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New comment by gempir in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

gempir — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:40:32 +0000

I agree. This thread is so negative, seeing everything black and white. 99% of the users of these tools are never going to bother trying to figure out how to remove synthId. And then for the small percentage that do bother, they would have the knowledge to usage image models that don't use watermarking in the first place.

So this is a big win IMO.

New comment by gempir in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

gempir — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:57:33 +0000

Helium has all the benefits of Chromium but none of the Google bloat or other crazy AI, Crypto, Gaming or whatever ideas other browsers ship.

Just uBlock Origin pre-installed

https://helium.computer/

New comment by gempir in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

gempir — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:26:18 +0000

A simple search holds the answers https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

New comment by gempir in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

gempir — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:30:19 +0000

No single person can draw that line, that's what Courts and Laws are for. And some of the industries play more dirty and try to manipulate that due process, others failed.

But that's what we have, it's never black & white. Always a process and always evolving.

New comment by gempir in "SI Units for Request Rate (2024)"

gempir — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:04:26 +0000

I think this is mostly to blame on Grafana. Every dashboard ships with $__interval by default and every query uses that by default. I never understood the value of that. It makes the graphs look pretty I guess, but looking at the values becomes a little less useful because nothing is compareable to another not even to yesterday when you last looked at the dashboard.

Personally I always setup a variable $interval that can be set to 1m, 5m, 15m etc and use that in all my queries.

New comment by gempir in "Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip"

gempir — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:46 +0000

The integration of the ed25519-sk keys is just so easy and similar to normal ssh keys, so the upgrade is way easier.

You just need to tighten your sshd config, you can even add a "touch required" of the Yubikey to the sshd config. Has been in debian stable since like 11 I think?

So it's super friendly to integrate and very secure, as you need to physically be on your pc, have your yubikey and have your exact pc. So that's a lot of factors.

New comment by gempir in "Codex for almost everything"

gempir — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:21 +0000

Codex is both a macOS app and a CLI/TUI app.

Their naming is not very clear. The codex desktop app is somewhat of a frontend for the codex cli.

By the look and feel of it I would guess it is written with Electron.

New comment by gempir in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

gempir — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:39:03 +0000

*A few select models got celluar modems.

I have owned several Dell, HP and Lenovo Laptops in the past 15 years and I have never had a cellular modem.

When Apple makes a change like that it impacts a lot of customers because they have way fewer skews.

The future of Orchestrator: ProxySQL takes takes the helm

gempir — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://proxysql.com/blog/announcing-proxysql-takes-over-orchestrator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757165

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gempir in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

gempir — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:18:15 +0000

The amount of traffic that must go through the docker hub, must be insane, the images go into the gigabytes and everyone expects it to be super fast.

Cloudflare is one of the few companies who can handle that for relatively cheap, Docker could not just "run their own" and have it even be compareable.

New comment by gempir in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

gempir — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:17:16 +0000

Check your extensions, might be blocking the cookie banner. For me uBlock blocked the cookie banner. Afterwards it worked just fine.

New comment by gempir in "Google Workspace CLI"

gempir — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:27:49 +0000

If you had to pick one package manager that was most likely installed across all the different user machines in the world, I'd say npm is a pretty good bet.

New comment by gempir in "Move tests to closed source repo"

gempir — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:22:24 +0000

The gag started on Twitter after Cloudflare vibe coded a nextjs replacement clone.

If you know that context and the tweet I feel this is more obvious that it is a joke.

Just because you didn't get the joke, does not make it a really shit joke. The funniest jokes rely on context.

New comment by gempir in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

gempir — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:57:48 +0000

Good that they have a web version.

But the most basic functionality of going to the next video is only available via scroll (no keyboard arrow down?) and it has a really long animation and delay?

Just feels awful to use.

I feel if you wanna win in this space, especially with people who prefer more "free" platforms, then the non-app version should be a bigger priority IMO.

New comment by gempir in "OpenAI should build Slack"

gempir — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:21:40 +0000

I have used Slack Connect once in my 8 years of using slack. I agree it can be a moat, but that's not the case for everyone.

Slack doesn't have one "main thing" it's doing perfect. They have just all around great product, with some weaknesses here and there.

- Solid mobile app

- very good API with good SDKs

- easy to build very rich slack bots, with good building blocks

- Good notification management

- Workflows for non technical people that make automation easy

- Good level of customization

- Good enough performance

- Video/Audio calls are good enough

So when a company is questioning what tool to use Slack is an easy go-to. "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" type of tool.

Can you live without it? yeah. But do you really wanna focus on what chat platform your company should be using or just focus on your product?

Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator

gempir — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-06-bash-is-not-enough/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942472

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gempir in "AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines"

gempir — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:15:46 +0000

It even supported running as a MySQL Replica at some point.

"MaterializedMySQL"

Sadly that feature seems to have been thrown out, probably due to complexity.

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/discussions/44887#d...

https://www.percona.com/blog/complete-walkthrough-mysql-to-c...

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/73879

New comment by gempir in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

gempir — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:39:18 +0000

Kind of weird way to put it. Turbopack was not a real product for years. It was forever stuck in weird beta/alpha stage and only recently went and became the default for NextJS.

Vite has been stable for years at least 5 years now and is built-upon because it's fast, stable, reliable and a bit less complicated than Webpack.

New comment by gempir in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

gempir — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:06:58 +0000

The Crypto scam is just a recent trend of scammers. They are using big open source projects/developers as figure heads, the maintainers have nothing to do with this, but there is nothing really stopping the scammers.

An open-source Git extension for tracking AI code

gempir — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:09:25 +0000

Article URL: https://usegitai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744214

Points: 3

# Comments: 0