Hacker News: qmarchi

New comment by qmarchi in "Istio 1.30.0 (Including Agentgateway)"

qmarchi — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:13:52 +0000

TBH, I actually hate this with a passion.

It's a completely separate gateway product, and it even actively competes against Istio's own Envoy implementation.

Leave it out and separate. If I want `agentgateway` (which we _do_) we'll deploy it on our own terms.

Istio 1.30.0 (Including Agentgateway)

qmarchi — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203353

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by qmarchi in "Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand"

qmarchi — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:30:08 +0000

It's actually more of a social issue rather than a legislative issue.

The vast majority of hunters live out in aging, rural areas. Areas where young people are moving from to more urban cores like Tokyo, Nagoya, or Osaka.

Additionally, hunting isn't seen as a "leisure" activity here; it's seen as a job. One that doesn't pay that well either.

Getting a gun license here isn't hard, takes a couple of months, mostly of just waiting, at worst. The police will do mental health screenings, financial reports, social screenings, and a few other risk vectors, which take a bit.

Source: Actively going through the process.

New comment by qmarchi in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

qmarchi — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:54:42 +0000

File a GDPR request to have a download provided to you? Seems pretty simple fwiw.

Not that I agree with the practice of rug-pulling, but "hostage" is a strong term.

New comment by qmarchi in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

qmarchi — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:40:08 +0000

> Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access

Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.

New comment by qmarchi in "Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus"

qmarchi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:54:56 +0000

Interesting choice to go with Prometheus directly, especially when other TSDBs have "native" support for OTLP ingestion support.

New comment by qmarchi in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

qmarchi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:35:06 +0000

At least, in Japan, they're generally as advertised.

New comment by qmarchi in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

qmarchi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:59:29 +0000

Depends on the country. In Japan, you could be considered a "public nusicance" and be tossed behind bars for a bit.

New comment by qmarchi in "Move Detroit"

qmarchi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:03:27 +0000

I'll get asked where I identify as "from" since I've moved around a lot as a kid, and without fail I'll respond 'Detroit'.

There's so much history and culture to explore; along with tons of huge parks.

If I had to leave Tokyo, would definitely be up there.

New comment by qmarchi in "The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle"

qmarchi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:21:42 +0000

I would wonder if this could also be used as a kind of tripwire, where legitimate users won't present CAPCHA tokens, etc. But fake connections will.

New comment by qmarchi in "DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School"

qmarchi — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:16:03 +0000

AKA: the fast track to setting disbarred and sanctioned.

New comment by qmarchi in "Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)"

qmarchi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:22:48 +0000

As someone with a bank account in the US, they absolutely do ask you for your SSN now-days.

Hell, even my Japan Post Bank account asked my for my SSN.

New comment by qmarchi in "Google Workspace CLI"

qmarchi — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:07:18 +0000

Generally, this disclaimer is required for products that are released under the "Google" name but without any kind of support guarantees for enterprise customers.

That or it's a personal project that IARC decided could live in the workspace project.

Disc: Former Googler

New comment by qmarchi in "Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours"

qmarchi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:26:16 +0000

OpenClaw or a bunch of agents.

New comment by qmarchi in "Japan Radio Begins 24-Hour Shortwave Transmission in Response to Iran Attacks [pdf]"

qmarchi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:56:00 +0000

It's interesting that they're choosing to do this broadcast in Japanese considering that everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English, and they could help more people by broadcasting that those languages.

Glad to know my tax dollars are doing something better than just harassing people to pay fees.

New comment by qmarchi in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

qmarchi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:15:05 +0000

Disclaimer: Niche Xperia User.

Not necessarily, the Xperia line of devices is varied, with nice set of tiers:

1 - Flagship $$$$ 5 - Smaller Flagship $$$ 10 - Mainline $$ Ace - $

Sony's problem is that they have garbage marketing teams that don't understand that 99% of people don't look at a spec sheet, they ask the employee at the shop for the best phone, which is gunna be the one that gets the employee the most commission.

In Japan, they already have that with Docomo, AU, and Softbank. But they've failed to materialize that strategy outside of here.

New comment by qmarchi in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

qmarchi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:58:34 +0000

Easy way to summarize it: "You're not allowed to do these things, except for all of the laws that allow you to do these things."

New comment by qmarchi in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

qmarchi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:24:00 +0000

Kagi _does_ use Google results, but they also have their own index, as well as search filters to curate _your_ search result. Makes it easier to cut out the garbage.

New comment by qmarchi in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

qmarchi — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:03:11 +0000

Disclaimer: Former Googler

Yeah they do. There's an entire mesh of metrics that are used to calculate your relation to separate accounts.

It's the confidence tolerance that keeps you and your partner from getting banned together.

New comment by qmarchi in "Google Public CA is down"

qmarchi — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:33:57 +0000

Not quite. It's a co-op, where the creators own the shares of the company.

Supposedly a more holistic approach to video hosting with less oversight from the platform itself.