Hacker News: truekonrads

New comment by truekonrads in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

truekonrads — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:21:05 +0000

What were the issues behind "APIM down"?

New comment by truekonrads in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

truekonrads — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:30:55 +0000

Cool debugging, but… 1) if you have very spiky loads (on the hour) and you can distribute them a little it’s obvious that this is will be good thing. 2) they had the answer all along in their telemetry Sometimes wisdom beats effort

New comment by truekonrads in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

truekonrads — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:06:17 +0000

The problem seems the sales model rather than the dongle:

1) a hardware and software solution implies that hardware will stop working at some point. Customers should understand it 2) you could sell them a new dongle every time support contract ends which is what I’ve experienced with Xways as an example. Even if you’re air gapped once a year usage data upload and new dongle seems fine. 3) why should users receive free upgrades and bug fixes? No software is bug free.

Finally there are several brand protection shops that fight fakes and work well with Shopee, Lazada, Facebook etc. It’s not five dollars but they will take these down effectively

New comment by truekonrads in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

truekonrads — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:30:28 +0000

You can start a business in Estonia in 2-3 days and get e-residency there. Sample incorporation business (no affiliation): https://enty.io/en/incorporate-estonia

Go Estonia!

New comment by truekonrads in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

truekonrads — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:55:46 +0000

Technical Boy's vape is here: https://giphy.com/gifs/americangods-vape-american-gods-26BGN...

New comment by truekonrads in "Uncrossy"

truekonrads — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:55:29 +0000

Cute. Lots of "-ed" matching tho

New comment by truekonrads in "Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor"

truekonrads — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:58:36 +0000

Are you blocked by anti-bot measures for purposes of demo?

New comment by truekonrads in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

truekonrads — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:10:35 +0000

This is not how the overwhelming majority of chickens live - they live in high intensity farm operations in horrible conditions

New comment by truekonrads in "Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph"

truekonrads — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:11:33 +0000

I love AMP, it delivers great results. I like that it’s opinionated in how it should be used and for example tells me that I need to hand off context.

I love that I am not welded to one model and someone smart has evaluated what’s best fit for what. It’s a bit a shame they lost Steve Yegge as their brand ambassador. A respected and practicing coder is big endorsement.

To anyone on the fence - give it a go.

New comment by truekonrads in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

truekonrads — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:52:34 +0000

I absolutely love the sadservers. Can’t wait for windows version.

New comment by truekonrads in "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"

truekonrads — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:52:50 +0000

The writer Viktor Pelevin in 2001 wrote a sci-fi story "The Air Defence (Zenith) Codes of Al-Efesbi" where an abandoned FSB agent would write on the ground in large text paradoxical sentences which would send AI enabled drones into a computational loop thereby crashing them.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82...

New comment by truekonrads in ".NET 10"

truekonrads — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:55:09 +0000

It’s all about the libraries in the end.

New comment by truekonrads in "The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)"

truekonrads — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:16:14 +0000

In systems thinking there’s the concept of “stocks” or “buffers”. Meaning that change of inputs into the systems first affect stocks/buffers before the outputs.

New comment by truekonrads in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

truekonrads — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:36:25 +0000

Deliver via sendgrid*, receive directly is probably the only viable path for self hosted systems.

Where sendgrid=any major player, could be Mimecast, proofpoint or anyone else who will forward outgoing email.

New comment by truekonrads in "Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye"

truekonrads — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:02:12 +0000

Very nice! We all really need a tool that IT can use to diagnose problems along the path. Like more user friendly nping —tr

New comment by truekonrads in "Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C"

truekonrads — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:36:01 +0000

I took away from benchmarks how fast Luau is...

New comment by truekonrads in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

truekonrads — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:31 +0000

Copilot 365 conserves tokens a lot which is why results are bad.

New comment by truekonrads in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"

truekonrads — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:18:32 +0000

Hi! Tech/cyber person at a law firm here. Major concern I can see is “will this make the formatting go haywire”? Also which kinds law practice groups would benefit them most. Finally - how can this be collaborative ?

New comment by truekonrads in "The Universal Tech Tree"

truekonrads — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:07:47 +0000

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond addresses this head on - resources, safety and political climate seem to contribute a lot

New comment by truekonrads in "Should I Block ICMP?"

truekonrads — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:45:22 +0000

Path MTU discovery lives off ICMP. Block ICMP and expect connections to fail.