Hacker News: eleventen

New comment by eleventen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

eleventen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:37:04 +0000

Could you say more about what you didn't like? This seems pretty indistinguishable from existing tools.

New comment by eleventen in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"

eleventen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:34:45 +0000

A C++ ray tracer from scratch was the course project for my computer graphics class in 2016. I enjoyed the exercise immensely. Not nearly as robust as yours of course.

New comment by eleventen in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

eleventen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:26:06 +0000

They googled "meta down". This is the top result for that search.

New comment by eleventen in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

eleventen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:17:01 +0000

Could you imagine? I know it won't happen but what if we get a statement that they suffered a catastrophic data loss and full service couldn't be restored for a week or something. It would be a modern miracle.

New comment by eleventen in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

eleventen — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:15:49 +0000

Not password managers of course, but thanks for reminding me that I should figure out how to ditch Authy.

https://github.com/BrenoFariasdaSilva/Authy-iOS-MiTM is going to be my project for the afternoon.

New comment by eleventen in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

eleventen — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:59:39 +0000

Name one major password manager that blocks or paywalls export.

New comment by eleventen in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

eleventen — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:46:19 +0000

I think this is a little hyperbolic. The product may drop features, increase prices, and squeeze its free tier users. Everything enshittifies. But the idea that password export might disappear or be degraded? Nah. You'll be able to jump ship any time you want.

New comment by eleventen in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

eleventen — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:11:18 +0000

How you use the tool matters, yes. But the freedom to demonstrate and understand this weakness with watermarks is much more important to exercise than saying "shhhhh don't tell people about this".

The takeaway should be that watermarks aren't very reliable and you should keep your guard up anyway.

New comment by eleventen in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

eleventen — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:42:49 +0000

Checking openrouter (it's not available yet) and, uh, what's up with the spike in Qwen usage from early april here? https://openrouter.ai/qwen

Is this normal humans kicking the tires on a new model, or a few whales doing serious benchmarks?

New comment by eleventen in "Google changes its search box"

eleventen — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:29:53 +0000

Your soul is nourished by navigating congested traffic and searching for mundane stuff on the internet? That's not how mine works.

New comment by eleventen in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

eleventen — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:28:28 +0000

I have a Dell U3225QE with a built-in KVM and 2 macs.

One connects with Thunderbolt only. The other connects with Display Port for video and USB-C for the rest of the built-in dock.

It's OK most of the time with the nipple switch. My one piece of advice is *avoid HDMI*. I learned after getting this monitor that the HDMI protocol is a petulant unstable little shit that does not tolerate renegotiation well. Get yourself a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.

New comment by eleventen in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

eleventen — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:10:30 +0000

I think you might be confusing Umami with Plausible? Plausible is a total mess of heavy-idling containers and ClickHouse. I dropped switched to Umami and have had no performance issues of any kind. It's running on ~12 year old shitbox. I do only deal with ~10K events per day max though.

New comment by eleventen in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

eleventen — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:59:16 +0000

> Go is absolutely an easier/simpler language than JS/TS.

You're suggesting that a language with concurrency is simpler/easier than a language that does not have concurrency.

New comment by eleventen in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

eleventen — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:48:50 +0000

I was really into Andy's blog when it first came out, but he might be doing the same motivated reasoning he complains about everyone else doing.

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-n...

> The one remaining question: why the clean step change?

In the middle of this piece, he runs into a critical flaw in his reasoning and just shrugs it off.

New comment by eleventen in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

eleventen — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:41:53 +0000

This is a weird take but I think I like it?

New comment by eleventen in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

eleventen — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:43:00 +0000

Indeed. _everyone_ has noticed it. Nobody really has any plan to fix it. IMO the urbanism movement comes closest to having some practical plans.

New comment by eleventen in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

eleventen — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:00:58 +0000

> I hope to make it within this year.

What's your plan?

New comment by eleventen in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

eleventen — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:55:24 +0000

An orthogonal observation: Bearblog seems to have become an anti-AI echo chamber. Their community responds very positively to posts exactly like this one [1] [2] [3]

I think it's just important context to keep in mind that these sorts of takes are very typical to top https://bearblog.dev/discover/ in the same way that certain types of posts are designed to rank well here. I considered migrating my blog there earlier this year and ended up deciding that, while I loved the product, the community was not healthy.

[1] https://forkingmad.blog/ai-summary-blog-post/

[2] https://blog.spu.io/you-dont-want-to-make-things-you-want-to...

[3] https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

New comment by eleventen in "Who Asked for This?"

eleventen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:21:20 +0000

Is the movement to pause or halt datacenter construction filled with naïve children or sleeve-roller-uppers?

New comment by eleventen in "Who Asked for This?"

eleventen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:16:08 +0000

This critique reads to me like "capitalists should have asked anti-capitalists about whether or not to do capitalism". This is either going to get resolved through the political process as is proper and good, or else our politics is broken and it will be resolved through older and less peaceful means.