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Re:RepRapMicron on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:13AM (#50141271)
Thank god, in 18 months we can start making our own RAM.
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:12AM (#50131836)
Tokens are also a scarce resource for some of us:

> THE SCARCE RESOURCE: HUMAN TIME AND ATTENTION

This workflow may not be accessible to token poor teams. Though I’m not all the way through the post, so I don’t know if token scarcity is even acknowledged.

Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:20AM (#49788441)
Have they axed it yet?
I think a solution to this could be for the government to require the companies to provide the original scans and OCR results to the government for safe keeping until copyright expires.

Clearly that makes assumptions about the function of government and the complacency of copyright holders.

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:15AM (#47014703)
Let me know when they offer to pay me to watch it.
Holy smokes that explains so much. Amazon’s review/feedback mechanism is completely worthless with commingled inventory. No wonder it seemed ineffective.
Re:Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code on Monday December 29, 2025 @10:32AM (#46421676)
“the cost of trying ideas had collapsed”

This is a critical observation of the vibocene.

Re:Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:01AM (#46162174)
Nice post, one more thing to keep in mind with your StatefulSets is how long the service running in the pod takes to come back up. Many will scan the on disk state for integrity and perform recovery tasks. These can take a while and mean the overall service is in a degraded state.

Manage these things and any stateful distributed service can run easily in Kubernetes.

Re:The Lost Decade of Small Data? on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:35AM (#44062487)
This makes a completely valid point when you constrain the meaning of Big Data to “the largest dataset one can fit on a single computer”.
Re:Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:01PM (#42900451)
Good find, I think those would be books written in English published by German publishers. The blog post discusses how ISBNs are allocated ... specifically the ones you picture are published by Springer, which is a German company that publishes in the English language.

Considering a specific example: "Forecasting Catastrophic Events in Technology, Nature and Medicine". The website's use of "Group 978-3: German language" is a bit of a misnomer, if they had said "Group 978-3: German issued" or "German publisher" it would be clearer to users.

Re:Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:58AM (#42898312)
This is really exceptional work, and still works on my ten year old iPad. Great job!
Re:So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:41PM (#42845405)
Yes, that sucks.
Re:So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:41AM (#42841586)
Using helmfile (yet another layer of abstraction on top of helm) lets you get diffs between current and new releases. And it’s all templated so could be dynamic.
The info on that page seems a bit contradictory, but maybe I need more coffee.
This claims to bypass the telematics functionality:

https://www.autoharnesshouse.com/69018.html

> Note for customers retaining OEM headunit: This adapter can also be used for those wishing to remove/disable the OEM Subaru Telematics functions. This is done to eliminate the tracking cabability that Subaru has built into these vehicles. If this is you, we will need to add an additional part to this adapter to re-enable the bluetooth microphone. Please purchase the option 2 adapter near the bottom of this page for this situation.

Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:20AM (#41446169)
This is exceptionally cool work. I’d love to see it running.
Re:Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:00AM (#41435043)
I would definitely approach this problem by having the LLM write code to scrape the page. That would address the cost and accuracy problems. And also give you testable code.
Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:35PM (#41397025)
OpenSearch really appears to have a significant amount of development momentum. It is functionally equivalent with Elasticsearch. There would be no incentive for AWS to do this. After ES broke their compatibility with OpenSearch they also broke compatibility with their own older versions. This forced users to choose in order to move forward with anything. I don’t know how it worked out for others but I’ve converted hundreds of ES clusters to OS and switched all development to OpenSearch because they started gaining momentum and didn’t make decisions that were actively hostile to their users.

Edit: As long as OpenSearch doesn’t start breaking the self hosted use case, I don’t see any reason to consider Elasticsearch again. In fact, ES would have to offer up a significant advantage to overcome the bother.

Re:You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:56AM (#41348254)
This article makes me think of the skill tree or roadmap posts we’ve seen here on HN or Reddit over the years. For example https://roadmap.sh/frontend …

I feel like we could do a better job of providing ourselves fundamental tools like this in helping ourselves and others learn. Not just in tech, but in life overall. The “dev” tree above is embedded in the life skill tree that should start in elementary school.

Haha, even the life skill tree has “fictional” branches that intercept the game world skill tree … you really do have to learn all of the dependencies necessary to case 5th level fireballs … there are real rules to be learned in the games their usefulness is just siloed into the fictional realm.

Edit: I forgot to point out that roadmap is open source here: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

Great find EndXA!! You melted my brain a bit.
Re:Indexing one petabyte of logs per day with Quickwit on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:45AM (#39800311)
We did some experimentation with quickwit about a year ago, writing about 1m docs/second of data into it for several months. It worked well and was pretty straight forward to learn and operate. If we didn’t also manage our own S3/Ceph it might be a big win, once feature complete. It’s definitely worth a look.
Re:Evaluating New Software Forges on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:22AM (#38673853)
I think we've been thinking similarly. Decentralization will have it's costs. I've been thinking Opt-In centralized search for personal repos, maybe as a gitea (or other self hosted options) plug-in. But as you suggest, maybe existing features can be leveraged to prove the social/discoverability.
Re:Evaluating New Software Forges on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:56AM (#38673661)
I’ve kind of anticipated this sentiment and have been thinking about providing Gitea hosting. Though I’ve been a little discouraged by Gitea’s release of their own cloud hosting service.

This blog post and the revenue growth at Gitlab over the last two quarters appear to be evidence of people wanting to moving away from GitHub (though their earnings report attribute the growth to other initiatives, clearly I had no real insight on this). As an extension of my self hosting of Mastodon efforts from last year I rolled up my other minor hosting efforts into https://hawt.cloud as a place to experiment with providing services like this.

This all ties in with the “Open Web” or “Small Web” sentiments I’ve seen expressed recently. The hyperscalers are locking more and more up into their ecosystems but there should still exist small vendors/hosting/service providers. They’ll never scale or be as reliable as the big guys but if they cease to exist a lot will be lost.

Re:RIP Google Groups Dejanews.com Archive on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:54AM (#38240570)
Haha, thanks for sharing!
Re:What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:18AM (#36836149)
I used to use OpenBSD about a decade ago, I liked it quite a bit. I haven’t paid attention for over a decade though. Does anyone know how the maintainer base has evolved? I guess my main question is will OpenBSD survive Theo’s death?
Re:Google Mars on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:45PM (#35672279)
The site was launched about 5 years before the book was written.
Re:Google Mars on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:41PM (#35672260)
Lol, Noel as an intern.

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