Hacker News: fractalf

New comment by fractalf in "DeepSeek v4"

fractalf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:46:58 +0000

Right now Im much more worried about sending data to the US and A.. At least theres a less chanse it will be missused against -me-

New comment by fractalf in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

fractalf — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:16:56 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815893

New comment by fractalf in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

fractalf — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:10:52 +0000

Hi, author here. I was wondering why the hell my server was acting strange, then checked counter.dev and saw a huuuge spike. Ah, hackernews..

Anyway, thanks for the feedback regarding the site itself, both positive and negative. This is a 1-2 man project, just for fun, but any feedback are always welcome :)

AMA

New comment by fractalf in "Gemini 3"

fractalf — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:17:15 +0000

I dont think your comment justifies calling out any form of simplistic view. It doesnt make sense. All the big players are bad. They"re companies, their one and only purpose is to make money and they will do whatever it takes to do it. Most of which does not serve human kind.

New comment by fractalf in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

fractalf — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:53:02 +0000

You can pretty much study the Dockerfile of each docker image and you'll see how it's installed. It's all there, no magic

New comment by fractalf in "Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app"

fractalf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:27:08 +0000

Great! ...but doesn't work on my google-free Android. Ie, it requires play services. Please fix this :)

New comment by fractalf in "iPod Linux (2017)"

fractalf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:48:47 +0000

Thank you for being awesome! I still use RockBox on my old tiny 8GB "mp3" (flac really) player

New comment by fractalf in "Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)"

fractalf — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:10:47 +0000

Haha my exact same reaction (and ive programmed a few)

New comment by fractalf in "Open source AI is the path forward"

fractalf — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:25:51 +0000

Well, he didn't do it to be "nice", you can be sure about that. Obviously they see a financial gain somewhere/sometime

New comment by fractalf in "What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world"

fractalf — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:41:20 +0000

What if this is just a decoy and the real backdoor is elsewhere?

New comment by fractalf in "Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter"

fractalf — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:30:36 +0000

Kool project! Well done :) ..I feel for you having to ditsh Linux for Mac, don't think I could ever do that

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:11:26 +0000

Oh, nice, very interesting! I found you on mastadon, please write about your experience, I'm curious now :)

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:21:40 +0000

Hey man, thanks for elaborating, I do understand the limits you are presenting much better now. Aaand, this actually makes me want one of those cards myself! I could just have one of those PCI cards and 3-4 of the Behringer ADA8200 and I could run ALL of my synths into my PC.

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:01:25 +0000

> Because I don’t know of any USB device that can do 96 channels of pro IO

Holy crap, that's a lot of input channels, didn't know it was possible. I also have a Behringer ADA8200 that connect to the 1820 (ADAT) which gives me 16 inputs. I'll admit it's not enough to run all of my gear in at once and this is just a home studio. I can imagine 96 channels is very useful. Maybe 6x my setup would work = 96 inputs ;)

> How are you clocking the cards?

You are obviously more advanced than me, not sure what you mean here. I'm using the NI card basically just for the output and the Behringer for inputs, 24/48. When recording, if there is a latency (which normally Bitwig can "fix") it's just a matter of moving the audio a couple of ms.

> PCI

I've had earlier problems with PCI cards, in that they pick up a lot of internal noise from the motherboard, so I've stayed away from that after firewire/usb cards became available

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:41:48 +0000

Why do you want/need a PCI based card? Most audio interfaces run off USB these days and Linux supports almost all USB audio class-compliant cards.. Personally I use NI Komplete Audio 1 and Behringer UMC 1820 (yes, on Linux with pipewire and Bitwig you can use multiple cards!)

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:47:22 +0000

The good'ol "organize your stuff" problem. The problem with "categories" is that a) usually a "thing" can only belong to 1 category and b) a category often belong in a hiarchy of categories and can only be 1 place. So that is why I've used _tags_ instead, which is more of a many to many "flat" releation. Not sure I understood your comment correctly? ..I've certainly given this quite some thought already, but nothing is perfect

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:51:40 +0000

hehe! ..I come from Ableton on Win7. But, Bitwig (formed by ex-Ableton devs) saved the world for me as it is a) similar but better than Ableton (ofc subjective) and b) it runs on Linux! Check it out, take it for a spin!

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:33:57 +0000

Ofc, your stuff is awesome man :) ..thanks!

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:25:40 +0000

Check out Bitwig (https://www.bitwig.com/), it's awesome (started by previous Ableton devs)

New comment by fractalf in "LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux"

fractalf — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:12:18 +0000

You're most welcome! Yea, I know _exactly_ how you feel. This is why I had my last Win7 partition for so long, but now it's gone as there all I really need is available on Linux. Bitwig + u-he, what more do you really need ;)