Hacker News: cbzbc

I Fixed This EMT 250 [video]

cbzbc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6nTxA1bHU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195184

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years

cbzbc — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shuts-down-trump-1236623793/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505794

Points: 21

# Comments: 5

New comment by cbzbc in "Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring"

cbzbc — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:26:34 +0000

And the author has admitted at least some assistance here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452841

There may have been less pushback if this had been expressed up front. But also, what is it ? Is it to "test the architecture applied to nats" or is it to be a fully fledged NATs replacement (as per the impression given by table at the bottom of the website) - which becomes much harder if AI has significantly re-written the authors original code (and commented it badly).

The website being AI coded I can take or leave.

New comment by cbzbc in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

cbzbc — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:26:41 +0000

The reason we know about Theranos is that it ended up in court. Plenty of other startups have had obviously impractical ideas that didn't go anywhere.

New comment by cbzbc in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

cbzbc — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:15:28 +0000

Some of those (including many providers on Openreach) will support mini-jumbo frames that allow an MTU of 1500 inside pppoe.

The 30-foot sea cow quickly hunted to extinction because of its tasty meat

cbzbc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/stellers-sea-cow-30-foot-hunted-extinction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044906

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cbzbc in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

cbzbc — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:59:41 +0000

Is there a Obsidian -> Hugo/Zola/Jekyll thing that's relatively robust?

New comment by cbzbc in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

cbzbc — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:15:39 +0000

What are people using to edit entries - because while markdown is fine, a lot of the time I want to be able to drag in screenshots, snippets of other documents like rfcs and so on. So it ends up being easier to make those notes for myself rather than push them into anything publishable.

New comment by cbzbc in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

cbzbc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:09:45 +0000

The problem is that they react to lights from the opposing vehicle, but they are going to hit your eyes before they detect your lights.

That's with simple high beam assist. The matrix ones you refer to actually have another feature which makes things even worse; they progressively dip the light in parts, but combined with the first effect this means that you have a few seconds of being blinded before all of their component leds have been dipped.

Not to mention that they are only reacting to something directly in front of them for the most part -- meaning you can be blinded on curves, or when turn around and looking at them off axis (say as they wait to turn into a road).

Writing your own BEAM

cbzbc — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/09/writing-your-own-beam.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867828

Points: 268

# Comments: 86

New comment by cbzbc in "IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act"

cbzbc — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:30:57 +0000

The Sun has cumulatively lost about £500m over the last few years. I presume there must be some other purpose for keeping it around.

New comment by cbzbc in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

cbzbc — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:10:42 +0000

They aren't big - but they are bigger than when it was just Urs and a couple of guys turning out plugins.

They becoming popular on the back of Diva, and Hans Zimmer using Zebra (he's very fulsome in his praise whenever mentioning u-he in interviews).

Extrapolating Quantum Factoring

cbzbc — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:13:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/28/extrapolating-quantum-factoring/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633875

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cbzbc in "SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust"

cbzbc — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:37:22 +0000

Right, but all it says is that an error was thrown.

New comment by cbzbc in "SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust"

cbzbc — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:16:55 +0000

I'd like to know the details of the errors -- because it could have been as simple as running out of memory.

Why Music Streaming Is Broken Now [video]

cbzbc — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plleJ0Zv0Ww

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170512

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Vibe Coding VST Plugins with A.I. (Ft. Claude Code and Windsurf)

cbzbc — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fDdJwIkUM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998650

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cbzbc in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

cbzbc — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:52:36 +0000

It does, because SIGTERM is traditionally understood as the trigger for a shutdown. Docker - for instance - will send a SIGTERM to pid 1 when a container is stopped - which goes back to a previous comment here about using a real init as pid 1 if the thing in your container forks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990092

New comment by cbzbc in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

cbzbc — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:22:17 +0000

runit doesn't propagate SIGTERM to services it starts.

New comment by cbzbc in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

cbzbc — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:18:57 +0000

runit doesn't always take care of services it manages in the same way as a proper init . From the man page:

"If runsvdir receives a TERM signal, it exits with 0 immediately"