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Re:Ask HN: Books about AI Revolution happening now on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:39PM (#50321338)
Thank you
Looks really interesting, especially with the dashboards.

Just to validate an idea here: I’m using k8s (20+ services) and trying to stick to the 12factor design pattern by having all the baking/companion services, also like cron jobs deployed from within the service directory. Right now I’m using k8s cron services for cron jobs and log the steps and observe with DataDog. Using k8s cron services feels right somehow but the observability with DataDog not. So, would it make sense for me, to deploy a baking k8s web service running sidequest instead?

Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:19AM (#43727825)
Same here. Especially for native app development with swift I had way better results and just sticked with Gemini-2.5-*
Re:Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:31PM (#43498964)
I’ve tried to order Oriana Fallacis The Rage and the Pride 2 years ago on Amazon (Germany). No chance to get it … felt to me like censorship back then.
Re:Thank You Bootstrap 1 on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:04AM (#42997652)
I would assume their thought is, that it limits their creative spirit and in general is too technical. But they start (as 2 people teams) on figma a complete own design lib with a lot of variables and custom components which look the same like any other lib.
Re:Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:53AM (#39892371)
Worse than tobacco?
Re:Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:02AM (#38761586)
Also an interesting story of a man who lives now for more than 20 years in a mountain cave in Serbia.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23086418/tiny-cave-home-in-rem...

Re:Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:21AM (#37808750)
Encountered this too often in my career and had a lot of wtf moments debugging that «de-coupled» stuff others (and sometimes me) have left.

I decided to follow the «Wrong abstraction is worse than duplication» approach. Doing this for 5+ years now and did never regret it.

Sure, copy-pasta sucks but in comparison to over engineering it’s an acceptable price to pay.

100% with you here! Great arguments
The «master» to «main» change was totally unnecessary and B.S. imho.

Even 15 years ago, when I started my professional journey (in Germany) there were a lot of people who were gay, trans and so on in the dev community … and nobody cared about it. We were all passioned about technologies and respected each other based on commitment/engagement/skill level. At the end most of the true full blood developers were always «special» and knew since their childhood that they were different from other children. I think that’s the reason why the embarrassment level was pretty low and people just wore the stuff they wanted, behaved like they wanted eg.

But of course that’s only my personal experience. I’m sure there are a lot of other stories out there to share.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:16AM (#37532969)
We use the microservices architecture as a single team and don’t have any issues with this for many years. The key is to have a monorepo and stay consistent by following strict coding guidelines.

In my opinion it makes the backend way more resilient than a monolith.

Don’t kill me for this opinion please ;)

Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:48PM (#37266837)
You‘re probably not the target group. It’s an open source project (in comparison to the MacOS walled garden) and I think that especially your 3rd question is disrespectful. In general your comment reads like a rant against the open source philosophy to me and is attacking/demotivating people who spend their spare time to create free software. Instead of attacking OSS creators one should give kudos and encourage them to go on. … just my 5 cents.
Re:Mastering Emacs on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:20AM (#37232812)
I saw people (in their 30s) using emacs for almost everything. Coding, reading mails, organizing their todos and so on. It was impressive to see their workflow.

The only thing which hold me back to really learn it, were the stories about repetitive strain injuries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718793

Re:Select * from cloud on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:51AM (#33036522)
Reminds me of Git.
It’s from Eisenhower’s book `Crusade in Europe` where he tells a story from general Georgy Zhukov how Soviet soldiers were cleaning the minefields.

Though it’s not related to Stalingrad afair.

We had the same issue and were so frustrated, that we decided to move to DataDog. Yes, the NewRelic APM UI/UX is better but you get used to DDs pretty fast too. And log management is better on DD side actually.

A fancy APM UI isn’t worth it to tolerate these dark business patterns which they try (or just do) all the time IMO.

We didn’t regret the decision.

“The next day, he found he couldn’t access his messages. An IT technician told him on the phone that his account didn’t exist."

Uff… reads like a paragraph from 1984 to me.

Re:Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work? on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:07AM (#27969489)
As someone who spends most of his working day behind a desk and steering on an artificial screen I find activities at home like gaming, watching tv shows eg. not fulfilling (anymore). At the next day I had always the feeling that work is the only important thing I was doing and when there were some difficulties at work it impacted obviously the whole life.

After trying out different things the last years I’ve sticked with walking/hiking for 2+ hours almost every evening. Important: it has to be in the nature and the most relaxing experience is when I don’t meet any person at all.

During this time I can reflect best on my life. Surely it’s not a meditation but for me a nice technique to find more peace in life.

Re:Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:59AM (#27046980)
I’ve just recently updated my Series 3 to WatchOS 7.4 and 2 days later to 7.4.1 … yeah it took at least an hour for the minor and half an hour for the patch … in general both felt pretty slow but I didn’t need to reset/wipe anything in advance.

I wouldn’t buy a Series 3 today, as mentioned in the article: the price diff isn’t significant. Though updating the watchOS wasn’t such a bad experience as the author described it. Feels a bit like a rant post.