Hacker News: bloudermilk

New comment by bloudermilk in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

bloudermilk — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:27:29 +0000

How do you orchestrate this? I’m on max and would love to be hitting my caps when I’m not actively working a project

New comment by bloudermilk in "Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands"

bloudermilk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:39:28 +0000

Very cool concept. I’d love to see the controls reach spacemouse style movements. The right hand gestures could pair really well with more natural 3D navigation

New comment by bloudermilk in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

bloudermilk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:22:29 +0000

Care to elaborate?

New comment by bloudermilk in "More precise elevation data for GraphHopper routing engine"

bloudermilk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:43:20 +0000

The DEM provider they integrated, Mapterhorn, looks great at a cursory glance. They’ve managed to source and package a ton of the free high res elevation data into one dataset for easy consumption.

https://mapterhorn.com/

New comment by bloudermilk in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

bloudermilk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:52:27 +0000

Approximately one per minute in the 15 minute span proceeding this crash, including one that had an emergency takeoff rejection and was being maneuvered along with the emergency support vehicles that were being sent to attend to it

New comment by bloudermilk in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

bloudermilk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:42:28 +0000

I’ve been an M1 Air fan since I got mine in 2020 but recently things have become unusable. Playing 4K videos often drops frames, even at 30fps. And I can’t reliably run Notion’s transcription AI on Zoom calls, even though it’s not running locally. I’m going to do an OS reinstall soon to see if that helps, otherwise it will be time to upgrade…

New comment by bloudermilk in "Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station"

bloudermilk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:53:22 +0000

Congrats on this! As a born and raised valley kid, I wish this was around when I was living there as a teen.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Flux 2 Klein pure C inference"

bloudermilk — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:14:14 +0000

Do you plan on writing about the other lessons you learned, which you mentioned in the README? As a big fan of your software and writing for many years, I would deeply appreciate your perspective using these tools!

New comment by bloudermilk in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

bloudermilk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:32:21 +0000

I’m all for bringing buttons back, but do we really need that many buttons on a steering wheel?

New comment by bloudermilk in "Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot"

bloudermilk — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:31:56 +0000

Day laborers are an independent labor force who do construction, landscaping, and other manual work for a negotiated cash rate. In Los Angeles they hang out in public spaces in groups, often near hardware stores, to make themselves easy to find and hire.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

bloudermilk — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:33:16 +0000

This is precisely what the author is attempting to do.

> I know my goal: shift the default in open source from “it’s free for anyone to use” to “please don’t use this if you’re evil”. I don’t just want to do this for my little project; I want to slowly change the discourse. I’m not sure how to do that effectively, if it’s even possible.

> I remain unconvinced at the societal value of “freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose”, often called freedom 0. I don’t want to donate my work to the bad guys!

They never use the term “free software” to describe their goals. To the extent they use the term “open source” it’s in the lowercase informal form. How else should they describe their ideas if not using this terminology?

New comment by bloudermilk in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

bloudermilk — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:08:50 +0000

You’re not wrong, but arguments like this ignore the point. For many authors and maintainers, ‘free software’ and ‘open source’ as traditionally defined result in unsustainable outcomes. The original article cites articles explaining several such issues.

Many people in the software industry are looking for new licensing models that take these systemic issues into account. It’s the ecosystem evolving to address current conditions. This should be expected and welcomed, but instead the idea is consistently written off by folks who would rather live by the old rules. The commons continues to suffer for it.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

bloudermilk — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:11:29 +0000

Wild experience building a PC today and discovering the prices are less competitive with Macs than they’ve always been. Building a well-appointed gaming/production/CAD rig is suddenly very expensive between RAM, GPU, and nvme prices being so high.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

bloudermilk — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:09:43 +0000

Gamers Nexus is reporting increasing DDR4 prices, but it’s unclear to what extent it’s driven by the DDR5 market. DDR4 production is expected to be slowing anyway given the move to DDR5.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLiwNViMak

New comment by bloudermilk in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

bloudermilk — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:58:38 +0000

Wild! Does that count their own Starlink payloads? Curious what this number looks like when you only look at the launch customer market.

New comment by bloudermilk in "GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking"

bloudermilk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:20:33 +0000

Great point, I had never thought of that!

New comment by bloudermilk in "GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking"

bloudermilk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:23:21 +0000

I spent a couple years in Europe and found that most local news websites in the US blocked access entirely. My guess was that they all share IT resources / policies of the conglomerate news corp, who decided it would be cheaper to simply ignore traffic from GDRP countries.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

bloudermilk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:08:28 +0000

Sincere question: have you done the math? If so, this conversation would be a lot more interesting if you shared it.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

bloudermilk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:04:20 +0000

That’s a decision we, as a civilization, need to make. I personally hope we manage to enact transnational policies that effectively price environmental and social externalities in my lifetime. Or else witness “free market” capitalism continue to degrade our planet and the lives of millions of less privileged people.

New comment by bloudermilk in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

bloudermilk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:45:47 +0000

Are you pricing in the externalities of GHGs?