Hacker News: awesomeusername

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

New comment by awesomeusername in "Underarm bowling incident of 1981"

awesomeusername — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:48:08 +0000

Why was this comment downvoted? Like seriously can someone who did please post?

This is a factually correct and informative comment.

New comment by awesomeusername in "Underarm bowling incident of 1981"

awesomeusername — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:45:18 +0000

You should have made that law when you were Prime Minister

New comment by awesomeusername in "Steam Machine launches today"

awesomeusername — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:20:07 +0000

I just did this at home, and my 9 year old, without my bias or prompting, was pointing out that sea of thieves and MSFS are both microsoft games but run better on Linux

I can't believe what a non-event it was switching the kids over

New comment by awesomeusername in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

awesomeusername — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:11:11 +0000

Dogs deriving calculus:

https://www.csun.edu/~dgray/BE528/Pennigs2003Dogs_Calculus.p...

New comment by awesomeusername in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

awesomeusername — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:28:45 +0000

Linux succeeded in the datacenter because of some atrocious choices MS made early on.

Now it's going to succeed on the desktop for the same reason

Bye bye windows

New comment by awesomeusername in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

awesomeusername — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:59:00 +0000

I've been daily driving a dgx spark. Once you start there is no going back.

NVIDIA nailed it

New comment by awesomeusername in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

awesomeusername — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:33 +0000

I managed to download it!

Feeling very proud. That compsci degree finally paid off

New comment by awesomeusername in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

awesomeusername — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:58:22 +0000

No one I know with a Ferrari drives it more than a few dozens of km.

New comment by awesomeusername in "The worst job interview I ever had"

awesomeusername — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:43:32 +0000

I know many people like you. Don't project your mentality onto someone else.

People who can "pull up a facade" are a subset of the population

New comment by awesomeusername in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

awesomeusername — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:47:54 +0000

Ironic

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

awesomeusername — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:31:02 +0000

If you know these things you can take them into account while driving the AI.

Sorry, I don't buy your argument

New comment by awesomeusername in "Googlebook"

awesomeusername — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:07:55 +0000

I feel like we are of a similar age. This is great advice. My small company is growing and i'm thinking this is the path so I don't need an IT helpdesk.

Do you still use vi or were you meaning vi(*) and actually use something else? I've been on vim for a while but happy to go back to vi

New comment by awesomeusername in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

awesomeusername — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:25:05 +0000

Have them make something difficult and time consuming to make, out of a flammable material, then as soon as it get's a pass from a supervisor they have to burn it.

New comment by awesomeusername in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

awesomeusername — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:41:29 +0000

i love HN but also starting to think it's time for us oldies to have our own one: cost of entry, having a distant memory of booting linux from a floppy

New comment by awesomeusername in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

awesomeusername — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:36:53 +0000

if you are a level 11 uber hacker and know how to do that.

I had to do it a bunch and after many many times I still couldn't remember without looking at my notes

New comment by awesomeusername in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

awesomeusername — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:14:37 +0000

Experienced distiller here. This comment is spot on.

New comment by awesomeusername in "How Passive Radar Works"

awesomeusername — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:16:23 +0000

wading through sites is still a thing? web search is still a thing? ok

New comment by awesomeusername in "Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about"

awesomeusername — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:26:29 +0000

I run a hardware company now (thankfully in the age of AI), as a direct consequence of reading Bunnies book 'hardware hacker'

Thank you Bunnie.

New comment by awesomeusername in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

awesomeusername — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:01:04 +0000

wow, what a cnut