Hacker News: ahofmann

New comment by ahofmann in "Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again"

ahofmann — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:15:56 +0000

For me the ai voice is bearable, but the length of everything is not. I just get exhausted reading this much text and searching for the sparsely placed interesting bits in it. After 10 minutes of reading, I gave up frustrated.

New comment by ahofmann in "Jacobian Conjecture for Baby"

ahofmann — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:16:36 +0000

I think the entire post was created by an AI, and I had a similar negative reaction to it. Nevertheless, it's an excellent post with clear explanations of mathematical concepts. This just goes to show how impossible it is to tell the difference between something created by a human and something created by an LLM.

New comment by ahofmann in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

ahofmann — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:57:44 +0000

So ... It's turtles all the way down?

New comment by ahofmann in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

ahofmann — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:46:54 +0000

My question was genuine. I have no idea why someone wants Debian to die, so I asked.

New comment by ahofmann in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

ahofmann — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:31:30 +0000

Are you aware, that a very big chunk of Linux distributions like Ubuntu are build in top of Debian?

Why do you want Debian to die?

New comment by ahofmann in "Claude Opus 5"

ahofmann — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:31:08 +0000

Spot on! Comment of the month, I'd say.

New comment by ahofmann in "A PHP server that can handle 10x as many concurrent requests as Nginx+PHP-fpm"

ahofmann — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:26:50 +0000

You (well your LLM of choice) doesn't answer the asked question. Maybe I'm stupid and there is an answer in this text, but I can't see it.

New comment by ahofmann in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

ahofmann — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:27:05 +0000

Is this some form of rage bait? 2005 we hadn't the GPUs, we have today. There are other factors, but I think this is the big one. The mathematics of building an LLM are really old, we just hadn't the hardware to do the needed calculations.

New comment by ahofmann in "Frozen 2 should be Rated R"

ahofmann — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:54:30 +0000

Oh my, I saw half of these movies as a kid and all of them left scars on my soul. Watching Poltergeist as a kid is like watching Event Horizon as an adult (I recommend watching Event Horizon though).

New comment by ahofmann in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

ahofmann — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:29:35 +0000

There is a German proverb, that goes roughly like this: "eating shit is good for you, billions of flys can't be wrong!"

New comment by ahofmann in "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files"

ahofmann — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:07:22 +0000

Why the hell was this answer dead? I vouched for it, because I don't see what might be wrong with it.

New comment by ahofmann in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

ahofmann — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:05:10 +0000

To be fair, the "beeps and lights a led" part is very important in case of a dead disk in an array. The only time, I disrupted a service in production for longer than a few hours was when I didn't get the email of a degraded raid 1 array and the second disk died a few weeks later.

New comment by ahofmann in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

ahofmann — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:18:07 +0000

https://github.com/obra/superpowers

New comment by ahofmann in "Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you"

ahofmann — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:54:49 +0000

You mean something like https://adnauseam.io ?

New comment by ahofmann in ""No, I swear I wrote this.""

ahofmann — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:47:21 +0000

"It's still pretty obvious and still much worse than human prose"

You have no idea how many false positives and how many false negatives you have in your judgement. It is indeed impossible to differentiate between badly written human text and somewhat good written llm text.

New comment by ahofmann in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

ahofmann — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:58:00 +0000

They didn't sued Thomann and they didn't show up. They sued some Chinese guy who didn't show up and used that default judgement against everyone including Thomann.

New comment by ahofmann in "Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners"

ahofmann — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:19:25 +0000

They don't seem to understand, that there is no way out of it except giving the guy all the Lego sets or 200k dollars and saying "we are very sorry" multiple times. They're still trying to save their face and money and it might ruin the whole franchise.

New comment by ahofmann in "macOS needs its grid back"

ahofmann — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:35:04 +0000

I switched to MacOS a few months ago from sway and I really try to be as open as possible to the mac way of life, because I don't want to fight my OS. But, boy, mission control is unusable crap. I was really shocked how dumb everything around this feature was made. Things that were possible a few years ago, are not possible anymore. Like switching to desktops/workspaces by keyboard. Or the grid.

With the app "AltTab" I can at least switch between my apps without using the mouse and with raycast I can position windows, but it is painful how much slower switching and positioning things in MacOS is, than in any tiling window manager.

New comment by ahofmann in "My wife tried to log 1k phone-free hours but quit. So I vibe-coded an app"

ahofmann — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:25:53 +0000

Great Idea, thanks for building it!

New comment by ahofmann in "Vivaldi 8.0"

ahofmann — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:02:45 +0000

Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.