<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CrimsonCape</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CrimsonCape</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:28:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CrimsonCape" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you use OpenClaw now can you tell us how it's going?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516307</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been running a home server and Tailscale is magic. My firewalls have no open ports. The tailnet is a virtual network that assigns IP addresses to approved devices that you authenticate to join.<p>I use it in 3 ways:<p>1. My phone connects to my home network by joining the tailnet. I can play music and movies from my home server when I am away. No struggles with configuration. 
2. A dedicated mini pc at home is on a smart plug. I keep it powered off mostly. I can turn the plug on remotely and power the mini pc. It runs "tailscale --advertise-routes" which then exposes every device at my house to the tailnet. No open ports, but suddenly my phone thinks that it is back at home with all my home PCs. 
3. I take my laptop with me and use "tailscale serve" which serves as a pipe. I can pipe my home movies to a smart TV at your house. Just install the jellyfin app, and browse for servers, and my server in my house appears in the list at your house.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:18:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514401</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out Bitbang:<p><a href="http://github.com/richlegrand/bitbang-cli" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/richlegrand/bitbang-cli</a><p>I've been using it and it certainly has the potential. I signed up for Cloudflare's TURN server which you use with bitbang and it gets you 1TB free data transfer per month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:02:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514240</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The guide that NASA put out for spaceflight systems was on HN earlier this year and one of the rules is "no heap allocations; all memory must be declared and fixed size for the life of the app." Isn't Rust the ideal language for that kind of limitation? We are talking C, C++, Rust, Zig as options I would guess; Rust certainly seems the ideal from those options.<p>But you gotta admit people trying to build GUI libraries and using linked lists don't fit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:30:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440944</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proud to say that by 40 I will be off Windows forever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:55:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440500</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do think it's closely related to women, because like you say, girls go for runabouts. Girls think the communal farm hippie is romantic, the satan-woshipping metal band member is romantic, the (2000s) kid rock punk trailer trash is romantic. Girls who have looks but are born poor seem to have no choice but encourage it. Murphy's law rules: if it's stupid (breaking windows) but it works (she likes me), it isn't stupid.<p>I feel like society kinda ran out of rebelliousness with kid rock and then rap culture (late 2000s Jay-Z, Chris Brown). It seems to have dried up. Modern lookmaxxing and gym rat culture, travel vlog, influencers are now the cool kids, van-life and nomadic travel are the new stick-it-to-the-man.<p>Young people are going to look at Ukraine and realize that flower power and stick-it-to-the-man are utterly bizarre. Who in Ukraine is doing the John Lennon routine? John Lennon's message is totally bizarre now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:17:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437391</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, bloated electron app running over bloated graphics stack, tell me more...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406966</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's funny, I bet you could take any software dev and blind AB test a page written by a corporate manager and a page written by an engineer.<p>Here's something an engineer writes, loaded with facts:<p>"I got to the office and we had a huge panic going on, I immediately called our IT in US-2West and they reported on cascading box failures, I checked our load balancer via remote admin and indeed it was failing to. I called my IT managers and learned we had hard resetting in progress for the past 20 minutes with minimal impact on recovery."<p>Totally missing from the article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381692</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I learned programming from C# which has an excellent standard library. Just recently started using Go which seems to have a good standard library. Been using python for years, can't say I ever had a complaint about the standard library.<p>Rust meanwhile seems to be following some "no standard library" philosophy.<p>I feel like there's an opportunity out there to become like an amoeba: fund and build a third party Rust standard library, absorb absolutely everyone who is so grateful to have a library, and then get so big absorb Rust itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:16:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379663</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are way too optimistic. What will realistically happen is they charge $2 per month and the quality doesn't change. The $2 per month gross will go where it always goes: launches, exec salaries, shareholders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354189</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, so I should set these to null? I saw elsewhere someone set journald storage to volatile. Which of these approaches is better?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:56:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293936</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yesterday I was running :
NixOS, mango window manager, 5 instances of ghostty, 2 of those running fresh terminal editor, firefox with 5 tabs and I was at 2.37gb of RAM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233481</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Terminology Beyond the NixOS Trademark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the average person thinks "who cares" when it comes to trademarks so I guess that is the question to ask. <i>Somebody</i> clearly cares about asserting ownership over the term. And it's not clear what the motivation of that 'somebody' is.<p>Why does an open source project need a trademark if not to assert ownership over it? Who at this moment in time is the intended target? who has been using the term NixOS that needs to be silenced?<p>And I guess this now means there is a viable legal basis to antagonize people who sell tshirts with the logo and words. Why that's necessary for an open source project makes no sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:16:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175979</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah pretty clearly falls under 'bypassing a digital lock' according to the DMCA. they got you when you clicked ok on the license agreement. Movies and music is a different thing: you don't need to agree to a license when you buy a disk but I'd be surprised if we don't start seeing little pamplets thrown in there saying "by keeping this disk you agree to _____..."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:42:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175590</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So i can see my use case like this: I ssh from my phone to my home raspberry pi through tailscale. i type an alias that causes the RPi to run bitbang serve and prints the connection number through stdout so i see it on my phone ssh session.<p>Now on an untrusted PC i can bingbang into my home network, do stuff with a real keyboard, and then run another command to shutdown bitbang.<p>Does that sound feasible?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129685</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a good TV UI OS that runs desktop youtube under the hood for ad blocking?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116887</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Men That Don't Fit In (1911)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd be curious to know the average salary in 1911 versus cost to purchase a house in 1911. If you can plod along for 15 years and buy a house with cash (i don't think credit/mortgages existed in 1911?). Makes plodding seems like the right choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016544</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "The lost joy of music piracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm having the opposite experience. I have tons of music in Itunes and they are all DRM from early itunes. Apparently they predate the DRM-free era? I have no idea how to get the DRM free versions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953652</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "The lost joy of music piracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Asking for a friend, do we have a modern distributed peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted file sharing system?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:40:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953523</link><dc:creator>CrimsonCape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CrimsonCape in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like their strategy will be to just raise hardware and media prices. Just keep doing the same at a higher cost. If it's a loss leader today, it will stay a loss leader tomorrow, just at higher cost. The question is whether the customers keep showing up at the higher prices.</p>
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