Hacker News: dmarinus

New comment by dmarinus in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

dmarinus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:29:11 +0000

my experience with LLMs is that when you get answers to questions you didn't ask that it's repeating something that already exists. In other words, it probably regenerated a tool from which it was trained on.

Infodump about Monkey Island

dmarinus — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:23:42 +0000

Article URL: https://pants.fishing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294737

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dmarinus in "Hyperspace"

dmarinus — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:53:59 +0000

I don't think it's very useful but there's already a checksum in the meta data of an S3 object: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Object.h...

It might be better to keep an index of paths to checksums and use the checksum as object key in S3.

I'm not sure what you like to achieve but if you use restic with S3 as a backend you can achieve much better deduplicate and compression.

New comment by dmarinus in "Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?"

dmarinus — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:59:48 +0000

I don't agree that you don't have to know CSS/HTML when you use a frontend framework.

I guess some frontend frameworks can abstract it away but most don't and you almost certainly will run into the limitations of those frameworks and then you still need to understand HTML/CSS

New comment by dmarinus in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

dmarinus — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:57:04 +0000

You can load a model from this page but it's only for testing purposes on this page and it won't be used for the Prompt API.

New comment by dmarinus in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

dmarinus — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:07:02 +0000

I think this policy will disable the automatic download of the model:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#GenAILocalFoundati...

The prompt API can be tested here: https://chrome.dev/web-ai-demos/prompt-api-playground/

It would be really helpful if there was a way to download the model to a central location, so multiple users on a single system could easily share it.

New comment by dmarinus in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

dmarinus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:44:26 +0000

Wooting has done this already for many years: https://github.com/WootingKb/wooting-design

New comment by dmarinus in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

dmarinus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:15:59 +0000

The first spreadsheets I remember were TUI (pccalc, Lotus 123)

New comment by dmarinus in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

dmarinus — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:00:28 +0000

oh nice! I hate it that you can't disable mouse acceleration in macOS.

New comment by dmarinus in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

dmarinus — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:19:03 +0000

I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored

New comment by dmarinus in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

dmarinus — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:53:06 +0000

if possible you can also just create directories if they don't exist (ie. mkdir -p) and just exclude it in your root .gitignore (ie. ignore all build directories). That would safe you from creating multiple .gitignore files.

New comment by dmarinus in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

dmarinus — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:54:45 +0000

I tried this for a virtualized full screen gnome desktop environment but the latency was unbearable. I also couldn't get passthrough of command/caps lock etc to the virtual machine stable. Finally connecting an USB device (like a yubikey) didn't work seamless.

New comment by dmarinus in "Show HN: Strange Attractors"

dmarinus — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:05:10 +0000

very nice, if you want to know more of the history of chaos I recommend the following book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%3A_Making_a_New_Science?...

New comment by dmarinus in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

dmarinus — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:51:54 +0000

I think you should create a new ssh key for every computer so you only have to share the public key .

New comment by dmarinus in "RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync"

dmarinus — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:14:39 +0000

I don't like GUIs for this so I made a simple cli frontend for rsync/rclone so I can just run pull/push in a directory like git. https://github.com/meeuw/rzn

New comment by dmarinus in "Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail (2023)"

dmarinus — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:27:41 +0000

davmail supports smtp through outlook(365)

New comment by dmarinus in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

dmarinus — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:25:42 +0000

something more problematic of this smart bike is that it also requires an app to unlock.

from what I read they used many (low quality) custom parts for this bike which aren't available anymore.

New comment by dmarinus in "AIs-catcher real-time view of maritime traffic aggregated from contributors"

dmarinus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:17:44 +0000

AIS-catcher is an open source multi-platform AIS Receiver with realtime data found at aiscatcher.org

AIs-catcher real-time view of maritime traffic aggregated from contributors

dmarinus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:17:44 +0000

Article URL: https://aiscatcher.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061920

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dmarinus in "So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?"

dmarinus — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:49:27 +0000

Not sure if this is a rhetorical question but I'll bite :-)

> where do you keep the ECS service/task specs and how do you mutate them across your stacks?

It can be defined in CloudFormation, then use CloudFormation Git sync, some custom pipeline (ie. github actions) or CodePipeline to deploy it from github

You can also use CodeDeploy to deploy from Git or even a AWS supplied github action for deploying a ECS task.

> How long does it take to stand up/decomm a new instance of your software stack?

It really depends on many factors, ECS isn't very fast (I think it's on purpose to prevent thundering herd problems).

> How do you handle application lifecycle concerns like database backup/restore, migrations/upgrades?

From what I learned from AWS is that ECS is a compute service and you shouldn't persist data in ECS.

Run your database in RDS and use the supplied backup/restore functionality

> How have you supported developer stories like "I want to test a commit against our infrastructure without interfering with other development"?

If it's all defined in CloudFormation you can duplicate the whole infrastructure and test your commit there.