Hacker News: headgasket

New comment by headgasket in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

headgasket — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:03:57 +0000

interesting name. The opposite of a bonus. So what is, the fact that your fork looses the thousands of eyes (meat and ai) that spot and fix bugs and security leaks?

New comment by headgasket in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

headgasket — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:50:10 +0000

Love this. can we get an honest title for this entry too? (I'm not quite happy with my 11l+ karma, please give me some upvotes so I can start the new year with a smile?) jk, great one, cheers

New comment by headgasket in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

headgasket — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:58:22 +0000

Napoleon Bonaparte would like a word

New comment by headgasket in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

headgasket — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:04:51 +0000

if you use x0vnc (useful if you use a linux machine both from the attached screen and from vnc, and in a bunch of other scenarios), copy and paste to and fro the vnc client is not implemented, quite frustrating. here's 2 scripts that does that for you, I now use this all day. https://github.com/francoisp/clipshare

New comment by headgasket in "Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA"

headgasket — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:53:55 +0000

here's a hard fork, who is with me? https://github.com/AI3clauseBSD/claused-webai

New comment by headgasket in "Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support"

headgasket — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:20:13 +0000

my hunch is the path forward for intel on both the CPU and the GPU end is to release a series of consumer chipsets with a large number of PCIE 5.0 lanes, and keep iterating this. This would cannibalize some of the datacenter server side revenue, both that's a reboot... get the hackers raving about intel value for the money instead of EPYC. Or do a skunkworks ARM64 M1 like processor; there's a market for this as a datacenter part...

New comment by headgasket in "Leaving MySQL"

headgasket — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:46:40 +0000

Shameless plug: check out [Rosettable https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable]. Brings Postgres triggers and notifies to your MySQL schema, with it you can organize a smooth transition. Using MySQL_fdw you can use your current MySQL schema with the above you can know when a client interacted directly with MySQL; all the while you add some nice jsonb and Plpgsql and transition out of MySQL incrementally. Don’t rewrite, write onward

New comment by headgasket in "Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score"

headgasket — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:01:22 +0000

I read that Monterrey will Have an AirPlay based feature to do something like TDM. www.macrumors.com/2021/06/09/airplay-mac-to-mac-external-display/amp/

New comment by headgasket in "My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)"

headgasket — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:10:05 +0000

It’s probably a bad forum for this opinion, but I have a relative struggling with addiction and resulting mental issues ( resulting form substance abuse; he was highly functional and threw it all away), and because of this I made a 180 and think some form of prohibition for hard stuff is the only action that would help us. How to put that cat in the bag is anyone’s guess.

New comment by headgasket in "Tesla made $1.6 billion in Q3, is switching to LFP batteries globally"

headgasket — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:00:03 +0000

That is not necessarily true, check out the max C rate in of LFP. Still, LFP is the way to go for sure; longer overall life is a clear net positive, lower degradation and secondary market uses once the véhicule is junk without expensive and heavy recycling. I bet the cyber and truck were waiting on these patents to lapse.

New comment by headgasket in "Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score"

headgasket — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:52:25 +0000

IMHO, ditching Intel is a smart move for apple but a bad one for hackers. I’m sticking with older intel mbps until decent emulation scores are achieved with qemu, and probably further down the line. Hypervisors (say VBox proxmox combo) are so useful when you have to experiment/test with other platforms. Happy to see HDMI and escape key back tho, and it looks like we’ll even get a Target Display Mode equivalent! We’ll be back to my 2015 setup.:-)

My ideal M1 mbp would be this new one with 64gb ram but with a second cheap mid tier i5 with 16gb dedicated, and a rtx2070(cmon NVdia has Cuda —we need that) with 8gb, connected via internal tb3. I don’t care that it would be 700g heavier and a bit bigger or have less battery life when used to the max (idled chips should not eat a lot). It terms of bare costs thats maybe 1000$ more silicon, but it’s a world more of possibilities. What’s wrong with dedicated gpu offering— not for everyone but hackers love it and help the aura.

And —-please—- bring back a modular slot (m2?) for (additional?) storage! (Also good for hackers but not for Apple)

New comment by headgasket in "Show HN: Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo"

headgasket — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:20:02 +0000

Joplin is pretty cool, back filling that to git must not be super complicated…

New comment by headgasket in "Startup Ideas"

headgasket — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:17:47 +0000

Carbon(Co2) credits to offset the cost/impact of your dog/pet, so you can have an eco responsable pet. Sell nft based tokens of these credits that can be pressed into a unique collar to show your mindfulness. Anybody ?

New comment by headgasket in "Rethinking Triplebyte"

headgasket — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 03:22:56 +0000

A SJ type is what TB would need to orient this pivot… to turn the problem around. Sourcing ideas on HN will only lead to “faster horses” suggestions. BTW did the TB interview after been lured by dark patterns on social media a while back when I was still using. Got the bloom filter from a hipster that was playing on his phone while I coded tictactoe in a langage I hadn’t used In years. Complete waste of time. Then they wanted to make profiles I hadn’t signed up for public, good thing they listened to the backlash. Just saying; it seems the management needs to use an hypothetical service like theirs but that works to find someone to help them on the angle for that pivot… a headhunter ?:-)

Tongue in cheek, good luck on the pivot guys, it is a tough problem.

New comment by headgasket in "Rethinking Triplebyte"

headgasket — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:25 +0000

Same thinking here. Can’t bite the hand that feeds. The thing is you have to chose a camp these days, it seems. Either the corp or the devs. If choosing devs, i think the biz model would work if it would be a meritocratic limited partnership that actually owns the new TB. As such the interviewer has skin in the game. Maybe like an Order? Or a League? The mission statement is not a match right now.

New comment by headgasket in "Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac"

headgasket — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:48:52 +0000

It exists, but not everywhere... I think Kirin was close to being on par for a while, it might even have been dangerous? With regards to privacy ? Plus there must have been some serious PLA money involved... anyway now this ARM cpu cannot be fabbed by TMSC because of the sanctions.

New comment by headgasket in "Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small"

headgasket — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:44:05 +0000

The Israel group saved their behind in the days of the Pentium M. It seems like skunk works projects have been crucial to Intel, but the last decade has been a lot of tick tock strategy and not a lot of hard engineering...

New comment by headgasket in "Ever Given Container Ship Fan Fiction"

headgasket — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:41:00 +0000

Could someone help me here : The pixs show a boat with evergreen on the side, where does ever given come from ? TIA

New comment by headgasket in "Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System"

headgasket — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 02:32:19 +0000

I hope Catalina will be able to run the new versions of Xcode, otherwise I’ll have to stop updating iOS too!

New comment by headgasket in "Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It happened, and with bad BIOS"

headgasket — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:43:54 +0000

I need to see to believe this. Thanks for this great article points out how it’s technically possible; but it would be dead simple to prove with a sample! Pray show one SMC MB with this extra chip and you are golden, if it’d a supply chain attack it was mass produced and a compromised unit is bound to show up on ebay!?

otherwise could this be a market manipulation attempt?

Last time around SMC stock lost half of its value overnight. Have you ever read how bberg remunerates reporters?