fork out for a god damn phone?! I'm finding it really hard to justify the crap Apple are putting out, which let's face is, is made orders of magnitude cheaper over in China/Taiwan anyway.

New comment by prologic in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

prologic — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:50:59 +0000

Clearly: Repetitive Strain Injury :D

Something we all suffer from in this industry !

New comment by prologic in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

prologic — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:56:23 +0000

What apps were you looking for that you wouldn't find in the catalog?

New comment by prologic in "Htmx 4.0"

prologic — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:19:24 +0000

HTMX Rocks!

New comment by prologic in "llama.cpp"

prologic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:29:21 +0000

Is llama.cpp (and thus llama.app) really that much better than Ollama? I've Only ever played with Ollama, so geniously curious to hear other's real-world experiences.

New comment by prologic in "Show HN: I built one of the most advanced web-based drum/beat sequencers"

prologic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:01:57 +0000

This is very cool! What inspired you to create this?

New comment by prologic in "Let Claude/Codex run actual 1000s of LinkedIn outreach with ~30 MCP tools"

prologic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:11:15 +0000

Oh gawd please no! Not automated SPAM

New comment by prologic in "Ask HN: Good ASX Shares API?"

prologic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:39:44 +0000

Paying is fine. but also I'm not looking for anything real-time either.