Hacker News: abrookewood

New comment by abrookewood in "Generative art over the years"

abrookewood — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:01:12 +0000

Machines can quickly build repeatable, efficient, 'perfect' clothing - but people still knit.

New comment by abrookewood in "People love to work hard"

abrookewood — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:29:14 +0000

You're forgetting Type 3 Activities, which are neither fun at the time, nor afterwards on reflection.

New comment by abrookewood in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

abrookewood — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:21:47 +0000

I am a complete ZFS fanboy, but that doesn't mean I want BTRFS to fail. Competition is healthy and I don't think Oracle is going to change the licence on ZFS any time soon, so it's good to have an option that can be used without encumbrance.

New comment by abrookewood in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

abrookewood — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:18:28 +0000

I love ZFS, but have been corrected a couple of times when I said it was bomb proof. Can't remember the details, but it has served me faithfully for 10 years or so? Plus the bugs were pretty niche if I recall correctly.

Edit: found some comments below: ZFS on Linux has had many bugs over the years, notably with ZFS-native encryption and especially sending/receiving encrypted volumes. Another issue is that using swap on ZFS is still guaranteed to hang the kernel in low memory scenarios, because ZFS needs to allocate memory to write to swap.

New comment by abrookewood in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

abrookewood — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:13:31 +0000

God I loved that game. Don't think I ever managed to finish and now I'm tempted to try again!

New comment by abrookewood in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

abrookewood — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:57:43 +0000

Holy hell ... that's a monster of a card

New comment by abrookewood in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

abrookewood — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:56:40 +0000

man, that is really really quick. What is your desktop setup??? GPU?

New comment by abrookewood in "I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps"

abrookewood — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:13:16 +0000

So why not break it up into smaller bits? You could probably do that fairly easily with an LLM - I get that you don't want AI slop, but this would be more about helping you structure it into more publishable sizes/topics and would be your words.

New comment by abrookewood in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

abrookewood — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:32:17 +0000

It's explicitly mentioned in the article:

A step by step breakdown of the attack Step 1. Gaining Access to Resolv’s AWS KMS Environment

New comment by abrookewood in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

abrookewood — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:10 +0000

Too. Fucking. Late.

At work, I'm switching to Mac for the first time in my life. At home, I'm already gaming on Linux. Windows is dead to me.

New comment by abrookewood in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

abrookewood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:24:03 +0000

Yes, you are right, but the end result is very different.

New comment by abrookewood in "“Your frustration is the product”"

abrookewood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:22:16 +0000

That is insane.

New comment by abrookewood in "“Your frustration is the product”"

abrookewood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:37:49 +0000

I use uBlock Origin plus Firefox's Reader View. Honestly, just getting text sounds like heaven.

New comment by abrookewood in "“Your frustration is the product”"

abrookewood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:36:03 +0000

That is just plain ridiculous. How the hell did they end up not knowing how to manage the content on their site?

New comment by abrookewood in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

abrookewood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:15:59 +0000

Curious if you have tried IncusOS or if you are just using Incus on linux? I'm doing the latter and have been considering moving to IncusOS.

New comment by abrookewood in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"

abrookewood — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:29:55 +0000

You could skip the underlying mechanism by renaming Claude.exe and then it just passes the name as a new chat.

New comment by abrookewood in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

abrookewood — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:35:27 +0000

That's why we have placebos ... and double-blind studies ...

New comment by abrookewood in "Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings"

abrookewood — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:40:40 +0000

It was so long ago, I literally have no idea. Sorry

New comment by abrookewood in "Shall I implement it? No"

abrookewood — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:05:39 +0000

You can just put it in PLAN mode (assuming VS Code), that works well enough - never seen it edit code when in that state.

New comment by abrookewood in "Shall I implement it? No"

abrookewood — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:04:22 +0000

Yeah, this is pretty much how Tidewave works, but passes the HTML/JavaScript reference instead of a picture: https://tidewave.ai/