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New comment by grappler in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

grappler — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:20:56 +0000

Since we now face a threat of large-scale de-anonymization, a reasonable countermeasure might be using AI to make one's writing style less personally identifying, in order to try and retain some pseudonymity.

    https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139716

Kagi News

grappler — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426490

Points: 942

# Comments: 440

New comment by grappler in "Terror on repeat: A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings"

grappler — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:18:14 +0000

I think the point is that if the same shooters had only more 'normal' guns available to them, they would not have been able to cause nearly as much death and injury before being stopped.

New comment by grappler in "The Cloud Computer"

grappler — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 04:52:47 +0000

I'm really thinking mostly about the hardware part here, and maybe just enough layers of the stack to feel like an integrated hardware setup. Let the nerds play with whatever software they want above that.

To go ahead and dream a bit:

I'd hope for an online configurator like the one SoftIron's HyperCloud has [1] but instead of "talk to a sales rep", show a price for what you just configured, like you're configuring a macbook.

Relatedly, there should be a standard rack form factor in the size category of NUCs and Mac Minis, rather than having to go all the way to the 19 inch monster racks that medium to large businesses use. If it were nailed down to the point of being able to blind mate (just learned that term from Oxide's article here!) gear into it, that would be kind of perfect.

  1. https://softiron.com/hypercloud/configure/

New comment by grappler in "The Cloud Computer"

grappler — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:27:38 +0000

This all has me wondering, if I just want to play with stuff in this space as an individual homelabber who earns a tech salary and wants a nicely designed rack-mounted alternative to a mess of unorganized NUCs and cables and whatnot, what are my best options?

New comment by grappler in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

grappler — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:05:04 +0000

thanks, that's a good answer, and more nuanced than I'd realized things had gotten in this space

New comment by grappler in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

grappler — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:40:24 +0000

I recall hearing that Google and Bing have a nearly insurmountable lead in terms of raw ability to index the web, and that all other "alternative" search engines are using Google and/or Bing under the hood. Is this the case for Kagi? Or is Kagi actually maintaining and drawing upon their own independent index?

CBP Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees

grappler — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:14:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bge3/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979159

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by grappler in "Kubernetes Removals and Major Changes in v1.27"

grappler — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:14:45 +0000

1.27 hasn't been released yet.

Looking back at the previous release, 1.26, for comparison, we have this post, published a few weeks before 1.26 was released:

    https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/11/18/upcoming-changes-in-kubernetes-1-26/

The release announcement, made on the day of the 1.26 release, highlighted the new stuff:

    https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/12/09/kubernetes-v1-26-release/

Intro to Kubernetes – Containers at Scale Containerized Adventures

grappler — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 07:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://kaslin.rocks/intro-to-kubernetes-containers-at-scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117578

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grappler in "Hedge funds are offering to buy startups deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank"

grappler — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:39:07 +0000

According to this article, 80 is the upper end of bids they're reporting; the lower end is 60 cents on the dollar.

New comment by grappler in "Texas Republican wants ISPs to block a wide range of abortion websites"

grappler — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 06:52:09 +0000

wondering if you're talking about a twitter event pre-Elon (so people on the right were mad at the twitter exec) or post-Elon (so people on the left were mad at the twitter exec).

Guessing the former, since that would put the juxtaposition you're highlighting in left vs right terms...

Tevents: Event logger and job monitor for tailnets

grappler — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://tailscale.dev/blog/tevents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34976123

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

We Build Platforms (Mark Nottingham)

grappler — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/02/19/platforms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34863648

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by grappler in "The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump"

grappler — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:22:41 +0000

I've set up feeds that watch many of the popular instances, using score thresholds (a weighted sum of boosts, likes and replies), so that the feeds just get posts that break a previous threshold I had set (the point being to just see some of the breakout popular trending posts and links, sort of rolling my own algorithm). Every time a post appears in these feeds, I up the threshold again, to a bit under the score of that new post.

In a downward trend, I might reasonably expect that this set of feeds I've set up would go quiet, as new posts fail to hit the high water mark I had set at the peak. Instead, my experience over the past couple months has been the opposite. Breakout posts are getting scores that have kept me pushing my thresholds higher and higher. I don't know what this says about overall usage and engagement, but I think it at least suggests that in certain ways related to popular posts, it's continuing to go up and to the right.