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New comment by garettmd in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

garettmd — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:33:07 +0000

Netbird's great. I've been using Pangolin (https://pangolin.net/) lately for my homelab. It's very similar in functionality to Netbird, but I like the UX of it better.

New comment by garettmd in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

garettmd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:32:30 +0000

I think these responses show how much stigma is attached to mental illness, that people abhor someone placing the label on someone else. Despite the fact that, for anyone familiar with it themselves or in loved ones, it's a lot more prevalent and in many more shades and gradients than probably most people realize.

New comment by garettmd in "My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?"

garettmd — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:13:46 +0000

I'm not a huge stout fan but Sam Smith's is pretty outstanding.

New comment by garettmd in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

garettmd — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:09 +0000

Please explain. I want to know if I'm doing those 2 things correctly...

Stop Using Pull Requests

garettmd — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:52:00 +0000

Article URL: https://a4al6a.substack.com/p/stop-using-pull-requests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236746

Points: 3

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New comment by garettmd in "Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands"

garettmd — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:31:27 +0000

How does one pronounce this tool

New comment by garettmd in "Bitwarden Integrates with OneCLI Agent Vault"

garettmd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:42:32 +0000

It used to be that people didn't read the article, now they don't even read the headline.

New comment by garettmd in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

garettmd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:36:10 +0000

I think part of the issue is that Azure has been struggling to reliably provision Linux VMs. Whether that's due to increased load, poor operational execution, or a combination of them, it's hard for anyone on the outside to know.

New comment by garettmd in "Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space-1 for orbital data centers"

garettmd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:18:39 +0000

Can anyone comment on the woman peeling her face (mask) off in the background? wth is going on there?

New comment by garettmd in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

garettmd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:37:51 +0000

> It's because your brain is predicting what they will say while they speak, and processing an answer at the same time. It's also why when they say what you didn't expect, you say, "what?" and then answer half a second later, when your brain corrects.

that's super interesting. do you know of any resources to learn more about this phenomenon?

New comment by garettmd in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

garettmd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:09:53 +0000

prompt: what's the term for financial moves where you keep finding new investors to pay off the previous ones

GPT-4o mini: The term for financial moves where new investors are continually recruited to pay off previous ones is often referred to as a "Ponzi scheme." Another similar term is "pyramid scheme," where returns are paid to earlier investors from the contributions of newer investors, but with a structure that typically requires participants to recruit others to earn returns. Both schemes are unsustainable and illegal.

New comment by garettmd in "Self-hosting a NAT Gateway"

garettmd — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:37:38 +0000

I always find these discussions about AWS NAT gateways interesting because I recall way back in the day, before AWS had a manages NAT gateway, the recommendation was to roll your own anyway. Or at least that's what I heard. I took an ACloud Guru course and one of the first ec2 lessons was to create a simple NAT gateway in your VPC so that your other instances could reach the Internet.

New comment by garettmd in "Cursor: Past, Present, and Future"

garettmd — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:09:18 +0000

I mean, they have built their own model: https://cursor.com/blog/composer

And presumably they'll use the funding to build more than just a modified VSCode.

New comment by garettmd in "Ask HN: How do you expose telemetry data to non-tech?"

garettmd — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:32:48 +0000

I'd argue this is an issue not just with "non-tech" folks, but even engineers who don't have experience with Prometheus and other time-series databases. Learning promql always seemed like a hard thing to ask of other engineers. Grafana has made it easier to explore and build queries over time, but there are still quirks and nuances that can be difficult to explain to people whose role doesn't typically involve scouring through metrics.

New comment by garettmd in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

garettmd — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:12:36 +0000

How are you finding it compares to just using [Neo]Vim with all the plugins and custom configs? What improvements does it offer?

New comment by garettmd in "Dandelion Root Recipes"

garettmd — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:17:10 +0000

At least in the US, people routinely spray dandelions with weed killer. So an argument could be made in favor of telling kids - especially in a classroom setting - where you'd rather err on the side of keeping kids from picking dandelions from any yard they pass by, and eating them.

New comment by garettmd in "India’s government wants total control of the internet"

garettmd — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:16:53 +0000

China's done similar things, the most prominent I can think of being them bullying the NBA into policing what their players can say.

New comment by garettmd in "Metal Without Mining"

garettmd — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:46:46 +0000

From what I understand, it is cheaper. However, that's just with new power. Most of the power available now is from existing installations, making existing fossil fuel power cheaper than any new installations.

New comment by garettmd in "Men Without Work (2016)"

garettmd — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:02:41 +0000

I remember during most interactions with healthcare providers during my wife and I's pregnancies, hardly anyone ever talked to me, sometimes never even looking at me. I get it, I'm not the one carrying a baby to term, but I would have thought the fact that I was showing up to all these appointments, staying by my wife's side, taking part in decisions, and supporting her and the baby through the whole thing would have granted me a bit of acknowledgement of my role and investment in the whole process. But many times people acted like I wasn't even there.

I can't imagine having to deal with that dynamic with what you went through, and am so sorry for your loss.

New comment by garettmd in "Git Notes"

garettmd — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:54:38 +0000

But I think a distinction between "against" and "next to" is that generally speaking, "against" implies a closer contact than just being "next to" or "adjacent to" something. Like in the chair example, "against the wall" would mean pushing the chair up as close to the wall as you can make it, whereas "next to the wall" would mean putting it close to it, but not necessarily touching it. If it was a folding chair and someone told me to put it "against the wall" I would take that to mean "fold it up and prop it up on the wall".