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New comment by appstorelottery in "Devvm.dev: One VM for every project"

appstorelottery — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:33:02 +0000

I'm constantly blown away by the power that LLM's are giving us. I've been working on a self-improving agent for around six months - and over the past few weeks I used VM's to isolate the governance layer. Virtualization is - to me - a completely black art, and yet with the deepseek flash 4.1 model the agent itself has built it's own virtual machine launcher/manager on OSX and even managed to port it to windows (windows Home has very limited VM support). For all the negative excitement about LLM's, I'm just amazed how our capabilities are being extended as engineers and what's possible.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

appstorelottery — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:53:08 +0000

I remember when water was privatized in Brisbane, Australia - instantly noticing the jump in my bill. It's clear that privatizing infrastructure like water & electricity doesn't benefit consumers (unless they are somehow investors). I understand that Amsterdam is privatizing water as well. But what can be done about this? Is the only path as consumers is to become ruthless capitalists for our own survival? I wonder where this cycle ends?

New comment by appstorelottery in "Kernal.org Compromised?"

appstorelottery — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:35:59 +0000

Just seeding a comment - the original headline should have read - "Kernel.org compromised". Hoping for a bit of insight into the origin of the rabbit hole of kernal.org.

Kernal.org Compromised?

appstorelottery — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:28:23 +0000

It might give some of you a Friday laugh - but it nearly gave me a heart attack. I'm building a kernel appliance and while it was building I thought to check the kernel website, but autocomplete sent me to kernal.org instead of kernel.org. I had a moment of sheer panic - with all these CVE's recently anything is possible.

I wonder what the history behind kernal.org is? It is some kind of troll for linux heads?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208674

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Unity Mass-Suspends Accounts

appstorelottery — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:56:53 +0000

Years ago after the last Unity CEO issue, a lot of Unity developers began searching for a new development platform due to pricing changes. Unity tends to send a lot of information that developers ignore via email, however last Tuesday they sent two emails in quick succession (a) TFA has been disabled on your account and a follow up email (b) Your account has been suspended.

In a world of phishing attempts - I personally ignored these emails only to discover today that Unity had indeed suspended my account. Considering the many, many thousands of dollars I have spent on Asset Store purchases over the years - and that they are now locked in this account - in addition to the fact that Unity cannot be used without either unsuspending the account (or creating a new one)... I'm concerned as to why Unity went about doing it this way. Was there a data breach? Or is it just plain incompetence on their part to approach the problem this way?

For those of you yet to discover your account has been blocked you can find support information here: https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/54616227806612-My-Unity-account-was-suspended-after-the-2FA-deadline-How-do-I-get-it-back

For me, it just feels like another nail in the coffin; I'm not using Unity professionally at the moment because of fears like this. (Insert greybeard rant on "things weren't like this when we owned our software and personal computers during the 'good old days'). But wow. If this had happened a few years ago when I was consulting and earning 100% of my income through Unity I would have been shocked.

On top of this I had a reddit post blow up and fill my email box up.

While I'm ranting - I'll end up on a positive note... Deepseek had an outage on Wednesday & users got refunded a weeks worth of token spend - it was delightful to see and to me this is what it looks like when a company is super-focused on retaining their users.

Peace out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116839

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by appstorelottery in "Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity"

appstorelottery — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:44:06 +0000

You'll know my bird when you catch it: "Realized that "reasoning was set to low" on DeepSeek Flash 4.1 - set it to high and life improved immediately."

Strange world we live in, but life just got seriously better. ;-)

New comment by appstorelottery in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

appstorelottery — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:45:26 +0000

Very nice - thank you!

New comment by appstorelottery in "MentalHealthBench"

appstorelottery — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:35:46 +0000

This is a multi-session problem, or at least this is how I've solved it in the past (i.e. the user chat/report thread isn't the one driving the conversation, the sub-sessions/workflows are guiding the analysis).

p.s. there's some interesting literature on how in some circumstances (i.e. religious delusions), where actually validating the patient - basically confirming their experience can lead to rapid recovery (however this approach is not found in western culture). I do agree with you in terms of the risks of LLM's driving folks deeper into delusional beliefs & behaviors - it's very real.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"

appstorelottery — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:29:06 +0000

Speed run to game over by simply opening the text editor.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Distributed Systems Classics (2017)"

appstorelottery — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:29:06 +0000

WhatsApp backend in Erlang + used in telecoms

New comment by appstorelottery in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

appstorelottery — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:36:05 +0000

Anyone that uses "Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code"? Can you speculate that plan or cost might have been involved in doing this (given that it seems approximately 5 hours or so of continuous operation for both C++ and Assembly ports, along with the shipping / marketing functions where it's not clear how much compute was used". Thanks in advance (I'm thinking of trying US based models, however I'm penny pinching using DeepSeek Flash etc. ATM).

New comment by appstorelottery in "John C. Dvorak has died"

appstorelottery — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:44:56 +0000

Hey rosrepa... I want to go down your rabbit hole & collect some titles... would you be kind enough to recommend some easy ones to start with?

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:32:07 +0000

Disappointed that it wasn't returning a list of paragraphs from eBooks that semantically match; search only appears to list the publications - not the actual match within the document.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:19:26 +0000

Living in bizarro world of AI. Install open source project, fails, feed into OpenCode w/DeepSeekFlash 4 -> feed error into it get fixed.

The kill_port function only catches ImportError from the psutil block, so when psutil is installed but raises AccessDenied (common on macOS), it crashes instead of falling back to lsof.

In platform_paths.py - add two lines after line 250:

except psutil.Error: pass

Fixed. Now when psutil raises AccessDenied (as happens on macOS without elevated privileges), it falls through to the lsof/fuser fallback instead of crashing. Try docubrowser start again.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:15:58 +0000

Anyone getting a bunch of permission errors when running (e.g. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 347, in wrapper return fun(self, args, *kwargs) File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 508, in net_connections rawlist = cext.proc_net_connections(self.pid, families, types) PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted (originated from proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDLISTFDS) 1/2)

New comment by appstorelottery in "Om Malik has died"

appstorelottery — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:32:27 +0000

"Om patiently explain how I should think about my career" - care to share what Om explained to you?

New comment by appstorelottery in "Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops"

appstorelottery — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:08:34 +0000

I think it's all about keeping state in the determinant space. I've come across the same issue, the key was to not rely on LLM performing workflow - the runtime needs to enforce.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

appstorelottery — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:57:10 +0000

New business model apparently. USD$22,567.56 per day.

1. Make Trump meme 2. Go to jail for N days 3. Profit ($22k per day)

Nice ;-)

New comment by appstorelottery in "Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game"

appstorelottery — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:28:24 +0000

Amazing work! Thanks very much for this OP!

New comment by appstorelottery in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

appstorelottery — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:41:43 +0000

This is great stuff! As a side note, I wonder if anyone has created a HAM viewer that runs in the browser? I remember HAM flickering by necessity and being amazed by 4096 colors on-screen at once. There was a certain quality of HAM images on the Amiga that made them instantly identifiable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify