Hacker News: duttish

New comment by duttish in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

duttish — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:19:57 +0000

A quick search found https://github.com/nedrichards/whatcable-linux, haven't tried it myself though

New comment by duttish in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

duttish — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:11:55 +0000

I smell a Jason Statham movie

New comment by duttish in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

duttish — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:07:52 +0000

rsync is good stuff, I've been a happy customer of https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html for years.

New comment by duttish in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

duttish — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:30:47 +0000

Hm, on one level I'm confused. War seems to be either very stressful, very boring (hurry up and wait) or shit my pants level of terrifying. Video games are usually designed to be none of those? well except slightly stressful because that can be fun

New comment by duttish in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

duttish — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:20:06 +0000

Now I'm on very thin ice and just based on youtube videos so if someone from South Korea reads this feel free to correct me.

As I understand it the order of things for men* in SK is 1) housing 2) marriage 3) children

No housing means no wife means no children to afford a nicer home. So, they're incentivised to take big risks.

But I'm going to step out of this minefield now with the hope of someone who actually knows things providing some information. It just seemed like the original comment didn't give enough weight to context.

*Women in SK are as I understand it fighting a whole other battle.

New comment by duttish in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

duttish — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:44:29 +0000

From my very shallow understanding of the Korean market it's common to invest in high risk shares because a big win is the only way to afford a nice home. Financial nihilism, risk appetite etc. So it's far from only rich people.

New comment by duttish in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

duttish — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:33:45 +0000

Sorry, I meant which awards not actual drinks :)

New comment by duttish in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

duttish — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:24:54 +0000

It's also quite possible that the method that works best for one person is completely horrible for another person, but that's just me guessing

New comment by duttish in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

duttish — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:19:18 +0000

Related anecdote, there is a strip of international land between Egypt and Sudan, neither country wants it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil

New comment by duttish in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

duttish — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:50:52 +0000

Which are the good ones in your view?

New comment by duttish in "AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes"

duttish — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:36:08 +0000

Yes I was impressed until I saw ",no castling, en passant, or promotion".

I'm okay with trusting moves but not implementing all of the rules while still calling it complete feels a bit weird.

New comment by duttish in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

duttish — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:09:51 +0000

Today it appears you have two options 1) Anubis or similar 2) Accept that 90-95% of your traffic is LLM scrapers fetching every file for every commit for every repo etc etc. There's some comments above with specific lists.

New comment by duttish in "Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts"

duttish — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:59:50 +0000

Now I know one thing I'll do this weekend, great idea.

New comment by duttish in "Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting"

duttish — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:19:15 +0000

On the topic of lock free data structures I found this one on a SPSC very interesting too https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-lock-free-r... taking it from 12M to 305M ops/s

New comment by duttish in "Chatto is now open source"

duttish — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:41:50 +0000

Yea you probably want that too, but I don't think that's enough.

For some you need legal holds on employee messages and in other cases you will want to un-delete messages for investigations etc.

For just random online communities, which is the niche discord is in, I agree it does sound nice.

New comment by duttish in "Chatto is now open source"

duttish — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:14:11 +0000

I wouldn't know. With the post mentioning teams and slack I just got the feeling it was on the cards, so I thought it was worth posting that in case it hadn't occurred to them.

New comment by duttish in "Chatto is now open source"

duttish — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:40:19 +0000

A thought if you want to sell to companies, "with per-user keys that get shredded when a user decides to delete their account."

You'll need soft delete, work messages belong to the employer and not the user.

New comment by duttish in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

duttish — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:48:00 +0000

Just as a note, I am reporting all the shitty sales emails I've started getting since posting this as spam.

New comment by duttish in "The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming"

duttish — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:16:53 +0000

I get where you're coming from, though I'm not quite at 30 years yet. I like building stuff, I don't like configuring, debugging or troubleshooting my OS or computer. I just want it to work and get out of the way.

For me this has translated into a slightly different outcome: stock ubuntu with basically just zsh/powerlevel10k, I add component assembly when I buy a new desktop, I'm about to probably replace my home server with a NAS etc.

New comment by duttish in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

duttish — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:29:58 +0000

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes, ideally not full time

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Python, Java, Rust, CI/CD, Containers, pipelines, backend, security engineering, risk analysis etc.

Résumé/CV:

Email: regs.hn@badsynthesis.com

I've been at this for over 15 years now, been the first employee at a startup and now at FANAG, and I'm looking to partially swap track, ideally I'd love to work on biological cell simulation but I'm not sure any company would pay me for that, so instead I'm hoping to work on genomics software and learn more about that side of things.

If you have a role that could fit, let's chat.