Hacker News: roboben

New comment by roboben in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

roboben — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:35:34 +0000

mite popcorn with fresh honey sounds like a three star dish for $67

New comment by roboben in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

roboben — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:42:29 +0000

The hard truth these days is that the work of bee keeping is like 80% keeping the mites in check. Plus all current treatments render the honey inedible so you can only do it at the end of the season.

New comment by roboben in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

roboben — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:50:51 +0000

docker is not a security boundary but a resource boundary.

New comment by roboben in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

roboben — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:49:36 +0000

also i found them much less stable than metal instances running into weird kvm failures

New comment by roboben in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

roboben — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:37:52 +0000

yes only c8i, m8i and r8i instance types support it. It is called nested virtualization[1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ec...

New comment by roboben in "Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust"

roboben — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:29 +0000

yep looks heavily inspired by OF. Anyone knows whats up with that project? I was involved years ago, it seems to still be going but I think many people moved on?

New comment by roboben in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

roboben — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:47:37 +0000

Hosted dashboard for your personal weather station.

https://weatherstage.com/

I had some custom build scripts and sites for my dad and myself and was thinking I could make a simple SaaS out of it. Super early and didn’t advertise anywhere yet since the actual dashboard is very simple right now but it works and I keep adding the features I want to use myself.

Example dashboard: https://warnitz.weatherstage.com/

If you want to try it out, I suggest you write me at hello at domain and I will get you going. Let me know the type of weather station you have!

New comment by roboben in "The future of Terraform CDK"

roboben — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:51:12 +0000

They should have renamed it first to HashiCorp, an IBM Company CDK, then shut it down

New comment by roboben in "How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs"

roboben — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:51:27 +0000

Tried it, had some issue, opened a bug report, no response. I think it is dead.

New comment by roboben in "Mistral OCR"

roboben — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:30:41 +0000

Le chat doesn’t seem to know about this change despite the blog post stating it. Can anyone explain how to use it in Le Chat?

New comment by roboben in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

roboben — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:43:15 +0000

…and removed from front page…

New comment by roboben in "Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down"

roboben — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:52:40 +0000

Why did this post got removed from the front page?

New comment by roboben in "Cloudflare R2 Global Outage"

roboben — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:19:04 +0000

Docker hub reported an incident[1] at the same time. Are they running on R2?

[1] https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e...

New comment by roboben in "1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations"

roboben — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:46:33 +0000

Is this a freely available library (JS?) they use for this?

New comment by roboben in "Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look"

roboben — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:47:43 +0000

What I am always missing in these posts: How do they limit network bandwidth? Since these are all multi-tenant services, how do they make sure a container or isolated browser is not taking all the network bandwidth of a host?

New comment by roboben in "Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly"

roboben — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:41:14 +0000

Shouldn’t this be built into a queue somehow? I’d love to see a queuing solution like SQS but has a built in fairness, where you can fully utilize a capacity but as soon as, let’s say customers compete on resources, some fairness kicks in. Is there anything like that?

New comment by roboben in "Saving months of compute time with a single Grafana query"

roboben — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:25:36 +0000

Sadly Grafana (cloud) comes at a cost too. Anyone struggles with this horrible active metrics based pricing too? Not only Grafana Cloud but others do it like that too.

We moved shitloads to self hosted Thanos. While this comes with its own drawbacks obv, I think it was worth it.

New comment by roboben in "Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?"

roboben — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:08:07 +0000

Personal contacts. With this, I mostly mean LinkedIn. Found my last two gigs there. Once because an old colleague was reaching out and the other time when I made a post, that I am up for work. There are also tons of recruiters there looking for freelancers, at least for platform engineering I am getting weekly at least 1 or 2 offers.

New comment by roboben in "40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent"

roboben — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:07:01 +0000

Headline should be changed to “40 out of 60 in China”

New comment by roboben in "Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace"

roboben — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:47:16 +0000

This is great. Last time I tried this I couldn’t even find a way in code to disable some.