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gertburger··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
wrt DCC, the audiobooks by Soundbooth Theater are really good! A very different experience from traditional audiobooks.
gertburger··on Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
Link is dead now

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gertburger··on OTel isn’t going well
(I haven't attempted to use opentelemetry-instrumentation-django in at least a year so my information might be dated and my memory is patchy :P)

If I recall the primary issue was the forced loading of the django settings file by otel.

I get that fully automated instrumentation should be turn-key and the current approach kinda works on basic applications.

But most production django applications are monoliths and generally larger apps. They have non-trivial configuration processes which are often multi step and source settings from multiple places.

Otel should not assume it can just randomly load a the django settings at an arbitrary time point in the startup process.

In one of our apps the MIDDLEWARE setting specifically is dynamically generated and re-ordered based on enabled features. That application's startup process also has multiple stages and the initialisation of django occurs much later, after dependant config loaders etc have been initialised.

What would allow us to integrate with opentelemetry-instrumentation-django much more easily is a set of smaller primitives that we can configure and call at the appropriate time.

opentelemetry-instrumentation-django has (had?) a lot of logic hidden inside a large "inject" function which could not easily be extracted into the constituent parts and applied in a compatible manner.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contr...

gertburger··on OTel isn’t going well
I've found their django instrumentation to be kinda useless for larger apps.

The only choices you get is full auto instrumentation, which breaks most non-trivial apps, or zero assistance/documentation.

There is no in-between where I can inject the functionality required in a way that is compatible with the application.

gertburger··on Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
that is algolia's search of hn...
gertburger··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
I see the top diagram on the frontpage shows 'dsql' support but it isn't mentioned in the documentation, is that correct?
gertburger··on BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass
Follow up from maintainer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324634
gertburger··on Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
I'd like to give jj another go but I found the "all files must be tracked/committed" approach to really break my workflow. I have a lot of temporary uncommitted files, which are not ignored or excluded. Some may eventually be committed but most won't. Being then forced to commit these (but only some due to file size) just gets in the way and impedes things like cross branch debugging

A checkout is a working space after all, why can't it be (temporarily) dirty whilst you work?

gertburger··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Been using/abusing wezterm for years, my scrollback is set to 1000000 and text selection has never been a problem... copy mode however does make it even easier
gertburger··on IPv6 Adoption in 2026
I really wanted to switch to ipv6 only for certain services but then found out that AWS itself doesn't support ipv6-only for most of its infrastructure https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ipv6-su...

This forced me to dual stack just for AWS services to intercommunicate...

gertburger··on Some notes on starting to use Django
HTMX with Django backend really excels in this regard.
gertburger··on Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later
Over 90% of english capable internet users use the metric system so maybe it should be the primary unit system...
gertburger··on ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through CG-NAT: Cloudflare
My understanding is that they use the IP range assigned for CGNAT as their private address range to avoid conflicts, but do they use CGNAT?
gertburger··on Prismatic creates a special signup for Google reader users
For the oauth login it requires the following permissions: View basic information about your account, Manage your data in Google Reader, View your email address Manage your contacts, View and manage your Google Contacts, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application

Why would it want access to view AND MANAGE my contacts? This seems a bit odd.

gertburger··on Xkcd: Tech Support
If only...
gertburger··on POLL system source-code finaly revieled
I had to google 'revieled' ;P
gertburger··on Ask HN: would you use a shared memcached hosted on popular VPS sites?
Memcache is designed to be run on a trusted network and only accessed by trusted clients. Therefore sharing a memcache daemon in its current state is not recommended at all.

See http://www.slideshare.net/sensepost/cache-on-delivery on what can be done with a publicly accessible memcache daemon.

gertburger··on BlackHat Write-up: go-derper and mining memcaches
Many sites also use memcache to cache page fragments that will be sent verbatim to clients with the rest of the webpage.

As Marco demonstrated in his slides one can easily inject into caches and if one can change the values of keys related to page fragments then it is a major security risk.

gertburger··on Ask HN: From what countries do people use HN beside USA?
South Africa
gertburger··on Review my website: www.sehpid.com
Typo in domain that is in title.
gertburger··on Ask HN: Can we recruit on HN if not YC-funded?
Since the Guidelines/FAQ has nothing on this specifically and it might be useful to one(Maybe more) HN readers I believe you should post a "We are hiring" thread.

Especially if no one gives any good reasons why not to in this thread.

gertburger··on EveryDNS sold to Dyn Inc.
I might be missing something here, but isn't David Ulevitch affiliated with OpenDNS which should be more than capable of running everydns? Its maybe not their primary function, but its pretty close.
gertburger··on Thymer - a week after the launch
The links I got from the second stage(Which I had to agree to via a checkbox) are these: https://a.thymer.com/accounts/tos https://a.thymer.com/accounts/privacy
gertburger··on Thymer - a week after the launch
They are presented during the second stage of signup.
gertburger··on Ask HN: Merchant Accounts & Payment Processors in the US?
I think this topic has been covered many times on HN, atleast for US.

You can try searchyc.com to find them.

gertburger··on Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it?
If im not mistaken gmail's interface is written in GWT.
gertburger··on [dead]
Dammit ;P
gertburger··on [dead]
M$ is not big on recursive acronyms so I doubt they really explored the possibilities.

Or maybe they are just starting.

gertburger··on Plurk Comet: Handling of 100.000+ open connections
Being a python programmer I am a bit worried that one (In this case) needs to use java to overcome a scaling problem. From my experiences with twisted, which is on much smaller scale than the article, I have never found twisted to be anykind of bottleneck.

It may be that since twisted(python) can only use one cpu effectively per interpreter(GIT et al) that it got left behind java which can easily use multiple CPUs for threads.

A slightly different architecture might be required then where multiple python processes are used.

gertburger··on An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water
And a more scientific approach(Compared to FUD) http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/global_warming_and_so...
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