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Google AI's Opinions on How Ansible Has Changed

geerlingguy — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:52:24 +0000

Article URL: https://laserllama.substack.com/p/google-ais-opinions-on-how-ansible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405050

Points: 1

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New comment by geerlingguy in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3"

geerlingguy — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:16 +0000

It's one reason I've favored GPL of late, after many years using MIT. Not that many people these days would explicitly follow the terms of any license.

New comment by geerlingguy in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

geerlingguy — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:55:49 +0000

Doesn't have the doors that go __-----

New comment by geerlingguy in "Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack"

geerlingguy — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:41:01 +0000

Many fond memories of Radio Shack. I bought some electronics kits, a mini DJ setup, and many, many components there as a kid. At one time, they had quite a catalog of Radio Shack branded items that were "good but not great"... but more importantly available a few miles away within practically any city. Almost every mall in St. Louis had one (usually near a hobby train store or an arcade).

New comment by geerlingguy in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

geerlingguy — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:22:15 +0000

Quick, rename it to "HackerDiscussed"!

New comment by geerlingguy in "One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems"

geerlingguy — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:13:16 +0000

I know my older APC UPSes do weekly self tests, but I guess newer equipment does more frequent self testing? And of course they're all internet-connected meaning clocks are within a few hundred ms of each other.

It also made me think about how many GitHub Actions I have that kick off on Sunday morning at a specific time. I try to vary the time/day for those jobs but I'm guessing there are enough things that kick off at specific time intervals to make an impact at the top of an hour, or at :15, :30, :45...

New comment by geerlingguy in "Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference"

geerlingguy — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:20:44 +0000

This particular fan is a high quality / high CFM fan meant for servers and industrial gear.

Usually these boxes are at remote sites or in already-loud test racks, so the noise isn't a concern.

The Noctua is rated for lower CFM, so if you are already at a slim margin for thermals, switching to a quieter fan is not necessarily a good idea.

I do wish more manufacturers would go to 60 or 80mm fans instead of the 40mm ones common in this gear. Power supplies especially!

New comment by geerlingguy in "Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference"

geerlingguy — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:17:59 +0000

Used, AFAICT. New is a bit more.

New comment by geerlingguy in "Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference"

geerlingguy — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:15:31 +0000

The best way is to measure temps before (ideally over at least 1-2 hours), then to measure temps the same amount of time after and compare.

In the case of this Rb oscillator, it is temperature sensitive, but also built for pretty extreme environments.

I'm not too worried about this particular application, because the clock will be in an air conditioned environment, and I'm monitoring the clock accuracy to +/- 2ns from another GPSDO / rubidium clock. The performance before and after the fan swap is within my measurement noise for 24H, though I haven't done 30+ day measurements and ADEV comparison. Still working on a consistent test setup.

New comment by geerlingguy in "Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer"

geerlingguy — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:01:34 +0000

I don't even think they're driving hype, they just have a problem common in the hardware world, they are far too optimistic in their shipping timeline.

Versus a company like Bambu who seems to ramp up production now, in advance of selling the product.

New comment by geerlingguy in "Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer"

geerlingguy — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:59:39 +0000

> Formlabs will happily upsell the "Form Wash" for this for another 699

(A separate aside, since the main ones were addressed: Formlabs also launched a new "Wash+Cure" station that does wash and cure for $199, instead of their standalone (but better, of course) units that cost something like $1000 together.)

New comment by geerlingguy in "Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer"

geerlingguy — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:33:29 +0000

I have a blog post up for those who don't like extracting the relevant info from a video :)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/formlabs-form-studio-...

New comment by geerlingguy in "Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer"

geerlingguy — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:32:32 +0000

You need to buy a tank anyway, which is $50 or so — that works with their new Alpha resins. The slightly more expensive tank is necessary only for their engineering-grade resins (only a couple are certified for the Studio 1 so far) and 'OMM' (Open Material Mode), which as mentioned above, comes out of the box on the Studio 1.

(Not replying to you directly, but generally to this thread)

Website migration costs are going to zero

geerlingguy — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://dri.es/website-migration-costs-are-going-to-zero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281860

Points: 2

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New comment by geerlingguy in "Anthropic S-1"

geerlingguy — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:56:54 +0000

Scrappy builds aren't "affordable" but are more so than running Nvidia + optimized builds. You could put together a machine for $5000 or less that competes with frontier models from less than a year ago, albeit a little slower.

And cards like the $1600 (sheesh) R9700 have actually gotten more capable through community efforts at optimization, since their launch.

I think if the bubble can ever deflate/pop, and GPUs and RAM back off a bit, we'll see the dam burst for local AI.

Right now it's only accessible to people who can justify the costs.

New comment by geerlingguy in "Time Nuts (2005)"

geerlingguy — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:59:37 +0000

Once you do get measurement down to nanoseconds, you quickly realize how 'bad' so many clocks you thought were good actually are. Lots of GPS modules with massive sawtooth behavior. Over a day they may be within tens of ns. But over a minute, a lot worse!

New comment by geerlingguy in "PHP 8.2.35"

geerlingguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:38:29 +0000

Similarly Remi for the RedHat-derivative side of things: https://blog.remirepo.net (he's on vacation, but apparently is pushing updates now).

New comment by geerlingguy in "PHP 8.2.35"

geerlingguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:25:14 +0000

Ah, indeed... I thought the GA push was the final step but there's another manual process between that and updating the Docker Hub image tags: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22541

It should definitely have a 'high impact' workflow that bypasses some of those manual steps.

New comment by geerlingguy in "PHP 8.2.35"

geerlingguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:41:11 +0000

A PR was posted within a minute or two of PHP's source code update. Then within a minute of the PR's CI job completing, it was merged, and the build took a while but is now complete: https://github.com/docker-library/php/actions/runs/396158697...

It would not be easy (or reasonable) to take a public build like that private to build a 'secret' image version, and I'm not sure GitHub even has the capability to do that. I would not trust a build pushed to Docker Hub separate from the established / public / auditable process they have in place.

New comment by geerlingguy in "PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP"

geerlingguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:38:31 +0000

Even some smaller vulnerabilities are spread through hosting companies pretty quickly within a day or two prior to public release, to give teams time to make sure staff will be ready to patch immediately.

The wider the pre-release news spreads, the more chance you get someone who will spill the beans (intentionally or not).