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New comment by pugz in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

pugz — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:43:51 +0000

Amp recently achieved it. Apparently it's permitted as long as you use the Claude Agent SDK. https://ampcode.com/news/use-your-claude-plan

New comment by pugz in "Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold"

pugz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:49:33 +0000

€25,000 is still pricey. The BYD Atto 1 recently dropped to AU$19,990 in Australia, which is €12,412. I think it will be hugely popular at this price point.

New comment by pugz in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

pugz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:51:26 +0000

For what it's worth I think you are correct, and that these differences have nothing to do with being SSD-based.

New comment by pugz in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

pugz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:23:12 +0000

That's S3 Express One Zone. Directory buckets are SSD-backed and regular buckets are HDD-backed. Some of the API differences off the top of my head:

- Directory entries are no longer returned in sorted order in ListObjectsV2

- There's an AppendObject API

- There's a RenameObject API

New comment by pugz in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

pugz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:58:35 +0000

I've been kicking the tyres on this. I managed to get Kubernetes (k3s) running across a cluster of MicroVMs. Useful? No. Funny? To me, yes. https://github.com/aidansteele/microvm-fun

New comment by pugz in "Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX"

pugz — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:55:26 +0000

I recently (a couple of weeks ago) got the 6K version of this screen, the Asus PA32QCV. It has the same pixel density as my MacBook Pro, so the UI looks great. To be honest, it's enough screen real estate that I now operate with my laptop in clam shell mode.

My only complaint is that the KVM leaves a bit to be desired. One input can be Thunderbolt, but the other has to be HDMI/DisplayPort. That means I need to use a USB-C cable for real KVM when switching between my two laptops. I'd like two cables, but four cables isn't the end of the world.

New comment by pugz in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

pugz — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:23:29 +0000

Can you say more about retatrutide for IBS? My IBS is debilitating to the point where I usually refuse to eat food on week-long work trips, because the unplanned emergency toilet trips wreak havoc with my schedule and ability to sit in meetings all day. I'd never heard there was a solution to it.

New comment by pugz in "An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs"

pugz — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:15:23 +0000

If you want to read more, it was called "EC2 Classic" (well, it wasn't called that before VPCs were launched!). There was a discussion about it being retired on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27988964

New comment by pugz in "A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs"

pugz — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:02:07 +0000

I currently work at the company. Wacky words that I can find in Slack include

- updog

- stegosaurus

- brat

- flabbergasted

- superbowl

- crouton

New comment by pugz in "Get me out of data hell"

pugz — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:06:06 +0000

I'm also based in Melbourne. I would add that all the above is true of maybe 95% of companies, but there are a few exceptions: big US-based tech companies. There are roles for devs that pay AU$250-$550K/year, including the data engineers. Unfortunately, there appears to be zero correlation with expertise and we have the exact same pain zone experience that I had when I was earning a third of this salary at an AU-headquartered company.

New comment by pugz in "Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure"

pugz — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:08:59 +0000

FYI I love your work with Gimlet, etc.

I too would love "native" support for SSH CAs in EC2. What I ended up doing is adding a line to every EC2 userdata script that would rewrite the /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys file to treat the provided EC2 keypair as a CA instead of a regular pubkey.

New comment by pugz in "Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide"

pugz — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:44:34 +0000

Can you explain what you mean by "for many years they were not [default deny]"? I've been using S3 for 10+ years and I can't remember a time when they were ever open-by-default.

If you mean there were years where it was dangerously easy to accidentally open up a bucket, you'll get no disagreement from me. But I can't think of a time when they weren't default deny.

New comment by pugz in "Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API"

pugz — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:25:07 +0000

Apple still has this program. I haven't worked as an iOS developer for a few years now, but I remember their paid "technical support incidents" were extremely high quality. It was $50 per incident, but I think that was just to reduce spam.

I remember being astounded by the technical depth of a particular answer and looking up the the engineer on LinkedIn. He had 20+ years of experience at Apple - and it showed in his answer.

New comment by pugz in "Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments"

pugz — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:01:41 +0000

This is a great idea for a project. You should also make it work as a Docker logging driver plugin[1] so that people can easily view their local Docker container logs through Logdy

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/plugins/

New comment by pugz in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

pugz — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:54:42 +0000

That's actually an interesting one - it depends on your jurisdiction. E.g. in all Australian jurisdictions (and quite a few US states), one cannot consent to serious bodily harm. Some jurisdictions allow consent as a defence for "lower" assaults that don't meet the threshold of serious bodily harm. In Australia (I'm not as familiar with other countries), there are usually explicit carve-outs for sports like boxing, but only when under the purview of a licensed boxing authority.

New comment by pugz in "Range Energy's electric trailer can improve semi-truck mpg by 36%"

pugz — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:16:43 +0000

Have you ever heard about "road trains" in Australia? We have some truly absurd allowances for how long these vehicles can get. It makes driving between capital cities a wild experience, trying to pass them (they're almost as bad as the suicidal kangaroos that jump in front of cars at night)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

New comment by pugz in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

pugz — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:47:33 +0000

This was me too. I had used many substances (cannabis, ketamine, benzos, cocaine + every other stimulant under the sun) and was able to keep them in my possession and only use them at most once every 4-6 weeks, and only ever in the company of others. This lasted for many years. I was arrogant and thought I was above addiction. I tried heroin and was addicted before I finished my 1g bag.

I think your point about "stop[] scheduling every drug as equally dangerous" is very salient. I really don't want to shift blame anywhere but myself, but if society had been honest about treating heroin as much more problematic than (for example) cocaine or amphetamine, maybe I would have listened. But when they were all considered equally bad and the others didn't form a grip on me... you can see how I ended up where I did.

Thankfully, I had every advantage one could need: a loving spouse, a lot of savings and a medical system that treated it as a health problem, not a criminal one. I told my doctor about my addiction and he prescribed diazepam for the withdrawal. He wrote a referral to admit me to a psychiatric hospital. I was able to take a month off work (and keep my job) while under the care of professionals. Without all of those, I'd probably end up dead in a few years.

New comment by pugz in "Why use OpenID Connect instead of plain OAuth2?"

pugz — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:00:23 +0000

I guess it depends on what we meant when we talk about OIDC, but in system-to-system authentication (e.g. GitHub Actions to ${cloud provider}), there are no browsers involved. But that's a fairly different use-case that happens to be under the OIDC umbrella. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-harde...

New comment by pugz in "Show HN: Accelerated Docker builds on your local machine with Depot (YC W23)"

pugz — Wed, 24 May 2023 03:16:55 +0000

I've been using Depot for a while and I'm a fan. It has made our (GitHub Actions) builds a lot faster because the cache is always warm. It also helps a lot when building amd64 images from my arm64 Macbook - that's excruciatingly slow if I just run `docker build`.

My only complaint is more about GHA - I wish there was an easier way to build multiple unrelated images at the same time in a single GHA job. Running `depot build &` to background things is a bit fiddly when it comes to interleaved console output, exit codes, etc.

New comment by pugz in "The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks"

pugz — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:35:03 +0000

Thanks! I had somehow missed that. Feels irresponsible that it hadn't been mentioned in reporting of the changes (or maybe I missed it there too)