Hacker News: hd4

New comment by hd4 in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

hd4 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:26:19 +0000

It was always really obvious but that recent full-throated-fascist manifesto has left no doubt. One thing Palantir have going for them is this deranged movie-villain-style transparency about their intentions, they don't even care about hiding it.

New comment by hd4 in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

hd4 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:12:13 +0000

I hate the BBC so much - "controversial privacy tech" "E2EE ... the best way to protect conversations from .. even repressive authorities" "End-to-end encryption has been criticised by governments, police forces"

They're saying this at the same time as they're clutching pearls over Iran's repression of protestors. Typical of the ethical consistency I would expect from them.

New comment by hd4 in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

hd4 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:00:49 +0000

Fair to assume trillions of the physical metal weren't simultaneously dumped onto the market in the past day; this is entirely ETF driven therefore it's also safe to assume there is manipulation taking place to drive the price down.

What I don't understand is why, when there appear to be signs of a supply shortage, market forces appear to want to drive the price down and cause any remaining inventory to flow towards China where there is a $30~/oz arbitrage to be made.

New comment by hd4 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

hd4 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:53:18 +0000

Didn't see it mentioned yet but I like gitea and it's runner. It's all in Go so very low overhead.

https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner

New comment by hd4 in "Mozilla's latest quagmire"

hd4 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:51:06 +0000

It's advisable to use a prefs.js for this sort of thing

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file

New comment by hd4 in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

hd4 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:34:27 +0000

Feel like I've made it

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

hd4 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:31:22 +0000

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731569.3764815

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643163

Points: 523

# Comments: 315

New comment by hd4 in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

hd4 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:09:58 +0000

Get the Material theme.

New comment by hd4 in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

hd4 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:07:42 +0000

Installed it on a TP-Link to replace my ISP router a couple days ago. I'm super impressed with how it needed almost no config (except to manually activate the Wifi and to set a password).

I'd recommend downloading the Material theme for anyone complaining about the barebones look.

New comment by hd4 in "Omarchy Is Out"

hd4 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:50:00 +0000

It's less a Wayland story imo and more a tiling WM story.

New comment by hd4 in "Omarchy Is Out"

hd4 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:49:18 +0000

The reason it's wild is someone has managed to make a tiling WM that isn't just usable and nice, but actually created incredible hype around it, and made people want to give it a chance and switch away from something as entrenched as DEs. It's really a wondrous achievement, something the majority of the Linux community never thought could be done until it was.

New comment by hd4 in "Omarchy Is Out"

hd4 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:41:08 +0000

The real story with Omarchy is Hyprland. Feels like the first time the desktop Linux is not only fun but that there's a far better case being made for switching to desktop Linux over Windows, not only because of less resource usage, but also a new (old) paradigm in tiling windows, repackaged in a way that doesn't make people want to smash their computer.

Hyprland itself comes with such nice defaults that it isn't surprising at all that it's getting as much attention as it is, for better or worse.

New comment by hd4 in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

hd4 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:32:00 +0000

just a fyi for anyone looking for a neat little kanban board, gitea has kanban built-in into the projects feature.

(obviously lacks really fine-grain customization that would be found in other jira alternatives)

New comment by hd4 in "Hyprland Premium"

hd4 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:09:37 +0000

didn't use sway for long enough to form an opinion. it did feel kind of workhorse-ish and boring which in hindsight is probably better. I was curious to see what I would get on a fairly old (intel iGPU) machine in terms of sheer performance with hyprland given it is fully GPU-accelerated through OpenGL and it was refreshing honestly. it's easy to see how they thought they could monetize it, pure looks and raw performance are very appealing to end-users.

the websites for both are a nice heuristic imo.

New comment by hd4 in "Hyprland Premium"

hd4 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:11:58 +0000

I've been using hyprland for about 6 months now, it's undeniably performant, buttery-smooth even but there are still a lot of paper cuts there - I have a feeling this will piss quite a few people off given the temperament in the Linux community for subscription-based software; also feel like it's not really the smartest thing to do if good alternatives already exist for what you're building (sway is not far off in quality)

Had to chuckle at the idea of hyprland support because the few times I had issues prior to this (with getting a nonstandard setup to work) I got made fun of on the discord which goes with the general vibe of getting support on discord so I wasn't mad at all, and eventually figured it out. The wiki does need a lot of work because I followed it and installing the recommended terminal emulator (kitty) was what caused a lot of hair pulling. Ghostty works far better.

New comment by hd4 in "Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA"

hd4 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:46:22 +0000

it's now a case of choosing between who you least care about spying on you - think I'll choose a Chinese phone next time, at least they're not currently engaged in genociding children

New comment by hd4 in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

hd4 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:57:44 +0000

They're really starting to build the case for self-hosting videos through Peertube

New comment by hd4 in "Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care"

hd4 — Sat, 31 May 2025 07:20:51 +0000

Precisely because it's routinely used to attack them as having agency in the matter of being an "incel".

New comment by hd4 in "Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care"

hd4 — Sat, 31 May 2025 07:19:43 +0000

Given this is a sociological phenomenon, it makes more sense to give them a more scientific designation even though some of their members may have called themselves in an ironic sense.

"Incel" is now widely used as a negative-connotation catch-all term for young loner men almost with the implication that they chose this life for themselves rather than being denied opportunities by society.

New comment by hd4 in "Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care"

hd4 — Sat, 31 May 2025 06:09:23 +0000

something in me hopes people here will question the fundamental hypocrisy in the derisive term "involuntary celibate"