Hacker News: gkbrk

New comment by gkbrk in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

gkbrk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:00:51 +0000

Wine has better backwards-compatibility than Windows these days.

New comment by gkbrk in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

gkbrk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:00:19 +0000

It's always on The Pirate Bay. That's the streaming service everything is on.

New comment by gkbrk in "The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting"

gkbrk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:36:22 +0000

The best advertisement for these companies would probably be running a public Polymarket account so everyone else can quickly check how accurate they are.

New comment by gkbrk in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

gkbrk — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:47:40 +0000

I wouldn't classify getting random malware as "nothing happening".

New comment by gkbrk in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

gkbrk — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:38:32 +0000

A monitor cannot install software on your computer by the way. It's Windows installing this software automatically (for some reason), so the blame should be on Microsoft.

Autorun of malware when you plugged in a USB drive was also a Windows issue, I'd classify this as the same security problem.

New comment by gkbrk in "How I use HTMX with Go"

gkbrk — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:03:25 +0000

The same server that's responsible for sanitizing garbage JS out of user content is also responsible for sending the Content-Security headers. Why would you trust it with one, but not the other? If it's buggy garbage it will also send the wrong headers.

New comment by gkbrk in "Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch"

gkbrk — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:35:59 +0000

All the codecrafters content is available on Github too, for free.

New comment by gkbrk in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

gkbrk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:20:15 +0000

You can't just say perchance.

New comment by gkbrk in "CursorBench 3.1"

gkbrk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:56:25 +0000

It looks very natural, cheaper is better after all. Performance axis going up, and cheapness axis going up match each other.

New comment by gkbrk in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

gkbrk — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:33:06 +0000

If your ISP cares, you need a better ISP.

New comment by gkbrk in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

gkbrk — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:19:17 +0000

There's no need to package it because ClickHouse is just a single binary.

New comment by gkbrk in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

gkbrk — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:29:49 +0000

There is nothing wrong with it, and RSA is still commonly used. In fact, RSA is better against quantum computers compared to ECC.

New comment by gkbrk in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

gkbrk — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:17:57 +0000

It's still a VSCode fork. Even Cursor's own About window tells you it's VSCode.

  Cursor
  Version: 3.4.20
  VSCode Version: 1.105.1

New comment by gkbrk in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

gkbrk — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:49:35 +0000

> the point is to save people / well-being, not reduce it

Oh, you haven't met _that_ part of the climate people. A surprising number of them do want to reduce the number of people and they see "degrowth" as the solution.

New comment by gkbrk in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

gkbrk — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:43:28 +0000

I've seen https://kyc.rip but haven't tried it so far.

New comment by gkbrk in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

gkbrk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:39:09 +0000

I tried this with Opus 4.7. Doesn't do anything, it can continue the conversation and even repeat it back to me.

New comment by gkbrk in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

gkbrk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:02 +0000

Depends how much total RAM your application needs and how much money RAM access tail latency costs your business.

New comment by gkbrk in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

gkbrk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:48:37 +0000

When you use a FOSS product more, the person that wrote the code doesn't end up spending more money. When you use a free service more, someone is paying for that usage and resources.

New comment by gkbrk in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

gkbrk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:51:20 +0000

My Hacker News items table in ClickHouse has 47,428,860 items, and it's 5.82 GB compressed and 18.18 GB uncompressed. What makes Parquet compression worse here, when both formats are columnar?

New comment by gkbrk in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

gkbrk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:02:40 +0000

Browser killing the tab way before it happens