Hacker News: CGamesPlay

New comment by CGamesPlay in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:29:33 +0000

> Perhaps most people in the future won't bother. They'll just let agents do it all.

But can you imagine the look on some young teen’s face when they train their own GPT on their local computer for the first time?

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:43:56 +0000

It doesn't seem to actually differentiate at all. If I move my iPhone around on a plane (table), the dots move. If I hold in in my hand and move left/right, the dots move. If I hold it in my hand and raise/lower my arm, the dots don't move. That's actually just an integration of acceleration/gyro, and possibly combined with a simple model of how a phone is held (e.g. assume rotations happen from a point 30cm away from the bottom of the phone).

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

CGamesPlay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:13:14 +0000

Don't forget to count your EBS and egress fees when you make your AWS spreadsheet.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

CGamesPlay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:52:08 +0000

I doubt it has an "age of sail" mod, but there's this one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/794860/eSail_Sailing_Simu...

New comment by CGamesPlay in "My Homelab AI Dev Platform"

CGamesPlay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000

Nice! I am still looking for the best AI integration for my setup. Currently I don't have any interaction between Forgejo and my coding agent. I experimented with a Forgejo Actions runner, but the problem that I had was there's not a great way to manage the context there: you get what's in the issue or PR, but it gets muddy once you have multiple rounds and/or discussion moves from the issue to the PR.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Leaving Mozilla"

CGamesPlay — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:20:23 +0000

Is there a widely-used open modern chat network? Specifically, I'm fine with the feature set of IRC, but I want durable messages and a mobile client.

Speaking as someone who hasn't run their own bouncer in 10+ years.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "WASI 0.3"

CGamesPlay — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:46:09 +0000

I think its killer use case is actually embedded in non-web places. Tree Sitter parsers require arbitrary programs to be able to parse arbitrary languages. WebAssembly is a natural way to achieve that: write your parser in any language, compile to WebAssembly, use that result in any supported editor. You get sandboxed execution and arbitrary compute.

It has to compete with more domain-adapted use cases though. Does WASM make more sense than eBPF for packet filtering? It doesn't seem to make more sense than JavaScript for making websites. Maybe it makes more sense for deploying edge services (which IIUC is the main use case for WASI).

New comment by CGamesPlay in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:56:14 +0000

I don't think this is an east-coast/west-coast thing, but I think people all over the USA use the word "park" to mean anything on the scale of corner playground to national wilderness area.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:39:15 +0000

Enshrine it in actual law. Theodore Roosevelt donated some of his land when the national parks became law, and that’s held up reasonably well. There’s no such thing as a guarantee, but it is pretty decent precedence.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:18:45 +0000

The announcement elucidated this, and it's IMO worse than this. They don't downgrade to a cheaper model ([edit] for certain classes of offense they suspect you of). They sabotage the model's outputs in other, undisclosed, ways (specifically, "prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning"). So, for example, they might load in a steering vector that just forgets the API to PyTorch. But it isn't just "we redirected you to a cheaper model!"

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:16:01 +0000

It's unstated, but I'm willing to assume that only the root package.json is consulted to decide if these scripts are allowed. Otherwise, yes, this would not actually change anything.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "macOS Container Machines"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:04:01 +0000

> Our biggest perf/resource gain is dynamic memory, which reduces memory usage a lot by releasing unused memory back to macOS. Nothing else supports this, including Containerization.

Wow, missed this when reviewing OrbStack. I assumed that you just used Containerization and therefore would have the same limitation.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "macOS Container Machines"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:58:57 +0000

If you can express that operation in Terraform, then Coder would let you do that. First problems I can think of are connectivity from the Coder provisioner to your local machine (Tailscale? Local?), and migrating disk images if you want to actually switch a workspace between environments (local provisioner could do this, but no matter what it’ll be slow and janky).

New comment by CGamesPlay in "macOS Container Machines"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:55:19 +0000

Not quite, it’s still a VM. And while it supports virtio balloon for growing RAM, it doesn’t yet support releasing that RAM back to the host. And there isn’t a convenient way to shrink the sparse disk images as they grow yet, either.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "They’re made out of weights"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:42:05 +0000

> After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat".

https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s...

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:18:30 +0000

I'm using https://coder.com for all my development containers. I've got mine hooked up to a k8s cluster, but anything that you can provision with Terraform can be used (e.g. docker containers).

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:31:49 +0000

That's a terrible distinction to make on a topic about how the coding agent gained root inadvertently.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:24:24 +0000

I'll accept that it shouldn't be default, but just because your web app runs in rootless docker does not mean that root docker has no place. There are several limitations: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/troubleshoo...

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

CGamesPlay — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:33:50 +0000

Amazing that CVE-2026-24061 is basically exactly the same vulnerability, 27 years later.

CVE-1999-0113: https://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/testing/vulner/18.htm...

CVE-2026-24061: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-24061

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

CGamesPlay — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:28:33 +0000

And that fact is also true for all of the books on all of the discontinued Kindles.

Given, the kindle won't last 500 years, but the support window is in some senses longer than for those 500-year-old books, which never received a single security update.