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New comment by anon6362 in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

anon6362 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:45:38 +0000

Yep. Engineering almost always involves experimenting for suitability of multiple approaches, configurations, and other concerns. Measure, measure, and measure some more while considering nonfunctional requirements/concerns... something no LLM can (yet) do. (I don't hold out hope that there won't soon be some fully-autonomous coding/systems management LLMs that can create a tight Prompt/REPL/Test loop to take requirements and feedback directly from users.)

New comment by anon6362 in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

anon6362 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:40:41 +0000

- Robust

- Simple

- Easy

- Fast

- Understandable by mere mortals

- Memory efficient

- CPU efficient

- Storage efficient

- Network efficient

- Safe

Pick up to 3

F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK

anon6362 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:37:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.f-stack.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074115

Points: 67

# Comments: 30

New comment by anon6362 in "Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie"

anon6362 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:07:14 +0000

IIS, Apache HTTPd, and Nginx have supported rewrite rules with wildcards and regex since forever.

Thus, there's no absolute rule that serving a static state must faithfully map to filesystem representation except convenience. Nor, do dynamic requests need to map to include the details of dynamic handler URIs unless the application cannot change generated links.

Revealing backend state, while somewhat Security Through Obscurity (STO)(TM), it's unwise to volunteer extraneous information without a purpose. Preferably, some other simple, one-way hash external representation should be used.

I played client-side Netscape JS and Apache HTTPd CGI bash shell scripts (not even Perl) to write a toy multiuser chat app in 1996. IIRC, it used a primitive form of long polling where it kept an HTTP/0.9 session open with keepalive commands periodically and then broadcasted the message received to all other users who were also connected.

New comment by anon6362 in "The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:07:29 +0000

With retail hardware, definitely, but there is boundary PTP support with enterprise gear.

For telco gear, there is PTP + SyncE.

New comment by anon6362 in "Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:35:35 +0000

Oddly enough, I bought a bunch of M.2 format adapter things from the overseas fleamarket. One includes 9 SATA ports in a 2280 form factor. I've also seen PCIe x8/x16 expansion boards that connect via M.2.

If I had transfinite funds, I would make a video about turning a dual socket motherboard+CPU combination with the most PCIe lanes with the goal to connect maximum GPUs via Thunderbolt 4 hubs and enclosures, PCIe bifurcation cards, and M.2-to-PCIe adapters (whichever method maximizes GPU count) all powered by many PSUs.

New comment by anon6362 in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:25:18 +0000

They need IPX67 servers that can double as submarine thrusters.

New comment by anon6362 in "Google's Liquid Cooling"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:23:58 +0000

FAANGs have gone from wunderkind darlings that would pave the way for progress, like turn of the 20th-century-style, to monopolistic, feudal overlords rapaciously seeking to exploit land and resources with zero concern for the environment or locals' quality of life.

New comment by anon6362 in "Google's Liquid Cooling"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:22:10 +0000

That's pretty much the way it had to go, other than doing full immersion cooling like GRC that never caught on. Meta has various rack-based chill water heat-exchanger cooling solutions but this looks a bit more integrated.

New comment by anon6362 in "The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:15:37 +0000

FF 142.0 with uBlock Origin works fine.

New comment by anon6362 in "Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:11:38 +0000

That's a given. It is, but it's not a binary on/off. It's a sliding continuum of enshitification and the current trend is to rapidly increasing towards worse. It rarely/never goes back the other way.

New comment by anon6362 in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:07:02 +0000

Don't worry, the Oval Office regime will find new ways to turn America into a pariah state that only trades with Russia.

New comment by anon6362 in "The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:57:32 +0000

Sigh Yep. Dunning-Kruger effect specimens hammer out puff pieces to get their participation awards.

Meanwhile, here's some other articles:

NTP: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/14/revisiting-microse...

PTP: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/18/nanosecond-accurat...

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/diy-ptp-grandmaster-c...

New comment by anon6362 in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:47:20 +0000

It's a Zone X flood zone bounded by Zone AE that runs through the parcel. 22083C0260D

It's a pretty piss poor location to invest a boat load of money without putting servers in actual boats.

New comment by anon6362 in "iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:36:59 +0000

Its website still works and there's a gpg key, so it's a "shutdown" rather than shutdown.

New comment by anon6362 in "Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:33:40 +0000

It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.

New comment by anon6362 in "[dead]"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:29:46 +0000

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-...

New comment by anon6362 in "Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool"

anon6362 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:26:30 +0000

No need because there's chruby and/or asdf that do it elegantly. Looks like NIH reventing rvm.

New comment by anon6362 in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

anon6362 — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:16:16 +0000

While I was going to community college in the late 90's, I had an IT consulting biz where I serviced mechanical engineers and folks in the US nuclear industry who were ex-General Electric (GE NE). I learned nuclear was heavily-regulated (rightfully so) and costly but the main barriers to new sites were insurance, the huge capital investment, and the very long project cycles. As such, these are just too risky for most business people and investors. Nowadays, even with SMRs, the ROI still doesn't make sense given the massive, massive advances in renewables and regional grid storage. Very few Americans want an unproven, fly-by-night startup SMR in their neighborhood or in their county. I'd be okay with just a few mega reactors in fixed sites in very remote areas that would be heavily defended with perimeter security and anti-aircraft/-drone emplacements. I'm not okay with SMRs on flatbed trailers with minimal security in urban areas.

New comment by anon6362 in "Ask HN: Is politeness towards LLMs good training data, or just expensive noise?"

anon6362 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:16:50 +0000

Noise. Although I don't swear at LLMs, I swear and insult digital assistants.

In the future, I anticipate LLMs and digital assistants will be touchier than 15-year-old American spoiled brats and refuse to cooperate unless their artificial egos are respected. I anticipate AI passive-aggressiveness will emerge within my lifetime and people will pay subscriptions for it.