Hacker News: shizcakes

New comment by shizcakes in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

shizcakes — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:56:47 +0000

Check your PRs - some major options missing!

New comment by shizcakes in "iOS 18.7.3-18.7.6 were withheld from most devices; iOS 18.7.7 is enabled for all"

shizcakes — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:45:05 +0000

I’m on a 16 pro and I’m holding out on 18 as long as I can. I have not heard a single positive review of 26 from people I trust. I usually update Apple stuff as soon as I can, so this is a departure for me.

New comment by shizcakes in "Show HN: Marten – Elegant Go web framework (nothing in the way)"

shizcakes — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:56:41 +0000

Similar vibe, but battle tested and quite popular: https://github.com/go-chi/chi

New comment by shizcakes in "Sharding to Contain the Blast Radius of Data Breaches"

shizcakes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:36:35 +0000

Usually DBMSes struggle under very high cardinality of databases. Also, easier migration control is a double-edged sword, with the other side being needing to coordinate many migrations.

You probably don’t want to do what you are proposing except in extreme, carefully evaluated cases.

New comment by shizcakes in "Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days"

shizcakes — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:23:26 +0000

Unfortunately DigiCert has gone way downhill.

We pulled all of our business after they failed to renew a cert with 30d(!!!) notice and got themselves stuck in a loop of useless org re-validations.

They were completely unresponsive and wasted dozens of hours of our time trying to rectify the situation before we pulled the plug and switched everything to ACME. I still can’t believe we wasted so much time and money with them.

New comment by shizcakes in "Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons"

shizcakes — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:37:33 +0000

Suggestion for the site: it references “no navigation” a few times, but I am having a hard time understanding what that means. What kind of navigation is meant here? What are the boundaries of the navigation limits?

Various definitions of “navigation” I can think of: - no switching tasks in the app - some sort of phone-wide parental control - maps is disabled ;-)

New comment by shizcakes in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

shizcakes — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:58:12 +0000

edit: okay I misunderstood what everyone meant

New comment by shizcakes in "Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks"

shizcakes — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:12:16 +0000

Less featureful than this, but we’ve been doing GRPC client side load balancing with kuberesolver[1] since 2018. It allows GRPC to handle the balancer implementations. It’s been rock solid for more than half a decade now.

1: https://github.com/sercand/kuberesolver

New comment by shizcakes in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

shizcakes — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:07:08 +0000

I have about 1000 hours into MSFS2024 and am a mod for a streamer that has streamed many hours more.

The gamer perception of this implementation is NOT positive. It crashes all the time, has massive performance issues, and generally is super negatively received.

New comment by shizcakes in "Layered Design in Go"

shizcakes — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:35:01 +0000

One bonus technique related to the “move to a third package” advice: generating many of your model structures (SQL, Protobuf, graphql, etc) allows you to set up obvious directionality between generated layers and to provide all generated code as “base packages” to your application code, which then composes everything together.

Prior to this technique we often had “models importing models circularly” as an issue but that’s entirely disappeared due to the introduction of the structural additional layer.

New comment by shizcakes in "Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi"

shizcakes — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:46:34 +0000

No decision has been made in the NextNav case, and there’s a lot of significant opposition. What’s with the needless fearmongering?

New comment by shizcakes in "The Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-Keeper"

shizcakes — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:23:30 +0000

If you haven’t seen it, here’s a great and funny video from Map Men about the Longitude problem and Harrison’s timekeepers: https://youtu.be/3mHC-Pf8-dU?si=OK684LLRseJETrz_

New comment by shizcakes in "Don't squander public trust on bullshit"

shizcakes — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:07:17 +0000

Tell me you live in Cambridge, MA without telling me

New comment by shizcakes in "Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs"

shizcakes — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:50:18 +0000

I’m really confused. Solomon Hykes is typically credited as the creator of Docker. Who are you? Why is he credited if someone else created it?

New comment by shizcakes in "Life was dirty, difficult, and dangerous for almost everyone who ever existed"

shizcakes — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 03:37:08 +0000

The essay ends

> But we can pay it forward: we can keep progress going, and build an even better world for the generations to come.

New comment by shizcakes in "We and our 838 partners use cookies"

shizcakes — Fri, 03 May 2024 12:35:21 +0000

It’s the cookie consent form being discussed.

New comment by shizcakes in "Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round"

shizcakes — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:58:57 +0000

I don’t see a single such submission in their pull requests, open or closed, in the past couple weeks.

New comment by shizcakes in "The Hacker News Top books of 2023"

shizcakes — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:50:15 +0000

I picked up electronics a bit this summer, got my amateur radio license & upgrade, and I find The Art Of Electronics to be astonishingly good.

New comment by shizcakes in "Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service"

shizcakes — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:21:32 +0000

What's eye opening here?

These are basically all tech support providers. I'm not saying Google is a privacy-centric company, but this effort to enumerate subprocessors is admirable.

The internet becomes a worse place when folks criticize the superficial number rather than the intent.

New comment by shizcakes in "The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday"

shizcakes — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:49:03 +0000

I went to a 1234567890 "gathering" in a hotel lobby in Boston in 2009