Hacker News: ianlevesque

New comment by ianlevesque in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

ianlevesque — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:23:29 +0000

To be fair that's one more corner than Tahoe.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time"

ianlevesque — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:07:26 +0000

Text editor developers get bored too!

New comment by ianlevesque in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

ianlevesque — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:03:28 +0000

Yeah Kimi-K2.5 is the first open weights model that actually feels competitive with the closed models, and I've tried a lot of them now.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses"

ianlevesque — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:49:12 +0000

Yes but it’s barely usable. I ended up making my own Dockerfile and a bash script to just ‘docker run’ my setup itself, and as a bonus you don’t need Docker Desktop. I might open source it at some point but honestly it’s pretty trivial to just append a couple of volume mount flags and env vars to your docker run and have exactly what you want included.

New comment by ianlevesque in "[dead]"

ianlevesque — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:46:00 +0000

Yeah, except there aren't even principles at play here. For example, streamline all regulatory approvals, oh except for disfavored groups: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/speed-act-passes...

New comment by ianlevesque in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

ianlevesque — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:57:51 +0000

Four years soon?

New comment by ianlevesque in "Solar panels + cold = A potential problem"

ianlevesque — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 05:26:49 +0000

No, microinverters are still a thing (Enphase is a popular brand) and they do then get connected in parallel.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Exposed MCP servers across the internet"

ianlevesque — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:11:46 +0000

The browser extension native app integrations also communicate via stdin/stdout. It’s still out there!

New comment by ianlevesque in "Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers"

ianlevesque — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:08:14 +0000

It’s a userspace USB HID driver in rust, which is honestly more interesting/applicable to me than a kernel driver, which is what I thought it meant from the title.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users"

ianlevesque — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:16:51 +0000

This kind of conspiracy theory comes up a lot on here. Most of these products have the option to allow or deny that and contrary to the opinions here those policies are then followed. This whole episode is news because it violates that.

New comment by ianlevesque in "JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant"

ianlevesque — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:27:31 +0000

Results quality is probably language-dependent. I was able to use Junie to do a bunch of Java/Kotlin tasks and it worked very well.

New comment by ianlevesque in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

ianlevesque — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:05:52 +0000

Yes, never self host Wordpress if you value your sanity. Even if it’s not the first hour it will eventually happen when you forget a patch.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

ianlevesque — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:41:57 +0000

What? It has more than 300M users.

New comment by ianlevesque in "End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit"

ianlevesque — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:57:51 +0000

I think it's relevant that Transmit is a local native app. There's no hosted app exposed to the internet to hack here. Google made one lengthy process that doesn't fit this use case.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Decommissioning my first commercial product"

ianlevesque — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 04:02:13 +0000

This is absolutely a thing in 2024. Or less drastically the many examples of a development team being cut, further development being sporadic and bug prone, and a detached and patronizing ticket system for support instituted.

New comment by ianlevesque in "New York Establishes Stringent Protections to Safeguard Kids on Social Media"

ianlevesque — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:29:17 +0000

> now it's common to see people inviting government control of the internet for adults. I don't get it.

Sockpuppets and useful idiots in equal measure.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language"

ianlevesque — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:58:19 +0000

Yet another desktop environment https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic

New comment by ianlevesque in "Testing sync at Dropbox (2020)"

ianlevesque — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:54:01 +0000

From a theoretical perspective, sure, but the product Dropbox sells is either a website or an app each end user gets that adds local sync and some other useful sharing features. They certainly don’t intend it as a centralized system that people expose over the network in a bespoke way, and I can fully sympathize with why they’d tell this user that’s not something they want to support.

New comment by ianlevesque in "Testing sync at Dropbox (2020)"

ianlevesque — Fri, 31 May 2024 18:04:22 +0000

> everyone else had access to an SMB share where dropbox actually ran

What the...? It honestly does sound like you were holding it wrong.

New comment by ianlevesque in "The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum"

ianlevesque — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:25:17 +0000

I’m saddened the sarcasm flew over the heads here. A disappointing reflection of the number of companies that really do act like that now, which was my point.