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vitaliyf··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
Intuit sold off Quicken a decade ago, and it's been a standalone company since then: https://www.pcworld.com/article/419931/intuit-selling-quicke...
vitaliyf··on Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
There is also a https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens fork.
vitaliyf··on Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
Yep, some of us only had access to what is on the long list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones
vitaliyf··on Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
I visited a couple years ago - it was lovely to finally touch an authentic Spectrum, 3 decades after spending my early life hacking around on various clones. Was well worth the 30 minute ride from Coimbra.
vitaliyf··on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
Apparently "update and shutdown does a restart instead" was very recently finally fixed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797934
vitaliyf··on Docker Hub Is Down
https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel
vitaliyf··on Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt
It is not: https://web.archive.org/web/20140906144611/https://www.pay.g...

there are records of it going back to 1990s: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/government/public-debt-report...

vitaliyf··on Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
Reverted here: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/pull/7710
vitaliyf··on Show HN: ZX Spectrum SCR to PNG Converter
Ahh, the Spectrum screen pixel math, oh the memories.

Once upon a time a much younger myself obtained a dot-matrix printer that I managed to wire up to my computer. Sadly, it was meant to only print text, and having a fancy typewriter definitely wasn't very much fun to me. Somehow, I figured out that the printer actually supported defining custom fonts! After some reverse-engineering of the format I ended up with a program to slice the screen into rectangles matching printer's letter sizes (which were not 8x8 pixels, to make it extra fun) and sending them as custom font definition for each symbol of the alphabet, then printing "ABCD..."

Getting a paper printout of loading screens or in-game screenshot art was mind-blowing.

vitaliyf··on Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)
The company I work for open-sourced a straightforward library that does exactly that: https://github.com/embrace-io/s3-batch-object-store
vitaliyf··on The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
Definitely - basically, that's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_a...
vitaliyf··on Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
Franz Kafka is certainly not unknown, ever since long before people who worked on K8s were even born.

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296969

vitaliyf··on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-recalls-262ec9a7

The article has a chart that sources NHTSA data.

vitaliyf··on Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet
There are some attempts at doing that, such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https...
vitaliyf··on Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
I wondered why this article doesn't have a very obvious thing for the topic it's trying to cover - a photo of mentioned stickers.

Perhaps because it's a rewrite of another article originally for European audience - for example https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/14/carrefour-p...

CNN removed the French photo and also introduced a mistake - when they converted "1.5 litres" for US audience they wrote "0.3 gallons" instead of "0.4"

vitaliyf··on When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines
What needs to be enabled is what is typically called "origin shield" - this will make your CDN's edge servers use their own internal cache instead of refreshing everything from the source.

Author may also want to review cache headers returned for their content as it should be possible to cache at CDN effectively indefinitely.

vitaliyf··on Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
$10 was the SPAC before they merged to become NKLA. The merger was announced in March 2020 (when the price jumped to low teens) and completed in June (when the hype made it go up to $60s).
vitaliyf··on J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer
I am very surprised it's not a more popular dish in the US - it seems like it would fit well the Denny's, IHOPs or even some fast-breakfast drive-throughs, and work as breakfast or appetizer or dinner.

It's on every menu in Barcelona - yes, served cold.

A Spaniard taught me that mixing in some potato chips gives it some variety. He said he even sometimes makes it completely out of packaged chips.

vitaliyf··on Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
I am not going to claim myself if this is "right" or "wrong" but there is some work on that being done via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https... - see https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-neg...
vitaliyf··on Moving 25TB data from one S3 bucket to another took 7 engineers and 2 full days
+1 on rclone - one of my favorite tools in the toolbox.

With sufficient --transfers and --checkers values you can easily saturate 10-20 gigabit/second links, so with a handful of machines you can transfer 25TB in about an hour, no engineers required.

Worth noting that rclone also supports many other storage providers or even plain SSH, so it pretty much obsoletes rsync. It also has many other nifty features useful outside of the "sync files" use case.

vitaliyf··on Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
Similarly, here is your reminder than US Zip Codes aren't numbers, because many of us here in the Northeast have them start with a zero (or even two). So don't store them as integers, because Boston is 02108, not 2108.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_Code_prefixes

vitaliyf··on Many packages suddenly disappeared
You run a private NPM mirror where you copy dependencies that you rely on, after auditing them (for code quality and licensing).
vitaliyf··on Many packages suddenly disappeared
Don't. Deploy. From. Internet.
vitaliyf··on The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches
This may or may not be related, but there is a Xen advisory embargoed until Thursday (see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/) and I am aware of at least one VM provider who scheduled emergency VM reboots across their entire fleet this week because the issue cannot be addressed through hot-patching.