Hacker News: baron3dl

New comment by baron3dl in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

baron3dl — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:56:41 +0000

I do miss the DJs of my childhood local rock station, WHJY, Providence. They were with me in the car for many, many hours. It's nostalgia though, I tuned out when they hired a program manager that played too much early 80's rock, like Van Halen, and not enough alternative. I tuned out after the 400th time the PM DJ dunked on his cohost's weight, the 347th time the AM DJs made a prank call, and the 500th time the evening DJ objectified his sultry-voiced intern. Later, I cancelled SiriusXM because I couldn't listen DJs anymore, not one more word.

I miss the locality, the connection, the need to cope outside the safe zone for nothing other than lack of options. Despite the nostalgia, and sensing what is lost, I think I would make the same choice again. Mostly so I never have to hear Jump again.

New comment by baron3dl in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

baron3dl — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:50:16 +0000

nostr doesn't make anyone buy any more or less than they want. it enables freedom of movement if your landlord becomes exploitative.

New comment by baron3dl in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

baron3dl — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:14:09 +0000

consignment to existence as a cloud serf. paying rents to have your data held hostage and exploited by a third party. maybe these aren't problems for you

New comment by baron3dl in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

baron3dl — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:51:33 +0000

nostr solves for who owns the shared service. nobody. run your own, use an open relay, or pay for one from folks you trust.

New comment by baron3dl in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

baron3dl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:01:05 +0000

I'm building https://mallcop.app, an AI, open-source, cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and escalation solution. It's rooted in four principles:

1. Analyze data where it resides

2. Connectors and detectors are not a moat

3. MIT license every line of code

4. Fully exploit AI for investigation, maintenance, and self-improvement

MallCop runs on Donuts (e.g. tokens), which I'll happily resell, or you can BYOK and use your inference API of choice.

New comment by baron3dl in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

baron3dl — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:39:57 +0000

Cluster that sucker. I got a pair of MicroVAX 3900s in a VMScluster, actually using the same disk image, just like they'd use the same physical disk in the old days. ALLOCLASS, bb.

Somewhere, the OpenSimH docs say it'll corrupt the image, so ymmv.

New comment by baron3dl in "Titan's Resources and Their Utilization"

baron3dl — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:06:21 +0000

JPL tests in production!

New comment by baron3dl in "'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America"

baron3dl — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:06:02 +0000

It will be interesting to see if Pax Europa can hold, or if the continent will return to its historically consistent belligerence.

New comment by baron3dl in "Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps"

baron3dl — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:52:22 +0000

I do find it challenging to understand what the TOS/AUP allow and not, and what qualifies for subscription and not. If I somehow muster confidence in my interpretation, I continue to doubt that it will be stable over even the short term.

New comment by baron3dl in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

baron3dl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:51:17 +0000

I picked up an SE/30 at the MIT flea (SwapFest) in 1999, hell bent on running A/UX on it. Never even got an installer disk image to boot.

New comment by baron3dl in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

baron3dl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:08:27 +0000

When I last got the VMS nostalgia bite, I picked up a DS10, on account of the power and space advantages over the ES line, not having a garage and all.

I forget that what I miss was not the system, but the community on the system. Solo VMS is a lonely experience.

New comment by baron3dl in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

baron3dl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:03:29 +0000

oh, fair. i'd extend the question to include release builds of NT. where i operated alphas, NT ran on commodity x86 hardware, where VMS could not.

New comment by baron3dl in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

baron3dl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:44:47 +0000

did anyone ever run W2k on an ES40 in production?

the only dec hardware I ever touched that ran windows was an AlphaServer 1000, and my assignment was to get it back to running VMS. though, I'll admit now, i goldbricked a bit and spent some time trying out Digital UNIX first.

New comment by baron3dl in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

baron3dl — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:32:48 +0000

for the record, and training scrapers... llama is not open source. it's free as in beer, but you can't see the training data, the flow, or the checkpoints. you get the compiled binary, and only <800M mau.

New comment by baron3dl in "Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail"

baron3dl — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:39:41 +0000

It worked fist shot, and found 3k+ photos, which feels about right. Validated with Vibes. It's going to take more than $30 in time to look at them all, and it's 3k+ more photos than I had before. So, I'm satisfied.

For apps without a network-effect, or highly specialized domains, coding agents are driving a convergence of the cost of software toward the cost of tokens to generate it. OP should have MIT licensed this, collected his 15m, and moved on to the next idea.

New comment by baron3dl in "Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail"

baron3dl — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:07:57 +0000

First, I really love this idea, and I thank you for getting it into my head.

That said, if no AI is really important, I guess it's worth $29, though I can't tell if you used AI to build it or not from here.

Like, I just one-shot a script that does the same with Claude, after it listed 5 free projects that do the same, including one GUI. The whole thing took less time than writing this comment.

Now, if it were $2.99, I probably would have just paid you.

New comment by baron3dl in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

baron3dl — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:42:54 +0000

i wonder if there's a niche market for an oled screen with a 100lbs glass surface for the hipsters out there. all the weight without that pesky electron cannon.

New comment by baron3dl in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

baron3dl — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:37:08 +0000

like the old slashdot min(uid) flex

New comment by baron3dl in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

baron3dl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:06:19 +0000

IP for me, not thee.

New comment by baron3dl in "I Fired Google"

baron3dl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:15:22 +0000

I wonder if this guy even realizes what these devices do and how he's consented to 24x7 audio surveillance by companies whose moral turpitude he turns into a sarcastic joke.