Hacker News: RestartKernel

New comment by RestartKernel in "Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn't Use AI"

RestartKernel — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:45:06 +0000

I've started using parentheses with notes/tangents to circumvent any false accusations of AI usage. They're nice to write, but bad form, so LLMs don't use them much.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Show HN: Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator"

RestartKernel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:46:36 +0000

This is sold as an emulator, but couldn't it inadvertently replace AWS entirely in production too?

New comment by RestartKernel in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

RestartKernel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:16:51 +0000

> I suppose I should also note the vast majority of people developing on mac books (in my experience anyway) are actually targeting chrome.

Point taken. Most developers probably make do with Linux containers rather than MacOS VMs.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

RestartKernel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:28:09 +0000

This is a really cool article, but the existence of such an arbitrary limit on any serious development platform is weird.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

RestartKernel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:15:34 +0000

I've been there, but it definitely felt like more of an enthusiast experience. Someone who's just looking into getting their first mechanical keyboard would do better at a larger shop stocked with cheaper keyboards and a greater variety of common switch types.

That being said, the shop is located in a surprisingly quiet area, surrounded by other small enthusiast shops. I especially liked "High Beam" a few stores down, which specialises in handheld PCs.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI"

RestartKernel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:42:25 +0000

But it's blazing fast though

New comment by RestartKernel in "Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM"

RestartKernel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:21:59 +0000

People look for tells, systems detect word distributions. Though neither is as reliable as active fingerprinting using an encoded watermark.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

RestartKernel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:17:37 +0000

This is an entire Unity project that won't load due to however many content blockers I've got running on my phone. The incompetent one loads instantly, though it's admittedly laggy.

New comment by RestartKernel in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

RestartKernel — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:38:53 +0000

I think it's mostly just that a subscription seems weird for a tool like this. Most users would probably only need it occasionally, and with a subscription you can't just add it to your toolbox to grab when that time comes.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

RestartKernel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:31:58 +0000

The real story is in the poison fountain dataset this uses:

https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

> [...] we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.

This almost strikes me as roleplay, but maybe I'm childish for finding it difficult to empathise with this genre of hacker ideology.

New comment by RestartKernel in "A bad day to use Python [video]"

RestartKernel — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:07:00 +0000

This video is about the recent LightLLM security breach.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

RestartKernel — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:39:17 +0000

How many compatibility issues is MacOS realistically expected to spur? Windows DX felt unusable to me without a Linux VM (and later WSL), but on MacOS most tooling just kinda seems to work the same.

New comment by RestartKernel in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

RestartKernel — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:46:30 +0000

That's like avoiding the West because of fancy cutlery rules. Japanese people are not as thin-skinned as lists like these lead you to believe.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Identity protection firm Aura suffers data breach exposing 900 000 records"

RestartKernel — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:44:44 +0000

> Aura says a targeted voice phishing attack against one of its employees led to unauthorized access to about 900,000 records [...]

Employers are often surprised when I ask for less access, but I firmly believe no random employee should have personal data access like this. Ideally you'd want to require the customer to be in the loop to access their data as employee.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)"

RestartKernel — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:32:34 +0000

Nitpick, but it bothers me that your logo icon is not vertically aligned with your logo text. (Neither is it visually aligned.)

New comment by RestartKernel in "Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy"

RestartKernel — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:08:16 +0000

You probably already know, but iNaturalist allows you to filter by CC0 licensed observations.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

RestartKernel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:50:38 +0000

I love how stylised it is while remaining more responsive than the vast majority of websites today.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Cloudflare Issues"

RestartKernel — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:52:04 +0000

I think these recent outages are caused by me recommending CloudFlare to an important client a few months ago.

New comment by RestartKernel in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

RestartKernel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:02:49 +0000

Maybe it's a matter of code switching? I've read that some Japanese teams prefer English for practical reasons, since a shared second language prevents anyone from getting bogged down in formalities. That is not to say Japanese is unable to be formulated with just as much precision.

New comment by RestartKernel in "Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling"

RestartKernel — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:19:52 +0000

Somewhat related: the most prominent lottery in the Netherlands is government-run, but you wouldn't know it based on its ruthless advertising. At least it's going into the national budget and charity, I suppose.