Hacker News: riknos314

New comment by riknos314 in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

riknos314 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:22:20 +0000

Sure, but the alternative the author proposes not only allows for time for those scanners to run but explicitly models that time as a formal part of the release process.

Status quo (at least in most language's package managers) + cooldowns basically means that running those checks happens in parallel with the new version becoming the implicit default version shipped to the public. Isn't it better to run the safety and security checks before making it the default?

New comment by riknos314 in "Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?"

riknos314 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:27:57 +0000

By that logic though the model would release 90 days from the last vulnerability it finds, so never.

Crisis Engineering: The Book

riknos314 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:34:25 +0000

Article URL: https://crisisengineering.layeraleph.com/crisis-engineering-the-book/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472684

Points: 3

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New comment by riknos314 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

riknos314 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:25:54 +0000

So glad we don't need to re-write the first chapter of almost every economics 101 textbook!

New comment by riknos314 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

riknos314 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:38:00 +0000

The technique of creating specs before implementation that Kiro embodies was used widely internally before Kiro's release, but as a (now former) employee I gained access to the Kiro tool at the same time as the public. Others may have had internal access earlier but I'm not aware of them.

New comment by riknos314 in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

riknos314 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:22:10 +0000

they have a press release stating that Claude is available on bedrock in secret regions

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-be...

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/secret-cloud/

New comment by riknos314 in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

riknos314 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:30:31 +0000

Sounds similar to Kiro's specs.

New comment by riknos314 in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

riknos314 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:13:46 +0000

The Tl;Dr here is that the cost to them of operating the free tier is lower than what they estimate their Customer Acquisition Cost would be without a free tier, so the free tier generates better leads/conversions to their paid products at a lower cost than traditional sales and marketing.

As long as these economics continue to hold they'd be stupid to discontinue the free tier.

New comment by riknos314 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

riknos314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:34:32 +0000

First is not the same as best. First is not even the same as good. First is only first. Just because someone was the pioneer doesn't mean they should be considered a positive example.

Introduced a concept decades ago in no way implies that their current implementation of the concept is at all ideal or market leading.

New comment by riknos314 in "ai;dr"

riknos314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:09:36 +0000

Man failing that device's check because I'm sleep deprived or drunk would be a world of pain lol

Claude Code for Product Managers

riknos314 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://ccforpms.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649069

Points: 1

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New comment by riknos314 in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

riknos314 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:05:56 +0000

Many things that look exponential originally turn out to actually be sigmoidal.

I consider the start of this wave of AI to be approximately the 2017 Google transformer paper and yet transformers didn't really have enough datapoints to look exponential until GPT 3 in 2022.

The following is purely speculation for fun and sparking light-hearted conversation:

My gut feeling is that this generation of models transitioned out of the part of the sigmoid that looks roughly exponential after the introduction of reasoning models.

My prediction is that tranformer-based models will start to enter the phase that asymptotes to flatline in 1-2 years.

I leave open the possibility for a different form of model to emerge that is exponential but I don't believe transformers to be right now.

New comment by riknos314 in "AI code analysis is getting good"

riknos314 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:49:21 +0000

From the comments on the link:

> I think in general you give smart people powerful tools and good things always happen. That’s why I’m so hesitant to ban a TOOL when the problem to me is inadequate people.

This resonates strongly with me. I've seen AI weilded mindlessly, effectively offloading the burden of critical thought from the submitter to the reviewers. This inevitably annoys the reviewers. I've also seen mindless changes where AI wasn't used at all that are equally annoying.

In contrast, I've seen AI weilded by contributors who still put in the effort of thinking critically about the change, and these changes are usually no more onerous to review than a fully-human generated change.

The differtiator between a good submission and an annoying one is typically the behaviors of the human, not whether or not AI was used. The way forward is to define the behaviors we want to encourage and avoid, and figure out the incentive structures to push contributors to using the proper behaviors.

New comment by riknos314 in "You can make up HTML tags"

riknos314 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:16:29 +0000

I didn't know this existed. Thanks for sharing! Very useful api

New comment by riknos314 in "China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium"

riknos314 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:35:05 +0000

> Thorium MSRs don't make sense for the Americas, Europe or Australia. We have plenty of uranium.

That covers the input side of th equation. Thorium can help transform the outputs of our existing reactors into waste with orders of magnitude better in terms of dangerous lifespan

New comment by riknos314 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

riknos314 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:48:55 +0000

The real challenge is that implementations aren't static.

Just because today's implementation has 4 9s that doesn't mean tomorrow's will...

New comment by riknos314 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

riknos314 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:35:37 +0000

Each AWS service may choose different pipeline ordering based on the risks specific to their architecture.

In general:

You don't deploy to the largest region first because of the large blast radius.

You may not want to deploy to the largest region last because then if there's an issue that only shows up at that scale you may need to roll every single region back (divergent code across regions is generally avoided as much as possible).

A middle ground is to deploy to the largest region second or third.

New comment by riknos314 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

riknos314 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:02:48 +0000

Former AWS employee here. There's a number of reasons but it mostly boils down to:

It's both the oldest and largest (most ec2 hosts, most objects in s3, etc) AWS region, and due to those things it's the region most likely to encounter an edge case in prod.

Interview with IRS Chief Information Officer [video]

riknos314 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4odAXoqRT8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45534518

Points: 2

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New comment by riknos314 in "Bose SoundTouch Support Discontinued"

riknos314 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:50:43 +0000

I think Wiim can do this