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discordianfishon The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Not sure what it says about Vision Pro for this to be the coolest use of it.

Sorry, usually not that snarky but.. c'mon...

discordianfishon GitHub Actions down again today

Not saying they are doing a particular good job but its not as simple as "paying more for bigger machines" and be done with it.

discordianfishon GitHub Actions was down

Because scaling complex systems is not trivial

discordianfishon Cal.com is going closed source

Please, go ahead!

discordianfishon Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

I’ve been around long enough to remember people saying that VMs are useless waste of resources with dubious claims about isolation, cloud is just someone else’s computer, containers are pointless and now it’s AI. There is a astonishing amount of conservatism in the hacker scene..

discordianfishon An AI agent published a hit piece on me

The agent is free to maintain a fork of the project. Would be actually quite interesting to see how this turns out.

discordianfishon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

Indeed, nothing about the root issues are particular surprising but why they missed a critical service panicing across their fleet is not bubbling up.

My best guess is too many alerts firing without a clear hierarchy and possibilities to seprate cause from effect. It's a typical challenge but I wish they would shed some light on that. And its a bit concerning that improving observability is not part of their follow up steps.

discordianfishon Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

It's for listening to your prometheus metrics: http://promaudio.5pi.de/

discordianfishon Ask HN: Cannot Deploy to Fly.io

I was about to ask if someone has network issues on AWS us-west-2. MTR here seems to point to some latency issues there..

discordianfishon New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

This will make you end up missing crucial trace elements if not replaced somehow

discordianfishon 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)

I can second that. Had the Gemini. Never used it much because everything was awkward about it, from the lack of software/firmware to the keyboard until two years later the battery expanded and was bending the case. Not only refused planetcomputers to replace it for free, the only option they gave me was paying £125.00 and sending it in. I've asked if they can send me a replacement battery so I can do it myself but they refused, pointing out safety issues with mailing a battery - while asking me to send the Gemini with the swollen battery to them.

discordianfishon Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics

To be clear, this is not the Auschwitz museum. Point still stands.

discordianfishon Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics

No, it was widely know. I'm sure you didn't intent this but this 'excuse' is the talking point of neonazis here in Germany to deflect guilt and relativize what happened.

discordianfishon AI camera with no lens

These ideas are what we should be worried about, not the paperclip thing.

discordianfishon OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO

Call it playing devil's advocate here but given all the scam around "SomethingGPT" I find it reasonable to assume they try to trademark it mainly to prevent this.

discordianfishon Ask HN: Co-founding US C-Corp from Germany

Thank you very much for the input! We have zero revenue yet but reaching out to our first potential customers. Creating a e.g German UG is an option, but I've heard[1] converting this into a C-Corp or anything a US VC would want to invest in is very painful as well.

1: https://richventures.com/posts/how-i-would-start-my-next-sta...

discordianfishon Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another

I always thought that roasting beans is it's own science. Isn't 'beans roasted with heat gun' quite a weakest link in this pipeline to great coffee?

discordianfishon Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python

"Sign up to save" is a quite common pattern these days and what I would suggest they are doing here as well.

discordianfishon Names should be cute, not descriptive

(Micro)service names should be descriptive and stick to doing what they are named after. If you need to change the scope, it's an change to the overall architecture and changing the name and good way to communicate that. If a employee reads the name they know what its suppose to do.

Company and product names (including e.g open source projects) are different. You want to be able to change your scope depending on customer demand without having to rebrand.

discordianfishon Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

> No one should be running that without personally verifying each line.

Do you also verify each line of software you install? If you trust the author of certain software, why do you mistrust their install script?

discordianfishon Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?

I have to deal with that frequently and would say, it really depends what you want.

Do you think the issue is useful but you don't want to implement it? Keep the feature request open and say you're open to contributions (or maybe getting paid to implement it).

Do you think it's out of scope and shouldn't get implemented? Say that, close the issue and lock it if people keep discussing.

I can also recommend creating response templates for these things. Be clear and assertive, back and forth wastes everyones time and just leads to more frustration on both sides.

discordianfishon The endless search for a crypto use case

It's useful for illegal stuff so far. But if it's the only real use case, governments can and will just outlaw exchange into fiat. Beside that, you still need to trust the developers. Sure, you can not partake in a fork but so you can decide to not do business with certain corporations or governments.

discordianfishon Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

I'm from Germany and while I grow some chilis, if I need more I order from Westlandpeppers.

discordianfishon Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation

I feel like most of these rants come from people who never built the alternative to kubernetes to support a modern workflow (CI/CD with branch deploys, monitoring, access control etc). I love kubernetes because I don't need to build bespoken platforms at every company I join. I probably would have switched careers by now if I still had to deal with site specific tooling that all essentially implement a worst version of what Kubernetes has to offer.

discordianfishon Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy

I don't think it should be regulation as much as made illegal. I'd encourage all governments to put policy in place to outlaw exchanging crypto for fiat. Until that policy takes action, you can convert still trade in your crypto.

discordianfishon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

Sim City/City Skylines but for multilevel cyber/solarpunk cities.

discordianfishon Ask HN: How do you avoid video game addiction?

First of all, the average adult in the US watches ~1300 hours TV per year. Playing games instead is not worse. But arguably it's a waste of your life. So I would ask myself what I want to do with my life and do that. If then there is some down time available for gaming, why not?

discordianfishon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://5pi.de/

I really like having a blog and blog posts, but I can't say I love to write them. But as a freelancer, it has been one of my main sources to find new clients.

discordianfishon Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails

Maybe check his bio?

discordianfishon Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

> Just eat less man. It's pretty straight forward

...

> You don't have to worry about eating another meal or two.

You do realize for many overweight people eating isn't something to worry about but to look forward to? It's not that we don't understand thermodynamics. It's just a big part of enjoying being alive.