<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: llarsson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=llarsson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:07:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=llarsson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've read several threads about how cigarettes are making a comeback because it's perceived as more natural or less chemical than vapes. If you care about facts at all you will find it completely wrong and intensely stupid, of course, but you just never know how people will react and then counter-react.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888800</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ability to sandbox Google Play Services (if you need it, but realistically, you probably do) and to simply not assign it more permissions than it absolutely needs is awesome. I run it with very restricted permissions, where it by default requests every single permission it can. In stock Android, it has all those, and you can't limit it. Just that is worth it for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567538</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other solutions that use the same underlying technology:<p><a href="https://fidesmo.com/consumer/wearables/" rel="nofollow">https://fidesmo.com/consumer/wearables/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:29:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567444</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open, rather than just giving it all to Microsoft instead?</p>
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<p>Built in functionality that may offer something similar:<p><a href="https://linuxhandbook.com/cdpath/" rel="nofollow">https://linuxhandbook.com/cdpath/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533913</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it's been trained on decades of StackOverflow and forum posts. And because while some command line tools go in and out of fashion, quite a lot are very stable, so their use will show up all the time in the training material.<p>Since it's all statistics under the LLM hood, both of those cause proven CLI tools to have strong signals as being the right answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:01:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333231</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A question because I'm not using speech-to-text, but find it intriguing (especially since it's now possible to do locally and for free).<p>How have your computing habits changed as a result of having this? When do you typically use this instead of typing on the keyboard?</p>
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<p>There are already APIs being developed that assume a browser has an LLM either inside it or otherwise available, see for instance <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Summarizer_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Summarizer_...</a><p>So they pretty much have to ship one, to stay relevant. And they are privacy-focused, so I'm happy they are not just using ChatGPT or whatever under the hood to implement support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927159</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Attention is all you need, as the transformative paper (pun definitely intended) put it.<p>Unfortunately, you're only getting attention in 3 second chunks.</p>
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<p>Telling people to use nano would of course have been next to impossible. Much easier to rewrite a DOS-era editor in Rust, naturally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44374677</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44374677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44374677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's also where etcd came from. It really felt, to me, like the precursor to Kubernetes.</p>
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<p>Help me understand what this means to e.g. GrapheneOS, please. Will it be able to exist and just have to wait longer for updates or will it be in real jeopardy?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486359</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A GameBoy emulator written in PHP would certainly piqued my interest, but more like a morbid curiosity than anything else. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436395</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is interesting that this relates exactly to everything that goes as "cloud native" these days, without really mentioning the fact that due to Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's huge landscape of open source software that targets specifically Kubernetes, you can have a comprehensive platform on "any" infrastructure. On-premise, private cloud, public clouds that are in the EC2/S3 era of services (VMs and object storage)... it doesn't matter. You can literally run the same database that powers YouTube, it's freely available and operates great on Kubernetes.<p>Yes, the problem is that someone has to manage it all (full disclosure: I work for Elastisys, a company exactly in the space of fully-managed application platforms on top of the infra operated by others).<p>But the fact that smaller cloud providers haven't had the money to invest in their capabilities to offer managed services to the same degree as the enormous hyperscalers isn't exactly impossible to overcome. In fact, it's never been more possible. Other comments here show that very well, too. And that the particular choice of identity management services is perhaps not the best for showing where the hyperscaler options shine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:01:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410427</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "DevHub.app – Developer Utilities for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you need fancy looking ones or just barebones QR codes? Because the latter you can just get from the qrcode Python package and simply go "qr news.ycombinator.com > hn.png" in your terminal.<p><a href="https://pypi.org/project/qrcode/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/qrcode/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486227</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's right, and it's also why you see Kubernetes distributions popping up.<p>That way, someone has already done all the configuration of various plugins and components for you. For instance, the major clouds that all let you easily start with their Kubernetes services and that they integrate well with the logging and monitoring systems, IAM, server/node provisioning, etc.<p>Or ones that are not tied to any particular cloud provider, and perhaps focused on security (full disclosure: I work for Elastisys, who makes exactly that) or ease of use.<p>I'm sure we will see more and more such efforts in this space, exactly because cobbling together something yourself from scratch (basically just a control loop runner, as you said) is neither very appealing when you think about ongoing maintenance, nor very cost-effective for businesses to spend engineering time on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:38:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170761</link><dc:creator>llarsson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by llarsson in "Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As writing advice, it went from very understandable and approachable to stuff like:<p>"You can get this property by stapling HKDF onto your protocol (once for key derivation, again for commitment). See also: PASETO v3 and v4, or Version 2 of the AWS Encryption SDK.<p>It may be tempting to build a committing AEAD scheme out of, e.g., AES-CTR and HMAC, but take care that you don’t introduce canonicalization risks in your MAC."<p>I would almost suggest breaking stuff like this into two articles, one which is very technical and correct, and one that conveys the high-level message. The high-level one can link to the technically correct one whenever the urge would come to explain something more fully.</p>
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<p>Can't do it myself, but I've heard that people listen to typical traditional "video game music" for this purpose. Fast, upbeat, and never something you need to focus on, but rather, it just helps you keep up the concentration.<p>...if you're the type of person who can listen to music while working, that is.</p>
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<p>It's fast, but laughably inaccurate. Open shirt? Windsor knot. Hand against chin? Stethoscope. Cell phone close to face? Harmonica.</p>
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<p>You could have just had your Geek Code in there to be efficient.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code</a> for the people who didn't get to experience it</p>
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