Hacker News: awesomeusername

New comment by awesomeusername in "Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field"

awesomeusername — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:59:29 +0000

Some wire and DC? and Claude et al

New comment by awesomeusername in "Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout"

awesomeusername — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:02:15 +0000

"One day in the 1960's I saw my first computer, sized like a ship's bridge where I played a primitive computer game, two dots orbiting a sun."

I'm guessing by your username that had quite the lasting impact

New comment by awesomeusername in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

awesomeusername — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:50:53 +0000

The evil characters on LinkedIn aren't the poor souls posting cringe, it's the 15 people who chime in with encouragement in the comments.

Friends don't let friends post cringe

New comment by awesomeusername in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

awesomeusername — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:38:14 +0000

This could have been whipped up in 5 mins and been a bit meh, but it's excellent.

Whoever did this actually pulled a rabbit out of a hat.

Bravo

New comment by awesomeusername in "What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half"

awesomeusername — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:25:56 +0000

Well that was intense

New comment by awesomeusername in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

awesomeusername — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:57:07 +0000

This is the opposite of what happened. Prove me wrong with a URL

New comment by awesomeusername in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

awesomeusername — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:51:53 +0000

Incus

New comment by awesomeusername in "Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks"

awesomeusername — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:11:34 +0000

I'd love a kicad plugin where not just lead times but current stock etc are showed live, and for anything marginal a button I can smash to order it in advance.

Even if 50% of the time I didn't end up using that component, that would still be an amazing service.

We pre-order parts to JLC during the design process. I know people using JLC aren't your target but my advise would be to not ignore how gloriously friction-less it is now buying parts into private inventory - and with no ongoing fees as well. They have really nailed it.

New comment by awesomeusername in "Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11"

awesomeusername — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:33:04 +0000

Genuine question, especially here on HN. Why would a developer use Windows in 2026?

I even develop windows apps. On Linux, built on GitHub actions.

If I had windows forced on me for corp reasons, like I did once, just full screen a VM

New comment by awesomeusername in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

awesomeusername — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:28:47 +0000

I literally am in the process of migrating away from proxmox because they said publicly they would not support arm.

This was necessary, but guys you got the memo too late

New comment by awesomeusername in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

awesomeusername — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:13:39 +0000

You just gave me an idea... Let's all pitch in and spread the cost of health care around. Average it out so no one gets left behind.

New comment by awesomeusername in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

awesomeusername — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:14:27 +0000

Most definitely not.

Weeps...

New comment by awesomeusername in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

awesomeusername — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:26:18 +0000

Asahi?

New comment by awesomeusername in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

awesomeusername — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:16:17 +0000

"This comparison is unfounded and not appropriate. We should maintain respect for all individuals."

New comment by awesomeusername in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

awesomeusername — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:12:02 +0000

I did the same:

I’m Kimi, an AI assistant developed by Moonshot AI (月之暗面). I can help with questions, writing, coding, analysis, and more.

New comment by awesomeusername in "Chatto is now open source"

awesomeusername — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:02:03 +0000

it would be interesting if instead of making migration tools - one shot - you could do a migration then sync.

Easier said than done, but changing peoples chat app from under them in an org is a stressful thought. If they could run side by side in sync until a critical mass has moved over, then sunset the old one, or not.

New comment by awesomeusername in "CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats"

awesomeusername — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:58:46 +0000

Seems fairly useless to me, for a few dollars I can sample the L1 frequency with a dumb device which has no idea of speed or altitude, and do the calcs with FOSS which is in the wild.

Basically a rule which inconveniences the honest and has zero impact on the bad dudes, whoever they are

New comment by awesomeusername in "Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand"

awesomeusername — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:17:50 +0000

The first company I worked for was 'Orchard Computers', because they sold Apple, Acorn and Apricot.

Around 1993-4

New comment by awesomeusername in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

awesomeusername — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:16:51 +0000

There is a bit more to it on ARM I'm afraid. The device trees are complex and it feels to me it takes it out of the realm of 'anyone can and should do it'

New comment by awesomeusername in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

awesomeusername — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:36:25 +0000

It's out, I'm daily driving one. It's great