Hacker News: lackoftactics

I Open-Sourced My Hardened *ArrStack (and What Most Compose Files Get Wrong)

lackoftactics — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://mroczek.dev/articles/hardened-arr-stack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662579

Points: 3

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Show HN: Uncompressed – Self-hosted Netflix alternative at 60 Mbps instead of 15

lackoftactics — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:24:26 +0000

Netflix compresses 4K to 15 Mbps. A Blu-ray remux is 60 Mbps. Dark scenes, fast motion, grain. That's where you see it.

I wanted my family to have Blu-ray quality with a streaming UX. They open Overseerr on their phone, request a movie, and it shows up in Infuse on Apple TV. Subtitles in three languages, hardware transcoding for mobile, full remux on the big screen. They have no idea what's behind it.

What's behind it: Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr find and grab content. qBittorrent downloads through a WireGuard tunnel. Bazarr pulls subtitles. Jellyfin serves it all. Everything self-heals — endpoint health checks, autoheal restarts, dependency ordering so nothing starts in a broken state.

The security model is the part I obsessed over:

- qBittorrent shares Gluetun's network namespace at the kernel level. No firewall rule to misconfigure — if the VPN drops, there's no network path. - Traefik binds to a Tailscale IP only. Zero ports face the internet. - Three isolated Docker networks separate ingress, internal, and P2P traffic.

Two Compose stacks, one .env file, MIT licensed.

https://github.com/Lackoftactics/uncompressed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643580

Points: 11

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New comment by lackoftactics in "1.2TB of Postgres, Zero Regrets: Scaling a Rails Monolith on Heroku"

lackoftactics — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000

A battle-tested talk from one of Poland's most seasoned Rubyists

1.2TB of Postgres, Zero Regrets: Scaling a Rails Monolith on Heroku

lackoftactics — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uoYEksSbHY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578132

Points: 2

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New comment by lackoftactics in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

lackoftactics — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:30:15 +0000

that's also fair

New comment by lackoftactics in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

lackoftactics — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:34:18 +0000

I am buying Anthrophic subscription. I know everything could change and they could also turn evil, but currently they showed willingness to be the good guy

Trump could do the funniest thing and release UAP files

lackoftactics — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g57gqqln1o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085290

Points: 2

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New comment by lackoftactics in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

lackoftactics — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:27:24 +0000

Isn't it a well-known fact that Garmin has terrible sleep tracking? The wearables can't handle deep sleep at all; even Muse with EEG can't reliably predict it, so I wouldn't be drawing conclusions here.

A small curiosity: I recently learned that sleep trackers in commercial wearables are terrible for people with sleep disorders like apneas, UARS, etc. It makes sense, as this isn't a typical dataset, but it's worth knowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAz7QGmlBM

New comment by lackoftactics in "Brain Waves Are the Hidden Engine Behind Thought and Consciousness"

lackoftactics — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:32:55 +0000

>Dr. Miller’s theory revives the concept of analog computation. Unlike digital computers, which rely on discrete binary bits, analog systems process continuous information—waves interacting to produce a vast range of possible values.

Brain Waves Are the Hidden Engine Behind Thought and Consciousness

lackoftactics — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://thedebrief.org/mit-neuroscientist-proposes-brain-waves-are-the-hidden-engine-behind-thought-and-consciousness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954450

Points: 4

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New comment by lackoftactics in "A Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences Reconsidered [pdf]"

lackoftactics — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:56:20 +0000

Is it pseudoscience? I thought for almost decade that ketamie, dissociation theory is correct one

A Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences Reconsidered [pdf]

lackoftactics — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-82154-001.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938733

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Matrix Arcade

lackoftactics — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:17:38 +0000

Article URL: https://yizhe-ang.github.io/matrix-explorable//

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899248

Points: 1

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New comment by lackoftactics in "The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models"

lackoftactics — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:32 +0000

The authors seem to have good credentials and I found the repo with code for this paper.

https://github.com/pathwaycom/bdh

There isn't a ton of code and there are a lot comments in my native language, so at least that is novel to me

Improving math skill of students by classification tasks

lackoftactics — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01053.x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638823

Points: 4

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New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

lackoftactics — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:24:36 +0000

Awesome work. Surprised rand isn't implemented yet, I found it pretty useful for playing around.

New comment by lackoftactics in "Current AI is an impostor (Fundamental Flow explained) [video]"

lackoftactics — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:49:55 +0000

The representation is missing and it could make a big difference.

Current AI is an impostor (Fundamental Flow explained) [video]

lackoftactics — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:49:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1q6Hhz0MAg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548411

Points: 2

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New comment by lackoftactics in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

lackoftactics — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:16:05 +0000

To be honest, the vibe of Hacker News is starting to grow on me. Yes, it's often too negative and you have to dose it, but we shouldn't view technology as magic. It's sometimes a hard pill to swallow, but even the creators of AI, robotics, and cloud innovations can be blind to the significant roadblocks that lie ahead; progress isn't linear.

I remain excited about AI and my master's thesis on fine-tuning transformers with LoRA. However, Hacker News has encouraged me to dive deeper and recognize that current architectures may not be sufficient. Additionally, Richard Sutton was a revelation for me in understanding how gradient descent truly works.

New comment by lackoftactics in "There is 'I am AI researcher' vibecoding psychosis in social media"

lackoftactics — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:54:38 +0000

I never thought about it, but that would make sense