Hacker News: bpavuk

New comment by bpavuk in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

bpavuk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:01:35 +0000

it's not so much for agents as for getting fresh deals right in your browser sidebar (Zen Browser live folders, for example) or a dedicated RSS reader app (like Newsflash)

I only read HN through Zen Browser sidebar and, rarely, Telegram at this point. everything else - friends' blogs, Codeberg/Tangled/GitHub activity - only as new tabs on the left side of the screen.

New comment by bpavuk in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

bpavuk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:57:28 +0000

but can't it set a dangerous precedent if it escalates further?

New comment by bpavuk in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

bpavuk — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:36:16 +0000

how about just having zeroconf on and using .local domains?

New comment by bpavuk in "Why I love NixOS"

bpavuk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:34:00 +0000

depends whether you consider rootless Docker "cheap". I tried running ZeroClaw in a Nix-derived Docker (spoiler - it was a bad idea to use ZeroClaw at all since the harness is very buggy) and there is still a potential for container escape zero-days, but that's the best I've found. also, Nix's own containerization is not as hermetic as Docker; they warn about that in docs

New comment by bpavuk in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

bpavuk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:41:31 +0000

turns out I have the same setup (sans local LLMs - they are pretty useless on 2018 cards) but in Obsidian :)

whatever I think might be useful later, I capture through the web clipper extension. [0]

[0]: https://obsidian.md/clipper

New comment by bpavuk in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

bpavuk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:58:45 +0000

because the floor is fucking insane for junior developers right now!!

New comment by bpavuk in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

bpavuk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:35:42 +0000

no, it was not, I'm too young to get drafted :) although I'd argue that nowadays, the line between a civilian and a combatant is blurred more than ever. at least in Ukraine it's like that

New comment by bpavuk in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

bpavuk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:00:15 +0000

right???? especially that "never pay a human again" at the end... Palantir is a sweetheart on Doublespeed backdrop

New comment by bpavuk in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

bpavuk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:58:04 +0000

well, I had one fly above my head in 2025, too. I know what compare against

New comment by bpavuk in "Sunsetting Jazzband"

bpavuk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:38:53 +0000

we have a solution for that: GPL + commercial dual-licensing. the problem is that a) there is an entire anti-GPL crowd; although I'd just not give a shit about them, it's worth mentioning, b) who's gonna enforce the license?, c) how are you going to monetize internal use? what if your tech (e.g. a build system) is only really useful internally?

New comment by bpavuk in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

bpavuk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:21:23 +0000

related: https://doublespeed.ai/ - basically astroturfing as a service.

their landing page stops short of saying that Doublespeed would be "a good fit for your political campaign." I'd prefer fighting an AI-powered drone over becoming a victim of "Dead Internet-aaS" startup. at least, flying lawnmowers are honest

New comment by bpavuk in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

bpavuk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:29:37 +0000

it's a distinct piece of hardware based on AMD XDNA architecture, which, coincidentally, much like CPUs, can tap into your RAM pool. there are XDNA drivers (`amdxdna`) for Linux.

New comment by bpavuk in "Glaze by Raycast"

bpavuk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:14:10 +0000

so many unknowns...

1. macOS and Windows require installation of Xcode and Visual Studio respectively, and if in Apple's case you kinda can install these tools headlessly and choose to install only the "build tools" package, Microsoft's creature is gonna daze and confuse you with a crap-ton of checkboxes and no easy "just install whatever is minimally needed to compile my code" button, and I don't recall if there is way to install build tools on Windows through terminal.

2. what is going to be distributed? source code itself or actual binaries? and what will the security model of Glaze store be? same as extensions, "everything is open-source and undergoes Raycast's and community review"?

3. Glaze is going to come to Windows and Linux, if we trust the Q&A section at the end. what will Glaze build upon? separate frameworks and languages for each platform or something multi-platform [1] like Tauri or Kotlin Multiplatform? or are you going to copy the Raycast extension model - just run Node, expose some platform integration, and parse React render trees through "Glaze Runtime"? I've been working on a bug in Vicinae [2][3], and I've seen this model in action. it's very hard to make it perform well, but all it takes to achieve native look and feel is to just map React render trees to whatever system component OS offers. (in Vicinae's case, it's Qt. bet that it's done with SwiftUI on macOS and WinUI 3 on Windows.)

[1]: there is a difference between "cross-platform" and "multi-platform". "cross-platform" means "I behave equally across platforms and have no awareness of native look and feel" (e.g. Electron, Unity, Flutter), while "multi-platform" means "I can adapt across platforms to the degree you need" (e.g. C/C++, Rust, KMP)

[2]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae

[3]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae/pull/1158

New comment by bpavuk in "AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims to Be the Successor to Opus"

bpavuk — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:47:28 +0000

I am not that familiar with audio codecs, yet I think it's exciting if it means "music files will get smaller while keeping as much information". I keep ~50GB of FLAC music on desktop, but mostly I use MP3 320Kbps "mirror" of the music library, which is easier to sync to phone with Syncthing. the quality loss is... noticeable at best.

New comment by bpavuk in "Software 3.1? – AI Functions"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:30:16 +0000

so, this idea looks like follows: expose programmatic access to your program, which potentially operates in destructive manner (no Undo button) on potentially sensitive data; give a sloppy LLM (sloppy - due to its sheer unpredictability and ability to fuck up things a sober human with common sense never ever would) a Python interpreter; then let it run away with it and hope that your boundaries are enough to stop it at the edges YET don't limit the user too much?

nah, I'm skipping this update.

New comment by bpavuk in "AI-generated replies are a scourge these days"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:04:42 +0000

damn you are getting downvoted so hard! folks really don't want to leave screens

New comment by bpavuk in "NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:36:36 +0000

I know, but I'm saying that this specific implementation of JS dynamic analysis would be interesting, especially given that there are crates such as `deno_core`

New comment by bpavuk in "Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:35:25 +0000

if my eyes see 120 FPS, my brain expects input lag to match. dissonance causes dissatisfaction.

New comment by bpavuk in "NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:45:07 +0000

this is actually an interesting idea to re-implement! imagine a JS runtime with hooks all over the place. these hooks look for `chmod`, `rm -r ~`/`rm -rf /` and such, intercept network requests, and scan variables for known API key patterns, e.g `sk_****`.

New comment by bpavuk in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

bpavuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:19:39 +0000

no, NixOS Unstable. normally, they precompile such stuff, but ONNX decided that it wants to link against my ROCm instance specifically. looks like soon we will have to resort to dirty workarounds akin to those in Blender (HIP, CUDA support)