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iSlothon Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

Solid approach, although I’ve certainly seen many managers/staff that never actually break out of Phase 2

It’s critical to start showing some Phase 3 impact, even if not with a sledgehammer, before peers quickly loose faith

iSlothon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

I'd love to list you on https://eSimGuide.com, send me a eMail tom@esimguide.com

iSlothon Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

Such a shame they didn't do anything with Braintree years ago and just let it rot

iSlothon The August 17 outage

Has to be one of the most vague outage summaries of the year

iSlothon Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

He owns the DCs and isn’t scrambling for revenue to justify an upcoming IPO

iSlothon Ask HN: A DC Powered Home?

Unless we standardize on 380-400v

iSlothon OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

Even if it’s not exponential, I still can’t see logic in it going to zero.

iSlothon OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

Based on what? Each model so far has been noticeably better than the last, so I don’t see why the next wouldn’t be too?

iSlothon Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

Still a fraction of the cost of most other providers, and wouldn't shock me if we see the others all doing something similar.

iSlothon OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI

Exactly the same as the OpenCode drama, at this point OpenAI are just getting free customers from common sense.

Anthropic seem oddly focused on their moat being the app, rather than the underlying intelligence and model. Which is odd when Claude Claude is no better than all the other harnesses.

iSlothon OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI

Amazing how bad Anthropic can miss the boat on this

iSlothon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

Interesting that it’s seasonal, I guess tax season?

iSlothon Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job

Not sure I’d be worried for my job, but it’s legitimately a significant jump in capabilities, even if other models attempt to fudge higher bench results

iSlothon An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic

Also wondering, why not just use DPDK?

iSlothon The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

It’s boggles my mind that enterprises or SaaS wouldn’t be following release cycles of new models to improve their service and/or cost. Although I guess there’s enterprises that don’t do OS upgrades or pathing too, just alien to me.

iSlothon GPT-5

Wow, they are sunsetting all models after the launch of GPT-5 - Bold statement.

iSlothon Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

Same background as me, however I moved into cellular/mobile - not really any official routes I know of in the industry, certainly not like a Cisco track.

Typical route is work at a Telco or IoT company as Network Eng or Developer and naturally pivot into telco learning on the job.

Vendors will run training courses when you buy their kit which helps a little, but it’s mostly self learning or on the job.

iSlothon Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

Interesting, wish it had markdown output like firecrawl for embedding/llm use cases

iSlothon Ask HN: What's the best free database provider out there?

Coolify Postgres on Hetzner if you want cheap

iSlothon Cloudflare Connectivity Issues in Eastern US and Central Europe

From the UK my requests appear to be hitting Cloudflare in Singapore.

They've got planned changes in Sydney/Toyko ongoing, so could be fat finger moment with routing.

iSlothon Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?

Yes I do in .Net C#, never bothered in typescript

iSlothon GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API

Being pragmatic you’re not going to convince every Mobile network vendor to implement a new protocol, and then have every mobile operator invest in replacing their cores to support it, all in the name of a better solution.

iSlothon GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API

Services like this are actively in use by most Banks/ATMs around the world on most mobile carriers, just via creative but common reusing of long standing mobile/telco protocols.

GSMA are actively attempting to lockdown them existing methods, as they’re built on trust in a very untrustworthy environment between carriers, and in some cases state actors.

Sure on the face of it this isn’t brilliant to the average HN reader, but with context it’s a significant improvement vs where we are today.

iSlothon Ask HN: Co-founder equity split methods?

Assume your friend does no more than a day a week, and in 5 years you’re worth a huge sum on money - what percentage do you think would fairly reflect his reward, that’s the percentage you should give now.

If you give 5% for example, there’s no reason you can’t give more in time based on increased input, but don’t give something you’ll regret in the future.

iSlothon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://botwars.io/

Battle your code against others, was a quick weekend bodge that turned out kinda fun

iSlothon Ask HN: What's going on with Amazon Prime shipping times?

As a prime user in the UK, I am definitely experiencing this - Not had a 24 hour delivery in a long time

iSlothon Ask HN: How to handle a DMCA request as small network provider

You’ve done the right thing proxying the request back to your client.

As a basic example I’d read how GitHub manage DCMA and follow a similar process - I.e. validate the request has enough detail, pass back to your client for action/response, and act accordingly.

More often than not a lot of DCMA requests are fair too vague and lacking detail you can simply reject them, based on my experience at least.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

iSlothon Ask HN: What's the salary benchmark for DevSecOps lead with 10 years experience?

I expect location and size/type of business (faang, startup, etc) may give wildly different answers, on top of experience

iSlothon Ask HN: Alternatives to raspi or where to find one

Good luck, took me a month to find one in stock, and they go quick!

Check this, updated often - https://rpilocator.com/

iSlothon Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers

I've never experienced an air purifier, what's the general consensus?

Do they make a difference? Perhaps a placebo? A must have?

Genuinely interested if I'm missing out - For what it's worth I do live right on a main road in the UK, so I expect there is some level of pollution in the air.