Hacker News: CaseFlatline

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

CaseFlatline — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:49:12 +0000

I am trying to find how the synthetic data was created (looking through the repo) and didn't find it. Maybe I am missing it - Would love to see the prompts and process on that aspect of the training data generation!

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Installing and using HP-UX 9"

CaseFlatline — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:11:42 +0000

Oh my! Thanks for the memories - HPUX was my first workstation class unix operating system (sili-g's were too expensive). I remember downloading and compiling gcc on hpux. THe ideas of compiling a compiler with itself blew my mind!

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel"

CaseFlatline — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:41:51 +0000

Very nice. Its great to see how fast it boots, and it can run doom (framebuffer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1pMlZO_mI (also nice to see the dev takes the time to reply to an aspiring CS student on what it takes to grow in this field - comments in youtube)

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Paper Airplane Designs"

CaseFlatline — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:18:11 +0000

A feel-good movie to watch with the kids : Paper Planes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3328716/

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Show HN: A proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend"

CaseFlatline — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 20:36:37 +0000

Could someone explain why/how NBD is better than just using a linux host as an iscsi target? Googling NBD vs iSCSI shows old articles with no real solid conclusion.

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries"

CaseFlatline — Mon, 15 May 2017 20:22:55 +0000

Don't see it offhand so asking:

1) How/where are you storing the index 2) Have you tried this on large (30+ TB filesystems)?

New comment by CaseFlatline in "The NICAM Codec replacement project"

CaseFlatline — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:36:20 +0000

Truly an impressive feat:

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - Futurama

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Planetary Defense"

CaseFlatline — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:04:24 +0000

Dear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum, please use this department for your next SyFy B end-of-the-world B movie.

New comment by CaseFlatline in "How Hong Kong's subway turns a $2B annual profit"

CaseFlatline — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:31:58 +0000

Slightly misleading on the source of the profits. It's important to read this section of the article:

"But the company's real profits are derived from a lesser-known side of the business: property development."

and

"Here's how it works: MTR enjoys a special relationship with the Hong Kong government, which is also its majority shareholder. The government provides land -- at no cost -- for use by the train operator, and MTR is then allowed to develop the areas above and around its stations."

So the government loans out land (which is crazy expensive in hong kong) for free and the MTR gets to keep the profits for leasing out that land via malls, etc.

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months"

CaseFlatline — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:20:13 +0000

I vote for wierd al to sing the song at the end

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

New comment by CaseFlatline in "Dark Sky has a new owner"

CaseFlatline — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:26:42 +0000

Congrats on the news! I was one of the kickstarter contributors and love the service. Best wishes to your future growth. It's amazing to see a KS campaign blossom.

New comment by CaseFlatline in "RetroBSD: Unix for the Microchip PIC32"

CaseFlatline — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:17:37 +0000

Amazing. BSD on Sub $20 boards. They list a bunch of hardware that it runs on and also include support for a simulator so you can try it out without hardware.