Hacker News: MithrilTuxedo

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

MithrilTuxedo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:09:43 +0000

Generators require the infrastructure that supplies fuel, and you need to have a generator you might not need.

Solar panels and batteries are great for emergencies, and they're useful besides.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals"

MithrilTuxedo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:42:17 +0000

That's what that is! I was doing well until I got lost at Map of the Visit. I forgot I was pretending to be in a museum.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Make Tmux the OS"

MithrilTuxedo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:52:00 +0000

Windows shows my Desktop folder in four distinct locations in the native file manager. Some representations of my home folder have more files and folders in them than others.

I use Bash via Git4Windows as much as possible, but even there... `cd ~/git; cd ../Downloads; cd ../git` doesn't work because `..` from `~/Downloads/` is `~/One Drive/`.

It's... non-Euclidiean.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

MithrilTuxedo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:40:44 +0000

I bet that would be great (for a specific subset of games). MMORPGs come top of mind.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

MithrilTuxedo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:08:43 +0000

http://archive.today/2MIaJ

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

MithrilTuxedo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:07:34 +0000

>It's not as if the batteries people are paying for become their property

It is as if. The article says it's a lease agreement, and provides this link.

https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/home-energy-...

>the homeowner "bears the entire risk of loss, theft or damage" to the utility's equipment.

What are you quoting?

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster"

MithrilTuxedo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:40:45 +0000

Now I'm imagining a JIT compliter runtime that relies on LLMs to find optimizations.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "What Capital Never Told You About Rent"

MithrilTuxedo — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:43:10 +0000

Flagged?

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:41:51 +0000

>It's not enough to have data, you also have to have societal buy-in.

Insurance rates are based on data.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

MithrilTuxedo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:30:23 +0000

NAVAIR 01-1A-23

https://www.robins.af.mil/Portals/59/documents/technicalorde...

I was a 2M Mini/Micro repair technician for a few years in the Navy. That book was our school and manual.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:40:12 +0000

Dictionaries have been trying to retard linguistic progress since the first edition of one tried to nail down every meaning of a term.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:30:35 +0000

What business is it of the USPS except to transmit all mail regardless of purpose?

The fact that the USPS would notice elections were being conducted is perverse.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:26:47 +0000

Those who are apt to discard responses to what they should have been apt to discard.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:19:59 +0000

The fact that reputable sources were not provided to justify the need for fixes has been reputable source enough.

Bullshit is produced for the effect saying it will have.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Wendell Berry has died"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:11:54 +0000

Stephen Levy's Artificial Life ended up being my first and only religious experience.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Wendell Berry has died"

MithrilTuxedo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:10:11 +0000

That's not Schumpeter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Creepy Crawlies"

MithrilTuxedo — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:03:14 +0000

Has anyone considered having Anubis perform more valuable hashing?

Like, maybe you can't stop the LLM bots, but you can use them as one-off Bitcoin pool mining pool participants. You have to assume that making them find hash values with N leading zeroes has led to finding hash values with more than N leading zeroes. Maybe run a Bitcoin node under there and let each visitor take a couple swings for you with their pickaxes.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

MithrilTuxedo — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:29:16 +0000

That is the purpose of submitting them for review. Maintainers should be doing that anyway. Whether AI was used to produce the change should be invisible or not apparent to the reviewer.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

MithrilTuxedo — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:27:04 +0000

Reputation, or lack thereof.

Proof of authority, essentially.

New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy"

MithrilTuxedo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:34:10 +0000

The only thing I think we can do is shield our private spaces from prying signals like we use walls to shield them from prying eyes.

We wouldn't have street lights if the Fourth Amendment could prevent the monitoring of people in public. If I can install a webcam pointed at an intersection and stream it publicly, anyone and everyone can, and eventually enough public webcams like that create a network that anyone can use to track what's going in public. The only thing we can really do is ensure knowledge of what people do in public is kept public.

Flock extracts value from public information and there's nothing Flock can do to prevent competition. Flock is only a problem for the moment because they have a relative monopoly on public information and can make claims or provide evidence nobody can contest, but eventually we're going to decide we shouldn't trust a private entity like Flock to accurately report reality any more than we should trust anyone else with a private agenda.