Hacker News: jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmakovHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:59:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later"]]>Powered all the time on or powered off?

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:19:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310241jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310241<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "My Week with OpenCode"]]>Wonder how it compares to Kilocode

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:25:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599619jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599619<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"]]>Seems to be a mixed bag regarding performance: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2510-f43/6

]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:30:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099079jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099079<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"]]>All you need is metadata. Once you know your targets, install spyware (on one of them) and enjoy access to Signal's unencrypted msgs on the phone.

Almost feels like another CryptoAG with Snowden recommending it so much when he knows that metadata is enough.

]]>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:40:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022762jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022762<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux"]]>Where are LLMs now?

]]>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:27:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017507jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017507<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"]]>The most useful feature with the worst UX. You have to type about:profiles and then create a new profile. But imagin you now want to move old profiles to a new computer and FF happens to run in a Flatpack. Yeah, much fun

]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:05:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829275jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829275<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework"]]>Couldn't the input be automatically described/guessed using a few rows of data and a LLM?

]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:19:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496941jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496941<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework"]]>Wonder how it compares to zstd-9 since they only mention zstd-3

]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:16:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496918jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496918<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"]]>Well, for some reason they're not worried about metadata. And the agencies mostly collect metadata...

]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:51:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453780jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453780<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"]]>Wonder why everybody's first pick is CEPH which is known for being hard to optimize vs e.g. SeaweedFS

]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:13:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447333jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447333https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447333<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can"]]>For me this opens the question of are there any good remote desktop solutions for multiuser systems around. Rustdesk is single user, TurboVNC works, but there can be lag.

]]>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:38:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994078jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994078<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025"]]>Would be interesting yo have sth like this for cars

]]>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:18:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44801022jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44801022https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44801022<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "The FastLanes File Format [pdf]"]]>Any comparison with https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex? Also any plans to integrate with polars?

]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:04:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674730jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674730<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"]]>Wonder how companies handle this. As a company you'd want to protect all the IP on a company device. And make sure no tmp gov is fiddling with the HW.

]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:22:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667920jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667920<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Specimens"]]>Errot 405

]]>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:33:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591910jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591910<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Hydro: Distributed Programming Framework for Rust"]]>Not sure what problem this is solving. For real applications one would need sth as ray.io for Rust. Academia ppl: let's make another data flow framework.

]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:14:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891389jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891389<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours"]]>Why should one care if they're still under warranty?

]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:07:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866700jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866700https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866700<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Apache Iceberg"]]>Why would one choose this instead of DeltaLake?

]]>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:33:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831280jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831280<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security"]]>How is this different than just using your SSH key?

]]>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:23:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552025jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552025<![CDATA[New comment by jmakov in "We use our own hardware at Fastmail"]]>Thank you very much for sharing this, very insightful.

]]>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:56:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487106jmakovhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487106https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487106