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New comment by imcritic in "Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary"

imcritic — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:21:03 +0000

Splitting a big task (like anything ML-related) into a set of smaller ones and distribute them across the "fleet" of workers. Then reap the results, stitching it back into a single artifact at the end. This could be commercially viable. This could even become a p2p platform/market where some people basically buy computation while the others offer their hardware for temporary rent to earn a few bucks. You become the coordinator that just connects the demand with the supply and become rich from just commissions alone.

New comment by imcritic in "Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary"

imcritic — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:11:48 +0000

That's an interesting project, don't give up!

P.s.: it's a shame that a rust lib for containers has a hardcoded path to sock file. That's weird.

New comment by imcritic in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

imcritic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:05:49 +0000

No, it's a honeyhoneypot.

New comment by imcritic in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

imcritic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:03:49 +0000

You mean you set your useragent to match the one of CloudFlare bot and that avoids captchas on sites?

New comment by imcritic in "Warp is now open-source"

imcritic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:47:59 +0000

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New comment by imcritic in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

imcritic — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:21:20 +0000

Please, don't. I don't want the same starting to happen on different sites...

New comment by imcritic in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

imcritic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:42:08 +0000

Doesn't the problem of quality now being barely distinguishable mean that manufacturers would aim to fool consumers by setting high prices to low quality goods to mimic as high quality goods (which probably can't be cheap by definition)?

If that is so - the rest of your points become invalid.

New comment by imcritic in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

imcritic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:59:51 +0000

Isn't the ONLY one doing blocking.

I'm not from Spain and instead of Spanish ISP I get a block from CloudFlare.

Now take a wild guess: which one is bigger - some Spanish ISP or CF?

New comment by imcritic in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

imcritic — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:27:03 +0000

That's a good advice in general to treat any software as untrusted black box as much as possible. But it raises (slightly, but still does) the cost/effort for the user: the user now has to make extra steps and take extra caution.

These concerns were great valid even before vibecoding becoming a thing, but now the estimated probabilities of malicious code's presence have changed, simply because nowadays the cost/effort of writing software plummeted.

New comment by imcritic in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

imcritic — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:20:47 +0000

Such action has non-zero cost/effort. Do I really want to pay it? I am not sure.

New comment by imcritic in "Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton"

imcritic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:09:41 +0000

Proton mail and privacy? Is this some joke?

New comment by imcritic in "Zml-smi: universal monitoring tool for GPUs, TPUs and NPUs"

imcritic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:15:58 +0000

Is it capable of exposing metrics in Prometheus format?

New comment by imcritic in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

imcritic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:00:04 +0000

Does this mean I can now self host Claude?

New comment by imcritic in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

imcritic — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:04:38 +0000

Because the input might be sensitive.

Because the input might be huge.

Because there is a risk of getting hallucinations in the output.

Isn't this obvious?

New comment by imcritic in "Apple Just Lost Me"

imcritic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:43:19 +0000

We, the readers, are still free to shit on your writing. You may or may not cry about it.

New comment by imcritic in "Apple Just Lost Me"

imcritic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:41:33 +0000

Haha, a fanboi got what he deserves. That's for feeding the evil with your money, for caving in to unfair demands. In your face!

New comment by imcritic in "Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry"

imcritic — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:26:22 +0000

How is pixi better than uv?

New comment by imcritic in "Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM"

imcritic — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:29:54 +0000

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The page you're looking for doesn't exist or has been moved.

Is this score good or bad? What's the score for the same requests, but without compressor?

New comment by imcritic in "Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps"

imcritic — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:41:56 +0000

Same. First time hearing about scrot.

New comment by imcritic in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

imcritic — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:42:21 +0000

It's not ZIRP, it's FLOMA.