Hacker News: hatch_q

New comment by hatch_q in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

hatch_q — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:33:43 +0000

No. Sadly, NVIDIA killed any kind of compute via Vulkan.

I took few minutes to try to make it work on ROCm (AMD's alternative to CUDA), landed in python dependency hell.

New comment by hatch_q in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

hatch_q — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:47:16 +0000

You're just very opinionated. Other software engineers just give you space because they don't want to confront you and they don't want any conflict with you as it's just waste of time.

6 months is also average time it takes people like you to burn out on a project. Usually starting with relatively simple change/addition requested by customer that turns into 3 month long refactor - "because architecture is wrong". And we just let you do it, because we know fighting windmills is futile.

New comment by hatch_q in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

hatch_q — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:57:12 +0000

Don't give iXsystems (TrueNAS) ideas. 3 times was enough.

New comment by hatch_q in "MSI Teases Z790 Project Zero Plus Motherboard with CAMM2 Memory Support"

hatch_q — Mon, 27 May 2024 10:05:33 +0000

I wish for future CPU sockets to use CAMM-style compression boards. I've seen too many motherboards with bent/broken pins in past few years.

New comment by hatch_q in "MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo"

hatch_q — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:36:31 +0000

I don't see it having any better performance than integrated chrome pdf viewer. Furthermore, with it using wasm i'd expected it to have custom renderer, but it's just pdf to html converter.

And loading times are quite bad (10 times slower - compared to firefox or chrome pdf viewers).

New comment by hatch_q in "6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review"

hatch_q — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:05:05 +0000

Not anymore. Modern games do multi-threading quite good.

New comment by hatch_q in "250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released"

hatch_q — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:25:40 +0000

Because of IoT - devices are inherently insecure and they are currently obscured by NAT.

Imagine if billions of printers, weather stations, baby monitors, toothbrushes and thermostats suddenly obtain publicly routeable address...

New comment by hatch_q in "Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux"

hatch_q — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:14:00 +0000

Name one vendor? I can name you 3 that don't. Zyxel, Ubiquiti, Mikrotik. Also anything wrt based (eg. dd-wrt).

In fact one of the warnings on dd-wrt official IPv6 tutorial: """ Keep in mind it can be dangerous to enable IPv6 without also having a firewall on each client that handles IPv6 packets, or having ip6tables on your router to filter incoming connections. ip6tables is NOT included by default with DD-WRT, which means your clients will be directly exposed to the Internet once you have enabled IPv6. """

New comment by hatch_q in "Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux"

hatch_q — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:46:13 +0000

Possibly never, because security. NAT at least tries to hide insecure IoT device on your grandma's wifi.

shodan.io has support for ipv6. With ipv4 you're somewhat restricted to devices that get public ip (corporate networks) or devices that drill a hole (uPnP/port forward). IPv6 devices are publicly visible by default and you need to manually setup firewall to filter this out (not trivial - especially for UDP and ICMP)

New comment by hatch_q in "Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art"

hatch_q — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:50:52 +0000

> their colonization of their present ranges (beginning around 1 million years ago)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3433997/

New comment by hatch_q in "Authentication on meet.jit.si"

hatch_q — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:35:38 +0000

For obscurity (and some security) reasons.

My ISP supports ipv6 and i have it configured - however their software on the router/AP is bad and does not allow setting up a firewall for ipv6. This is inherent with ipv4 NAT (with uPnP disabled). So it forced me to use my own router - still the interface for ipv6 firewall is non-existent, but at least i can write firewall rules manually.

Why do I need firewall on router? Because devices on my network have services open on all interfaces - For example "smart" weather station has web service open for all to see. This is absolutely non-issue when only using ipv4 behind NAT.

Another issue is revealing of internal network topology to outside world - this is something that NAT hides really well.

New comment by hatch_q in "Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop"

hatch_q — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:24:53 +0000

Probably goes to S2 instead of S3 deep sleep. Had the same issue on microsoft surface (running Linux on it) - i needed to tweak few kernel flags to force it into deep sleep.

New comment by hatch_q in "Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte"

hatch_q — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 06:37:21 +0000

I'm missing the raw numbers. Increased performance? Faster code execution? By how much? I'm sure Svelte is faster, but if we're talking 10% improvement it doesn't really matter.

Additionally...

  {@html
    Prism.highlight(code, Prism.languages[lang], lang)
  }

looks very unsafe to me. (Vue example has the exact same problem)

New comment by hatch_q in "Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says"

hatch_q — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:21:26 +0000

Ruble is a controlled forex currency. You virtually can't sell rubles and exchange them to EUR or USD at the moment. Russian government imposed very strict regulation into buying foreign currencies and banks imposed heavy taxation (1% per month) for holding foreign currencies, forcing people into exchanging USD into RUB. Volume is down substantially as well.

It was a smart thing to do by Russia - it keeps ruble look strong. We'll see how long they can keep it up. Maybe in future we'll even read about it in books how to avoid currency depreciation.

New comment by hatch_q in "Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says"

hatch_q — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:33:49 +0000

You're missing the big picture. After Siemens gave Canadian export license that allows Gazprom to "repair" the turbines, there were no more excuses for Gazprom to not respect contractual obligation to provide gas through the pipeline. In short, Gazprom was facing enormous penalties for not providing gas. I am not saying Gazprom did it, but they had a reason and means (using a PIG) to do it.

New comment by hatch_q in "Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks"

hatch_q — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:46:25 +0000

Apple is free to improve their Linux support.

New comment by hatch_q in "$250K Longevity Prize Announced"

hatch_q — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 10:55:01 +0000

Just extrapolate what elderly (90+) contribute to society now. Before even thinking about longevity, we need to eradicate degenerative diseases that make old people useless in society - Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Arthritis, ...

There would also be a necessity to allow (and even force) euthanasia for people in persistent vegetative state.

New comment by hatch_q in "Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go"

hatch_q — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:08:40 +0000

Electron hate is in most cases unsubstantiated, esp. when compared to their web counterparts.

Just checked discord - electron app consumes half the memory firefox does with only discord open.

New comment by hatch_q in "GraphQL Is a Trap?"

hatch_q — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:47:01 +0000

In all honesty, we do this with REST now. Just define interface with OpenAPI - then create clients, servers in virtually any language you like.

New comment by hatch_q in "I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)"

hatch_q — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:28:12 +0000

Ok, you got a degree in 3 months. But, did you actually learn anything? Did courses prepare you for the world outside?