Hacker News: andruby

New comment by andruby in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

andruby — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:35:24 +0000

They’re not talking about the corporations. They’re talking about the book authors.

New comment by andruby in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

andruby — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:46:38 +0000

What is Caveman mode?

New comment by andruby in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

andruby — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:20:11 +0000

The example you mention is a tricky one, ASML is about as European as it is American. It is heavily subject to US export controls because its machines include US components, US software and US IP. They operate multiple R&D centers and factories in the US and employ a lot of US employees (~20%)

New comment by andruby in "Googlebook"

andruby — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:11:06 +0000

You're not the target audience. My parents, in-laws and the schools are the target audience.

A reasonably large chunk of the world use a computer for "googling" information and sending/receiving emails. For them, opening "the internet" means clicking the Google logo (Chrome).

This device could be perfect for them.

New comment by andruby in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

andruby — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:17:44 +0000

What horrible acronym/concept are those.

It seems to be a US thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_zero-emissions_vehicle

> In California, PZEVs have their own administrative category for low-emission vehicles. The category was made in a bargain between automakers and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), so that automobile makers could delay making mandated zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs)—battery electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles.

New comment by andruby in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

andruby — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:45:07 +0000

They do indeed. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/ They seem to allow some free usage without user account. Do they list limits anywhere?

New comment by andruby in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

andruby — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:02:36 +0000

The point they are making is that if the limit is _per device_ than using 10 devices doesn't break the rules.

New comment by andruby in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

andruby — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:45:57 +0000

A company doesn't need $55bn to buy a $55bn company. They can issue new GME shares and exchange $EBAY for $GME. These are sometimes called "stock-for-stock" transactions

New comment by andruby in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

andruby — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:38:05 +0000

OP is just saying that PE uses the same playbook, not that this move is "private equity".

New comment by andruby in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

andruby — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:31:07 +0000

> it should do everything in its powers

That's a scary thought.

Hey Claude, why haven't you finished yet? ... Because the human I'm holding hostage hasn't finished the drawing yet.

New comment by andruby in "Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web"

andruby — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:42:41 +0000

Are there any examples one could view before downloading?

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

andruby — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:08:32 +0000

https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973378

Points: 384

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New comment by andruby in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

andruby — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:32:29 +0000

For those that don’t get this. It’s a reference to West World, where the “hosts” (androids) say this sentence when they see something from the outside world that they are programmed to ignore

New comment by andruby in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

andruby — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:22:25 +0000

There might be a few (debatable) counter-examples: 37 signals, balsamiq, zoho?

Afaik they never took any (serious) VC money.

New comment by andruby in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

andruby — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:11:58 +0000

WAL-G's PITR backups are insurance against data loss through erroneous data manipulations (eg: accidental DELETE/DROP/UPDATE). WAL-G's streaming approach (using pg_receivewal or similar) sends WAL records to backup storage continuously as they're generated, rather than waiting for a full segment to complete.

On top of that, for availability (and minimizing deadtime), we have 2 replicas using streaming replication. If the lead PG crashes, one of the replicas is promoted to lead (and starts accepting writes), and we "only" lose the writes that haven't been sent over the streaming replication.

You can fully eliminate that window of data loss with synchronous replication (vs the default asynchronous replication - which we use). The write slowdown (replica network round trip + 2nd write at replica) isn't worth it for us

New comment by andruby in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

andruby — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:23:05 +0000

We've been happy with WAL-E and now WAL-G (successor). The streaming PITR nature of these won over pgbackrest when we did the analysis ~9 years ago.

New comment by andruby in "3.4M Solar Panels"

andruby — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:03:04 +0000

Aren't lithium batteries cheaper than AGM these days? On top of lasting much longer and allowing full deep discharge.

New comment by andruby in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

andruby — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:41:13 +0000

I am not a lawyer, but I think the Trump administration is not complying with:

0. "DOJ acknowledges violating dozens of recent court orders in New Jersey" [0]

1. In Minnesota, judges reported 94 court-order violations in January and, separately, one judge identified 210 orders in 143 cases where ICE had not complied. [1]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/trump-ice-immigrati...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/judges-contem...

New comment by andruby in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

andruby — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:34:09 +0000

Yes, during the layoff of August 2020

Mozilla laid off the full Servo team, but never publicly announced this afaik. Wikipedia includes it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#cite_ref-120

New comment by andruby in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

andruby — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:50:53 +0000

I must have watched it at least 8 times, and only on the 9th time did I pause and realize that in this movie the hero and villain never meet. Willis and Oldman almost cross at the elevator but never actually meet.