<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bityard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bityard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:53:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bityard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are going to have a bad time when your / filesystem fills up, regardless of the filesystem type. This is one of the reasons for separate /usr, /var, /home, etc that many seem to have forgotten. Smaller blast radius when there is a problem.<p>The reserved space in ext4 doesn't do you any good if root is the user that filled up the disk in the first place, which is far and away the most common thing I see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444597</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Companies are beginning to gate previously existing features behind the requirement to connect their devices to the cloud and/or install an app on your phone.<p>Dishwashers, refrigerators, even (and perhaps especially) cars.<p>"Just don't connect it to the Internet," is sadly less viable option as time goes on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:09:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434025</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of what you said is actually how furnaces work.<p>"Spinning it to bypass the safety" is not a thing.<p>Please don't spread FUD.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:57:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423652</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought I described it pretty well, but if you really need more detail to prove I'm not making it all up, here is the GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/cu/doneski" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cu/doneski</a><p>I didn't include it with my comment because I didn't want to be seen as shilling it. And because it's not likely to be useful to anyone but me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419059</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know what those people are doing, but I built a personal day-to-day notes manager at work, for work, for under $20 in credits. Yes, I could have just used text files but this is less friction which means I'll actually stick to it. Nothing exactly like this already existed. It was built in under a week in small portions of spare time, and it probably would have been more like a month if I had to choose all the libraries and write the whole thing myself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:04:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401482</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We kept shrinking it and shrinking it and it kept getting more and more powerful and here we are with AI and it's only going to be 100x more efficient with time.<p>It's definitely an exciting time, but in terms of advancements in the state of the art, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit left to pick. There IS a bottom, however, as you can only encode so much "knowledge" in a small number of parameters.<p>This feels to me a lot like what the early days of what radio or aviation must have been like. Or, heck, microcomputers even.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388560</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I upgraded from Debian 12 to 13 on my personal laptop running KDE, I knew that the switch from X11 to Wayland would happen and was braced for all kinds of issues, like every other time I tried to switch to Wayland in previous years.<p>Instead, I could tell literally no difference. Multiple desktops works fine, scaling works fine, screen capture works fine, old apps work fine, literally everything works just fine.<p>Good job, KDE team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372308</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nor the Cartoon Network show (and later movie) Aeon Flux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372195</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strong disagree. One of the core strengths of LLMs from the beginning is that they are very good at NOT changing meaning, as long as your model isn't so small that it starts to get "dumb" and as long as your input fits in the context window. (Two known limitations that aren't always exposed to the end user in poorly-written applications.)<p>Of course, LLMs are non-deterministic and do occasionally make mistakes, so you have to use them correctly and review their output. You shouldn't paste a doc into the web UI and tell it "fix all the mistakes and write the output to a new file." You should instead have it present each mistake and fix to the user as a diff and let the user approve or deny, either within the application or allowing the user to make their own edits. Never let it "rewrite" the whole document, that's the document-editing equivalent of giving OpenClaw root on your personal computer. Nothing good will come of it.<p>Classic spell checkers can't detect homophones. E.g. "there" and "their." Grammar checkers can, but at least the ones that I have used also like to change the tone of my writing to sterile corporate PC speak. LLMs used for grammar checking have not, in my experience, meddled with my tone. (Although sometimes they try to admonish me for it!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:08:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372133</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get lots of spam/scams after posting to Who Wants to be Hired. Posting here is not really going to fix it, it's just bots. I use a new temporary email whenever I post in those threads so I can tell my mail server to reject them.<p>(But honestly I don't think I'm going to bother posting anymore since I haven't gotten a single non-spam lead at all from those threads.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371718</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Nvidia RTX Spark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't believe Anthropic and OpenAI are any more fearful of local AI than Google or Microsoft are of people hosting their own email.<p>Local AI capabilities are growing at a rapid pace, but so is hosted AI. While you can do a surprising amount of useful work with a model occupying a few to a few hundred gigs of VRAM, the hosted models are going to be way ahead for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362853</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Install web apps with the new HTML install element"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not answered in TFA: What does it mean to "install" a web app in Chrome?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360517</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a joke...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355796</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To get around the crappy display/keyboard/touchpad issue, one could also buy a used x86 Chromebook and install Linux on it and get very nearly the same (or better) experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:11:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355772</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Selection worked for me on mobile, but doesn't show a highlight. Probably a simple CSS fix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 15:24:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346445</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "EV Stupidity Checklist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your house had the capability of adjusting the temperature and airflow for each individual person or room, your HVAC controls at home would look more like those in a traditional car.<p>(And as others have alluded to, a house is a much more stable environment than a car. It takes a LONG time to make most houses significantly warmer or cooler, a car's internal temperature can change drastically in minutes.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330312</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "EV Stupidity Checklist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As TFA indicates, clearly a lot of experience on how to make a car reliable and easy to use has been lost, one way or another.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:42:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330286</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "EV Stupidity Checklist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of cars don't combine the rear-view mirror and backup camera into the same thing. (And shouldn't.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:35:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330233</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the timeline I remember, Microsoft and Windows were routinely criticized for producing bloated and buggy systems. Especially from those who previously used an Amiga or Mac. A new version of Windows inevitably meant buying a whole new computer, along with upgrading the memory midway through it's 3-4 year lifespan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 12:31:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322256</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Start spamming far-left YouTube videos to the public channel at the same time, according to the general theory of nutball political physics the two should cancel each other out</p>
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