Hacker News: wernerb

New comment by wernerb in "I am building a cloud"

wernerb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:57:07 +0000

DevOps lost the plot with the Operator model. When it was being widely introduced as THE pattern I was dismayed. These operators abstract entirely complex services like databases behind yaml and custom go services. When going to kubecon i had one guy tell me he collects operators like candy. Answers on Lifecycle management, and inevitable large architectural changes in an ever changing operator landscape was handwaved away with series of staging and development clusters. This adds so much cost.. Fundamentally the issue is the abstractions being too much and entirely on the DevOps side of the "shared responsibility model". Taking an RDBMS from AWS of Azure is so vastly superior to taking all that responsibility yourself in the cluster.. Meanwhile (being a bit of an infrastructure snob) I run Nixos with systemd oci containers at home. With AI this is the easiest to maintain ever.

New comment by wernerb in "How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers"

wernerb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:29:20 +0000

Regarding GitHub actions and it's secret manager. Any decently organized company would do well to stay away from well known secret interfaces. Instead use oidc auth to fetch secrets just in time, all short-lived for the duration of the pipeline.

New comment by wernerb in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

wernerb — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:53:16 +0000

If there's ever any use case to leave an expensive SaaS for self hosted, you can find it at datadog

New comment by wernerb in "Agent Skills"

wernerb — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:52:08 +0000

We keep standardising without adding versioning :(

New comment by wernerb in "Agent Skills"

wernerb — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:49:57 +0000

Could we adhere to the XDG standard and put config in ~/config/agents Or perhaps create a new XDG standard? Like $XDG_AGENTS_HOME ?

New comment by wernerb in "Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)"

wernerb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:00:51 +0000

But your friends have accepted your request for friendship and your friends are not expecting you to spy on them correct?

New comment by wernerb in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

wernerb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:17:49 +0000

in the book it's literally called the "chain of suspicion", pretty sure it's quite culturally colored

New comment by wernerb in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

wernerb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:15:54 +0000

Distance and time. Time is a weapon for a civilization to develop

New comment by wernerb in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

wernerb — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:51:54 +0000

The Catholics learned a lot during their witch-hunts regarding heliocentrism..

New comment by wernerb in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

wernerb — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:48:38 +0000

This is referenced in a sci fi book "The dark forest" of the series "The 3 body problem". It sets a convincing narrative that because of time taken for observation and response and development speed of society it is most likely that all civilizations that announce themselves would likely be a threat in terms of technological supremacy eventually to observing civilizations. In other words, we don't hear anything because any sufficiently advanced civilization would not want to risk being discovered. I.e., the "dark silent forest".

New comment by wernerb in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

wernerb — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:15:18 +0000

Install Adguard home on it

New comment by wernerb in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

wernerb — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:10:50 +0000

I bought a Fujitsu Futron S920 second hand for like 30 euros. Put a dual NIC PCI in there and now have a low watt router running very fast. Can easily run 1Gbit up and down

New comment by wernerb in "LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine"

wernerb — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:22:03 +0000

Need to set free all that 'Club' content for sure.

New comment by wernerb in "Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered"

wernerb — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:09:31 +0000

Is it not likely that it protects against AI bot Llama?

New comment by wernerb in "Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet"

wernerb — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:36:03 +0000

Here in the Netherlands even after criminals are convicted we refer to them as Sean B for example. I agree this is good practise.

New comment by wernerb in "4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [video]"

wernerb — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 09:11:54 +0000

I am looking for a low power at idle (5-10 watts) server that could activate/deactivate gpu at will as a GPU takes a lot of extra watts at idle. The use case is that the server keeps running for NAS/home server stuff and can activate a gui environment at will (Wayland seat) for gaming. Bonus points for the software able to handle multiple people (seats) for small desktop use cases. A small ARM SBC makes sense. Give me hardware encoding for AV1 and take my money.

New comment by wernerb in "DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves"

wernerb — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:47:28 +0000

In the Netherlands we are renewing our "Afsluitdijk" which is a dyke that now gets 75000 special concrete blocks specifically designed to protect against wave s similarly as proposed here.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2018/04/75000-massive-concrete-bloc...

New comment by wernerb in "Reconductoring: Boosting U.S. Grid Capacity Efficiently"

wernerb — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:08:50 +0000

These cables can run much hotter and so have better capacity. BUT there is a big downside. Because they run so hot (you can grill a burger on them with ease), there will be a lot more resistance resulting in net losses. Also fun, because they can run so hot when rain hits it literally sizzles and cooks resulting in extra noise.

New comment by wernerb in "'Stop ripping us off': Senate grills Novo Nordisk CEO on Ozempic drug pricing"

wernerb — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:10:51 +0000

Wasn't if part of US law that medicine prices cannot be negotiated?

New comment by wernerb in "An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data"

wernerb — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:13:53 +0000

This needs far more attention. Combi boiler installers tend to massively oversize the CV. But with heat-pumps you need to be far more accurate. And it does not make sense to design for a temperature that occurs only a couple of days in the year. You can just have the backup heater kick in which is far more efficient for a couple of days than having a heavier heatpump for the rest of the year that can not modulate back as much as a smaller heatpump.