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New comment by verst in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

verst — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:06:51 +0000

But isn't that why you would squash before merging your PR? If you define a rule that PRs must be squashed you would still have the per commit build.

New comment by verst in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

verst — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:13:40 +0000

Like Jensen Huang said the job of an engineer is to solve problems not writing code. The code is a means to an end. This is certainly true for me as an engineer and why I'm not worried about AI.

New comment by verst in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

verst — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:41:40 +0000

Exactly - any USB mouse via the USB-C connector (or lightning camera adapter before that) works. External displays also work via USB-C.

New comment by verst in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

verst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:30:30 +0000

I use Opus 4.6 Fast-mode. It produces significantly better results in my work than any Codex 5.3 tier.

New comment by verst in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

verst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:26:26 +0000

I am one of the people who uninstalled ChatGPT and closed their account and installed Claude in the last 24 hours. I know plenty of others who did the same. I wonder whether this trend can be sustained.

New comment by verst in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

verst — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:46:43 +0000

I have to defend the Googlers here (I work at a different hyperscaler). Teams / services need to optimize their COGS. That means optimizing infrastructure cost. A lot of pay as you go service may not have any base cost to customers but they require some infrastructure to be provisioned. Without quotas you can have a lot of provisioned infrastructure which does not produce any revenue to even collectively break even. Just yesterday this a decision we evaluated again in my team. As a team we cannot afford an unlimited quota - both because of what that would do to our bottom line and because we can't necessarily obtain all the quotas we need ourselves to provision enough capacity for our dependencies. It's a difficult trade off requiring manual intervention.

New comment by verst in "GitHub Incident"

verst — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:45:40 +0000

I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.

New comment by verst in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

verst — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:54:29 +0000

Speak for yourself :)

New comment by verst in "US Tech Force"

verst — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:38:11 +0000

How is this different from 18F (a group within GSA which Elon killed), US Digital Service (which Elon kind of converted to DOGE) or Defense Digital Service (DDS)?

Is the only difference that the current government can claim they started this (completely ignoring they dismantled the previous programs)?

New comment by verst in "Days since last GitHub incident"

verst — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:51:37 +0000

That does not include the Copilot related APIs though.

New comment by verst in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

verst — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:34:39 +0000

Very common. Every Autograph Collection, Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, Marriott, Westin, W, St Regis, Le Meridien, etc has daily housekeeping - and many of those brands / collections have turn down service too.

New comment by verst in "Google Antigravity"

verst — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:53:53 +0000

As someone who just GA'd an Azure service - things aren't all that different in Azure. Not sure how AWS does service launches but it would be interesting to contrast with GCP and Azure.

New comment by verst in "Google Antigravity"

verst — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:51:55 +0000

It uses Electron which itself uses the Chromium rendering engine.

New comment by verst in "Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules"

verst — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:20:48 +0000

As I recall it Cambridge Analytica was a ton of OAuth apps (mostly games and quizzes) requesting all or most account permissions and then sharing this account data (the access for which had been expressly (foolishly) granted by the user) with a third-party data aggregator, namely Cambridge Analytica. Only this re-sharing of data with a third party was against Facebook Terms of Service.

I would not classify Cambridge Analytica as research. They were a data broker that used the data for political polling.

New comment by verst in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

verst — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:31:23 +0000

It's a Sev 0 actually (as one would expect - this isn't a big secret). I was on the engineering bridge call earlier for a bit. The Azure service I work on was minimally impacted (our customer facing dashboard could not load, but APIs and data layer were not impacted) but we found a workaround.

The music industry is broken: OpenWav's new app aims to change that

verst — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:47:34 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/the-music-industry-is-broken-openwavs-new-app-aims-to-change-that/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234779

Points: 10

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New comment by verst in "Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism"

verst — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:10:04 +0000

Makes me wonder whether Makgeolli (a low alcohol fermented traditional Korean beverage) contains this too.

New comment by verst in "How we built Bluey’s world"

verst — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:49:58 +0000

My wife and I watched the episode about infertility with our little niece who kept asking when she'd have a cousin. Despite its subtlety it completely broke me. It addresses the subject in the best of ways. Well here we are 7 IVF cycles later and still trying.

New comment by verst in "U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications"

verst — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:29:13 +0000

I'll provide an alternative narrative: Additional seats at a significant premium are created for international students to allow subsidizing tuition for domestic students and offering of additional services on campus, research positions etc

If you get rid of international students then domestic student tuition will increase and/or campus services offered will decline.

Universities do not want to decrease their endowment. They want to find ways to grow it. And another goal is to increase the international reputation of their institutions. Here international students act like a kind of missionary.

New comment by verst in "U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications"

verst — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:23:09 +0000

Aren't those spots for international students often created because international students pay the full (or even more than full) cost, thereby subsidizing other operations at the university. Sometimes international students pay more than out of stage students too.

Depending on the financial model, eliminating spots for international students may in fact have the adverse affect of also eliminating spots for domestic students.