Hacker News: jbaiter

New comment by jbaiter in "145 Days of Uptime, 56 TiB of Traffic, One Debian Upgrade"

jbaiter — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:21:42 +0000

FFS, please do at least one edit pass over the article to get rid of the LLM stench before you publish it. It's the least you can do if you expect your readers to give the text a chance.

New comment by jbaiter in "LG Says We're Fake News [video]"

jbaiter — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:57:46 +0000

You can root it and put it behind a PiHole or the like, that should allow you to get rid of the worst offenders. https://www.webosbrew.org/rooting/

New comment by jbaiter in "JetKVM Mini"

jbaiter — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:44:35 +0000

I have the predecessor at home, it's solid and the tailscale support is great!

New comment by jbaiter in "The lost joy of music piracy"

jbaiter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:49:17 +0000

It's still there!

New comment by jbaiter in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"

jbaiter — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:31:57 +0000

You might want to take a look at https://www.graalvm.org/webassembly. Runs on JDK25 and has very good guest<->host interop.

New comment by jbaiter in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"

jbaiter — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:20:57 +0000

Yeah, this was the first thing that came to mind, how does this compare to the Truffle WASM implementation. The Graal Polyglot API is pretty incredible, we've been using it for a JavaScript/Python plugin system in a JVM app, and it's been amazing.

New comment by jbaiter in "AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?"

jbaiter — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:17:32 +0000

I think it's Claude, yeah.

New comment by jbaiter in "Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices"

jbaiter — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:51:30 +0000

Same for me, I used it as a welcome opportunity to get rid of the Reddit habit, which was surprisingly easy. I haven't gotten much useful content out of it for quite some time.

New comment by jbaiter in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

jbaiter — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:03:48 +0000

I've been using a Logitech trackball for two years now and they're incredibly easy to clean and don't accumulate much dirt on the surface (since they're very smooth), just a little bit on the ceramic balls that they rest on in the case. You just pop out the ball every few weeks, remove the dirt with a cloth and that's it, doesn't take more than a minute.

New comment by jbaiter in "Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine"

jbaiter — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:19:24 +0000

Isn't this like the #1 problem people have with wireguard? I've had clients with the MTU issue every time I've set it up for more than a few clients. Also how on earth is "connection reset by peer" dreaded?

New comment by jbaiter in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

jbaiter — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:55:56 +0000

Had the same experience using it for a refactor of a 3k LOC monolith via the Pi harness and OpenRouter. After burning through $8 worth of tokens it left the code in a broken state, the "thoughts" were full of loops where it would edit the monolith, then refer back to the original file, not finding it and then overwriting its changes with "git checkout --"

New comment by jbaiter in "OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha"

jbaiter — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:38:10 +0000

We're doing this with a few dozen GiBs of logs a day (rsylog -> central rsylog -> elasticsearch). It works reliably, but the config is an absolute nightmare, documentation is a mixed bag and troubleshooting often involves deep dives into the C code. We're planning to migrate to Alloy+Loki.

New comment by jbaiter in "Bet on German Train Delays"

jbaiter — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:02:37 +0000

Absolutely, it's probably the most consumer-friendly and reliable part of all of the Bahn services. Personnel is usually pretty great too, and that despite them having to suffer the most from all the inept decisions made in the upper ranks.

New comment by jbaiter in "The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones"

jbaiter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:19:36 +0000

It's pretty much the norm in all "proper" German techno/electronic music clubs I've been to, Berlin and elsewhere.

New comment by jbaiter in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

jbaiter — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:44:19 +0000

Yup. I pay for YouTube, but not being able to disable shorts made me use ReVanced.

New comment by jbaiter in "How to make a living as an artist"

jbaiter — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:26:39 +0000

On the other end of the spectrum, "experimental artist" (whatever that is) Lawrence English wrote "A Young Person's Guide to Hustling (in Music and the Arts", which seems more like what you're after.

https://collapseboard.com/a-young-person%E2%80%99s-guide-to-... https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/a-young-persons-g...

New comment by jbaiter in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

jbaiter — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:30:56 +0000

Yup, it's great, at least for live action content. I've found that for Anime, a small amount of motion interpolation is absolutely needed on my OLED, otherwise the content has horrible judder.

New comment by jbaiter in "How I think about Kubernetes"

jbaiter — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:28:01 +0000

Also not like logging setups outside of k8s can't be a horror show too. Like, have you ever had to troubleshoot a rsyslog based ELK setup? I'll forever have nightmares from debugging RainerScript mixed with the declarative config and having to read the source code to find out why all of our logs were getting dropped in the middle of the night.

New comment by jbaiter in "Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)"

jbaiter — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:43:50 +0000

Agree, the lack of support for TTF fonts is a bummer for most non-english use cases:-/

New comment by jbaiter in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

jbaiter — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:01:07 +0000

Am I in the minority when I actually like those AI features on GitHub? The ability to interrogate any open source codebase is __amazing__, this feature alone has saved me days of work/research. The AI code reviews are nothing to write home about, but occasionally catch stuff that I would've missed, a net benefit for me. I don't really get all the outrage... Sure, having an "Ask AI" Clippy-like thing in your face everywhere gets old quick, but at least on GitHub I find it non-obtrusive and often actually useful.