Hacker News: infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=infofarmerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 16:52:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"]]>to be pedantic, a maxed out MBP is 90200 BRL in Brazil now before AC+ and software, around 16777 USD

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:12:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780539infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780539<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"]]>Holding Fallout 1/2 as the best gaming experiences of my life for a long time, just recently discovered Fallout Nevada and Sonora that some kind talent also ported to WASM/Web — and it finally hit the spot for me after ~25 years.

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:54:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356441infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356441<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"]]>decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used

I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either case (CPU or GPU)

]]>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:37:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280583infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280583https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280583<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"]]>you'd have to "rebase" all the other frames to be derived from those

]]>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:09:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279868infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279868https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279868<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"]]>search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions

]]>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:06:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279850infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41279850<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Linux Crisis Tools"]]>somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rescue https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/rescue/resc...

]]>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:09:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805948infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805948<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server"]]>once you actually need to configure Caddy, it is an abomination beyond imagination — the docs, Caddyfile, JSON config — all of them lack coherence or sensible design

never touching it again

good defaults matter; nginx configs were very concise and readable in 2005-2015 when I was using it heavily; http/3, ws, acme — perhaps new tech is yet to be incorporated properly (and maybe it never will)

]]>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:20:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689468infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689468<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again"]]>Lithium is <10% cost of a battery. Presumably much less now. Doesn't affect the price of EVs that much yet.

]]>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:53:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556999infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556999<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "IBM Launches Quantum System Two and a Roadmap to Quantum Advantage"]]>discussed here a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424150

]]>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:59:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526942infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526942https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526942<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF"]]>oh, interesting; it was ipfilter for ages, and suddenly pf-only now

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60993/pfovw-compa...

]]>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:34:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688721infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688721<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud"]]>Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2]

Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well!

[1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514

[2] https://gist.github.com/pandrewhk/2d62664bfb74a504b7f4a894fc...

]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 08:39:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594857infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594857https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594857<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure"]]>Any of the three major branches are the first choice for lean, bespoke network appliances. For Mullvad in particular OpenBSD or FreeBSD would be the obvious choice.

]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 08:35:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594831infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594831https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594831<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure"]]>Not sure the actual authors of the various overlapping Linux network subsystems even know the comprehensive picture "inside and out" for chronic lack of consistent documentation.

Last time I managed a small «supercomputer», 50x IBM blades running Suse, it wouldn't support PXE/NFS without kernel customization, but that would void support contracts and finicky third-party software. Made a switch to FreeBSD, where everything worked out of the box one hour later. That was over 15 years ago, I have no idea how much the situation changed.

]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 08:33:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594811infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594811https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594811<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure"]]>Not to provoke predictable responses, but I find it interesting that the tech-talented VPN providers are not using BSD in favor of Linux, especially with requirements like diskless operation, kernel customization, and tighter security.

]]>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:34:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586319infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586319<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M"]]>If you check the profile of the author, Jon Brodkin, https://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/ — roughly 100% of his headlines are political: anti-Musk, anti-GOP, pro-Biden, pro-gov. Disgusting how this goes under the once-respected brand of Ars.

]]>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:45:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505411infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505411https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505411<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working"]]>Without looking, chances are Apple is using the FreeBSD fork of pf, that diverged long ago (mostly to implement SMP to handle much more traffic).

]]>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:58:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504818infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504818https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504818<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working"]]>The OpenBSD OS is roughly as relevant today as it ever were. The OpenBSD project has significantly grown in relevance since inception through OpenSSH, LibreSSL and dozens of other high-quality implementations.

]]>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:56:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504809infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504809https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37504809<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing"]]>Layman thoughts:

(1) with enough high-quality training data, «AI» models should be able to output H265 / H266 / AV1 directly, can achieve simplicity and reduce artifacts by skipping an inferior compression step and leveraging temporal elements

(2) if AI video compression (as demoed by nvidia) becomes standard, the training data and generated data will become [more] «AI-native», boosting these efforts by miles

]]>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:20:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208471infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208471https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208471<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Twitter/X has removed all media posted before 2014"]]>As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.

]]>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:06:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190822infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190822<![CDATA[New comment by infofarmer in "Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust"]]>For the record, I'm currently in Saigon, and whenever I order delivery from the local Tops Market (around USD 1.5 fee, within two hours from order placement) they call me to say that bananas are either too ripe or too green and confirm if I still want them. Would love them to digitize this interaction.

In response to another comment, the pickers have access to the backroom and frequently deliver better produce than would be available in-store.

]]>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:07:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149222infofarmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149222