Hacker News: ebb_earl_co

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

ebb_earl_co — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:50:50 +0000

The text says that it uses OS-level tools, specifically bubble wrap on Linux.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:19:36 +0000

Right, this is roughly my mental situation, too. I guess that streaming JSON things can eat up compute way faster than I had any intuition for!

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:17:41 +0000

This is a helpful breakdown, thanks, @otterley.

It is, by orders of magnitude, larger than any deployment that I have been a part of in my work experience, as a 10-year data scientist/Python developer.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

ebb_earl_co — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:16:49 +0000

> This was costing us ~$300K/year in compute, and the number kept growing as more customers and detection rules were added.

Maybe I’m out of touch, but I cannot fathom this level of cost for custom lambda functions operating on JSON objects.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:08:57 +0000

Is it incontrovertibly built in to macOS? I have an iPhone and have never enabled it or Siri, so maybe there is similar off switch for macOS.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "AirPods Max 2"

ebb_earl_co — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:21:21 +0000

The AirPods Max 2 are primarily Bluetooth headphones, but support lossless audio over USB-C cable, for what it’s worth.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "LLMs as the new high level language"

ebb_earl_co — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:50:28 +0000

No, the ultimate beneficiary of LLM-created code is the toll collectors who stole as much intellectual property as they could (and continue to do so), fleecing everyone else that they are Promethean for having done so and for continuing to do so.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

ebb_earl_co — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:59:06 +0000

Check out the instructions from Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1280/appletv

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:28:14 +0000

How do you manage this? Just copy the stream URL from Jellyfin Web or…?

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities"

ebb_earl_co — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:51:30 +0000

This is why I still prefer Signal; this practice seems to be their modus operandi even though they, too, were affected by AWS us-east-1 catastrophe

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation"

ebb_earl_co — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:27:57 +0000

I am really only familiar with Python, in which I’m pretty sure that the .py becomes .pyc and then CPython translates .pyc into machine instructions.

How does this differ? Is an IR the same idea as Python’s .pyc?

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

ebb_earl_co — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:31:41 +0000

What is the name of Maltese in Maltese? Like “el español” in Spanish, it’s neat to know what languages call themselves

New comment by ebb_earl_co in ""ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy"

ebb_earl_co — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:19:54 +0000

I’m in the same boat, and what tipped me there is the ethical non-starter that OpenAI and Anthropic represent. They strip-mined the Web, ripped off copyrighted works in neat space, admitting that going through the proper channels was a waste of business resources.

They believe that the entirety of human ingenuity should be theirs at no cost, and then they have the audacity to SELL their ill-gotten collation of that knowledge back to you? All the while persuading world governments that their technology is the new operating system of the 21st century.

Give me a dystopian break, honestly.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:59:10 +0000

Did anyone clone this? It’s 404 on GitHub now

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"

ebb_earl_co — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:19:51 +0000

> … stochastic parrots… What a wonderful phrase, mind if I borrow it?

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video"

ebb_earl_co — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:31:25 +0000

I like the `VARIANTS` env. var [0] to take advantage of x86_64 newer extensions if one’s processor has them.

CachyOS is a whole distro compiled with these flags, if possible, which is appealing.

[0] https://github.com/tvlabs/edge264#compiling-and-testing

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "What is it like to be a bat?"

ebb_earl_co — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:31:33 +0000

What brought down your level on convinced?

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

ebb_earl_co — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:13:22 +0000

Not for an operating system, but Astral’s `uv` tool has this for Python packages.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome"

ebb_earl_co — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:33:55 +0000

Source for this? I would be crestfallen because Kagi has been such a good product for me for the past year or so.

New comment by ebb_earl_co in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

ebb_earl_co — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:27:38 +0000

Well, I use Debian and Bash: pretty much everything to make my system work, including and especially Python development, is written in C, another language!