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New comment by hamandcheese in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

hamandcheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:33:27 +0000

Scoring 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 all say better than 32% of players. Something isn't right.

New comment by hamandcheese in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

hamandcheese — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:36:49 +0000

> unless you turn off your brain

New comment by hamandcheese in "SSH has no Host header"

hamandcheese — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:28:54 +0000

This would be a great use case of SSH over HTTP/3[0]. Sadly it doesn't seem to have gained traction.

[0]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-michel-ssh3-00.html

New comment by hamandcheese in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

hamandcheese — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:58:45 +0000

> Each agent is a TOML config with a focused job. Such as code reviewer, log analyzer, commit message writer. You can run them from the CLI, pipe data in, get results out.

I'm a bit skeptical of this approach, at least for building general purpose coding agents. If the agents were humans, it would be absolutely insane to assign such fine-grained responsibilities to multiple people and ask them to collaborate.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

hamandcheese — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:09:57 +0000

> what's the difference if my agent uses fucking Next, Nuxt, Rails or Django?

The claim seems quite clear to me: "convention over configuration allows coding agents to be more effective".

But yes, I do agree that the main line should say what Ruby on Rails actually is, not why it's good for your agent.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

hamandcheese — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:34:48 +0000

> Cloud challenges can be as or more complex than bare metal ones.

Big +1 to this. For what I thought was a modest sized project it feels like an np-hard problem coordinating with gcloud account reps to figure out what regions have both enough hyperdisk capacity and compute capacity. A far cry from being able to just "download more ram" with ease.

The cloud ain't magic folks, it's just someone else's servers.

(All that said... still way easier than if I needed to procure our own hardware and colocate it. The project is complete. Just delayed more than I expected.)

New comment by hamandcheese in "A decade of Docker containers"

hamandcheese — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:00:17 +0000

I don't in ow if I'd say it's "easy". The Python ecosystem in particular is quite hard to get working in a hermetic way (Nix or otherwise). Multiple attempts at getting Python easy to package with Nix have come and gone over the years.

New comment by hamandcheese in "A decade of Docker containers"

hamandcheese — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:58:02 +0000

This post has a great overview: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/

tl;dr it will put one package per layer as much as possible, and compress everything else into the final layer. It uses the dependency graph to implement a reasonable heuristic for what is fine grained and what get combined.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

hamandcheese — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:25:11 +0000

Replace "module" with "system" - every system has boundaries.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

hamandcheese — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:35:45 +0000

> If there was really true 'progress', then you wouldn't need a one-party system that suppresses all dissent.

This makes no sense. It is possible for a totalitarian government which is threatened by dissent and concepts like "democracy" to also work in the interest of improving overall quality of life.

New comment by hamandcheese in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

hamandcheese — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:23:49 +0000

I think you misunderstand my point. Nix basically forces dynamic linking to be more like static linking. So changing a low level library causes ~everything to redownload.

New comment by hamandcheese in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

hamandcheese — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:53:42 +0000

NixOS "suffers" from this. It's really not that bad if you have solid bandwidth. For me it's more than worth the trade off. With a solid connection a major upgrade is still just a couple minutes.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

hamandcheese — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:26:26 +0000

> Yes, and my point is that thinking the cost of subscriptions is only inference, and not the research, is mistaken.

Of course they are losing money when you factor in R&D. Everybody knows that. That is not what people mean when they say that they "lose money" on subscriptions.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

hamandcheese — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:41:34 +0000

Does CEL have any way to import other files? i.e. could it serve as a general purpose config language like jsonnet?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

hamandcheese — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:44:13 +0000

So why haven't they already?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

hamandcheese — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:03:25 +0000

> What I don’t like about headscale is that you can only host a single coordinator server as well. If I need to do maintenance on the server, it means an impact to the tailnet. It’s rare but annoying.

Any p2p connections should keep working for some time even if the coordinator goes down... right?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

hamandcheese — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:52:26 +0000

No idea what the fairydust kernel is.

For more context, I gooled around and found this Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-EOY-2025-CCC

> On the display side, Asahi Linux developers have been working on the DisplayPort connectivity. For that there are now experimental DisplayPort patches for Asahi Linux via their "fairydust" tree.

That's great news!

New comment by hamandcheese in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

hamandcheese — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:28:26 +0000

I wish it were possible to directly fund DP-alt mode support. It is the only thing remaining preventing me from adopting Asahi.

New comment by hamandcheese in "US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it"

hamandcheese — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:33:05 +0000

If this becomes a big enough problem, surely we can add artificial rotational inertia to the grid, right?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation"

hamandcheese — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:16:21 +0000

I must be the only one in here who thinks $1.5M is a small sum compared to Anthropic's size and the amount of value they have gotten out of Python. Good press is cheaper than I thought.