Hacker News: BlackLotus89

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games"

BlackLotus89 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:41:11 +0000

7.48% https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/metrics/revenue-by-seg...

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

BlackLotus89 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:30:37 +0000

I read that as benefit of the doubt, which is a reasonable stance.

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

BlackLotus89 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:41:48 +0000

It's

> "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50m away. Should I drive or walk?"

And some LLMs seem to tell you to walk to the carwash to clean your car... So it's the new strawberry test

Edit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

BlackLotus89 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:54:17 +0000

Yeah sure. I manage a ceph cluster (4PB) and have a few other responsibilities at the same time.

I can tell you that ceph is something I don't need to touch every month. Other things I have to baby more regularly

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Mistral OCR 3"

BlackLotus89 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:47:26 +0000

You don't loose any elo if your opponent is much stronger than you. Remis could in theory play a part as well.

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio]"

BlackLotus89 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:09:15 +0000

Oh I'm already active on irc and still have to send you a few things, but sure always eager to oblige.

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio]"

BlackLotus89 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:42:27 +0000

Actually listened to the podcast before. Happy that everything with the kernel situation kinda seemed to work out for you.

You kinda talked about ec already, but is there an ETA for resilvering?

You were talking about Valve helping in a big way. Was this monetary or development work? If development I would be interested because a while ago I know you do mainly correctness and features right now, but on the phoronix forum you were talking about low hanging fruits for performance work. Was that something of interest to valve/is it something being done right now to make bcachefs a good fs for gaming (whatever that means...)

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

BlackLotus89 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:21:56 +0000

(2023) missing in title

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "LineageOS 23"

BlackLotus89 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:30:57 +0000

You could have chosen the Digipass device (I got mine for free) instead of a smartphone app.

They tried to force me to add my phone number, but when you talk to a Rep you can get out of that too...

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

BlackLotus89 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:30:00 +0000

I was not claiming dishonesty and I'm sorry if it felt that way. My main problem is that a review of software that is getting updates as often as firefox that is based on 2 year old experience feels so wrong. I myself am no stranger to critizing firefox. They have done some thigns that made me nearly switch multiple times. But especially in recent times I feel that they are finally getting their act together (vertical tabs in firefox, performance optimizations, actually asking for feedback, ...) and I know that for me user reviews on hn are more valuable than random bloggers I find through $searchengine. Your comment is actually way more transparent than those blogs that have no date mapped to them or are just AI spam or whatever so again sorry for not giving credit where credit is due, I just find it unfair to write under a recent article experiences that are far from the present reality. (sorry for rambling and being kinda incoherent)

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

BlackLotus89 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:18:50 +0000

Yeah and your experience is 2 years out of date. Especially in recent months the firefox for android experience got better exponentially. I am a tab hoarder (a few thousand open tabs) and 2 years ago firefox needed 15 seconds on a fresh start to load. It's instantanious now. Firefox for android tried to force "inactive" tabs down my throat (I'm sure it helps, but no I don't want it. You can easily disable it in the tabs settings btw). Tabs that didn't get used for 2 weeks get put in an "inactive" state. A few months ago switching to an open tab took a few seconds up to a minute. For a month or two it's now instantanious. There are way more optimizations done and I can often tell right away when something got better or worse. Suffice to say your "experience" is so much out of date it is not even funny. Comparing firefox 2 years ago today is a joke and firefox feels completely different (user interface and speed) and your comment only spreads FUD. Anybody reading this that hasn't tried firefox for android - give it a try!

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

BlackLotus89 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:37:35 +0000

Where I live no 64GB SD card is 4$ and more like 8$-12$ and the quality of those is shit. Even if they were 4$ I would still see it as an absolute waste of money and storage. You _will_ have a better gaming experience using a cheap nvme/ssd. Like I said for games that would require a 64GB SD card sd-speed is too slow. For the full old school console experience you should use a console and not emulate the nostalgia (oh and this doesn't feel nostalgic to me at all)

> most people had less than a dozen games per console.

This isn't a console and if you want to for instance emulate every of the dozen games per console you would for 10 consoles still need 120 SD cards at the price you listed this would add up to 480$ for that price you could buy one fast and reliable nvme that would fit your needs...

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "People stuck using ancient Windows computers"

BlackLotus89 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:06:23 +0000

Kind of a bad example. Firstly because you are comparing windows with the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel has excellent backwards compatibility. Every feature introduced will be kept if removing it could break a userland application.

Linus is very adamant about "not breaking userspace"

The main problem with backwards compatibility (imho) is glibc. You could always ship your software with all dynamic lobs that you need, but glibc does make it hard because it likes to move awkward and break things.

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead"

BlackLotus89 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:55:36 +0000

> This will bring about personalized tutoring like in Spock’s school in Star Trek (which always seemed amazing to me even as a kid).

* Confused where in the original series Spock goes to school.

* Watches the video and sees 2009 "Star Trek"

* "as a kid"...

* feels old

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Linux Performance Analysis in 60 seconds (2015)"

BlackLotus89 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:01:59 +0000

PSI (pressure stall information) are missing.

I always use a configured!(F2) htop (not mentioned as well). Always enable PSI information in htop (some red hat systems I work with still don't offer them...).

If you have zfs enable those meters as well and htop has an io tab, use it!

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool"

BlackLotus89 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:52:41 +0000

If you want parallel upload/download over s3 and other protocols (GDrive, ftp, WebDAV, ...) you can use rclone.

For s3 mounts I would use geesefs.

Have to later take a look at s5cmd as well...

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "My website is ugly because I made it"

BlackLotus89 — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:40:13 +0000

If you look at the screencap you see a mail to hello@taylor.town.

My first instinct was the same as yours so hf visiting https://taylor.town/

Edit: after posting this the taylor.town site became much slower - so maybe that's the hn hug of death gripping again

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard"

BlackLotus89 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:04:41 +0000

Hacker's keyboard is your best bet... (Just didn't get any updates in 6 years)

Oh yeah and the anysoft keyboard has a terminal version as well

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2"

BlackLotus89 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:18:17 +0000

I really liked the computerphile video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYbCttCF25A

New comment by BlackLotus89 in "Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs"

BlackLotus89 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:34:23 +0000

If you want GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF

Blog post about the dynamic gguf https://unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dynamic

Original deepseek can be of course found on hf as well https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai

Here is an example how people run deepseek with cloud infrastructure that is not deepseeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOsvI3HYHgI