Hacker News: skwashd

New comment by skwashd in "Claude Design"

skwashd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:32 +0000

I'd be pretty annoyed if it was burning my Claude Code quota.

So far it's burned through 45% my design quota. On a positive note, I finally have my fonts rendering. I'm still waiting for it to figure out how it mangled the SVG versions of my logo. I've watched it trying a lot of stuff for 20 minutes and now I've got something that's not my logo.

Amazon Bedrock Leaves Builders Stuck in First Gear

skwashd — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:58:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/amazon-bedrock-leaves-builders-stuck-in-1st-gear/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181255

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by skwashd in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

skwashd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:17:58 +0000

I know it is against the ToS. I've reported multiple organisations doing this. Last time I reported one, support closed the ticket saying the activity is off platform so they can't do anything.

New comment by skwashd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

skwashd — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:41:40 +0000

Last week I released Gata Router - https://github.com/gata-router

Gata is an open source automated L1 ticket triage tool for Zendesk. It costs pennies per ticket for it to route tickets to the correct team.

During development I was regularly seeing over 90% accuracy. The average for humans is 60-80%.

The whole thing runs in your AWS account.

There's more information in the release announcement - https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/meet-gata-the-automated-...

New comment by skwashd in "What has Docker become?"

skwashd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:42:35 +0000

A few times I've wondered, where would Docker Inc be today if Microsoft acquired them back in 2017?

Early 2017 was peak Docker and Docker Inc. Those were the days. Container hype was everywhere. Before moby. Before all the pivots.

Microsoft was embracing open source and the cloud. They were acquiring dev tools.

It was a missed opportunity for both companies.

AWS RDS Data API Deep Dive

skwashd — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:37:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/aws-rds-data-api-deep-dive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549034

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bots Write Bad Terraform and It's All Your Fault

skwashd — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/bots-write-bad-terraform-and-its-all-your-fault/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364086

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by skwashd in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

skwashd — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:04:47 +0000

> This seems more like having several random contractors who you've never met coming into your business in the middle of night. [...] Agencies that routinely swap workers into or out of various roles at your company without asking or telling you, so you don't have any idea who the person working in the office is, what they're doing, or even if they're supposed to be there.

Sounds very similar to how global SIs staff enterprise IT contracts.

New comment by skwashd in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

skwashd — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 01:22:38 +0000

Very cool. There's an impressive number of little details. My favourite is that the Paint app actually works.

New comment by skwashd in "Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business"

skwashd — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:18:06 +0000

Buttondown already offers this - https://docs.buttondown.com/paid-subscriptions

New comment by skwashd in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

skwashd — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:17:13 +0000

I'm starting to sense a pattern with this project.

They've squashed the history to hide their earlier "error". This isn't compliant with section 5a of the GPLv3[1].

"sketchy at best" is a polite description of this pattern of behaviour.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#section5

New comment by skwashd in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

skwashd — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:11:41 +0000

It isn't unheard of for 2 companies to announce a shutdown on the same day. What is less common is for them to both announce it on the same day and last day isn't 4 weeks/30 days.

When I saw this announcement after seeing pocket earlier, I immediately started to wonder if there was a regulatory change on 8 July.

New comment by skwashd in "“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place"

skwashd — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:19:00 +0000

Not just Tokyo or Japan. It is the same in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, big cities in China and more.

New comment by skwashd in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

skwashd — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:19:55 +0000

+1 for (eventually) baking it ty into ruff. In my mind static type checking is a form of linting.

For years I pushed black for formatting code. Once formatting was baked into ruff I ditched black. Having fewer dependencies to track and update simplifies my life and shortens my dependabot queue.

New comment by skwashd in "Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs"

skwashd — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:01:50 +0000

The issue was initially closed with the following comment:

> Hey Dave, it is as it is stated. The MCP is published with dual licenses depending on your intent. > https://fossa.com/blog/dual-licensing-models-explained/

After further discussion on the ticket the license is now just MIT.

New comment by skwashd in "Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs"

skwashd — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:07:56 +0000

IANAL but that is my understanding. I created an issue to get some clarification - https://github.com/vantage-sh/vantage-mcp-server/issues/31

Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda

skwashd — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:37:13 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/handling-billions-of-invocations-best-practices-from-aws-lambda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390854

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by skwashd in "Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos"

skwashd — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:30:51 +0000

The GitHub repo and org disappeared while I was poking around. Both https://github.com/tj-actions and https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files return 404.

New comment by skwashd in "KKR to Acquire Broadcom's (VMware) End-User Computing Division"

skwashd — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:00:39 +0000

For some history on KKR look up the book Barbarians at the Gate. They're one of the original and largest private equity firms.

New comment by skwashd in "Hal Finney was the designer of Bitcoin"

skwashd — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:23:37 +0000

All the smart people know it was Craig Wright, right?