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Jake Gold
Personal blog · jacob.gold/posts · on HN as jacobgoldprogrammingaisystems
Jake Gold's personal blog at jacob.gold covers programming, ai and systems. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jake Gold's post pitching async Ruby for AI apps. One commenter challenges the post's claims about avoiding async/await and about per-worker database connections.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Building AI infra @ clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, founder.
Most-linked posts?
- Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Mmmm... I find it somewhat ironic that you pitch this as "No callbacks. No promises. No async/await keywords. Just Ruby code that scales." When you literally show in the example right above that you need both an "async do" and a "end.map(&:wait)". I'll add - the one compelling argument you make about needing a db connection per worker is mitigated with something like pgbouncer without much work. The OS overhead per…
Comment linking /posts/serving-200-million-requests-with-cgi-bin/
on “Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)”Submitted An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights as a story · 308 points
HN discussion> "That also means the client itself deserves scrutiny. If a coding agent can read your repo and run commands, the binary that ships it should be boring (ƒor example, pi harness)" You're actually trust your security to your harness AND model AND inference API provider in this scenario: https://jacob.gold/posts/why-i-wont-run-untrusted-models/
Comment linking /posts/why-i-wont-run-untrusted-models/
on “Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests”Submitted Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin as a story · 175 points
HN discussionFable is supposed to return to subscription plans, unless I'm missing something: https://jacob.gold/posts/fable-5-removal-is-temporary/ Anthropic says the change is about capacity and is temporary. In its launch announcement on June 9, 2026, it says: "After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we…
Comment linking /posts/fable-5-removal-is-temporary/
on “Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island”Submitted Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> "Also if you are using local AI that you didn’t train yourself you can never be sure..." A local model you trained yourself seems about as good as you can do today. But it may not even be possible to entirely trust a model you trained if you use untrusted data during training. As a user, you have to trust your coding agent AND inference provider AND models: https://jacob.gold/posts/coding-models-are-code/ https://…
Comment linking /posts/coding-models-are-code/
on “Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says”Submitted Go and SQLite Best Practices as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's no such thing as a small software team anymore as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programmers need to start meditating now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Telling Users Their DNS Is Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking into the Past with Nano Banana Pro as a story · 1 points
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