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New comment by kilobaud in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

kilobaud — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:23:36 +0000

(Disclaimer: on religion I try to be respectful, as an agnostic atheist) I do think our ability to “build tools that create life” is incredible, but to me has a limited argumentative impact on what I guess you could call the “prime mover” question: _But how did everything start?_ Does that seem reasonable or am I downplaying the implications you mentioned?

New comment by kilobaud in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

kilobaud — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:58:03 +0000

Thanks for helping us launch LocalXpose however many years ago. I know it seems like product promotion is (rightfully) something to always be wary of, but I appreciate the forums you’ve provided startups hoping to find early adopters. We are (relatively speaking) successful nobodies, but I wonder if you have any memories of sites that “blew up” after being added on BetaList?

New comment by kilobaud in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

kilobaud — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:44:34 +0000

And your starter “production” deployment of the Nomad/Consul/Vault stack is literally 12 VMs, comprising three independent Raft clusters. There is no decent way to do zero-downtime instance replacement without building your own orchestration layer, but also they’ve had a years-long track record of shipping bad upgrades and following up with only manual remediations or workarounds instead of a fix.

As someone who has productionized and maintained truly hundreds of those clusters across several jobs, it is hard at this point for me to recommend Consul, Nomad, or Vault to anyone serious about building reliable applications. Too many broken upgrades and manual click-ops tasks just to keep them online. (…and I’ve said nothing of the actual product!)

New comment by kilobaud in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

kilobaud — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:19:19 +0000

> When not to use it > … > The workflow mostly lives outside Postgres and spans many heterogeneous systems.

How is this project at all comparable to something like Temporal? Am I misunderstanding the limitation implied by this particular recommendation?

New comment by kilobaud in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

kilobaud — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:01:42 +0000

Hah, if Harlan Ellison were alive for the dawn of LLMs as a widespread technology, he would have had many (dangerous) things to say about the copyright issues, and potential horrors

New comment by kilobaud in "Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%"

kilobaud — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:36:30 +0000

I think the main idea is that MOSFET chips don’t sink or source much current on their own (“fundamental” seeming to mean the way that current does not propagate into the gates, and most designs only really draw current during transitions)

OTOH some chips (amplifiers for example) may indeed have current flowing through them and therefore the power consumption of the “chip” would equal the sum of heat loss and output power. At least that’s my interpretation of the framing “how they operate at a fundamental level”. I could be wrong too, I’m not a working EE

New comment by kilobaud in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

kilobaud — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:13:47 +0000

Hey I am super interested in this, got any links to check out?

New comment by kilobaud in "Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox"

kilobaud — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:26:24 +0000

Thanks for your work! Just curious, would it be possible to pad the denylisted binary with arbitrary bytes and circumvent the content hash?

New comment by kilobaud in "The Influentists: AI hype without proof"

kilobaud — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:25:18 +0000

Thanks, I can relate to the parent poster, and this is a really profound comment for me. I appreciate the way you framed this. I’ve felt compelled to fact check my own LLM outputs but I can’t possibly keep up with the quantity. And it’s tempting (but seems irrational) to hand the results to a different LLM. My struggle is remembering there needs to be input/query/calculation/logic validation (without getting distracted by all the other shiny new tokens in the result)

New comment by kilobaud in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

kilobaud — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:58:15 +0000

I am curious what you mean by doing it yourself, i.e., do you mean (as perhaps an oversimplification) having a DNS record pointing at your home IP address? What are you wanting to see as the alternative to a Cloudflare tunnel?

New comment by kilobaud in "Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine"

kilobaud — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:04:38 +0000

Your observation has an N of 1… Texas is almost never as cold as today, even in December. Most of the year is 35 C to 40 C and the cold water supply is warm to the touch.

New comment by kilobaud in "Tunnl.gg"

kilobaud — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:41:47 +0000

Probably not an exciting answer but my work focused on stability and performance. There are indeed a lot of cool alternatives. I think Localxpose is for businesses who aren't interested in self-hosting and just need a service that will reliably handle production traffic. I don't know if that's unique (or cool, lol)

New comment by kilobaud in "Tunnl.gg"

kilobaud — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:07:00 +0000

Hey if you are interested in re-using any of this GitHub Action, feel free to: https://github.com/LocalXpose/localxpose-action

New comment by kilobaud in "Tunnl.gg"

kilobaud — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:01:50 +0000

Can you share more details? I know Hetzner offers unlimited bandwidth in some cases but I thought it limited only to servers with the 1Gbs uplink

New comment by kilobaud in "Tunnl.gg"

kilobaud — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:54:31 +0000

The tunnel host appears to be a Hetzner server, they are pretty generous with bandwidth but the interesting thing I learned about doing some scalability improvements at a similar company [0] is that for these proxy systems, each direction’s traffic is egress bandwidth. Good luck OP, the tool looks cool. Kinda like pinggy.

[0] https://localxpose.io

New comment by kilobaud in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

kilobaud — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:00:45 +0000

Unfortunately on machines doing a lot of software development, the various dependency cache locations need to be excluded from indexing, otherwise Spotlight is essentially doing full text search over millions of lines of code

New comment by kilobaud in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

kilobaud — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:48:30 +0000

I've worked in companies that do this internally, e.g., managed pull-through caches implemented via tools like Artifactory, or home-grown "trusted supply chain" automation, i.e., policy enforcement during CI/CD prior to actually consuming a third-party dependency.

But what you describe is an interesting idea I hadn't encountered before! I assume such a thing would have lower adoption within a relatively fast-moving ecosystem like Node.js though.

The closest thing I can think of (and this isn't strictly what you described) is reliance on dependabot, snyk, CodeQL, etc which if anything probably contributes to change management fatigue that erodes careful review.

New comment by kilobaud in "Privacy, AI Fears Jolt Companies to Rewrite Legal Terms of Use"

kilobaud — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:45:08 +0000

Apologies if not interesting to anybody else. I was searching for something that would help me understand why I have received approximately 5,000 legal terms update notifications in the past week or two...

Privacy, AI Fears Jolt Companies to Rewrite Legal Terms of Use

kilobaud — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/privacy-ai-fears-jolt-companies-to-rewrite-legal-terms-of-use

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45094837

Points: 2

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New comment by kilobaud in "Remembering Dave Smith, 1950–2022"

kilobaud — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:11:09 +0000

Well I'm pretty sure the oscillator bank in the VS does use wavetables, it would have no other way of supporting 127 different voices (including user-provided voices). (But you're correct that the approach to modulating sounds on a VS is fundamentally different to, say, a PPG wavetable synth.)