Hacker News: rwky

New comment by rwky in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

rwky — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:03:17 +0000

Me too! In my case postfix locked up and stopped sending mail there was a massive queue. I checked the logs and saw the same second twice and that's when I learned about leap seconds. Since then I have a reminder in my calendar every 6 months to check if ones been announced. Thankfully we've only had two.

New comment by rwky in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

rwky — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:27:20 +0000

Fore Linux firejail works well https://firejail.wordpress.com/

New comment by rwky in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

rwky — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:14:55 +0000

Check https://tinc-vpn.org/ it may run on your router if you're running openwrt or similar

New comment by rwky in "Serious Issues in AWS Ireland"

rwky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:41:14 +0000

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797602

New comment by rwky in "Ask HN: AWS/S3 Outage?"

rwky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:02:17 +0000

We're having issues connecting to the ECR registry and ubuntu apt repos (the ones hosted on AWS) for the past hour and a bit in eu-west-1

New comment by rwky in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

rwky — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:54:27 +0000

I gave it the job of modifying a fairly simple regex replacement and it took a while over 5 minutes, claude failed on the same prompt (which surprised me), codex did a similar job but faster. So all in all not bad!

New comment by rwky in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

rwky — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:02:19 +0000

Astronomers often have an error margin of an order of magnitude or two. 1 billion or 100 billion. Close enough either way!

New comment by rwky in "What Killed Perl?"

rwky — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:02:16 +0000

I still use perl. It's my go to for string parsing (think pipe log file, do something with it and send it to stdout). It's also my go to for anything that I still want to work in 10 years.

New comment by rwky in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

rwky — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:38:46 +0000

A lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection.

If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and similar :(

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:24:18 +0000

Feel sorry for anyone with a "smart" coffee machine.

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:24:39 +0000

I was getting 500 errors a few hours ago on amazon.com

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:23:08 +0000

Generally expect issues for the rest of the day, AWS will recover slowly, then anyone that relies on AWS will recovery slowly. All the background jobs which are stuck will need processing.

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:22:47 +0000

Back in the day people used to shut down mail servers at the weekend, maybe we should start doing that again.

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:13:01 +0000

Hah good point, pagerduty is working at least.

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

rwky — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:19:24 +0000

To everyone that got paged (like me), grab a coffee and ride it out, the week can only get better!

New comment by rwky in "test-ipv6.com will stay online"

rwky — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:34:31 +0000

Not just ISPs github and npm still don't and AWS is iffy too.

New comment by rwky in "Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs"

rwky — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:33:45 +0000

Here's a paper on the painted lady migration described in the article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49079-2

New comment by rwky in "Strengthening NPM: Important changes to authentication and token management"

rwky — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:08:19 +0000

The disabling of TOTP is going to make things interesting, I wonder how prevalent pass keys are now? Especially for Linux users?

New comment by rwky in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

rwky — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:41:26 +0000

Same. I automatically assume that all information I send to any organisation will end up on the Internet sooner or later be it by accident or sold to some shady third party.

New comment by rwky in "Become unbannable from your email"

rwky — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:35:14 +0000

Same thing happened to me over 20 years ago back then it was common to get domain hosting email all from one provider. They hiked up the price to something extortionate and changed the owner details on the domain to themselves cost me a fair penny to get that back from then on I kept my domain email and hosting all separate and stuck with what are hopefully more reputable providers. And of course these days if it happened I'd go straight to legal action something that young me didn't think of.