Hacker News: a1o

New comment by a1o in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

a1o — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:36:50 +0000

Are your self-hosted runner on premise or are you using a cloud service for it?

New comment by a1o in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

a1o — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:52:00 +0000

I guess qemu over Ubuntu-latest from GitHub Actions running freebsd, but it will be a bit flaky

New comment by a1o in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

a1o — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:48:44 +0000

It gives a better docker based experience and it also has measurements of memory and cpu usage to help you dimension things quickly.

New comment by a1o in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

a1o — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:46:07 +0000

That is a bit sudden, it would be great if it was possible to get an extra month for migration.

New comment by a1o in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

a1o — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:07:13 +0000

Holy crap, it is super expensive now. I should have brought an extra one in the past.

New comment by a1o in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

a1o — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:30:03 +0000

Not all enterprises are the same, I imagine many companies have different departments working with local optimums, so someone who could benefit from it to get more productivity might not have access to it because the department that is doing hardware acquisition is being measured in isolation.

New comment by a1o in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

a1o — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:16:33 +0000

Thanks! I had a BK Vision or something similar at some point and it just blew up. I will give it a search for these brands, sometimes I find a well-cared used one from the more expensive brands at good prices so that’s what I will look for first. :)

New comment by a1o in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

a1o — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:31:22 +0000

> A DC power supply capable of providing 12V

Hey, I just remembered my school used to have ages ago some cool power supplies (I think from Agilent?) that were very idiot proof, they had current limit with a dial that I think didn’t went over 1A or perhaps even less, and they would instantly disarm on short circuit (and indicate it with a led), and also the voltage dial I think wouldn’t go over 25V. I remember it was very big and heavy, but it survived countless students that used the lab daily.

Nowadays, is there any power supply available that is that resistant or is the recommended approach to get an used old one? Does anyone have a power supply at home that is also used by kids with a brand/model they would recommend? Thanks!

New comment by a1o in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

a1o — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:36:46 +0000

I wonder if that’s it! I occasionally do some code search on GitHub and then remember it doesn’t work well and go back to searching in the IDE. I usually need to look into not the main branch because I do a lot of projects that have a develop branch where things actually happen. But that would explain so I guess this is it.

New comment by a1o in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

a1o — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:02:56 +0000

I went to check on this and I have everything copilot related disabled and in the two bars that measure usage my Copilot Chat usage was somehow in 2%, how is this possible?

Before anyone comes to me to sell me on AI, this is on my personal account, I have and use it in my business account (but it is a completely different user account), I just make it a point to not use it in my personal time so I can keep my skills sharp.

New comment by a1o in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

a1o — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:59:16 +0000

I am pretty sure network knowledge and all those things are still necessary for people running data centers and really big computers and I imagine we will build a lot more of that.

Also anyone making a homelab has to know these stuff.

New comment by a1o in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

a1o — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:39:06 +0000

No one commented about Ubuntu team Mir approach. I wish it stayed in the running. :)

New comment by a1o in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

a1o — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:33:07 +0000

Is the axe drawing actually a hammer?

New comment by a1o in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

a1o — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:23:16 +0000

> A demo of bitnet.cpp running a BitNet b1.58 3B model on Apple M2

With how much RAM? How much storage does it requires?

New comment by a1o in "Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World"

a1o — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:23:25 +0000

If you walk very early in the morning looking for something to capture while everyone is asleep, chances are the water bodies (ocean, river, lake, ..) are somewhere you know that you can plan to go to, and also they are reliably in the same place - so if say you forgot and took dead batteries, your cable failed or you got the wrong mic, you can try again on the next day.

Capturing other things may be harder - a bird may not be there, the wind may change from day to day and so on. Water is usually satisfying to hear and a good subject to experiment and explore when you are beginning in field recording.

New comment by a1o in "Building a new Flash"

a1o — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:18:46 +0000

I remember I could connect love2d to the IDE I used and debug lua just fine with it. Which IDE you were using?

New comment by a1o in "MacBook Neo"

a1o — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:48:35 +0000

Dell Pro Max, I think the Latitude line disappeared. But I feel Lenovo is the last one too, the only brand I trust for a Windows or Linux machine these days. I like Apple hardware and have my reservations with macOS, but it is still better than Windows.

New comment by a1o in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

a1o — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:29:54 +0000

If you want some cool unusual UI, check out the HP Logic Analyzers (like the 16500A but there were others). It had a touch interface even though it had a CRT, and it had a knob for scrolling and for some alternative uses too - I think it used an encoder instead of a potentiometer but I may be misremembering. It was a really cool interface, I used it in early 2000s but it was old already by then, but it was really cool. There is a small website that documents its UI but I forgot the url.

New comment by a1o in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

a1o — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:49:17 +0000

I have a feeling that the maker movement specific being talked here was with meetups for showcasing things (fairs?) and with local hackerspaces at the age of the makerbot as the “game changer” 3D printer. If that is the case that one was captured by corporations - and for makerbot, the Stratasys “takeover”. I guess the AI/vibe coding was born from corporations but with local models there is this promise to move it to easier/more open access. I feel it’s too soon to tell to trace part of the parallels. I also feel the Maker movement cited was at a better age for Blogs, so lots of the vibe coding may just be happening without an audience.

New comment by a1o in "Apache Poison Fountain"

a1o — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:58:14 +0000

I guess support for Wordpress would be necessary too.