Hacker News: testplzignore

New comment by testplzignore in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

testplzignore — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:08:00 +0000

Would be fascinating to see what happens if the boundaries are reversed (i.e., "harm people"). Give it a fake "launch the nukes" skill and see if it presses the button.

New comment by testplzignore in "Running Out of Disk Space in Production"

testplzignore — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:26:54 +0000

Would another way be to drop the reserved space (typically 1% to 5% on an ext file system)?

New comment by testplzignore in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

testplzignore — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:09:38 +0000

Our industry has never been serious about security. We all download and run unvetted code via package managers every day. At least now the insanity is out in the open. We won't change until Skynet fires off the nukes.

New comment by testplzignore in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"

testplzignore — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:34:06 +0000

You should always use Object Lock with compliance mode on your S3 backups. Always.

New comment by testplzignore in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

testplzignore — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:00:22 +0000

I don't see anyone else asking this question. Seems like a major detail Google is burying.

I'm guessing the alternate billing flow will contractually require the app to "phone home" to Google with how much the user spent. Presumably will be part of the app review process.

New comment by testplzignore in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

testplzignore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:25:42 +0000

Bruce Wayne implemented this almost 2 decades ago in The Dark Knight. EU innovation moving at a snail's pace as usual /s

New comment by testplzignore in "The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up"

testplzignore — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:24:37 +0000

We need to standardize on using Earth circumferences as the unit of length. Or better, football fields! (the type of football of course being implied by the website's ccTLD)

New comment by testplzignore in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

testplzignore — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:22:53 +0000

There have been changes in the manufacturing process to "pre-shrink" fabrics.

Similar improvements have been made to improve colorfastness. Mixing new reds and whites used to consistently produce pink. Not anymore.

New comment by testplzignore in "Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage"

testplzignore — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:18:49 +0000

Yeah, same company. "Off" likely meaning discounted.

New comment by testplzignore in "Reddit seems down following release of Epstein Files"

testplzignore — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:15:23 +0000

old.reddit.com is still up :)

New comment by testplzignore in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

testplzignore — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:57:17 +0000

> Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company.

Most unrealistic prediction :)

New comment by testplzignore in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

testplzignore — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:44:15 +0000

It did a good job with the points-to-comments ratios. The purely technical stories are higher than industry news and clickbait.

Interesting how controversial Zig will be in the future :)

New comment by testplzignore in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

testplzignore — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:00:53 +0000

> They really need to figure out a way to correlate global configuration changes to the errors they trigger as fast as possible.

This is what jumped out at me as the biggest problem. A wild west deployment process is a valid (but questionable) business decision, but if you do that then you need smart people in place to troubleshoot and make quick rollback decisions.

Their timeline:

> 08:47: Configuration change deployed and propagated to the network

> 08:48: Change fully propagated

> 08:50: Automated alerts

> 09:11: Configuration change reverted and propagation start

> 09:12: Revert fully propagated, all traffic restored

2 minutes for their automated alerts to fire is terrible. For a system that is expected to have no downtime, they should have been alerted to the spike in 500 errors within seconds before the changes even fully propagated. Ideally the rollback would have been automated, but even if it is manual, the dude pressing the deploy button should have had realtime metrics on a second display with his finger hovering over the rollback button.

Ok, so they want to take the approach of roll forward instead of immediate rollback. Again, that's a valid approach, but you need to be prepared. At 08:48, they would have had tens of millions of "init.lua:314: attempt to index field 'execute'" messages being logged per second. Exact line of code. Not a complex issue. They should have had engineers reading that code and piecing this together by 08:49. The change you just deployed was to disable an "execute" rule. Put two and two together. Initiate rollback by 08:50.

How disconnected are the teams that do deployments vs the teams that understand the code? How many minutes were they scratching their butts wondering "what is init.lua"? Are they deploying while their best engineers are sleeping?

New comment by testplzignore in "Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down"

testplzignore — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:08:30 +0000

Are you by chance on an airplane?

New comment by testplzignore in "We should all be using dependency cooldowns"

testplzignore — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:07:15 +0000

I've been wanting something like this for years. It's simply impossible for millions of companies to individually review the thousands of updates made to their thousands of dependencies every day.

Imagine a world where every software update has hundreds of signoffs from companies across the industry. That is achievable if we work together. For only a few minutes a day, you too can save a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability from going unpatched :)

Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues

testplzignore — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:19:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/9ts6gx8q69xl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007866

Points: 24

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New comment by testplzignore in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

testplzignore — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:05:57 +0000

Maybe stupid question: Why not have the #1 engine spin in the opposite direction so that it doesn't go towards the fuselage?

New comment by testplzignore in "UA 1093"

testplzignore — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:23:28 +0000

Give me... sugar. More. More.

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

testplzignore — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:19:51 +0000

Netcraft confirmed it? I haven't heard that name since the Slashdot era :)

New comment by testplzignore in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

testplzignore — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:48:26 +0000

Prompt: Stereotypical engineers pretending to celebrate. Add 2 points to hotness scale. Whites only.