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New comment by bitexploder in "Write less code, be more responsible"

bitexploder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:17:31 +0000

You can use LLM to write less code too. Just takes more intention. Which is kind of the whole point.

New comment by bitexploder in "An Introduction to Obsidian"

bitexploder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:38:15 +0000

I also give the agent an mcp with combined FTS and vector based semantic search using sqlite-vec so it can search up things quickly.

New comment by bitexploder in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

bitexploder — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:41:21 +0000

It feels a little disjointed to compare old tech. Computing tech iteration cycles and adoption rates seem more interesting than things at the dawn of communications technology.

New comment by bitexploder in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

bitexploder — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:43:20 +0000

Just need your own LLMs to exhaust them. The future seems like it will be owned by whoever can automate with LLMs in whatever problem domain there is.

My agent will be in touch with yours, I guess.

New comment by bitexploder in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

bitexploder — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:58:49 +0000

An authnz aware egress proxy that also puts guard rails on MCP behavior?

New comment by bitexploder in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bitexploder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:07:56 +0000

True. There likely needs to be some sort of templating handled by states. Each data center and location will be different and require assessment. This does drive costs up for the data center, but I don't see another fair way to handle it really.

New comment by bitexploder in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bitexploder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:01:27 +0000

That was my point. It doesn't all have to be taxes. It can also be agreed upon mitigation maintenance. Better filtration on gas turbines, etc. Green spaces to mitigate sound impact. I don't know, I am just wondering if there is a model that can be designed that makes a data center "balance" within its local environment instead of getting the opposite, tax incentives. Right now I agree, they get to socialize the costs and reap the benefits of building data centers to a large extent.

New comment by bitexploder in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bitexploder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:56:27 +0000

Perhaps they are simply not taxed enough to benefit the community. If the local municipality is bearing a lot of these hidden costs, then perhaps the taxes need to be higher and directed at efforts that mitigate the worst of the problems. Water management solutions, air pollution management. Are there ways to mitigate the noise pollution? It seems like they should be taxed /more/ to help offset the negatives. There is surely a way to mitigate the problems. For example, can the noise pollution be addressed by forcing more green spaces around them, etc?

New comment by bitexploder in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

bitexploder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:01:23 +0000

I asked the AI. It’s first reference was this comment. They were really doing a lot in the 80s at Bell Labs.

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:55:31 +0000

Hah, yeah. I do have a one line CLI script to upload a file to S3, get a shareable link, and send it to me on ntfy.sh. And my family all have ntfy.sh so that honestly is viable for some things. But still, not really all that workable for many things. And only I have this power in my family

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:16:02 +0000

I am pretty sure I knew that and forgot it and now I know it again :)

New comment by bitexploder in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

bitexploder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:28:10 +0000

No killer products... just robots that can do vulnerability analysis at the level of a decent security engineer and write code without tiring.

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:45:33 +0000

I do agree with you at a philosophical level. I have worked in infosec long enough to know. I am pretty careful with what I upload. It’s just hard. Every little home hosted thing. They eat your time. Take effort. Even the “easiest” solutions have a real human cost if you are hosting it yourself.

My solution is… I have no fucks left to give about it. I haven’t for a long time. It works. My family will have all our photos and valuable sentimental data preserved. I keep a local backup. I spend my time on other stuff more valuable to me. If dropbox and backblaze disappear tomorrow oh well. If all my data is leaked? Knock yourself out. All the good stuff is in encrypted volumes.

My data has been breached 12 times by my count. /Twice/ by the OPM itself as I had a security clearance. DOGE goons have all our data and walked out with USB drives with all of it.

Equifax and credit agencies are a joke. My threat model is simple, nothing you can blackmail me with goes to the cloud. And that’s that. Breach me, try to hack my finances, try to steal my crypto. I have had my SIM transferred and someone unsuccessfully attacked my crypto accounts with it.

Good luck to everyone with my data :)

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:09:26 +0000

Until I want to share with say… anyone that isn’t on HN :)

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:07:01 +0000

At least, here the biases are well known. I have been here since the beginning as well. :)

New comment by bitexploder in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bitexploder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:05:34 +0000

Every so often someone is like, Dropbox isn’t that hard. Look at this amazing ZFS/whatever! So simple. Yeah, I keep paying Dropbox every year so I don’t have to think about it. I shoot a sync off to backblaze every once in a while.

New comment by bitexploder in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

bitexploder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:56:24 +0000

It was like 0.5% GDP. It wasn’t insane, but still, you are right.

It was very focused. What do we get out of the F-35 program? By comparison, it has eaten (projected total lifetime cost) 2 trillion dollars. It is 4.5% of the GDP. I had no idea. This is just a military and government contractor subsidy. What are we doing…

New comment by bitexploder in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

bitexploder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:27:48 +0000

I am skeptical you could do something of that scale for 30B today. That is just the dollar cost based on inflation. If you used CPI indexing probably hundreds of billions to a trillion dollars now.

New comment by bitexploder in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

bitexploder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:19:26 +0000

The Manhattan project employed some significant % of all of America. A project of that scale will likely never happen again.

It was also about far more than the science. It was about industrializing the entire production process and creating industrial capability that simply did not exist before.

New comment by bitexploder in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

bitexploder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:57:04 +0000

In my experience it really depends. You are still contractually and legally obligated to purchase a vehicle in many of these setups, they just don't follow up or enforce it directly in most cases. Loan rates are nothing like unsecured personal loan rates. Probably higher than best auto loan rates. With rates being what they are it may not make as much sense to use an unsecured loan at this point, but when rates are low the cost was negligible and the convenience worth it.