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New comment by manbash in "One Month Without AI"

manbash — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:36:23 +0000

I noticed lately that recent LLMs write very short sentences, sprinkling so many periods over one paragraph. I'm pretty sure that this is some new regression that we're having with new models.

Have you noticed it, too?

New comment by manbash in "Making Tailscale Faster"

manbash — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:42:15 +0000

> Separately, we shortened packet queues—the lines packets wait in between stages of the pipeline. The queues are there to absorb bursts of traffic. Testing showed that most of that depth went unused, while shorter queues meant less waiting time and less memory overhead.

"lines"? "depth"? I feel like there is some context missing here. What are these terms they refer to?

failfs

manbash — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:16:02 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/failfs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528318

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by manbash in "Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware"

manbash — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:25:46 +0000

Indeed this is an odd disclosure and I am not familiar with past posts by them.

Moreover, no CVE is associated with this claimed vulnerability. It's not even stated which Android version or automotive head-unit variant version is affected.

New comment by manbash in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

manbash — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:40:07 +0000

With Firefox, yes. I wouldn't fully trust other browsers to care about my privacy.

New comment by manbash in "pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries"

manbash — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:11:39 +0000

> December's headline feature was teaching the planner to push a whole correlated EXISTS subquery down as a single LEFT SEMI JOIN instead of a nested loop with one ClickHouse round trip per outer row. This moved the needle from 3 of 22 TPC-H queries all the way to 12.

LLMs sure love throwing in archaic expressions such as "move the needle". The abrupt contrast in jargons is so unpleasant and keeps throwing me off right in the middle of reading.

New comment by manbash in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

manbash — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:39:39 +0000

> Instead of one row per item with a quantity column, we use one row per sellable unit. An item with 10 units has 10 rows.

> But one row per unit for all inventory would break down at scale—an item with 50,000 units across 10 locations would mean 500,000 rows, and the reserve query would slow as it scans through them. Instead, we maintain a bounded pool of available rows, capped at 1,000 per item/location combination. Reservations consume rows from this pool; a replenishment process refills it from the inventory ledger.

Shouldn't I feel uncomfortable with such approach? It seems to create a backoff (pool) for lowering the chance of having a synchronization issue.

New comment by manbash in "Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops"

manbash — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:01:06 +0000

Very nice. Can you elaborate why you chose mTLS authentication vs. SSH as a mean to deploy the policies.

Regarding the docs, the diagrams should really be replaced with something more familiar and readable such as Mermaid (currently it looks like a mixture of ad-hoc ASCII charts).

New comment by manbash in "Anime User Interfaces"

manbash — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:04:15 +0000

...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!

New comment by manbash in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

manbash — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:45:48 +0000

Interesting, but IMHO the title of this post misses the point of the linked page.

New comment by manbash in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

manbash — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:08:50 +0000

> We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.

New comment by manbash in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

manbash — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:21:49 +0000

I don't have the app and I use reddit (although not often) via my mobile browser (firefox) and it never forced me to download the app, as far as I recall.

New comment by manbash in "5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920"

manbash — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:29:57 +0000

I am curious which of these places still exist today, as some menus depict the building. It would've be nice to have additional historical information.

New comment by manbash in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

manbash — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:26:18 +0000

It's so humbling to realize that the human mind hasn't changed a lot. Only our environment.

New comment by manbash in "Claude Tag"

manbash — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:59:14 +0000

They're pretty much going the Google (how Google was until recently), trying to fan out to every market share.

I expect many of those to be shut down sooner than later, if learning anything from Google.

New comment by manbash in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

manbash — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:15:39 +0000

If you're referring to the Nozomi, wasn't it always excluded from the JR Pass?

New comment by manbash in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

manbash — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:46:40 +0000

A lot of computer parts can be sold at a high profit nowadays.

New comment by manbash in "Flipper One – we need your help"

manbash — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:24:24 +0000

We're living in the ai;dr era :)

New comment by manbash in "Learn Harness Engineering"

manbash — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:20:16 +0000

The content is clearly AI-generated, which is really ironic.

New comment by manbash in "Googlebook"

manbash — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:41:26 +0000

Apple's best move was to steer away from AI lockdowns and focus on what consumers really need.

Coupling these with Gemini is so detached, especially when everyone screams Local LLM.