Hacker News: gamedna

New comment by gamedna in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

gamedna — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:03:15 +0000

Congrats Hannah! Been following since the TED talk, and her videos have always been a welcome addition to my day!

New comment by gamedna in "A History of My Homelab"

gamedna — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:59:00 +0000

Can you share more details about how you connect the 3d rack enclosure to the 740?

New comment by gamedna in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

gamedna — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:08:33 +0000

Anyone remember the good old days where computer manufacturers would throw in a free printer with the purchase of a desktop computer? I ended up with 6 or 7 printers stacked in the closet. Instead of changing cartridges we changed printers. :)

New comment by gamedna in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

gamedna — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:32:20 +0000

I absolutely love ventoy and iventoy. They are amazing! Now I use this device : the IODD ST400 and never looked back. https://www.iodd.shop/IODD-ST400-USB-30-External-Encrypted-H... . The screen lets you pick, and swap the ISO on the fly, even enabling multiple to be mounted at the same time. This device even supports virtual hard drives and virtual floppy drives.

New comment by gamedna in "Show HN: Sshsync – CLI tool to run shell commands across multiple remote servers"

gamedna — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:24:29 +0000

Curious to understand the need to create this over using tools like pssh, etc.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pssh

New comment by gamedna in "Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery"

gamedna — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:05:10 +0000

Love this, but iirc this was very common back in the day. Many of the XT, AT, 286, 386, 486 clones came with these types of triple AA battery packs, some with shrink wrap around them. It was easy to cut the shrink wrap and replace the cells with generic AA.

New comment by gamedna in "Ask HN: I don't want to code anymore. What else can I do?"

gamedna — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:05:54 +0000

Consider taking a sabbatical if you can afford it. Reflect on what got you where you are today, and imagine where you want to be tomorrow. Let your mind disconnect from the day to day rigor of development. I have done this a few times in my career, and each time it keeps me centered on what is important to me. Hope this helps.

New comment by gamedna in "The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum"

gamedna — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:18:51 +0000

Archive.org link - http://web.archive.org/web/20240416173659/https://craftsmans...

New comment by gamedna in "GPU Quest: Multi-source graphics cards price comparator"

gamedna — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:21:32 +0000

This needs a column & sort option for Benchmark/currency to help search for highest bang/buck card. While it can be done manually through export - users will definitely appreciate having the convenience.

New comment by gamedna in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

gamedna — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:21:19 +0000

Love the idea, but its a missed opportunity - some wheels and it could have been a skateboard too.

With all seriousness, keyboard should have flipped or slid out so its more compact. I can't see that in peoples pockets.

New comment by gamedna in "LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

gamedna — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:10:46 +0000

privacy browsers be all like: https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by gamedna in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

gamedna — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:25:21 +0000

+1 Its a great read.

New comment by gamedna in "An open-source alternative to QuickBooks"

gamedna — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:25:51 +0000

Payroll Payroll Payroll, please - Quickbooks has a hold on so many companies b/c of the payroll subscription.

New comment by gamedna in "Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?"

gamedna — Sat, 27 May 2023 09:12:51 +0000

Motif was everywhere and it sucked. Sun/SGI/etc. SGI/IRIX unfortunately used it as the default, but you could change it fairly easily.

New comment by gamedna in "Building a Personal VoIP System"

gamedna — Sat, 27 May 2023 09:09:55 +0000

Having gone down this road many times with freepbx, asterisk, etc.. I ultimately settled on just using voip.ms and connecting phones/sip clients directly to their internal sub-accounts with voicemail. They have enough features for most users so you don't need to worry about running your own PBX.

New comment by gamedna in "HP 15C Collector’s Edition (preorder)"

gamedna — Sat, 20 May 2023 00:31:17 +0000

Glad to see this back on the market from HP. I miss my 11c and ill probably get this one. After supporting me through high-school, college, and a few jobs - my father asked to borrow mine, then proceeded to back over his briefcase with his car. :(

New comment by gamedna in "Proxmox Docker Containers Monster – 13000 containers on a single host"

gamedna — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:12:04 +0000

While there is merit to this post my main criticism running 13000 containers with zero load - essentially all the nginx processes are doing nothing - zero I/O, etc. after launch. Its a bit more interesting to see N# of containers running something synthetic that mimics a workload.

That said, containers are very lean (or can be with the right setup) given there is no kernel, drivers, etc to load.

New comment by gamedna in "Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?"

gamedna — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:14:29 +0000

MIT's 16.687 - Private pilot ground school. If you want to become a private pilot or start your career, this is the place to begin. The professors are approachable and the content is comprehensive. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-scho... all of the videos for the lectures are available on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v31...

New comment by gamedna in "Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?"

gamedna — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:12:01 +0000

Having taken his class in person, I would like to second this. The man is a beautiful thinker and he presents linear algebra in a way that is extremely comprehensive and approachable.

New comment by gamedna in "SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue"

gamedna — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:23:38 +0000

Side note, the amount of times that this article redundantly mentioned "Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue" made me kinda sick.