Hacker News: rietta

New comment by rietta in "In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online"

rietta — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:04:59 +0000

My 6 and 4 year old kids love this movie on DVD! Of course when we watch it the studio doesn’t get a new ping. So thank you for the work on this classic.

New comment by rietta in "In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online"

rietta — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:38:19 +0000

I did not previously know about this closure or the auction. However, I am super sad to learn this was a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and not just an intentional retirement.

New comment by rietta in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

rietta — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:02:55 +0000

I do not know, but my best guess would be an improved post processing algorithm was introduced.

New comment by rietta in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

rietta — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:06:16 +0000

Which sucks when you are for instance trying to let the professional circle know about an upcoming meetup that has a registration link.

New comment by rietta in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

rietta — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:22:03 +0000

Congratulations!

Yeah, in part my issue is recruiters are completely unaligned with my interests. Anytime I have ever replied that I am available for a corp-to-corp consulting contract the contact dies. They are only about placing people in full time employment, which has been an anathema to me because to do that I would have to turn my back on all my current clients and leave them high and dry. Growing the business has always been the better path for me.

New comment by rietta in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

rietta — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:19:12 +0000

I have not run a controlled study, but I have shared topics here on this website that made it to the front page quickly and had a lively comment section and on LinkedIn the same was had very limited impression numbers. I did an experiment with an ATLRUG announcement where I did not include the URL and the numbers were slightly higher than one that did, but still not great. I have connections on the platform with relevant interests but its not showing it to them.

One thing that has always hurt me is I have never once in my career been on the traditional job market. I was self employed as a teenager and have always just kept growing and pivoting and growing. I have never sought or taken a job via the normal market. LinkedIn has always been a bit of a odd place for that mode of work.

New comment by rietta in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

rietta — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:23:14 +0000

Oh! Does that play on words bring back memories. Along with Pen Island!

New comment by rietta in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

rietta — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:35:54 +0000

Slightly off topic. I've had exactly one consulting engagement come from LinkedIn, back in 2013. Someone met with a VC, was told they needed a Ruby on Rails developer, found me, and it was off to the races. That was it. No lead since, in any format. I paid for Premium for a while and eventually stopped.

I have connections, and friends occasionally like a comment when I share something. I'm convinced LinkedIn demotes anything that links off-platform, even in the comments. That makes it really hard to share a good blog post.

Honestly, I get more engagement on Facebook. My mom and in-person friends find what I do slightly interesting, at least when the algorithm decides to show it. Same story there, though. Links to a blog get buried compared to native content.

New comment by rietta in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

rietta — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:29:53 +0000

I had this exact conversation with a barber on the UPC campus in Barcelona in 2005 (if my memory is right). My reply to his assertion was to ask if he ever considered how large US states are compared to EU countries. People do travel within the USA alone and with their families all the time. Just this week mine crossed three states for a beach vacation and the returned home. International travel is not unheard of but not the same distance scale. If I recall he said something like he had not thought of it that way. I do not recall if we were talking in Spanish or English anymore after 21 years.

New comment by rietta in "Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees"

rietta — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:14:44 +0000

We used to call those checks!

New comment by rietta in "I don't like passkeys"

rietta — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:58:20 +0000

I’m still terrified how normal people are going to navigate being locked out of their email account because their device that was their passkey is no longer accessible and there’s no backup solution to restore access.

I’ve similar issues even in a lower level with LastPass where it won’t even let you enter your two factor if it doesn’t recognize where you’re coming from but then you have to be connected to your email, but your email password is stored in LastPass. There is a real possibility of being locked out at all devices at the same time and not being able to get in to the first one.

New comment by rietta in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

rietta — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:17:41 +0000

I remember when open source software, and Linux in particular, was the threat to the world according to Microsoft execs.

New comment by rietta in "Leaving Linux"

rietta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:09:50 +0000

That does seem strange. So he has been experimenting seeking something. I have kept the same LTS installations sometimes until the bitter end of the support cycle.

New comment by rietta in "Tell HN: Stop Saying "Gates""

rietta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:56:15 +0000

What should we call them then? I certainly used the term code gate to refer to a code review process prior to the mainstream use of LLMs.

Flock Cameras and "What Do You Have to Hide"

rietta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/on-flock-cameras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714164

Points: 2

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

rietta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:20:29 +0000

Neat!

I had switched some projects to SeaweedFS's Docker image. It worked well. This is good to know there is a successor open source project that would require no code changes to use. Will evaluate.

New comment by rietta in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

rietta — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:31:26 +0000

The site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.

New comment by rietta in "RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI"

rietta — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:01:04 +0000

Unrelated to the content of this post, I fixed the website header to be much smaller and unobtrusive while reading. Tested on my iPhone and in the Firefox responsive simulator as promised in the comments there.

New comment by rietta in "RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI"

rietta — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:59:42 +0000

I had not even seen Aaron's post. Thank you for sharing that link.

RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI

rietta — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/rubygems-supply-chain-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697666

Points: 46

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