Hacker News: lordofgibbons

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

lordofgibbons — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:56:00 +0000

Given that Google has said they'll be delaying source code release for Android to every X months intervals (iirc), how is GrapheneOS planning to handle security updates? Will they just be Google's binary blobs?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

lordofgibbons — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:25:29 +0000

The controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article.

The core of the issue about autonomous use of AI in mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous use of AI in automated weapons that make kill decisions. Anthropic is perfectly fine with working with the War Department and "defending one's nation".

But they are not okay with their AI being used to make a mockery of the 4th amendment and making automated kill/no-kill decisions about actual human lives.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

lordofgibbons — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:27:17 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't a byte-by-byte output recreation of the C++ code in Rust defeat the whole purpose of using Rust? For one, would it be idiomatic Rust anymore? Also, if there's a (non-memory related) vulnerability in the C++ code, would it be possible for that to be introduced in Rust too?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app"

lordofgibbons — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:33:13 +0000

This looks great! I have a couple of questions:

1) Is it possible to start off with plain Postgres and add pgdog without scheduled downtime down the road when scaling via sharding becomes necessary?

2) How are schema updates handled when using physical multi-tenancy? Does pgdog just loop over all the databases that it knows about and issues the update schema command to each?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

lordofgibbons — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:11:16 +0000

I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide the same thing.

I've come to the conclusion to rely more on Zellij because I can SSH into my desktop from my laptop remotely to continue my dev session exactly where I left off.

So, these days I don't even use "native" terminal tabs anymore.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

lordofgibbons — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:05:57 +0000

You can try raising the head part of the bed by 5 - 6 or so inches using wood blocks. The doctor recommended it to me.

It's not perfect, but has really helped me!

New comment by lordofgibbons in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

lordofgibbons — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:17:07 +0000

How interesting it is depends purely on your use-case. For me this is the perfect size for running fine-tuning experiments.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3"

lordofgibbons — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:54:51 +0000

5 years used to be true 15 years ago. IPOs are happening much later now, probably 10+ years, if you're lucky

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3"

lordofgibbons — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:59:51 +0000

How are situations like lack of liquidity to pay the taxes handled?

i.e, As an employee you get stock options, which you exercise when you leave the startup. Then long before the company has a liquidity event the FMV shoots up because the business is doing well. How do you as a wage worker pay the taxes on your paper riches without a way to sell your shares?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

lordofgibbons — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:07:12 +0000

Ads aren't added to agentic workflows. Agentic usage of gpt-5 is only available if you're a paying user.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium"

lordofgibbons — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:33:30 +0000

How exactly has it distracted the U.S?

I don't see the U.S rushing to adopt either renewables or nuclear. We're just increasing our fossil fuel burning (natural gas).

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

lordofgibbons — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:12:53 +0000

How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)"

lordofgibbons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:02:39 +0000

Do I need to use the other services from the Ory stack to have this be complete? I tried reading the Ory docs a couple of times when I needed an auth solution but it was indecipherable to me as someone not living in the auth world

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec"

lordofgibbons — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:15:17 +0000

At what quantization? And if it is in fact quantized below fp8, how is the performance impacted on all the various benchmarks?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

lordofgibbons — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:14:30 +0000

I can't find a single screenshot of opendesk applications anywhere - including their own website. This is extremely strange.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off"

lordofgibbons — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:37:56 +0000

Building data centers for OpenAI, but it requires a lot of upfront capital.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

lordofgibbons — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:52:08 +0000

Not really. It lets me focus on what I want to focus on without losing motivation. Gaming is just an addictive behavior which is why it works against it, but not real work that I actually want to do.

New comment by lordofgibbons in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

lordofgibbons — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:19 +0000

Is the solution to this problem Golang style package management where you specify the git repo?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware"

lordofgibbons — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:20:13 +0000

How should we think about how much effective compute is being done with these devices compared to classical (GPU) computing? Obviously FLOPs doesn't make sense, so what does?

New comment by lordofgibbons in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

lordofgibbons — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:25:31 +0000

I've noticed that when I'm on Zepbound 2.5mg, I don't have the strong urge to play video games and can focus on my projects. Even if I do play video games while on it, I lose interest after a maximum of half an hour.