Hacker News: Kinrany

New comment by Kinrany in "There are no instances in ATProto"

Kinrany — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:29:25 +0000

I think that's unfair because most people won't run their own relays any time soon, but rather rely on a local enthusiast.

New comment by Kinrany in "Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel"

Kinrany — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:54:49 +0000

Dig tunnels under the broken roads, then remove the ceiling

New comment by Kinrany in "Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction"

Kinrany — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:25:02 +0000

Man, why'd they have to make it whitespace-sensitive.

New comment by Kinrany in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

Kinrany — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:06:37 +0000

That would make the model useless

New comment by Kinrany in "Iroh 1.0"

Kinrany — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:21:51 +0000

...that's what I'm asking :)

New comment by Kinrany in "Iroh 1.0"

Kinrany — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:29:18 +0000

From the same pricing page, it's all additional services: observability, relay hosting, support engineers.

New comment by Kinrany in "Iroh 1.0"

Kinrany — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:25:29 +0000

I wonder if Iroh and Zenoh could/should be used together.

The fundamental component of Iroh is p2p routing by key, and the main utility provided by Zenoh is message semantics. The two seem complementary.

New comment by Kinrany in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

Kinrany — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:14:51 +0000

All of this makes perfect sense

New comment by Kinrany in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Kinrany — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:45:25 +0000

You can have a copy of your emails for offline use in your browser.

Less so as a reliable backup.

New comment by Kinrany in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Kinrany — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:41:27 +0000

Websites can work offline

New comment by Kinrany in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Kinrany — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:47:11 +0000

A web UI can do that

New comment by Kinrany in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

Kinrany — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:22:50 +0000

More like implode proprietary blog hosting platforms and replace them with commodity VMs that can be used for blog hosting, among other things

New comment by Kinrany in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

Kinrany — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:13:47 +0000

So surely they volunteered it?

New comment by Kinrany in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Kinrany — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:12:20 +0000

Books make the most sense as a guide, not a tutorial or a reference

New comment by Kinrany in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

Kinrany — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:15:34 +0000

How did the diary end up in the court files in the first place?

New comment by Kinrany in "Why Spain has the greatest cities"

Kinrany — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:37:27 +0000

Why did you leave?

New comment by Kinrany in "What async promised and what it delivered"

Kinrany — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:40:29 +0000

You can implement your own event loop within a single thread

New comment by Kinrany in "Three constraints before I build anything"

Kinrany — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:36:16 +0000

One unique core concept per tenant, because the SaaS is nominally multi-tenant but it's really N unrelated websites for N enterprise customers in a trenchcoat

New comment by Kinrany in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

Kinrany — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:58:36 +0000

If you can solve the same problem in a simpler way without using k8s, that means k8s is not a zero cost abstraction.

It's not obligated to be, but it's also obvious why people would want it to be.

New comment by Kinrany in "What async promised and what it delivered"

Kinrany — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:16:14 +0000

And it doesn't actually prevent concurrency.