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New comment by YorickPeterse in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

YorickPeterse — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:58:46 +0000

So how is this different from Fedora CoreOS or bootc/RHEL image mode?

Inko 0.20.0: reducing heap allocations by 50%

YorickPeterse — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:55:46 +0000

Article URL: https://inko-lang.org/news/inko-0-20-0-reducing-heap-allocations-by-50/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863696

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

YorickPeterse — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:08 +0000

> Over 135 original creations published (essays, poems, blog posts, one interactive experiment)

Ah yes, the pinnacle of original creations in 2026: regurgitating content ingested from elsewhere.

> They connect NASA redundancy systems to African kinship funeral economics. They trace an em-dash from typographic style choice to surveillance detection signal to Cloudflare product name.

So basically it produces complete bullshit equivalent to that of somebody having some sort of mental breakdown.

This article and the general attitude of AI bros reminds me of somebody hearing a parrot blurt out something random they picked up, then try to assign some deeper meaning about the universe to it.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "With one million displaced, Lebanon turns to digital wallets for aid"

YorickPeterse — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:43:35 +0000

Just like Gaza right? Oh wait...

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

YorickPeterse — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:16:48 +0000

This is just the typical FOMO nonsense pushed by AI fans.

It's the exact same as seen with many past hypes, and every time the result is a lot more nuanced than those fans claim. It wasn't that long ago that people were claiming MongoDB was going to revolutionize the world and make relational databases obsolete, or how cryptocurrencies were going to change the world, or NFTs, and the list goes on.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "World Happiness Report 2026"

YorickPeterse — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:04:12 +0000

An increase in right-wing extremism and racism, public transportation that is falling apart and ridiculously expensive, the water quality going downhill due to pollution, costs increasing far more than neighboring countries for seemingly no solid reason, a complete disregard for the climate and the EU regulations we're supposed to meet, and a lot more.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "World Happiness Report 2026"

YorickPeterse — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:20:15 +0000

Considering the state of The Netherlands over the last two decades, I can't help but feel this report is straight up bullshit. The only way I can see The Netherlands rank this high is by only asking two people and some sheep in the middle of nowhere.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Tony Hoare has died"

YorickPeterse — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:48:00 +0000

Is this why software transactional memory is so prevalent today and the actor model is barely used?

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

YorickPeterse — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:29:45 +0000

I haven't looked deeply into either, but how does this compare to the combination of Clevis and Tang that e.g. Red Hat/Fedora seems to favor?

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

YorickPeterse — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:03:34 +0000

For those looking for a more extensive article about bootc, I recently wrote about using it in https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-..., including a comparison to some other existing tools.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

YorickPeterse — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:16:53 +0000

Ah yes, because companies never lie about how they process your data...

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers"

YorickPeterse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:27:12 +0000

I think sysusers _can_ technically run quadlets because you can log in as them, but it's definitely not what they're meant for so it's probably not going to work forever.

Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers

YorickPeterse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-using-bootable-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068147

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by YorickPeterse in "The Gleam Programming Language"

YorickPeterse — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:33:51 +0000

The type of people complaining about this are usually the people you don't want in your community to begin with, so I doubt Gleam is missing out here.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

YorickPeterse — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:16:38 +0000

A user friendly distribution would be something like Fedora or Ubuntu, not "Arch but with some optimizations that probably won't matter much"

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

YorickPeterse — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:42:11 +0000

It's very much privatised in the sense that it's operating on a for-profit business model, rather than a for-benefit model.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

YorickPeterse — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:21:17 +0000

For Linux this will vary between distributions and configurations. For example, based on some testing I did today using mkosi [1] (for reasons unrelated to this discussion), a bare-bones Fedora 43 installation uses about 130 MiB of RAM, while a Debian installation uses a little more than 100 MiB.

IIRC last time I tried a bare-bones FreeBSD installation it used about the same amount of memory, maybe a little more based on how ZFS is set up.

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

New comment by YorickPeterse in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

YorickPeterse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:31:16 +0000

The Netherlands has a very similar problem: the train system was privatized in the late 90s/early 2000s and has been going downhill since the 2010s or so. While it's still better than Deutsche Bahn, it's just so much worse compared to how it used to be.

New comment by YorickPeterse in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

YorickPeterse — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:53:23 +0000

Thank you for mansplaining what color calibration and accuracy means, but I'm well aware of how it works due to my background in photography and having spent plenty of time calibration displays in the past.

In particular, there's a big difference between "can show more colors" and "shows the same colors but overly saturated".

The Framework 16 suffers from this by default, something that's quite obvious when comparing it by looking at photos for which you know what the actual colors look like, something I did do but didn't cover in the article.

Whether this is because the display operates in a different colorspace by default (e.g AdobeRGB) or not I don't know, but there's at least no option for it anywhere in the BIOS that I could find.

Claiming the Framework is superior over a monitor literally meant for color grading and photography is laughable to be honest, and seems to suggest you interpret display quality as "more intense is better".

New comment by YorickPeterse in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

YorickPeterse — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:57:11 +0000

What's the battery life you're getting out of the Ryzen AI 9?