Hacker News: bananapub

New comment by bananapub in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

bananapub — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:35:56 +0000

raph wrote about that already: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/07/15/next-dozen-g...

New comment by bananapub in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

bananapub — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:45:40 +0000

why did you make it so complicated? magit has a `magit-wip-mode` that just silently creates refs in git intermittently so you can just use the reflog to get things back.

New comment by bananapub in "Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion"

bananapub — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:33:51 +0000

would diffusion models benefit from things like Cerebras hardware?

New comment by bananapub in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

bananapub — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:44:56 +0000

of course not, but it can often give a plausible answer, and it's possible that answer will actually happen to be correct - not because it did any - or is capable of any - introspection, but because it's token outputs in response to the question might semi-coincidentally be a token input that changes the future outputs in the same way.

New comment by bananapub in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

bananapub — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:37:23 +0000

> Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license?

what proprietary software stack? they just publish it all on https://github.com/oxidecomputer/ .

New comment by bananapub in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

bananapub — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:48:36 +0000

it's simpler than that - making it faster means it becomes less of an asynchronous task.

current speeds are "ask it to do a thing and then you the human need find something else to do for minutes (or more!) while it works". at a certain point at it being faster you just sit there and tell it to do a thing and it does and you just constantly work on the one thing.

cerebras is just about fast enough for that already, with the downside of being more expensive and worse at coding than claude code.

it feels like absolute magic to use though.

so, depends how you price your own context switches, really.

New comment by bananapub in "What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?"

bananapub — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:47:02 +0000

which won't be surprising if you think about a little bit - 8.8.0/24 is anycasted, which just means that multiple independent locations around the world announce the IP range, so that your requests broadly go to a nearby instance of it. that's great for your inbound requests, but if it originated it's own DNS queries from that IP, then the replies would also get attracted to whatever instance of 8.8.8.0/24 is near the authoritative DNS server it just queried, not the instance of 8.8.8.0/24 that sent them.

also, even aside from that, having some large fraction of the entire world's DNS requests coming from one IP address would trigger everyone's anti-DOS filters and probably lead to some extremely funny router catastrophes as all traffic hashes to one bucket or whatever.

New comment by bananapub in "TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB"

bananapub — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:53:08 +0000

yes, OPs one has strictly less listings (diskprices.com does multiple countries).

New comment by bananapub in "Dead Internet Theory"

bananapub — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:53:03 +0000

why would you look at the "front page" if you only wanted to see things you subscribed to? that's what the "latest" and whatever the other one is for.

they have definitely made reddit far worse in lots of ways, but not this one.

New comment by bananapub in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

bananapub — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:09:01 +0000

> I have ADHD. I think.

then think about talking to a medical professional, and a therapist, and coming up with your own coping strategies.

> How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?

take notes of ideas and come back to them later when you have time.

New comment by bananapub in "The Jeff Dean Facts"

bananapub — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:34:51 +0000

yes

New comment by bananapub in "The Jeff Dean Facts"

bananapub — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:34:33 +0000

Someone should IARC the internal one.

New comment by bananapub in "Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?"

bananapub — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:55:28 +0000

anything critical of the US regime is almost immediately flagged and downvoted.

it's uh pretty confronting!

New comment by bananapub in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

bananapub — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:32:08 +0000

yes, obviously?

anyone who is doing serious enough engineering that they have the rule of "one human writes, one human reviews" wants two humans to actually put careful thought in to a thing, and only one of them is deeply incentivised to just commit the code.

your suggestion means less review and worse incentives.

New comment by bananapub in "Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025"

bananapub — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:26:19 +0000

just another happy customer, from so long ago I can't find my signup email anymore. very glad there are still companies who just do a thing well without trying to tie me up with them further or cross-sell or sell themselves or make the product worse.

keep up the good work!

New comment by bananapub in "Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes"

bananapub — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:42:13 +0000

if you want anything other than "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" then you want tmux or screen or zellij - this tool and the others like it are explicitly avoiding becoming (nested) terminal emulators like tmux and screen and zellij.

at least I think it would be possible to do "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" without being a terminal emulator, I haven't tried.

New comment by bananapub in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

bananapub — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:30:26 +0000

for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.

fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].

0: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

1: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/system...

New comment by bananapub in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

bananapub — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:57:56 +0000

it's not interesting at all - the comment is very stupid (jacobin is not "whole journal on literal communism") as well as such lazy both-sidesism everyone is dumber for having read it.

there's lots of stupid brigading on HN, but sometimes dumb comments get the downvotes they deserve.

New comment by bananapub in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

bananapub — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:55:58 +0000

you should care, he and his fellow nutters have siezed control of the USA and most tech-mega-corp leadership either agree with them or will go along with them.

New comment by bananapub in "Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days"

bananapub — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:31:05 +0000

a perhaps non-obvious option is to CNAME (or NS) the `_acme_challenge` record from your main zone to another zone you can control better and can't affect production traffic the same way the main zone could. `acme-dns` is a neat little tool for exactly this, that has an https api for your ACME client to request a cert from, and a dns server to respond to dns-01 challenges from your provider.