<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: shaqbert</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shaqbert</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:42:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shaqbert" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "HashiCorp no longer offers a free plan for Terraform Cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, but a rounding error compared to the HashiCorp bill...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:36:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301797</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "HashiCorp no longer offers a free plan for Terraform Cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A good alternative is to just run your Terraform yourself in Github Actions or Gitlab CD, and host your state in S3. We are using open-source Terramate to orchestrate Terraform, and it makes the transition and operations super easy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:10:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286787</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>5s for Docker containers vs 20ms now ... holy moly, this is fast</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:57:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706399</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "The problem with OpenTelemetry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Otel is indeed quite complex. And the docs are not meant for quick wins...<p>Otelbin [0] has helped me quite a bit in configuring and making sense of it, and getting stuff done.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.otelbin.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.otelbin.io/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681999</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Sixth-generation fighter jet expected to replace the F-22 beginning in 2030"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lessons from Ukraine war:<p>- "zerg" cheap mass produced unit approach is superior to "protoss" expensive but few units<p>- if you have expensive kit, better hide it in a drone/mid range rocket proof shelter<p>- pilots are a bottlneck resource in a peer war<p>- "jack of all trades" systems are inferior to "do one job well" systems</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667819</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "KraftCloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is related to an earlier post [0] and shows the underlying open-source repo.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902949">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902949</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903969</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks amazing.<p>1- Is there an option to run your own "kraftcloud" in your own cloud account?<p>2- How does this compare to companies leveraging eBPF to squeeze more performance from the Kernel?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:56:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903949</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Show HN: Dealing with Claude 3 XML function calling so you don't have to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is surprisingly elegant and simple... whish I had found Mirascope like three month earlier.<p>On the repo roadmap section I am seeing RAG support coming up, this would be extra nice for my use case. Any ETA?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:01:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770645</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Show HN: Open-Sourcing Google's Lattice Models in PyTorch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi William, super nice tech. Alas, I am suffering from lack of imagination, can you give some example use cases where this tech would really shine?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:57:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279929</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Wendelstein 7-X spin-off to go after commercial stellarator fusion power"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  - team are scientists from the Wendelsten 7-X stellarator plasma physics experiement
  - want to innovate on the two most impactful learnings from the experiment towards commercial fusion power, namely
  - using high temperatur superconductors in these weird shaped magnetic coils
  - 3D printing the water cooling vessels for the divertor</code></pre></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5349082/04_23">https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5349082/04_23</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224706">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224706</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:28:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5349082/04_23</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "New discovery points the way to more compact fusion power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have found a way to significantly reduce the distance between plasma and divertor by modelling the  X-point radiator.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5334540/02_23">https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5334540/02_23</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614311">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614311</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5334540/02_23</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Wendelstein 7-X: 8 min Plasma with 1.3 GJ Energy Turnover [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was a plasma physics experiment to prove continous operation. Apparently going from 8 min to much larger timespans is less of a leap now.<p>Next stop in research: divertor design. Right now the divertor is still a challenge, as it heats up too much when the plasma gets hotter. You can see it in the video, the area that gets really bright in IR.<p>After the divertor is figured out, the blanket comes next. Neutron embrittlement of the structure is another issue. So power generation is still way out there.<p>Still, a great day for plasma physicists over the world. Decades of hard work went into this. Congrats!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34928989</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34928989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34928989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's just a "weapon" by the EU to attack any company they want. I'm pretty much sure if I made a hello world program in C, they'd find a clever way of fining me.<p>Not so. Your hello world in C be just fine. Only if you track data of users that happen to live in the EU. Don't track and you absolutely will not violate GDPR.<p>Discord broke the law in France and gets fined according the the laws in France.<p>The flagged issues could have been easily avoided by having a proper GDPR trained lawyer review the service and suggest changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638730</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Uify: One Workspace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see collaboration software primarily in the context of work in a company. Self hosting OS is something I rarely see, as focus on your own product renders such endeavours a distraction. You substitute money for speed.<p>I like it when there is more competition. It forces Retool, Appsmith, etc to up their game and not become complacent. One of them may have a couple of extrea feature here or there right now, but 12-18 months from now the current tech lead will become a wash and the race is on.<p>The big price in this space probably is the great unbundling of enterprise software, i.e. taking a bite out of Oracle, SAP. I attended a top 100 customers event at SAP once, you'd be shocked at the amount of despreration (from massive global 500 companies) to get SAP to implemented the stuff they urgently need. Apparently it takes multiple years on average...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950297</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Entity Resolution: Reflections on the most common data science challenge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The main impediment to companies adopting entity resolution tech is the incentive structure. Companies want to show growing user numbers, transactions,  leads, order, etc. Alas if you look closely and sift out the dupes/frauds, your growth looks a lot less expressive. So why look closely?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:26:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32823397</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32823397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32823397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The bigger question is why it has come to that, that door #1 is such a joke.<p>Is competition not supposed to drive down the bargaining power of the investment banks in terms of fees and IPO discount? Apparently not.<p>Are institutional investors who are part of the 30x oversubscribed and not getting allocations not really upset with this process as well? Why would they not want to pay a higher price and benefit from a smaller IPO "pop" than the 30% build in the system?<p>There is probably a massive business opportunity to get IPO investors and IPO'ing companies connected in a much more structured and technology based way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:16:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281027</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Interview with Type Designer Erik Spiekermann"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aah, the quip on the road network typeface... some highlights<p>> The narrower a typeface gets, the less legible it becomes. We do also know that we have long words in Austria, like “Gumpersdorfer Straße” in Vienna – so now they only use the compressed version, even for short words, because it’s easier for them. Then I get blamed because it’s not legible, but that is not my fault. Maybe it is because I should have said no. When you’re supposed to work for a bad company, like weapons or tobacco, the argument is: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will, so I might as well do it.” If I wouldn’t have done the compressed version, somebody else would have done it, maybe even worse.<p>> “Shit, Spiekermann, you are right – you make us look better!” – that was my big lesson here: You make them look better, that is your job. We have the skill of showing them, not just complaining about things that don’t work.<p>> My Dutch friend Lucas de Groot put it nicely when he was learning German: “We have to verglücklichen our clients”, we have to make them happy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 13:35:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919234</link><dc:creator>shaqbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaqbert in "Google has added “unsupported browser” warnings for Edge Chromium on Google Docs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why of course they do this. This is meant to boost market share and scare the tech-illiterate into using Chrome. And it works.<p>Unsupported browser is a bit of a joke anyways in times of modern web standards...</p>
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