Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
The SRE role seems to mean wildly different things depending on who you ask.
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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:16PM (#50341092)
There was a guy at my school named Hilary who got awful abuse for it. Always wondered why parents would do such a thing to a child.
Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:56PM (#50251626)
Your choice to say Superintelligence is notable.
Re:Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:12PM (#48712262)
Hey VirusNewbie, thank you for your response! A few more questions if you don't mind.
Did you read the SRE handbook before applying?
How do you decide who gets alerts (or are devs never on call)?
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:53AM (#47101387)
Persona do not seem to be competent guardians of such a trove of private information.
Re:Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:01PM (#46700630)
I initially thought this was by David Beazley, the python/rust guy.
Re:Show HN: I made a script that gives me fake calls to escape boring ...
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @04:46PM (#45215954)
Linking to a screenshot posted on twitter is a terrible way to share code.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:16AM (#44518225)
Unrelated to the article, and I can't seem to reply to the comment, but clicking on the archive.today link while I'm on holiday in Italy gives me a warning that it contains child pornography.
Re:When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @02:10PM (#42510504)
When managing large numbers of Dell rack mounted servers, a flea power drain is something you become very familiar with.
Re:After 155 years, the Campbell Soup company is changing its name
on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:02AM (#41546972)
Growing up, people with the surname Campbell often got the nickname soup or soupy.
Re:The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:29PM (#40922357)
Perhaps Augury.
Re:MicroMac, a Macintosh for Under £5
on Sunday June 16, 2024 @06:58PM (#40700795)
In case you haven't read it - https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
Re:Revenue is easy, profit is harder
on Sunday February 19, 2023 @01:08PM (#34860141)
Unless you have some information you're not sharing, this is a pretty horrible thing to say.
Re:Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents
on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:02PM (#34636236)
Coffeezilla is great but Bitfinex’ed [0] has been calling out tether for longer.
Re:Why Northern Ireland has no flag
on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:23AM (#31420415)
That, or they are avoiding debt collectors by not being on the electoral register.
Re:Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco
on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:55PM (#30153334)
Worked for a company that Citrix acquired a few years ago. They seemed to have went all in on something called Kepner-Tregoe. I left shortly after my week long training course, which I didn't get much out of other than a stay in a nice hotel. As I was leaving they were downsizing and one of their techniques was to match 2 people together and say "We will be comparing your performance against each other for the next 6 weeks, after that, the worst performer will be fired". Pretty awful.
Re:Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID
on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:30AM (#29853209)
I had a Ship of Theseus moment after getting my laptop repaired by Apple. They pretty much had to replace everything except for the bottom case, so when I went to sign in with my apple id I got a message saying "we have sent a message to your other device". But there was no other device. Took over a month to resolve and I also kept getting the annoying pop up message asking me to check the ID.
Re:The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to ...
on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:44PM (#26936500)
Sounds the same as what Dell call a flea power drain.
Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:10PM (#25931614)
Been a while since I read both books, but other than a vaguely similar shape, what makes the Affront clearly a juvenile version of the dwellers? I read the wiki you mentioned and there is a story suggesting an early version of contact rescued them from dweller hunts, but no mention of where this idea came from. I'm a huge fan and believe I have read everything Banks has written and do not recall the story.
Re:On Repl-Driven Programming
on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:44PM (#25639325)
Not a keystroke and I'm probably being captain obvious, but I use pythons execfile for this.
Re:Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C
on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:46PM (#24880752)
Whoops! Should have had my coffee before commenting. Cheers.
Re:Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C
on Saturday October 24, 2020 @11:30AM (#24879778)
Nice, it even has the missing weeks in September 1752..
$ wapm install zamfofex/[email protected]
Package zamfofex/[email protected] installed successfully!
→ Installed commands: greg
$ cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Re:A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:04AM (#24877693)
Second this, eons is also amazing.
Re:500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:17AM (#22977536)
But then you play someone using similar strategy and you meet the nash equilibrium.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a Hacker News virtual poker night?
on Saturday April 18, 2020 @04:28PM (#22910826)
A popular sentiment, r/poker has been inundated with people asking about where to play poker with friends.
https://old.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/fp2zll/where_to_play...
Re:Our list of free software for remote work
on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:07AM (#22711207)
If you can forward the ssh port, yes.
Re:Guide to running Elasticsearch in production
on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:20PM (#22399954)
Can I ask how you implemented such a queue?
Re:Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?
on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:58AM (#21977971)
The Spectrum version of R-Type was legendary. This book is well worth a read. Especially for the insights as to how badly young game devs were treated by some of the companies back in the day.
Suspected cheating on US casino poker stream
He seems to mostly play cash games in Asia. You will see him if you watch the triton streams sometimes. Not sure if he's in contention as an absolute top flight player any more with the use of solvers and GTO strategies.