Hacker News: cpburns2009

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

cpburns2009 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:32:51 +0000

When I tested various eval benchmarks on Qwen3.5/3.6 27B with Unsloth's quants, the scores usually dropped 0-5% between UD-Q6 and UD-Q3 depending on the eval.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "I want extern "fil-C""

cpburns2009 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:24:48 +0000

This doesn't look like LLM slop to me, or even LLM generated.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

cpburns2009 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:56:14 +0000

In my anecdotal experience the trend seems to be the less well-off families have stay-at-home moms, while the well-off professionals both work. It largely seems that the "no one can afford kids" idea is an excuse to not give up the DINK life style or at least dual income.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

cpburns2009 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:36:42 +0000

It's 3 servers so it's not too much hassle to ssh into them and check it manually.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

cpburns2009 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:50:29 +0000

Almost lol: grep, sort and uniq. If I notice someone is hammering my employer's ecommerce site, I'll block them. It isn't required often so I've been reluctant to spend the time setting up fail2ban.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

cpburns2009 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:14:10 +0000

Exactly this. It's no different from a bot pretending to be Googlebot. I've tried reporting abusive IPs to various foreign hosts, but nothing every comes to it. I've settled for just blacklisting excessively abusive IP ranges.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

cpburns2009 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:06:55 +0000

> I want good news, awesome things, uplifting stories, cool hacks. That's it. That's literally it.

This is my actual experience on X. Find interesting people to follow. The "muted words" feature is great for filtering out political noise.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

cpburns2009 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:20:37 +0000

You can handle all of that in high school, but suddenly can't handle the mental stress of a grade report your first semester of college? Give me a break.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

cpburns2009 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:28:36 +0000

No one is forcing you or me to be on here.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

cpburns2009 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:48 +0000

Children cost relatively little themselves. What "costs" a lot is the opportunity cost of the mother not working, or paying a salary to someone else to watch your kids.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

cpburns2009 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:01:07 +0000

I don't doubt you could host this site on any old Raspberry PI, but I guarantee it's hosted in a data center.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

cpburns2009 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:03:04 +0000

There's a 100% chance this very website you're arguing on is hosted in one if not more data centers.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:43:35 +0000

The nice thing about running a microVM like a container is the interface is relatively easy, especially if you've used containers before.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:38:44 +0000

Do you have a strategy for secrets? Such as storing them, or using MitM to inject them (e.g., HTTP API requests)? I've used squid cache in the past, and currently use iron-proxy for this sort of feature.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:29:12 +0000

I know it's a losing battle. The way I see it is if you're not going to test performance under pressure, give everyone as much time as they want (within reason). If you want a fair stress test, don't discriminate and give special privileges.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:54:27 +0000

That's precisely the point. Stop giving people unfair advantages.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:47:41 +0000

Gondolin looks interesting. It sounds like a TypeScript wrapper that achieves the same thing as my setup: Docker & Kata Containers 4 (KVM/QEMU backend) for microVMs, iron-proxy for egress and secrets, and dnsmasq for internal network name resolution (workaround for a Docker/Kata incompatibility).

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

cpburns2009 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:32:58 +0000

So Docker is finally adding native support for a microVM backend? I wonder how it well it will compare to using the Kata Containers 4 runtime with the KVM/QEMU backend.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

cpburns2009 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:31:35 +0000

What I don't get is why we disadvantage everyone who's honest. Just give everyone extra time to level the playing field.

New comment by cpburns2009 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

cpburns2009 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:10:20 +0000

Good luck working in the real world if you can't handle interpersonal interactions or being judged. The coddling has to stop. It's doing no one any good.