Hacker News: rebyn

New comment by rebyn in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

rebyn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:02:55 +0000

“Sign in with Apple” allows me to use a random “Hide My Email” address for services that I can’t bother with so it’s absolutely a godsend for me.

New comment by rebyn in "So Long, Gitpod"

rebyn — Sun, 05 May 2024 12:55:32 +0000

In January they laid off 28% (21 employees) which meant they had 54 left after the January layoff round.

Last week they laid off ~43 (as per the laid-off employee’s blog post above).

Does that mean they now have only 9 employees left? Did I do the maths right?

Update: my bad. The last layoff around was January 2023. It has been 1 year 4 months since.

New comment by rebyn in "Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket"

rebyn — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:14:56 +0000

I got the Deutschlandticket for May and am tempted to travel from Berlin to Stralsund. Using RE/RB for this journeh takes more or less three hours without any train change (so not having to deal with the possible delay(s) and missing connecting rides), however I do hope the operator supports reserving a seat in advance with this subscription, cause otherwise showing up at the station not knowing for sure I'd have a seat would deter me from using this offer and instead just book ICE/IC (if any).

New comment by rebyn in "Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally"

rebyn — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:57:31 +0000

Yeah, 60GB (“big”) and there is a “large” act’s Docker image whose size is 16GB: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/107#issuecomment-760376...

New comment by rebyn in "Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack"

rebyn — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:37:39 +0000

Silly ask but is this similar to Atlassian Assist? https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220442/atlassian-ass...

New comment by rebyn in "Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen"

rebyn — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 07:33:28 +0000

Same for me. Extending an internal API with simple queries took me half a day to get my mind around to. Learning about a warehouse system with a bazillion schemas, toggles and cogs and endless conditionals can while a few days of mine and I came out feeling happy and content, and wanted to do more, nonstop.

New comment by rebyn in "Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen"

rebyn — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 07:28:40 +0000

I am in a similar situation. Lately I repeat to myself: "do not what you can, do what you must" to fight off my fight/flight response. It works about 40% of those situations that I was in.

New comment by rebyn in "I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer"

rebyn — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:36:50 +0000

Being a Distinguished Engineer is the highest there is for an engineer. He moved away from management and max'd out on the engineering track.

https://college.lclark.edu/programs/entrepreneurship/firesid...

New comment by rebyn in "Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)"

rebyn — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:53:19 +0000

I once looked into authen/authorization with Kafka topics and whether one can only be allowed to subscribe to specific ones and came up short with any solution to how to do it with Kafka. From my POV, points: 1 to 4 listed above now have been moved to one single point (Kafka) and its capabilities are a lot limited than those other tools/entrypoints (of data access) mentioned. Have there been new development to Kafka's IAM?

New comment by rebyn in "Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies"

rebyn — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:39:55 +0000

I appreciate these public comments on logistics issues like exchange rate and the sharing of service providers very much. As a freelancer in Viet Nam, this came up multiple times whilst I started out and even though my rate delta was only about 20-25%, that was already something.

Best of luck to you two.

New comment by rebyn in "When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t"

rebyn — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:35:27 +0000

> Scaling the underlining EC2 instances is slow.

Do you mind if I ask how long this takes right now with you and how long you expect it to take to be fast?

New comment by rebyn in "Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking robots"

rebyn — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 03:23:13 +0000

I found a VR video (which needs dragging around quite a bit on my computer to find the desired angle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIaxPa2aUDI that showed the car being put into its slot. Looks pretty neat.

New comment by rebyn in "Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data"

rebyn — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 05:14:18 +0000

The default iOS weather app uses data from IBM’s Weather Channel. Your previous comment (re: app) is misleading.

New comment by rebyn in "CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets"

rebyn — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 01:12:25 +0000

I think he/she uses Docker as a development tool on his machine, with volumes and everything.

New comment by rebyn in "AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises"

rebyn — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:26:24 +0000

Second half of 2019, they clarified somewhere.

New comment by rebyn in "AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance"

rebyn — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 05:42:25 +0000

I'm having a hard time trying to wrap my head around this. What are the differences between this and CloudFront?

New comment by rebyn in "Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men"

rebyn — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:10:47 +0000

Mind if I ask who? Honest question :).

New comment by rebyn in "Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That"

rebyn — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:06:04 +0000

Have to disagree. Viettel (Vietnam) does offer 1GB a day for a monthly cost of $7. I have 3 bars minimum with LTE/4G on mountains (remote ones even) and islands.

New comment by rebyn in "Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads"

rebyn — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:01:07 +0000

I’m one of these new subscribers (from Viet Nam) that this campaign appeals to. The offer was too good to ignore ($1 for first 6 weeks, $4 each week after for the Guardian Weekly). There’s a bit of adjustment from my side because stories and writings in the print edition are different from my usually top-HN, popular-Twitter articles, but I’ve grown to it. Local expats in my place have no idea of this free int’l delivery, so for a long time they have been paying local importers/newstands a heft ton of money for these papers.

New comment by rebyn in "Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing"

rebyn — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 05:58:11 +0000

I've just uploaded a 140MB file from my mountain cabin (in Viet Nam) and it was lightning fast. I then gave the link to a friend of mine residing in Melbourne, Australia and his download speed was blazing fast as well. Would be keen to learn more about the infrastructure setup behind this service to achieve such a good performance.