Hacker News: broknbottle

New comment by broknbottle in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

broknbottle — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:58:31 +0000

More LoC means easier to quantify the impact when telling a story. The actual code quality may be lower but that’s the schmuck’s problem that comes after once promo is acquired.

New comment by broknbottle in "Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?"

broknbottle — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:34:36 +0000

agreed. I previously spent like the last 15+ years checking hacker news every morning at the start of the day but within last year I've found the content to be less interesting and hacker news has lost its stickiness.

New comment by broknbottle in "Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers"

broknbottle — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:25:34 +0000

I went with iPod Hi-Fi + AirPort Express connected via mini toslink to mini toslink cable.

New comment by broknbottle in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

broknbottle — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:32:45 +0000

Some of them use arm based CPUs from Amazon’s Annapurna Labs.

New comment by broknbottle in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

broknbottle — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:53:13 +0000

Gemini CLI is deprecated and replaced by antigravity-cli

New comment by broknbottle in "Oracle is changing free tier limits. Update by the 15th to avoid charges"

broknbottle — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:41:20 +0000

Oracle is the number cloud, if you believe the posters they had around DC metro back in like 2017-2018

New comment by broknbottle in "Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub"

broknbottle — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:47:16 +0000

I’m this is not true, uv + wheels you can install binaries

New comment by broknbottle in "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"

broknbottle — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:17:58 +0000

I worked at the Henry Ford / Greenfield Village. They have a fleet of historical vehicles (Model T, Model AA, etc) and mechanics that are very passionate about the vehicles. They buy used and get whatever they can’t source made.

New comment by broknbottle in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

broknbottle — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:52:04 +0000

Penalties should scale based on net worth.

New comment by broknbottle in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

broknbottle — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:19:18 +0000

Jack Welch Disciples

New comment by broknbottle in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

broknbottle — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:00:11 +0000

It’s interesting how accurate this is to my experience back in like 2015/2016. Almost verbatim the same playbook. If they all utilize the same playbook, it seems like there’s an opportunity to use AI + skills playbook to trim the fat and streamline these PEs firms. I’m sure it could reduce headcount, lower PE management fees, etc

New comment by broknbottle in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

broknbottle — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:05:14 +0000

Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice that I am willing to make.

New comment by broknbottle in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

broknbottle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:02:22 +0000

This is a culling and the fake it until you make it crowd that focused on surface level only knowledge are finding out why they should have went deeper. The ones that honed their craft and really focused on the foundational and core stuff are in demand.

New comment by broknbottle in "Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal"

broknbottle — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:34:53 +0000

Sam Altman-Fried

New comment by broknbottle in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

broknbottle — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:08:25 +0000

Hmm seems their play is to encourage security to experiment with AI e.g. Claude etc. Google's play seems to be spend 30 billion+ for Wiz and sell both the poison (AI) and the cure (Wiz security services). Interesting business models, reminds me of when CVS would sell cigarettes.

New comment by broknbottle in "Tell HN: CrowdStrike Falcon users, check for excess KernelModuleArchiveExt files"

broknbottle — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:03:42 +0000

I’m assuming this affects their older kernel module variant. Switch to their bpf version if you must use this snake oil

New comment by broknbottle in "LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats"

broknbottle — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:25:34 +0000

Yah and they’ve only gotten sneakier with it. VS Code and the proprietary Pylance, remote ssh, etc

New comment by broknbottle in "Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows"

broknbottle — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:54:23 +0000

The tool can still be used to run on a light weight Linux VM running on a Mac Mini or other Apple hardware. At the bare metal layer the host is an Apple branded computer running macOS.

New comment by broknbottle in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

broknbottle — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:09:58 +0000

Podman offers the same experience natively but also supports VMs via podman machine.

New comment by broknbottle in "My dream thermostat (2024)"

broknbottle — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:37:50 +0000

Honeywell T6 Pro

https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Intrusion-TH6320ZW2003/dp/B...