Hacker News: zschallz

New comment by zschallz in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

zschallz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:24:17 +0000

Curious what people's experience is with these models. Anecdotally I tried these out earlier in the year and found it struggled with pretty basic full-stack coding I was doing, when Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5 didn't break a sweat. Was hoping to use it while my Claude usage was resetting but was disappointed.

New comment by zschallz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

zschallz — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:29:42 +0000

The Economist | Several engineers and engineering managers | Birmingham, UK (On site) | £30-63k

The Economist is scaling its engineering team to the next level, growing from around 50 engineers in Birmingham, UK to around 75 engineers over the new few quarters.

We're hiring:

Engineers of all levels for our product engineering teams

Senior and mid-level engineers for or mobile product engineering teams

Engineering Managers for our DevSecOps / Security enablement teams

When the pandemic ends and it's safe to do so, we're planning to return to our central Birmingham UK office (walking distance to New Street and Snow Hill stations) around 3 days a week.

Just ping me if you have any questions or would like to apply.

New comment by zschallz in "ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems"

zschallz — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:51:43 +0000

Even more troublesome, IMO. This as a gate to interviews leads to a really uninclusive hiring process.

New comment by zschallz in "Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user"

zschallz — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:43:59 +0000

I'm with ya, but that's because I'm an American who finds himself in the UK! Every UK keyboard I use is ever so slightly different, which drives me a bit crazy.

New comment by zschallz in "Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?"

zschallz — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:14:50 +0000

You may be able to host your development environment cheaper. Hetzner works out to be almost the same price as electricity of keeping my desktop up all the time for me.

New comment by zschallz in "Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers"

zschallz — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:50:04 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I've had the 8.99 offering for a while now and haven't had any issues... yet.

New comment by zschallz in "Scaleway Global Expansion Starts in Amsterdam"

zschallz — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:09:45 +0000

I've been loving Scaleway. It's a great service and I'm glad to see they're expanding. Hopefully they'll come to the UK and North America next.

New comment by zschallz in "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know"

zschallz — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:19:19 +0000

We use DbFit every day at our shop. It's really changed how we work (as DB developers). Was funny that I thought of this project right after reading this article, and how I should probably try and contribute, then I see this in the comments. :)

Thanks!

New comment by zschallz in "GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset"

zschallz — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:49:49 +0000

Ransomware have spread via exploitable, unupdated versions of RDP, which is worrying. Better to listen on another port of RDP must be exposed to the Internet.

New comment by zschallz in "U.S. Moves to Thwart Use of Foreign Acquisitions to Dodge Taxes"

zschallz — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:39:25 +0000

There's a large income exclusion that means unless you earn a really kick ass salary, you're unlikely to be double taxed.

New comment by zschallz in "NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours (2013)"

zschallz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:11:47 +0000

Also the biggest problem is that almost everyone else one sends an unencrypted email to is not "NSA-proof."

New comment by zschallz in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

zschallz — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:25:04 +0000

Baptism by fire, huh? :) I guess I was one of the unlucky ones, but it hasn't put me off. Hoping you guys expand to the UK (datacenter-wise) eventually!

New comment by zschallz in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

zschallz — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:35:44 +0000

They were down for 4 or 5 days last month. Was due to a power issue in their DC's building.

They kept everyone in the loop, and it's the only downtime I've noticed from them.

New comment by zschallz in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

zschallz — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:57:25 +0000

Kimsufi is good (used to be with them), but there are a few drawbacks: 1. Only one IP allowed. No way to request more. 2. No KVM access-- Delimiter has HP iLO

I have to disagree about the better hardware as well because even the slower Delimiter offering is faster than Kimsufi's fastest offering: https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5420+%40+2.... vs http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5504+%40...

OVH's SoYouStart is also a good choice, but it is pricy in comparison.

Both Kimsufi/Delimiter/Et al should really only be used where support or downtime doesn't matter.

New comment by zschallz in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

zschallz — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:12:04 +0000

The blade servers at Delimiter (https://www.delimiter.com/) are even more affordable. I pay $20 a month for a dual Xeon blade with 16gb of ram.

They did have a very long downtime this year with no service credit, but uptime has been reasonable over the past year. If you're looking for a hobby box it's a pretty good deal.

New comment by zschallz in "We Need a Better PC"

zschallz — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:11:17 +0000

My 2008 macbook's (removable) battery also puffed up.

New comment by zschallz in "Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service"

zschallz — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:33:20 +0000

I use gear music player for google music https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/. It's fantastic (but not free).

New comment by zschallz in "Cuvva – Car Insurance by the Hour"

zschallz — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:19:05 +0000

Not always in the UK, and if they do it's only liability and not comprehensive/collision.

New comment by zschallz in "Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in"

zschallz — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:52:47 +0000

Even the yellow cabs within Manhattan would not take me places within Manhattan when hailed. They would stop and ask where to-- when I told them where (touristy areas) they'd just drive off.

New comment by zschallz in "An Analysis of Nespresso"

zschallz — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:04:33 +0000

Which machine did you buy?