HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

lazzurs

91 karma · joined November 13, 2018

submissionscomments
lazzurs··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Curve currently works great for me but I am hoping Walt will launch soon.

https://walt.is/

lazzurs··on I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired
If this came with GrapheneOS and had the updates on time I'd buy in a heartbeat.
lazzurs··on Minimal Phone 2
Would buy in a heartbeat if it did.
lazzurs··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
I couldn't get over this after moving here from the UK where you can pick up a pack for 10p in a supermarket.
lazzurs··on Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
A window in Russia is likely far more deadly than any of the western security services.
lazzurs··on DARPA’s new X-76
All these comments and not one single reference to Airwolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwolf

lazzurs··on The Falkirk Wheel
Yes, sadly aware. It's never a good thing to see the old homeland in the news.
lazzurs··on The Falkirk Wheel
One of the truly great things from my old homeland. In the year 2000 Falkirk invented the wheel...
lazzurs··on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API
This is exactly the sort of thing a government should be doing in a free market. Fair access to pricing information is essential to the operation of a free market. Now do this for all EV charging stations.
lazzurs··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
About a year ago I had to buy a new Xbox. It took me time to figure out what model I had and what the new models are. It’s the least intuitive marketing on the market.
lazzurs··on Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone
A physical keyboard like a Treo/Palm Pre, enough storage to store all my photos and say GrapheneOS and I would be in.
lazzurs··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy Hogmanay to everyone in HN land.
lazzurs··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Sir Leon Bagrit covered this topic in the first BBC Reith Lecture and it’s worth a read/listen if you’re interested in this topic.

https://archive.org/details/ageofautomation0000sirl/mode/1up

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hbdmj

lazzurs··on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales
Making the two new UK aircraft carriers dependent on natural gas has to be one of the worst military procurement decisions of the modern era.
lazzurs··on Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+
I am clearly the only person that enjoyed this movie.
lazzurs··on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
Framework wen?
lazzurs··on Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
Fantastic software, I am surprise more people don't use it.
lazzurs··on US Nuclear Weapons Return to UK After 2008 Withdrawal
The only winning move is not to play.
lazzurs··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
What sort of people get O-1 visas? I assume it is people with multiple degrees and have decades of experience in a specific field?

I am good at what I do, have done public speaking at major conferences on what I do but no degree and so assume that i've no chance of ever getting into the USA. Currently a UK citizen living in Ireland.

lazzurs··on UK Startup working on fusion powered rocket engines
A UK startup is working on fusion powered rocket boosters with intentions to have a working demonstration in 2027.

While this sounds like a lot of vapourware it would be excellent if it does work.

lazzurs··on Pope Francis has died
A man has died, that is sad.

Under his watch he did not move the church to fully acknowledge or deal with the historical and widespread abuses the organization he led was involved with. He had opportunity to be the leader to bring the organization around and he did not. Let's all hope his replacement will.

lazzurs··on Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers
This is neat and I share your frustration. I've wanted to build this for a while and nice to see you've got something up.

Can't wait to see this grow into the tool I think we all need.

lazzurs··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
This doesn’t sound good to me. Would you do the same with some functional code rather than creating an external versioned library?

Terraform or CDK I would want a simple shareable thing that did the boilerplate that I called with any variables I needed to change.

lazzurs··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)
Location: Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, for something interesting

Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton, DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lazzurs

Email: rob@lazzurs.ie

lazzurs··on System Intiative is generally available
Importing from the state would be good.

Doing this with resources is going to be the easy path. Translating the state representation of re-usable modules I expect is going to be more difficult but necessary for the migration path to be useful. A lot of power in Terraform is being able to stack re-usable components, say an internal module representing a service on top of a public module that provides sensible defaults like the terraform-aws-modules collection which then sits on top of resources.

If you can get this to a place where an existing deployment of Terraform modules can be imported into SI as a collection of re-usable templates and then users can easily deploy n+1 of those templates the same way they would do with Terraform I think you will have an easy migration path.

If not importing from the state at least some way of automatically importing those re-usable components and allowing the deployment of n+1 of a reusable component would be helpful to migration from existing patterns.

lazzurs··on Mercedes testing EVs with solid-state batteries on the road 'in a few months'
Not sure how this makes sense when I am driving an excellent Mercedes EV today.

While they do sell ICE vehicles still they have a great line of EVs and clearly are moving more in that direction.

lazzurs··on OpenTofu Registry Search Launches
The Terraform fork OpenTofu has now launched search for its registry.
lazzurs··on Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
I've been an early user of Infracost and I cannot recommend it enough. It being in the CI/CD system is good but it being in the IDE is excellent. Cost is an important architecture concern and yet it's one of the most opaque things to deal with. This IDE plugin for Infracost fixes cost being opaque.

Excellent work, thanks for this.

lazzurs··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
This is lovely and all but seems rather pointless.

If we are so close this is something that’s required then it’s already too late and very likely we are all under the influence of SuperAI and don’t know it. So much of the advanced technology we have today was around for so long before it was general knowledge it’s hard to believe this wouldn’t be the case with SuperAI.

Or it’s not close at all and so back to my original point of…this is pointless.

I do hope I’m entirely wrong.

lazzurs··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
+1

I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. It’s depressing how good the Pre phones were and how long it’s taken to get anywhere near close to as good.

Page 1 of 3Next →