Hacker News: hkt

New comment by hkt in "The forge we deserve"

hkt — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:01:08 +0000

Yes, but open to everyone - as I understand it codeberg is only for open source projects etc.

New comment by hkt in "The forge we deserve"

hkt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:58:29 +0000

I'm pretty sure the actual forge we deserve at this point is one that is a membership organisation, eg, owned by its (paying) members.

Members elect the board which chooses the CEO. A cooperative, in other words. The tech is a solved problem, with lots of open source around to do it. Enough members means paid operations and development staff, or outsourcing one or both, or grants to open source devs, etc. The possibility is there.

That's how we prevent cultural drift: by actually controlling the company.

New comment by hkt in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

hkt — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:46:24 +0000

This is pretty much the rule in journalism, too - timeliness and relevance are king. Man bites dog, etc.

New comment by hkt in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

hkt — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:41:49 +0000

Probably a joke about AI?

New comment by hkt in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

hkt — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:25:20 +0000

That is brilliant. Going to try some of yours then maybe transcribe my own favourites into the same format. You've struck on a great idea here.

New comment by hkt in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

hkt — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:17:27 +0000

Weirdly, I picked up Night Watch just yesterday

New comment by hkt in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

hkt — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:36:51 +0000

As a westerner (UK) I massively idealise Mondragon and wouldn't find it weird if anyone else did. Cooperatives are fascinating and the question of workplace democracy needs more consideration.

New comment by hkt in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

hkt — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:43:48 +0000

To enable JavaScript crapware

New comment by hkt in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

hkt — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:01:30 +0000

There's a rude but high quality joke waiting to be mined out of that transition

New comment by hkt in "Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell"

hkt — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:21:12 +0000

I love it. I think I'm going to have fun with this and possibly learn a bit, too. I'm pondering a container based dev environment at the moment and might throw it in with busybox and see how far I get :)

New comment by hkt in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

hkt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:07:43 +0000

It is absolutely not just you

New comment by hkt in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

hkt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:21:37 +0000

Smoke 40 cigarettes a day, your voice will be unrecognisable in no time

New comment by hkt in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

hkt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:10:10 +0000

Talk confidently in your interview with non-technical managers when the last senior has left and there's nobody there to check your work.

New comment by hkt in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

hkt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:35:59 +0000

What I wanted (and to an extent still do) is extreme simplicity and OS level minimalism. I was hoping to understand everything up to the browser, really. My interest in this has been renewed since AI: I have a sense that extreme simplicity may be the only viable approach for security in FLOSS if AI tilts the scales in favour of throwing cash (and therefore tokens) at problems.

New comment by hkt in "I am building a cloud"

hkt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:08:05 +0000

DevOps here.

The trouble is that we are literally expected to do this everywhere we go. I've personally advocated for approaches which use say, a pair of dedicated servers, or VMs as in GPs example. If you want it outside of AWS/GCP/Azure, you're regarded as a crazy person. If you don't adopt "best practices" (as defined by vendors) then management are scared. Management very often trust the sales and marketing departments of big vendors more than their own staff. Many of us have given up fighting this, because what it comes down to is a massive asymmetry of information and trust.

New comment by hkt in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

hkt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:19:34 +0000

> free labor

I'm not sure anywhere expects people to do their national service for free - which is to say that such a programme would also likely be very expensive.

New comment by hkt in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

hkt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:05:51 +0000

This is a great tip, do you have others? I've tried to ditch graphical desktop envs and failed pretty miserably on media consumption and browsing before.

New comment by hkt in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

hkt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:52:45 +0000

No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spare.

Random Google result with a bit more:

https://www.captaindns.com/en/blog/ipv6-subnet-sizes-48-vs-5...

So if I wanted to annoy GitHub, I could connect to them without ever using the same IP twice. Their response would have to be banning my /64, or possibly /56.

New comment by hkt in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

hkt — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:19 +0000

Not necessarily. More cheerful examples exist, usually outside the west:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

New comment by hkt in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

hkt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:05:35 +0000

Not before handing over an enormous cache of NHS patient data to them during the pandemic. If memory serves, this was not kept on NHS hardware or even NHS controlled compute.