Hacker News: floathub

New comment by floathub in "Fighting the chip shortage with old school cooperative multitasking on GPUs"

floathub — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:58:15 +0000

The thesis being that if you can pack multiple models onto a single GPU, you can actually increase processing capacity with a fixed amount of hardware.

Fighting the chip shortage with old school cooperative multitasking on GPUs

floathub — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:51:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.muna.ai/blog/colocation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981816

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by floathub in "A third way of using Linux"

floathub — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:39:48 +0000

Emacs text interface, Emacs GUI interface, and ... sorry what's the third one? :-)

New comment by floathub in "The Next 3x in Inference Won't Come from Faster Kernels"

floathub — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:16:05 +0000

One unique idea for solving the chip shortage: pack more models into each existing GPU by having them share the resources. :-)

The Next 3x in Inference Won't Come from Faster Kernels

floathub — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:16:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/usemuna/status/2104978659069264047

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896760

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by floathub in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

floathub — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:47:28 +0000

He is charged with obstruction, but under domestic terrorism (as defined by a national security presidential memorandum).

New comment by floathub in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

floathub — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:19:53 +0000

According to the article, he was actually using GrapheneOS and gave the border official the Duress PIN. So I guess technically it was the official that erased the data :-)

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

floathub — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:10:13 +0000

https://archive.ph/SflVC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895

Points: 1107

# Comments: 1383

New comment by floathub in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

floathub — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:37:21 +0000

Depends on what qualifies as a password "manager", but I've been using pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) for years on multiple desktops, and have recently added iOS app sepass to my setup (https://sepass.modiot.com/).

Quite complicated to get it all setup (definitely not for non-technical users), but both are GPL and I now have all my passwords available with hardware protection (yubikey on desktop, secure enclave on iOS) in all locations.

New comment by floathub in "In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service"

floathub — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:36:04 +0000

Came across this recently, which I find is a good and short intro to Emacs for people who don't use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE

New comment by floathub in "Show HN: Using the secure enclave in a pass/password-store iOS client"

floathub — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:12:08 +0000

Hi HN. We use YubiKeys on desktops/laptops with pass/password-store, and have been fiddling with various ways to get them to work on our phones and tablets for a long time. Sort of dawned on us that since the Apple secure enclave gives the same sort of "non-extractable" protection as a YubiKey does, we could just use that. Paired with touch/face-id, seems like a pretty good YubiKey alternative for a mobile app. Since we could not find an iOS password-store client that uses the secure enclave, we wrote one.

Bit of a fiddly setup process (see https://github.com/modiotlabs/sepass#using-the-app), but otherwise we're finding it very useful.

Really appreciate any feedback on this, especially potential vulnerabilities or weak approaches we are taking. We are not full-time cryptography/security experts, so would particularly like to see a hearty critique of how we've gone about this from anyone who is.

Show HN: Using the secure enclave in a pass/password-store iOS client

floathub — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:12:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sepass.modiot.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804894

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by floathub in "What's so special about Emacs? [video]"

floathub — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:47:50 +0000

Thanks.

Not the original author, but I agree completely with the sentiment that it is good way to get across what's special about Emacs in a relatively short amount of time.

What's so special about Emacs? [video]

floathub — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191998

Points: 20

# Comments: 2

New comment by floathub in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

floathub — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:27:01 +0000

It's wild to me Time Machine works on your network. Are you just doing "first backups" over and over again, or have you somehow achieved the very rare state where Time Machine can run for, say, a week at a time without falling over?

Sorry, this is snarky and off topic, but I'm nostalgic for the days when Time Machine "just worked".

Private AI Document Analysis (even in the browser)

floathub — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:26:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pdflayout.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690712

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by floathub in "Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt"

floathub — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:07:25 +0000

And then in vim you can spawn a shell to run ... oh, never mind.

New comment by floathub in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

floathub — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:30:49 +0000

Free software has never mattered more.

All the infrastructure that runs the whole AI-over-the-internet juggernaut is essentially all open source.

Heck, even Claude Code would be far less useful without grep, diff, git, head, etc., etc., etc. And one can easily see a day where something like a local sort Claude Code talking to Open Weight and Open Source models is the core dev tool.

New comment by floathub in "How the world’s first electric grid was built"

floathub — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:45:22 +0000

The power generated from Niagara river stations was traveling on an international "grid" between Canada and the US in the late 1890s.

New comment by floathub in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

floathub — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:48:33 +0000

Man, how could they not wait 2.5 weeks until April 1 !!!