Hacker News: audiodude

His Code Backs Up the World [Rsync, Andrew Tridgell]

audiodude — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:30:08 +0000

Article URL: https://canartuc.medium.com/his-code-backs-up-the-world-now-the-internet-wants-him-flogged-fb73c6ce050c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504660

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by audiodude in "AI Billboards, Two Truths and a Lie"

audiodude — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:14:23 +0000

You know, there's a good chance that my Claude scraped this. Also it needs way more image and way less map. I care more about browsing the gallery/stuff than where it is physically.

New comment by audiodude in "AI Billboards, Two Truths and a Lie"

audiodude — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:57:43 +0000

If you live outside San Francisco, you might not necessarily see all the _absolutely ridiculous_ AI startup billboards along the highway and throughout the city. The marketing copy is so "inside baseball" that sometimes I don't really know what it would mean to "Observe MDP workflows. With an agent".

Here's a vibe coded website poking fun at them.

AI Billboards, Two Truths and a Lie

audiodude — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://wallpaper.audiodude.xyz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491238

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by audiodude in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

audiodude — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:28:54 +0000

I think I will always get more fulfillment from the rush of leaving work a bit early on a Friday afternoon, knowing I have a couple of plans for the weekend but not being too busy, picking up a treat for my wife and I on the way home, when the weather is good (cool and crisp or partly sunny and dry), and the city is alive; I will get more satisfaction from that feeling than any "dream" I could imagine.

Show HN: Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat

audiodude — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:36:35 +0000

Virtual AI friends, personalized to you, that chat you (or don't!) on their own work/sleep schedules based on their timezones. They sometimes initiate chats. They sometimes go silent for hours. Just like real friends.

I've been "dogfooding" this for the past week, and I think it's actually kind of neat. It's way better than generically chatting with an LLM.

This repo includes a detailed setup wizard. You give it some info about yourself, which can include personal blogs/websites to scrape, github, mastodon, text documents, or just paragraphs you write off the top of your head. It builds a profile of you, and then builds _them_ off of that.

You invite your new friends to your group chat by selecting and possibly editing them in a TUI. Then you can just deploy to local Docker and forget about it. Too crepy? Drop the docker container and remove ~/.sudomake-friends.

I know this reeks of dystopian future, I get it. I think of it as a fun little toy, and I also kind of just want to see what the community feedback is.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787261

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by audiodude in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

audiodude — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:01:35 +0000

Reminds me when Toy Story 2 was deleted and they found the backups on an artist's laptop that was working from home.

New comment by audiodude in "For 12 bucks, you can have an entire sentence as a domain"

audiodude — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:24:57 +0000

Behind the scenes: https://gist.github.com/audiodude/8eb6934539f3f54a2bd1ee6d83...

TODO: 1. Automate registering the domain 2. Automate setting up the DNS 3. Better automate deploying to Netlify (Claude kind of choked on this one)

I also used my trick of immediately changing the Namechep NS records to AWS Route 53, to avoid getting a parking page and having to wait for an hour TTL to expire.

The most frustrating part was waiting for Netlify to figure out the Let's Encrypt cert. It takes ages and I have to manually recheck. Fix this Netlify! (If anyone from Netlify is reading this, it seems like I click "veryify DNS" it says "Success!" but if I reload the page it asks me to verify again).

Time spent: ~30 minutes Total cost: - Claude: $0.56 - Domain: 12 bucks of course ;) - Hosting (Netlify): $0.00

For 12 bucks, you can have an entire sentence as a domain

audiodude — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:24:57 +0000

Article URL: http://for12bucksyoucanhaveanentiresentenceasadomain.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293183

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by audiodude in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

audiodude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:01:59 +0000

So....just rot then?

New comment by audiodude in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

audiodude — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:56:16 +0000

Isn't this what TFA suggests?

New comment by audiodude in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

audiodude — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:41:09 +0000

Crazy, thanks!

New comment by audiodude in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

audiodude — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:31:23 +0000

All day in ChromeOS at work it's accidentally open the dev tools in chrome (you Ctrl-Shift-C'd when you should have just Ctrl-C'd) or kill my server in the terminal (opposite direction). All. Day.

New comment by audiodude in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

audiodude — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:28:27 +0000

While we're talking keyboards, what about emoji? Every messaging app has a different interface for them, some like Discord and Whatsapp allow you to use :smile: shortcuts, but the enumerated names are different across apps. I've occasionally gotten a dedicated OS emoji picker to show up on my Mac, but I don't know how.

On Ubuntu Cinnamon, I managed to create keyboard shortcuts for the 8 or so emoji I use the most by binding something called a "compose" key and modifying a .XCompose file, but it still took other config file gymnastics to make it persist between X sessions.

Show HN: Chrome ext to open HN links in new tab

audiodude — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:44:39 +0000

With the whole Chrome Manifest v3 debacle, I couldn't find an extension that does this that has been updated. So I vibe-coded one in about a minute with Claude Code. Just sharing in case it's useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891479

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by audiodude in "We Can Just Measure Things"

audiodude — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:34:59 +0000

To me, it makes sense that "Give me the active/main/primary account", when multiple accounts are signed in, is inherently ambiguous. Which account is the main one? You suggest Accounts.first. Is that the first account that was signed into 3 years ago? Maybe you don't want that one then. Is it the most recently signed into account?

The designer of the API decided that if you ask for "the single account" when there are multiple, that is an error condition.

New comment by audiodude in "Literate programming tool for any language"

audiodude — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:23:31 +0000

Is there any intrinsic reason why Jupyter Notebooks can't be imported? You don't know which code blocks to run?

New comment by audiodude in "CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library"

audiodude — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:06:47 +0000

If you, like me, have never heard of a .netrc file...

https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/netrc.html

New comment by audiodude in "Internet in a Box"

audiodude — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:58:16 +0000

Volunteer for Kiwix here (https://kiwix.org), we do a lot of offline Wikipedia stuff. I've personally worked on MWOffliner (https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner) which scrapes MediaWikis, primarily Wikipedia.

We have apps for basically every platform. Our PWA even supports IE 11!

You can use the WP1 tool which I'm the primary maintainer of (https://wp1.openzim.org/#/selections/user) to create "selections" which let you have your own custom version of Wikipedia, using categories that you define, WikiProjects, or even custom SPARQL queries.

New comment by audiodude in "Shared DNA in Music"

audiodude — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:25:00 +0000

What really blows my mind is not the fact that all these songs borrow from and remix one another, but the overall "problem of universals" from metaphysics. In the realm of music, how do we even identify specific characteristics that lead to properties of resemblence? How does your brain know "Oh, that's the Funky Drummer beat" when it's played on a different drum kit or at a different tempo, etc etc.

edit: Would love to see an AI driven project where you drag a slider to "mutate" a sample until it's no longer that sample but another piece of music. A "boil the frog" type thing.