Hacker News: forsalebypwner

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Why Your CPU Is Fast but Your Program Is Slow: Understanding the Memory Wall"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:33:15 +0000

lmao I was thinking the same thing. If this article tells me one more time that "the idea is simple/straightforward" I'm gonna punch my monitor.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House's Anthropic Fable ban"

forsalebypwner — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:25:08 +0000

Interesting... I thought Anthropic and Amazon were pretty invested in each other. I wonder what prompted this from Jassy

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Notes on DeepSeek"

forsalebypwner — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:08 +0000

wrong thread?

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:24:42 +0000

I'm using "Music Decoy" and I don't see one. Possible noTunes has one.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:55:48 +0000

When you first launch it, you'll notice a pop-up saying that this will automatically run when you login. There's no dock icon or menu bar icon. So no configuration changes needed.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:53:29 +0000

For me, this constantly happens:

- I'll pause a podcast I'm listening to on my iPhone or iPad, or just take my AirPods out of my ear for a moment

- Like 5 minutes later, I'll squeeze the AirPod stem to resume playback. It will instead think that I want to play Apple Music on my Mac for some fucking reason.

I don't think this behavior can be easily customized (somebody let me know if it can!)

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:48:33 +0000

Thanks, I use DeepSeek and Gemini mostly so I was looking for something that isn't tied to Anthropic. I'm mostly covered by pi.dev but want to try out a GUI to see if they're worth my time. This looks surprisingly feature-complete, too bad it's only "Free for personal use in beta", but I'll definitely give it a spin.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

forsalebypwner — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:09:48 +0000

yeah, that's a good point...

man, my opinion of Lenovo has tanked in the last decade and I'm only just realizing it now. I always thought of Dell as kinda shitty, but Lenovo had a great thing going that just kinda atrophied in some cases, and actively got worse in others

New comment by forsalebypwner in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

forsalebypwner — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:01:06 +0000

honestly eBay and FBMarketplace are the only two places I would even consider using. The worst part of FBM is dealing with flaky buyers, and the worst part of eBay is their fees.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio"

forsalebypwner — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:21:00 +0000

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy but yeah, I feel the same way. There are soooo many links in the article, and they're almost entirely irrelevant. It feels like browsing the web with adware installed on your computer in the early 2000s

New comment by forsalebypwner in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

forsalebypwner — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:37:12 +0000

I've had Gemini help me with my Plex server multiple times. I've asked it pointed questions about strategies for getting specific encodings of movies and TV shows via Sonarr/Radarr, and it is happy to help - to my surprise I don't recall a single time where it has even included a caveat about only downloading media that's not copyrighted.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

forsalebypwner — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:30:45 +0000

In my experience, ZLibrary was far more aggressive about monetizing (or is, haven't used them in a while)

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

forsalebypwner — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:31:45 +0000

You were on the money with the Cynical take lol:

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

forsalebypwner — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:29:54 +0000

the very last line of the article:

"If I were to do this again, I wouldn’t do a custom build like this. I would buy a standard datacenter server and rent space in a colocation center. But then I would miss saying Hi to grumbl once in a while."

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

forsalebypwner — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:27:05 +0000

I think their retrospective at the end of the article is grounded and logical:

"If I were to do this again, I wouldn’t do a custom build like this. I would buy a standard datacenter server and rent space in a colocation center"

I'm sure there are use cases when renting makes sense, but it can get crazy expensive really fast if you're not careful.

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

forsalebypwner — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:03:24 +0000

https://gemini.google.com/share/dbb8e26ca469 from today

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"

forsalebypwner — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:29:14 +0000

The UX of Plex is unbeatable, there are no obvious signs that the content is pirated, that + a great app ecosystem is very important if you're going to be sharing with friends and family.

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

forsalebypwner — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:44:03 +0000

It's definitely very dependent on the stability of both machine's network.

I also recommend checking out the open source fork of Synergy, which is also compatible with Synergy clients https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

forsalebypwner — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Yes exactly! I still can't believe how cheap an ESP32 is - a device with bluetooth, WiFi, and ample processing power and RAM for most tasks you'd use an MCU for. And yeah I love finding out I already have all the parts I need. Now, keeping them organized, that can be a struggle. I have a couple of these double sided tool organizers [1] and a tackle box, but sometimes I'm still digging through bins to find a part I know I have but can't find

[1] https://i.imgur.com/4KpnFZJ.png

New comment by forsalebypwner in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

forsalebypwner — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:58:10 +0000

agreed, I think much of the appeal for me is the physical element of wiring things up and seeing it do something more than changing a few pixels on my screen.

Soldering is very relaxing as well.