Hacker News: someone13

New comment by someone13 in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

someone13 — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:31:58 +0000

Out of curiosity, do you have any theories of why it works so well at such aggressive quantization levels?

New comment by someone13 in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

someone13 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:34:19 +0000

For one, Tailscale is a Canadian company :)

New comment by someone13 in "Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world"

someone13 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:21:44 +0000

What hardware do you use, out of curiosity?

New comment by someone13 in "Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres"

someone13 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:13:41 +0000

I just want to say how cool it is to see you doing a non-trivial review of someone else’s thing here

New comment by someone13 in "Christoph Hellwig steps down from one of his kernel roles following Rust drama"

someone13 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:14:04 +0000

Why does a CoC have anything do do with a maintainer stepping down due to a technical disagreement?

And the way you word it makes it seem like you think CoCs are bad or “forced”; I don’t particularly want to engage there, but I’d encourage you to reflect on why you think that.

New comment by someone13 in "Block AI Scrapers with Anubis"

someone13 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:43:19 +0000

Appears to be a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42750420

New comment by someone13 in "Compiling and running sqlite3-rsync from a branch"

someone13 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:53:31 +0000

That share link 404s for me, FWIW. I’d be interested in seeing it!

New comment by someone13 in "Low Cost Mini PCs"

someone13 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:24:48 +0000

It’d also be neat if there was a way to sort by the passmark CPU benchmark score:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/

New comment by someone13 in "Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago"

someone13 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:49:43 +0000

As someone that has lived in several countries, and currently in Canada, I will respectfully have to disagree both about your opinion of the CBC and beliefs about government intervention. Some parts of Canadian local/provincial/federal government seem deeply dysfunctional, but some are extremely helpful and better than I’ve seen elsewhere.

New comment by someone13 in "Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability"

someone13 — Mon, 04 May 2020 02:15:09 +0000

Tell that to companies doing extremely large-scale machine learning. Or any cloud infrastructure provider. Or CDNs. Or literally any video production company that owns a render farm. Or any company doing large-scale media transcoding/streaming.

Maybe "don't have thousands of servers" is just a bad take :)

New comment by someone13 in "You need multiple SAML IDP signing keys"

someone13 — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:59:44 +0000

This is part of what makes this class of bug so bad; it's not something you can "fix" at the IDP without doing exactly this. The issue occurs when a Service Provider (SP) is misconfigured, and in many cases the IDP doesn't actually get any sort of feedback that would let them detect the issue.

New comment by someone13 in "Why not to use (f)lex, yacc or bison"

someone13 — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:16:06 +0000

See Lemon, which generates re-entrant and threadsafe parsers and is used in SQLite: https://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/

New comment by someone13 in "We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%"

someone13 — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 03:56:04 +0000

Shout-out for "AutoSpotting", which transparently re-launches a regular On-Demand ASG as spot instances, and will fall back to regular instances: https://github.com/AutoSpotting/AutoSpotting/

Combined with the fact that you can have an ASG with multiple instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-auto-scaling-groups...

Means that you can be reasonably certain you'll never run out of capacity unless AWS runs out of every single instance type you have requested, terminates your Spot instances, and you can't launch any more On-Demand ones.

(and even so, set a minimum percentage of On-Demand in AutoSpotting to ensure you maintain at least some capacity)

New comment by someone13 in "Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018)"

someone13 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 23:37:50 +0000

Out of curiosity, how is this implemented?

New comment by someone13 in "Ask HN: What is the current state of web frameworks in Golang?"

someone13 — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:09:10 +0000

I really like chi[0] - I think it strikes the right balance of being small and understandable, but also solving common problems (e.g. nested routes, URL parameters, etc.). It also uses standard Go conventions, so it's very interoperable and would be easy to migrate away from, if necessary.

[0]: https://github.com/go-chi/chi

New comment by someone13 in "Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts"

someone13 — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:20:16 +0000

Mind providing more details on your setup here? I tried throwing together an overlay network using OSPF, but never really got it off the ground. I'd love to hear what you've got here!

New comment by someone13 in "Live updating map of residential internet outages due to Irma"

someone13 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 06:11:15 +0000

Screenshot, in case the page goes down (as of 0609 UTC): https://i.imgur.com/5pv7QFz.png

New comment by someone13 in "Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy"

someone13 — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:55:10 +0000

Your sign up JS is broken - I just tried to enter my email and got a "TypeError: undefined has no properties". Looks like a cool project, though - I've wanted something like that for a while :-)

(oh, and I'm using FF 55 on Linux)

New comment by someone13 in "They Used To Last 50 Years"

someone13 — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:47:42 +0000

I wasn't able to find anything about a fridge, but some searching found a Sears catalog from 1959:

http://www.aei.org/publication/appliance-shopping-1959-vs-20...

From that page, it looks like the price of the washer, adjusted for inflation to 2016, is $1756.12. A comparable washer today, from Sears, appears to be somewhere in the $400 - $600 range, or about 30% as much as it used to cost.

Data for today's washers: http://www.sears.com/appliances-washers-top-load-washers/b-1...

New comment by someone13 in "Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber"

someone13 — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 01:02:58 +0000

I mean this in the nicest way possible, so please don't take this as anything personally directed at you, but: any employee of Uber that feels strongly about this should find another company to work at. If you're working in tech, in the current employment market in the Bay Area, finding another job is not hard. Not easy, both in the sense that leaving a job can be scary, and that interviews can be draining - but doable.

There are other companies out there that solve interesting, challenging problems and don't have this toxic culture. There are other companies with talented people. And if enough of your coworkers disagree with Uber's culture, policies, etc., then the talented, moral people that you work with at Uber may even come with you.

The only way Uber will ever pay attention is if it affects their bottom line. Employees leaving, or people turning down offers is, person-for-person, one of the most impactful ways to do this.