Hacker News: lftl

New comment by lftl in "CDC File Transfer"

lftl — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:48:33 +0000

To be fair, there was a roughly 6 year period when vim saw one very minor release. That slow development period was the impetus for the fork of Neovim.

New comment by lftl in "TPU Deep Dive"

lftl — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:00:59 +0000

Ah, I didn't realize broadcomm was fabless and only helping in design.

New comment by lftl in "TPU Deep Dive"

lftl — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:38:55 +0000

Wouldn't you also need to add TSMC to Nvidia's side in that case?

New comment by lftl in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

lftl — Fri, 16 May 2025 01:18:17 +0000

Can you elaborate a little more on your setup? Are you manually copyong and pasting code from one LLM to another, or do you have some automated workflow for this?

New comment by lftl in "Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit"

lftl — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:13:40 +0000

This one has pretty heavy nostalgia for me. Resedit is a big part of why I'm in software development today. My first forays into "hacking" were to use Resedit to modify some nagware to skip the pay screen. It was a definite peek behind the curtain moment that made me much more curious about computing.

New comment by lftl in "Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing"

lftl — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:01:26 +0000

Also a bit strange to call yourself the winner when you're clearly not happy. I think OP has misunderstood the game.

New comment by lftl in "Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage"

lftl — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:01:33 +0000

Linode went through a rather long DDoS attack a few years back with a few of their data enters being offline for a few days, so I would guess yes there.

New comment by lftl in "Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers"

lftl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:26:33 +0000

S&P is up 25% this year.

New comment by lftl in "How to write a cold email (2020)"

lftl — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:59:12 +0000

I'd think opening a PDF in your browser would be at the same risk-level you associate with going to any random URL. On Firefox at least, I'm pretty sure the built-in PDF viewer is simply JS parsing and rendering the PDF anyway -- nothing with elevated permissions:

https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

New comment by lftl in "Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees"

lftl — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:16:54 +0000

> Depends though, because in theory you could then have wildly different employment conditions depending on which union / industry you work for.

> Of course, if another industry has better conditions, you can always vote with your feet. Competing for employees benefits the employees, in theory.

There's an interesting dynamic there though that you mention that a particular union may affect the employment conditions across a whole industry. So, theoretically an employer in an industry with a bad dominant union might be be hamstrung even if they wish to improve employment conditions but the core issues stem from a bad union (I'll note this question is from the perspective of an American, with limited and generally poor interactions with unions, who wishes things were better here).

New comment by lftl in "Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees"

lftl — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:12:04 +0000

If there's one cartel that should get a pass surely it should be a country-wide labor cartel, right?

New comment by lftl in "The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years"

lftl — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:09:23 +0000

I modeled buying a few Tesla Powerwalls to do time of use shifting, and it didn't make any sense from an investment standpoint. It's a great incentive if you were buying the battery backup anyway, but not as an investment.

New comment by lftl in "The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years"

lftl — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:04:03 +0000

GA Power net metering is still limited access, right? Did you have to wait on a wait-list to get approved for it?

New comment by lftl in "The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years"

lftl — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:55:40 +0000

Note that elif said "overnight" rate. I'm pretty sure they're on the EV rate plan from GA Power[1]. You only get that rate at night, and you pay a pretty punitive $0.21/kwh for any peak usage. As they mentioned, that's a pretty solid number for the marginal rate you'll pay for an extra kwh, but there are a number of base fees tacked on to that. I'm not on the EV plan, but my average out the door winter final rate is about $0.13/kwh and my summer rate ends up being more like $0.17/kwh.

[1] https://www.georgiapower.com/residential/billing-and-rate-pl...

New comment by lftl in "Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music"

lftl — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:56:51 +0000

I just wanted to say you guys did an amazing job packaging this up. I managed to get a local instance up and running against my local GPU in less than 10 minutes.

New comment by lftl in "Bitcoin is not a store of value"

lftl — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:47:15 +0000

Does Bitcoin Cash not count for some reason? Because the original chain is more popular and the fork is smaller?

New comment by lftl in "TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack"

lftl — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 11:30:03 +0000

That's somewhat ironic since TikTok pays certain content creators, although apparently not well.

New comment by lftl in "SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel"

lftl — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:21:28 +0000

SSH into the VPS from the laptop with port-forwading:

ssh -R 8000:localhost:80 mydomain.xyz

Now you should be able to access your local laptop on port 8000 of the VPS. There are a few easy steps you can add if you want to make it a bit more ergonomic or permanent. If you don't want to use an alternate port, you can just forward the port on the VPS with iptables.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8000

If you want the link to be more permanent, I'd suggest using wireguard instead of ssh. That's a little more effort, but not ridiculous.

New comment by lftl in "An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles"

lftl — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:23:41 +0000

I suppose it's not fair, but I was disappointed after reading the title, hoping that the article would be an assessment on whether changing the container stacking rule has made a difference yet. There seems to be a fair amount of skepticism that the stacking rule was having a large negative impact, so I was excited to see an assessment of how/if it's made any difference.

New comment by lftl in "When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up"

lftl — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:25:13 +0000

Ok, I will say I first start building small things on the web in the late 90s, so maybe it was easier in the early 90s.